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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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
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
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
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
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
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
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
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
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 Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 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
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Battle of Jaji 1987-04-17 - 1987-06-13
Black Monday (1987) 1987-10-19
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987-12-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18
1988 Chilean presidential referendum 1988-10-05
Spitak earthquake 1988-12-07
Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Exxon Valdez oil spill 1989-03-24
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
Baltic Way 1989-08-23
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
Romanian Revolution 1989-12-16 - 1989-12-27
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Release of Nelson Mandela 1990-02-11

People

Yon Hyong-muk age 34
Premier - North Korea
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 34
Prime Minister - Syria
Yusuf Zuayyin age 34
Prime Minister - Syria
Mamdouh Salem age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Lee Huan age 48
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Fawzi age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
Aziz Sedki age 46
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Zuabi age 31
Prime Minister - Syria
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 39
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 55
Director-General - World Health Organization
Barber Conable age 43
President - World Bank
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Yu Kuo-hwa age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Alden W. Clausen age 43
President - World Bank
George David Woods age 65
President - World Bank
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 43
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 34
Prime Minister - Syria
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 29
Prime Minister - Syria
Hsu Ching-chung age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Earl Warren age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 41
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger age 58
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dan Quayle age 19
Vice President - United States
Walter Mondale age 38
Vice President - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 55
Vice President - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 58
Vice President - United States
Spiro Agnew age 47
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 73
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 24
Vice President - Iraq
Wang Zhen (general) age 58
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Hardan al-Tikriti age 41
Vice President - Iraq
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 38
Vice President - Iraq
Colin Powell age 29
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Lin Biao age 58
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Alexander Haig age 41
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Peng Dehuai age 67
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 65
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 70
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 66
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lyman Lemnitzer age 67
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 54
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
George Scratchley Brown age 48
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Bernard W. Rogers age 45
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
David C. Jones age 45
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
William J. Crowe age 41
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Earle Wheeler age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John William Vessey Jr. age 44
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Galvin age 37
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Andrew Goodpaster age 51
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Henry Kissinger age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Dick Cheney age 25
Secretary of Defense - United States
John Major age 23
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Rumsfeld age 34
Secretary of Defense - United States
James Baker age 36
Secretary of State - United States
George Shultz age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 40
Secretary of State - United States
William Westmoreland age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dean Rusk age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Cyrus Vance age 49
Secretary of State - United States
Edmund Muskie age 52
Secretary of State - United States
John Connally age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James R. Schlesinger age 37
Secretary of Defense - United States
William P. Rogers age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Creighton Abrams age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 39
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Caspar Weinberger age 49
Secretary of Defense - United States
Nigel Lawson age 34
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Brown age 38
Secretary of Defense - United States
Melvin Laird age 44
Secretary of Defense - United States
Ramsey Clark age 38
Attorney General - United States
Denis Healey age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elliot Richardson age 46
Attorney General - United States
Frank Carlucci age 35
Secretary of Defense - United States
Douglas Hurd age 36
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Bork age 39
Attorney General - United States
Leon Brittan age 26
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
W. Michael Blumenthal age 40
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John N. Mitchell age 52
Attorney General - United States
Clark Clifford age 59
Secretary of Defense - United States
Donald Regan age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nicholas F. Brady age 36
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nicholas Katzenbach age 44
Attorney General - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 34
Attorney General - United States
Iain Macleod age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Griffin Bell age 47
Attorney General - United States
Edwin Meese age 34
Attorney General - United States
Frederick C. Weyand age 49
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
G. William Miller age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Reginald Maudling age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William B. Saxbe age 50
Attorney General - United States
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William E. Simon age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Richard Kleindienst age 43
Attorney General - United States
Henry H. Fowler age 58
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 49
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 37
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Civiletti age 31
Attorney General - United States
Joseph W. Barr age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John A. Wickham Jr. age 38
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Carr age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward H. Levi age 55
Attorney General - United States
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Anthony Barber age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward C. Meyer age 37
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Rush age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 31
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
David D. Newsom age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Michael Armacost age 29
Secretary of State - United States
Richard N. Cooper age 32
Secretary of State - United States
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 46
Secretary of State - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 71
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William H. Webster age 42
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William S. Sessions age 36
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley age 54
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Albert Luthuli age 68
President - African National Congress
Sandra Day O'Connor age 36
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 30
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 17
President - Sinn Féin
Oliver Tambo age 48
President - African National Congress
Thurgood Marshall age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 30
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 46
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 24
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Michael Foot age 53
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Kenneth Clarke age 26
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William J. Brennan Jr. age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jeremy Thorpe age 37
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Norman Tebbit age 35
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Potter Stewart age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Steel age 28
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Tom C. Clark age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Francis Pym age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 49
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Abe Fortas age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Crosland age 48
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Roy Mason age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Cecil Parkinson age 35
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 53
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 33
President - Sinn Féin
Tomás Mac Giolla age 42
President - Sinn Féin
William Ruckelshaus age 34
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 29
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Rippon age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Douglas Jay age 59
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Davies age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 34
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Laurence Silberman age 30
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas age 53
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Harold R. Tyler Jr. age 44
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Ken Starr age 20
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles Fried age 31
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 33
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 28
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 19
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 23
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 18
Senate - United States
John McCain age 30
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 22
Senate - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 40
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 41
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 26
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 45
Senate - United States
Tony Blair age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Leon Panetta age 28
House of Representatives - United States
William Hague age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 12
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Norman Lamont age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Manny Shinwell age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 20
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jerry Brown age 28
Governor of California - United States
Mario Cuomo age 34
Governor of New York - United States
Michael Dukakis age 32
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Lamar Alexander age 26
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Evan Bayh age 10
Governor of Indiana - United States