Explore 1978-12-21 to 1989-09-26

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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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16
Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10
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

Fidel Castro age 52
Hu Yaobang age 63
Zhao Ziyang age 59
Chiang Ching-kuo age 68
Jacques Chirac age 46
Tôn Đức Thắng age 90
Lee Teng-hui age 55
Hafez al-Assad age 48
Jiang Zemin age 52
Margaret Thatcher age 53
Ronald Reagan age 67
George H. W. Bush age 54
Pol Pot age 53
Lê Duẩn age 71
Leonid Brezhnev age 72
Mikhail Gorbachev age 47
Saddam Hussein age 41
Jimmy Carter age 54
Hirohito age 77
Konstantin Chernenko age 67
Dan Quayle age 31
Hua Guofeng age 57
Yang Shangkun age 71
Li Xiannian age 69
Walter Mondale age 50
Sun Yun-suan age 65
Deng Xiaoping age 74
Ruhollah Khomeini age 76
Kim Il-sung age 66
Elizabeth II age 52
Daniel Inouye age 54
Li Peng age 50
Al Gore age 30
John Kerry age 35
Joe Biden age 36
Dick Cheney age 37
Wang Zhen (general) age 70
James Baker age 48
William Rehnquist age 54
Warren E. Burger age 71
George Shultz age 58
William H. Webster age 54
Byron White age 61
John Paul Stevens age 58
Anthony Kennedy age 42
Antonin Scalia age 42
Sandra Day O'Connor age 48
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 71
Thurgood Marshall age 70
Potter Stewart age 63
William J. Brennan Jr. age 72
Bill Clinton age 32
George Wallace age 59
John Lewis age 38
Condoleezza Rice age 24
Hu Jintao age 36
Colin Powell age 41
Henry Kissinger age 55
Rudolf Hess age 84
Barack Obama age 17
Rong Yiren age 62
Wen Jiabao age 36
Li Keqiang age 23
James R. Schlesinger age 49
Clark Clifford age 72
Kamala Harris age 14
Karl Dönitz age 87
Archibald Cox age 66
Stephen Breyer age 40
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 45
Mike Pence age 19
Hillary Clinton age 31
Lien Chan age 42
Liz Cheney age 12
Lee Yuan-tsu age 55
Arthur Goldberg age 70
David Souter age 39
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 63
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 70
Souvanna Phouma age 77
Juan José Arévalo age 74
Robert A. Lovett age 83
Otto Hofmann age 82
Charles III age 30
He Yingqin age 88
Thomas Gage age 260
Yuri Andropov age 64
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 60
Gerald Ford age 65
Narendra Modi age 28
Rosa Parks age 65
Gennady Yanayev age 41
Keir Starmer age 16
Rishi Sunak born 1980-05-12
Liz Truss age 3
Boris Johnson age 14
Theresa May age 22
Souphanouvong age 69
David Cameron age 12
Richard Nixon age 65
Gordon Brown age 27
George W. Bush age 32
Tony Blair age 25
John Major age 35
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 73
Kim Jong-il age 37
Nelson Mandela age 60
Soong Ching-ling age 85
Zeng Qinghong age 39
Zhu Rongji age 50
Ronald McNair age 28
Ellison Onizuka age 32
John Connally age 61
Lawrence Eagleburger age 48
Warren Christopher age 53
Melvin Laird age 56
Nicholas Katzenbach age 56
Ramsey Clark age 51
Yasser Arafat age 49
Clarence Thomas age 30
Abe Fortas age 68
Clarence M. Kelley age 67
Donald Trump age 32
Albert Speer age 73
John Roberts age 23
Jo Ann Robinson age 66
Spiro Agnew age 60
Xi Jinping age 25
Aung San Suu Kyi age 33
Muhammad Ali age 36
Boris Yeltsin age 47
Tim Berners-Lee age 23
François Hollande age 24
Robert McNamara age 62
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 72
Omar Bradley age 85
Nicolas Sarkozy age 23
Nelson Rockefeller age 70
Kim Jong-un born 1982-01-08