✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba 1961-01-17
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961-08-13
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War 1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
1963 Syrian coup d'état 1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963-06-11
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963-08-05
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-11-22
Zanzibar Revolution 1964-01-12
Colombian conflict 1964-05-27
Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964 1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967
Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23
Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06
Operation Grand Slam 1965-09-01 - 1965-09-06
Battle of Phillora 1965-09-07 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Asal Uttar 1965-09-08 - 1965-09-10
Battle of Burki 1965-09-10 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Chawinda 1965-09-14 - 1965-09-19
Battle of Ia Drang 1965-11-14 - 1965-11-18
1966 Syrian coup d'état 1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Battle of Long Tan 1966-08-18 - 1966-08-18
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Battle of Ammunition Hill 1967-06-06 - 1967-06-06
Battle of Tel Faher 1967-06-09 - 1967-06-09
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
1967 Plainfield riots 1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16
1967 Detroit riot 1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28
Battle of Dak To 1967-11-03 - 1967-11-23
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02
Orangeburg massacre 1968-02-08
Mỹ Lai massacre 1968-03-16
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968-04-04
Fair Housing Act 1968-04-11
May 68 1968-05-02 - 1968-06-23
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 1968-07-01
Tlatelolco massacre 1968-10-02
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Battle of Hamburger Hill 1969-05-10 - 1969-05-20
Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Woodstock 1969-08-15 - 1969-08-18
ARPANET first message 1969-10-29
First Earth Day 1970-04-22
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
1970 Bhola cyclone 1970-11-12
Corrective Movement (Syria) 1970-11-13
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Garibpur 1971-11-20 - 1971-11-21
Battle of Hilli 1971-11-22 - 1971-12-18
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16
Bloody Sunday (1972) 1972-01-30
Nixon's visit to China 1972-02-21 - 1972-02-28
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16
Munich massacre 1972-09-05 - 1972-09-06
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23
Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18
Third Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-21 - 1973-10-22
Carnation Revolution 1974-04-25
Turkish invasion of Cyprus 1974-07-20 - 1974-08-18
1975 spring offensive 1974-12-13 - 1975-04-30
Battle of Xuân Lộc 1975-04-09 - 1975-04-21
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Fall of Saigon 1975-04-30 - 1975-04-30
Helsinki Accords 1975-08-01
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Green March 1975-11-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Birth of Louise Brown 1978-07-25
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
Chinese economic reform 1978-12-18
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16
Egypt–Israel peace treaty 1979-03-26
Three Mile Island accident 1979-03-28
Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
IBM Personal Computer 1981-08-12
Assassination of Anwar Sadat 1981-10-06
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
Invasion of South Georgia 1982-04-03 - 1982-04-03
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Operation Paraquet 1982-04-25 - 1982-04-25
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02
Battle of San Carlos (1982) 1982-05-21 - 1982-05-25
Battle of Goose Green 1982-05-28 - 1982-05-29
Bluff Cove air attacks 1982-06-08 - 1982-06-08
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-12-15
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Kurdish–Turkish conflict 1984-08-15
Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984-10-31
Bhopal disaster 1984-12-02 - 1984-12-03
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
Live Aid 1985-07-13
Plaza Accord 1985-09-22
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
First Battle of al-Faw 1986-02-11 - 1986-03-10
Second Battle of Zhawar 1986-02-28 - 1986-04-19
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12
Operation Karbala-5 1987-01-08 - 1987-02-26

People

Douglas Jay age 49
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Davies age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Laurence Silberman age 21
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton age 53
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas age 43
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harold R. Tyler Jr. age 34
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor age 26
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
George Brown age 42
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Michael Foot age 43
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Neil Kinnock age 14
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 18
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jeremy Thorpe age 27
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jo Grimond age 43
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 59
President - African National Congress
Oliver Tambo age 39
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 58
President - Sinn Féin
Tomás Mac Giolla age 32
President - Sinn Féin
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 24
President - Sinn Féin
Gerry Adams age 8
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 44
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles Fried age 21
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 23
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 18
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 20
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 10
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 14
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 8
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 13
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 9
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 32
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 16
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 35
Senate - United States
Nicholas F. Brady age 26
Senate - United States
John McCain age 20
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 82
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Tony Blair age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Dick Cheney age 15
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Leon Panetta age 18
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Norman Lamont age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Manny Shinwell age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 10
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jerry Brown age 18
Governor of California - United States
Mario Cuomo age 24
Governor of New York - United States
Michael Dukakis age 23
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
W. Averell Harriman age 65
Governor of New York - United States
Lamar Alexander age 16
Governor of Tennessee - United States
George Deukmejian age 28
Governor of California - United States
