✦ 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
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
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
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
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
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
Corrective Movement (Syria) 1970-11-13
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
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
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
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
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17
Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23
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
Green March 1975-11-06
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
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
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
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
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
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 Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 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
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
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

Ronald Reagan age 45
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 30
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 39
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 63
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle age 66
President - France
Fidel Castro age 30
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 25
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter age 32
President - United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 66
President - United States
Richard Nixon age 44
President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 48
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 43
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 19
President - Iraq
Nikita Khrushchev age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Ali Khamenei age 17
President - Iran
Hirohito age 55
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 66
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Georges Pompidou age 45
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 69
President - Republic of China
Hosni Mubarak age 28
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 40
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 54
Supreme Leader - Iran
Josip Broz Tito age 64
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 38
President - Egypt
Anwar Sadat age 38
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 64
Emperor - Ethiopia
Yuri Andropov age 42
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 37
Shah - Iran
Konstantin Chernenko age 45
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Erich Honecker age 44
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 26
President - Syria
Fulgencio Batista age 55
President - Cuba
Richard von Weizsäcker age 36
President - Germany
Walter Ulbricht age 63
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 72
President - Germany
Walter Scheel age 37
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 54
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 26
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 35
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Gustav Heinemann age 57
President - Germany
Abolhassan Banisadr age 23
President - Iran
Zhao Ziyang age 37
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Karl Carstens age 42
President - Germany
Heinrich Lübke age 62
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 58
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 23
President - Iran
René Coty age 74
President - France
João Goulart age 37
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 46
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 42
President - Iraq
José Sarney age 26
President - Brazil
José López Portillo age 36
President - Mexico
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 59
President - Brazil
Alain Poher age 47
President - France
Hu Yaobang age 41
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Abdul Salam Arif age 36
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 34
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 38
President - Brazil
Abdul Rahman Arif age 40
President - Iraq
Ernesto Geisel age 49
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 49
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 47
President - People's Republic of China
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 45
President - Mexico
Adolfo López Mateos age 46
President - Mexico
Jânio Quadros age 39
President - Brazil
Efraín Ríos Montt age 30
President - Guatemala
Osvaldo Dorticós age 37
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 51
President - Brazil
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 66
President - Mexico
Artur da Costa e Silva age 57
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 49
President - Vietnam
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 46
President - Brazil
Dong Biwu age 70
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 68
President - Vietnam
Carlos Castillo Armas age 42
President - Guatemala
Shukri al-Quwatli age 65
President - Syria
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 52
President - Iraq
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 55
President - Cuba
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 43
President - Iraq
Nureddin al-Atassi age 28
President - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 51
President - Republic of China
Nguyen Huu Tho age 46
President - Vietnam
Sufi Abu Taleb age 31
President - Egypt
Amin al-Hafiz age 35
President - Syria
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 38
President - Guatemala
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 26
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 14
President - Guatemala
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 61
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 50
President - Syria
Luai al-Atassi age 31
President - Syria
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 41
President - Guatemala
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 48
President - Guatemala
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 62
Acting President - Cuba
Ahmad al-Khatib age 24
President - Syria
Zakaria Mohieddin age 38
President - Egypt
Amin al-Hafez age 30
President - Syria
Luis Arturo González López age 56
President - Guatemala
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 39
President - Guatemala
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 62
President - Guatemala
Izzat al-Nuss age 45
President - Syria
Kim Il-sung age 44
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 30
President - France
Miguel de la Madrid age 22
President - Mexico
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 43
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 31
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Dag Hammarskjöld age 51
Secretary-General - United Nations
Kurt Waldheim age 38
Secretary-General - United Nations
U Thant age 47
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 36
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 31
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 67
Prime Minister - India
Indira Gandhi age 39
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 24
Prime Minister - France
Konrad Adenauer age 81
Chancellor - Germany
Golda Meir age 58
Prime Minister - Israel
Deng Xiaoping age 52
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
David Ben-Gurion age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Kohl age 26
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 33
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 43
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 34
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 38
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 12
Prime Minister - India
Zhou Enlai age 58
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Menachem Begin age 43
Prime Minister - Israel
Harold Macmillan age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 40
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 59
Chancellor - Germany
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 33
Prime Minister - Poland
Giulio Andreotti age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Francesco Cossiga age 28
Prime Minister - Italy
Eisaku Satō age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Edward Heath age 40
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 53
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 74
Taoiseach - Ireland
Isaac Shamir age 41
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 38
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 36
President - International Olympic Committee
Bettino Craxi age 22
Prime Minister - Italy
Jacques Delors age 31
President - European Commission
Giovanni Leone age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 52
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 61
Prime Minister - Israel
Pierre Mauroy age 28
Prime Minister - France
Laurent Fabius age 10
Prime Minister - France
Robert McNamara age 40
President - World Bank
Charan Singh age 54
Prime Minister - India
Antonio Segni age 65
Prime Minister - Italy
Gulzarilal Nanda age 58
Prime Minister - India
P. W. Botha age 41
Prime Minister - South Africa
Paul-Henri Spaak age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Amintore Fanfani age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Bulganin age 61
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Kakuei Tanaka age 38
Prime Minister - Japan
Nobusuke Kishi age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Emilio Colombo age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Hayato Ikeda age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Takeo Fukuda age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 55
Prime Minister - South Africa
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 27
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Raymond Barre age 32
Prime Minister - France
Mariano Rumor age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Zenkō Suzuki age 46
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 31
Prime Minister - Italy
Arnaldo Forlani age 31
Prime Minister - Italy
Masayoshi Ōhira age 46
Prime Minister - Japan
Takeo Miki age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Tikhonov age 51
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Yigal Allon age 38
Prime Minister - Israel
Gaston Thorn age 28
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 32
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Tanzan Ishibashi age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Debré age 44
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 41
Prime Minister - France
Pierre Messmer age 40
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Fernando Tambroni age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Maurice Couve de Murville age 49
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 41
Prime Minister - South Africa
Walter Hallstein age 55
President - European Commission
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 69
Secretary General - NATO
Kaysone Phomvihane age 36
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 36
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 55
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 50
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 30
Taoiseach - Ireland
Guy Mollet age 51
Prime Minister - France
Liam Cosgrave age 36
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 37
Secretary General - NATO
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 42
President - International Olympic Committee
Charles Haughey age 31
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 45
Secretary General - NATO
Adone Zoli age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
J. G. Strijdom age 63
Prime Minister - South Africa
Jean Rey age 54
President - European Commission