Explore 1979-12-24 to 1989-02-15

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-10-29
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08

People

Margaret Thatcher age 54
Jacques Chirac age 47
Hafez al-Assad age 49
Tôn Đức Thắng age 91
Ronald Reagan age 68
George H. W. Bush age 55
Lee Teng-hui age 56
Chiang Ching-kuo age 69
Pol Pot age 54
Saddam Hussein age 42
Jimmy Carter age 55
Hirohito age 78
Mikhail Gorbachev age 48
Zhao Ziyang age 60
Leonid Brezhnev age 73
Konstantin Chernenko age 68
Hu Yaobang age 64
Fidel Castro age 53
Lê Duẩn age 72
Yang Shangkun age 72
Dan Quayle age 32
Li Xiannian age 70
Sun Yun-suan age 66
Deng Xiaoping age 75
Hua Guofeng age 58
Elizabeth II age 53
Walter Mondale age 52
Ruhollah Khomeini age 77
Kim Il-sung age 67
Joe Biden age 37
John Kerry age 36
Al Gore age 31
Daniel Inouye age 55
Li Peng age 51
Dick Cheney age 38
Warren E. Burger age 72
William Rehnquist age 55
George Shultz age 59
James Baker age 49
Wang Zhen (general) age 71
William H. Webster age 55
Byron White age 62
John Paul Stevens age 59
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 72
William J. Brennan Jr. age 73
Potter Stewart age 64
Thurgood Marshall age 71
Sandra Day O'Connor age 49
Anthony Kennedy age 43
Antonin Scalia age 43
Bill Clinton age 33
Lee Yuan-tsu age 56
Lien Chan age 43
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 46
Mike Pence age 20
Kamala Harris age 15
Rong Yiren age 63
Li Keqiang age 24
Wen Jiabao age 37
Colin Powell age 42
Rudolf Hess age 85
Condoleezza Rice age 25
Jiang Zemin age 53
Henry Kissinger age 56
Barack Obama age 18
John Lewis age 39
Karl Dönitz age 88
James R. Schlesinger age 50
George Wallace age 60
Clark Clifford age 73
Liz Cheney age 13
Hillary Clinton age 32
Arthur Goldberg age 71
Archibald Cox age 67
David Souter age 40
Stephen Breyer age 41
Hu Jintao age 37
Rosa Parks age 66
He Yingqin age 89
Souphanouvong age 70
Xi Jinping age 26
Spiro Agnew age 61
John Roberts age 24
Albert Speer age 74
Richard Nixon age 67
Donald Trump age 33
Gerald Ford age 66
Yuri Andropov age 65
George W. Bush age 33
Otto Hofmann age 83
Souvanna Phouma age 78
Tim Berners-Lee age 24
Boris Yeltsin age 48
Muhammad Ali age 37
Aung San Suu Kyi age 34
Jo Ann Robinson age 67
Thomas Gage age 261
Charles III age 31
Robert A. Lovett age 84
Juan José Arévalo age 75
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 71
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 64
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 74
John Major age 36
Tony Blair age 26
Gordon Brown age 28
David Cameron age 13
Theresa May age 23
Boris Johnson age 15
Liz Truss age 4
Rishi Sunak born 1980-05-12
Keir Starmer age 17
Gennady Yanayev age 42
Narendra Modi age 29
Robert McNamara age 63
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 73
Omar Bradley age 86
Soong Ching-ling age 86
Zeng Qinghong age 40
Zhu Rongji age 51
Ronald McNair age 29
Ellison Onizuka age 33
John Connally age 62
Lawrence Eagleburger age 49
Warren Christopher age 54
Nicholas Katzenbach age 57
Ramsey Clark age 52
Yasser Arafat age 50
Clarence Thomas age 31
Clarence M. Kelley age 68
Abe Fortas age 69
Melvin Laird age 57
Nelson Mandela age 61
Kim Jong-il age 38
Kim Jong-un born 1982-01-08
Nicolas Sarkozy age 24
François Hollande age 25
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 61