Pat Brown age 51
Governor of California - United States
Dale Bumpers age 31
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Mark White age 16
Governor of Texas - United States
Bill Clements age 39
Governor of Texas - United States
Winthrop Rockefeller age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Chuck Robb age 17
Governor of Virginia - United States
Hugh Carey age 37
Governor of New York - United States
Preston Smith age 44
Governor of Texas - United States
David Pryor age 22
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Otis Bowen age 38
Governor of Indiana - United States
Thomas Kean age 21
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Goodwin Knight age 60
Governor of California - United States
Price Daniel age 46
Governor of Texas - United States
George Busbee age 29
Governor of Georgia - United States
Orval Faubus age 47
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Brendan Byrne age 32
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Edward J. King age 31
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John A. Volpe age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Marvin Mandel age 36
Governor of Maryland - United States
Winfield Dunn age 29
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John J. Gilligan age 35
Governor of Ohio - United States
Malcolm Wilson age 42
Governor of New York - United States
Harry Hughes age 30
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank Lausche age 61
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 49
Governor of Texas - United States
Gerald Baliles age 16
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas B. Stanley age 66
Governor of Virginia - United States
Foster Furcolo age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Dolph Briscoe age 33
Governor of Texas - United States
Edgar Whitcomb age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
Lester Maddox age 41
Governor of Georgia - United States
Frank D. White age 23
Governor of Arkansas - United States
J. Lindsay Almond age 58
Governor of Virginia - United States
Dick Celeste age 19
Governor of Ohio - United States
Mills Godwin age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
Carl Sanders age 31
Governor of Georgia - United States
Joe Frank Harris age 20
Governor of Georgia - United States
C. William O'Neill age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
Endicott Peabody age 36
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim Rhodes age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
John N. Dalton age 25
Governor of Virginia - United States
John William Brown age 43
Governor of Ohio - United States
Ned McWherter age 26
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Ernest Vandiver age 38
Governor of Georgia - United States
Joe Purcell age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Francis Sargent age 41
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Michael DiSalle age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Richard J. Hughes age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William Donald Schaefer age 35
Governor of Maryland - United States
Albertis Harrison age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
Robert D. Orr age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
Buford Ellington age 49
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Bob C. Riley age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Matthew E. Welsh age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
Roger D. Branigin age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 56
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert B. Meyner age 48
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William T. Cahill age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George N. Craig age 47
Governor of Indiana - United States
J. Millard Tawes age 62
Governor of Maryland - United States
Harold W. Handley age 47
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Paul II age 36
Pope - Vatican City
Kwame Nkrumah age 47
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 29
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 75
Pope - Vatican City
Ferdinand Marcos age 39
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 64
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 55
President - Indonesia
John Paul I age 44
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 19
King - Spain
Paul VI age 59
Pope - Vatican City
Salvador Allende age 48
President - Chile
Pius XII age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 41
President - Chile
Suharto age 35
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 38
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 32
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 16
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 23
President - Philippines
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 10
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 18
Queen - Netherlands
Park Chung-hee age 39
President - South Korea
Thomas Sankara age 7
President - Burkina Faso
Muhammadu Buhari age 14
President - Nigeria
Daniel Ortega age 11
President - Nicaragua
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 36
President - Bangladesh
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 29
President - Pakistan
Juan Perón age 61
President - Argentina
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 16
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 50
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 26
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 63
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 34
President - Tanzania
Yoweri Museveni age 12
President - Uganda
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 68
President - India
Syngman Rhee age 81
President - South Korea
Ahmed Ben Bella age 40
President - Algeria
José Eduardo dos Santos age 14
President - Angola
Rajendra Prasad age 72
President - India
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 35
President - Central African Republic
Mswati III born 1968-04-19
King - Eswatini
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 51
King - Saudi Arabia
Paul Biya age 23
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 21
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 53
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 25
President - Argentina
Teodoro Obiang age 14
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 67
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 26
President - Iceland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 15
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 21
President - Gabon
Celâl Bayar age 73
President - Turkey
Jorge Rafael Videla age 31
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 56
President - Finland
Hassan II age 27
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 61
President - Turkey
Kenneth Kaunda age 32
President - Zambia
Alan García age 7
President - Peru
Kenan Evren age 39
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 84
King - Norway
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 32
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 19
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 60
President - Italy
Olusegun Obasanjo age 19
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 53
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 44
President - Paraguay
Agostinho Neto age 34
President - Angola
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 35
President - Guinea