✦ 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
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23
Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31
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
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05
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 Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
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
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
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
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
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 Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 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

Agostinho Neto age 34
President - Angola
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 35
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 49
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 55
King - Saudi Arabia
Mauno Koivisto age 33
President - Finland
Zakir Husain age 59
President - India
Juliana of the Netherlands age 47
Queen - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 31
President - Uganda
Yun Po-sun age 59
President - South Korea
Samora Moisés Machel age 23
President - Mozambique
Fahri Korutürk age 53
President - Turkey
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 43
King - Saudi Arabia
Raúl Alfonsín age 29
President - Argentina
Frederik IX of Denmark age 57
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 74
King - Sweden
Chun Doo-hwan age 25
President - South Korea
V. V. Giri age 62
President - India
Yahya Khan age 39
President - Pakistan
Cevdet Sunay age 57
President - Turkey
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 51
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 32
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 33
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 32
President - Portugal
Houari Boumédiène age 24
President - Algeria
Mathieu Kérékou age 23
President - Benin
François Duvalier age 49
President - Haiti
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 51
President - India
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 1
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 37
President - Somalia
Makarios III age 43
President - Cyprus
Joaquim Chissano age 17
President - Mozambique
Juvénal Habyarimana age 19
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 38
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 33
President - Equatorial Guinea
Jerry Rawlings age 9
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 40
President - India
Ferhat Abbas age 57
President - Algeria
João Bernardo Vieira age 17
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 38
President - Israel
Giuseppe Saragat age 58
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 47
King - Morocco
Leopoldo Galtieri age 30
President - Argentina
Seretse Khama age 35
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 32
President - Cameroon
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 43
President - India
Giovanni Gronchi age 69
President - Italy
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 19
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 33
President - Malta
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 52
President - Nigeria
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 57
President - Pakistan
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 21
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 5
President - Haiti
Hafizullah Amin age 27
President - Afghanistan
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 49
President - Greece
Lansana Conté age 22
President - Guinea
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 47
President - Afghanistan
Modibo Keïta age 41
President - Mali
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 31
President - Nicaragua
Diosdado Macapagal age 46
President - Philippines
Ramon Magsaysay age 49
President - Philippines
Ziaur Rahman age 20
President - Bangladesh
Abdou Diouf age 21
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 14
President - Chad
Georgios Papadopoulos age 37
President - Greece
Isaac Navon age 35
President - Israel
Samuel Doe age 5
President - Liberia
Ne Win age 45
President - Myanmar
Reynaldo Bignone age 28
President - Argentina
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 27
King - Bhutan
Quett Masire age 31
President - Botswana
David Dacko age 26
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 47
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 72
President - Israel
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 36
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Canaan Banana age 20
President - Zimbabwe
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 60
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 48
President - Somalia
Choi Kyu-hah age 37
President - South Korea
Franz Jonas age 57
President - Austria
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 41
President - Austria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 40
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 57
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 62
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 48
President - Venezuela
Chadli Bendjedid age 27
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 33
President - Cape Verde
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 45
President - Chile
Ephraim Katzir age 40
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 20
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 15
President - Nigeria
Rafael Caldera age 40
President - Venezuela
Fernando Belaúnde age 44
President - Peru
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 35
President - Bolivia
Léon M'ba age 54
President - Gabon
Zalman Shazar age 67
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 44
President - Madagascar
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 32
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 34
President - Venezuela
Arturo Umberto Illia age 56
President - Argentina
Arturo Frondizi age 48
President - Argentina
François Tombalbaye age 38
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 40
President - Iceland
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 44
President - India
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 51
President - India
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 30
Emir - Kuwait
Yakubu Gowon age 22
President - Nigeria
Shehu Shagari age 31
President - Nigeria
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 31
President - Tanzania
Souphanouvong age 47
President - Laos
José Figueres Ferrer age 50
President - Costa Rica
Diori Hamani age 40
President - Niger
Julio María Sanguinetti age 21
President - Uruguay
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 49
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 61
President - Liberia
William Richard Tolbert age 43
President - Liberia
Didier Ratsiraka age 20
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 38
King - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 46
President - Peru
Carlos P. Garcia age 60
President - Philippines
Gaafar Nimeiry age 26
President - Sudan
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 32
President - Argentina
Adolf Schärf age 66
President - Austria
Theodor Körner age 83
President - Austria
Hugo Banzer age 30
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 50
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 25
President - Guinea-Bissau
António Ramalho Eanes age 21
President - Portugal
António de Spínola age 46
President - Portugal
France-Albert René age 21
President - Seychelles
Yusof bin Ishak age 46
President - Singapore
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 19
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Juan María Bordaberry age 28
President - Uruguay
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 26
President - Bangladesh
Jorge Alessandri age 60
President - Chile
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 30
President - Dominican Republic
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 51
President - Ireland
Patrick Hillery age 33
President - Ireland
Moktar Ould Daddah age 32
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 16
President - Burundi
Belisario Betancur age 33
President - Colombia
Amine Gemayel age 14
President - Lebanon
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 46
Sultan - Oman
Marien Ngouabi age 18
President - Republic of the Congo
Devan Nair age 33
President - Singapore
Johan Ferrier age 46
President - Suriname
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 50
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 23
Emir - Bahrain
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 37
President - Bolivia
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 10
President - Burundi
León Febres-Cordero age 25
President - Ecuador
Hilla Limann age 22
President - Ghana
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 57
President - Greece
Carmen Pereira age 20
President - Guinea-Bissau
Wee Kim Wee age 41
President - Singapore
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 53
President - Argentina
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 35
President - Colombia
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 41
President - Ghana
Christos Sartzetakis age 27
President - Greece
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 45
President - Ireland
Seán T. O'Kelly age 74
President - Ireland
Murtala Muhammed age 18
President - Nigeria
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 32
President - Nigeria
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 24
Emir - Qatar
Fulbert Youlou age 39
President - Republic of the Congo
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 35
President - Peru
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 38
President - Argentina
Héctor José Cámpora age 47
President - Argentina
Juan Carlos Onganía age 42
President - Argentina
Juan Bosch age 47
President - Dominican Republic
Arthur Chung age 39
President - Guyana
Anthony Mamo age 48
President - Malta
Amata Kabua age 28
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 15
President - Mauritania
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 42
President - Portugal
Muteesa II of Buganda age 32
President - Uganda
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 42
President - Venezuela
Ibrahim Abboud age 56
President - Sudan
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 40
President - Burkina Faso
André Kolingba age 20
President - Central African Republic
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 53
President - Pakistan
Américo Tomás age 62
President - Portugal
James Mancham age 17
President - Seychelles
Siaka Stevens age 51
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 49
President - Singapore
Ho Chong age 60
Acting President - South Korea
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 79
President - Chile
Alfonso López Michelsen age 43
President - Colombia
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 50
President - Colombia
Ahmed Abdallah age 37
President - Comoros
Camille Chamoun age 56
President - Lebanon
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 36
President - Uruguay
Jaime Lusinchi age 32
President - Venezuela
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 67
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 43
President - Albania
Julio César Turbay age 40
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 24
President - Cyprus
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 25
President - Ghana
Oswaldo López Arellano age 35
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 18
King - Lesotho
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 50
President - Madagascar