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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
Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
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
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
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
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
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
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
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

Ronald Reagan age 55
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 40
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 72
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 75
President - France
Fidel Castro age 40
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 35
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter age 41
President - United States
George H. W. Bush age 42
President - United States
Richard Nixon age 53
President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 58
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 53
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 29
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 27
President - Iran
Hirohito age 65
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 76
President - Vietnam
Georges Pompidou age 55
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 59
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 78
President - Republic of China
Hosni Mubarak age 38
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 49
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 63
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 32
Emperor - Japan
Josip Broz Tito age 74
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 48
President - Egypt
Anwar Sadat age 47
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 74
Emperor - Ethiopia
Yuri Andropov age 52
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 46
Shah - Iran
Konstantin Chernenko age 54
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jiang Zemin age 40
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 54
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 35
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 46
President - Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 32
President - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 73
First Secretary - East Germany
Walter Scheel age 47
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 35
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 45
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Gustav Heinemann age 67
President - Germany
Abolhassan Banisadr age 33
President - Iran
Zhao Ziyang age 46
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Karl Carstens age 51
President - Germany
Heinrich Lübke age 71
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 67
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 33
President - Iran
Lee Teng-hui age 43
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 29
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 17
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 56
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 52
President - Iraq
José Sarney age 36
President - Brazil
José López Portillo age 46
President - Mexico
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 68
President - Brazil
Alain Poher age 57
President - France
Hu Yaobang age 50
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Luis Echeverría age 44
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 48
President - Brazil
Abdul Rahman Arif age 50
President - Iraq
Ernesto Geisel age 59
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 59
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 57
President - People's Republic of China
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 55
President - Mexico
Yang Shangkun age 59
President - People's Republic of China
Efraín Ríos Montt age 40
President - Guatemala
Osvaldo Dorticós age 47
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 60
President - Brazil
Artur da Costa e Silva age 66
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 59
President - Vietnam
Dong Biwu age 80
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 78
President - Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong age 54
President - Vietnam
Nureddin al-Atassi age 37
President - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 60
President - Republic of China
Nguyen Huu Tho age 56
President - Vietnam
Sufi Abu Taleb age 41
President - Egypt
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 48
President - Guatemala
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 35
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 23
President - Guatemala
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 50
President - Guatemala
Ahmad al-Khatib age 33
President - Syria
Zakaria Mohieddin age 48
President - Egypt
Kim Il-sung age 54
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 40
President - France
Miguel de la Madrid age 31
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 18
President - Mexico
Pol Pot age 41
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 47
Secretary-General - United Nations
U Thant age 57
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 46
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 40
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 48
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 33
Prime Minister - France
Golda Meir age 68
Prime Minister - Israel
Deng Xiaoping age 62
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 36
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 43
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 52
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 44
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 47
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 22
Prime Minister - India
Zhou Enlai age 68
Premier - People's Republic of China
Menachem Begin age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
Harold Wilson age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 69
Chancellor - Germany
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
Giulio Andreotti age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Francesco Cossiga age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Eisaku Satō age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Edward Heath age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Isaac Shamir age 50
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 46
President - International Olympic Committee
Bettino Craxi age 32
Prime Minister - Italy
Jacques Delors age 41
President - European Commission
Giovanni Leone age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 62
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Pierre Mauroy age 38
Prime Minister - France
Laurent Fabius age 20
Prime Minister - France
Robert McNamara age 50
President - World Bank
Charan Singh age 63
Prime Minister - India
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 39
Prime Minister - Poland
P. W. Botha age 50
Prime Minister - South Africa
Amintore Fanfani age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Li Peng age 37
Premier - People's Republic of China
Kakuei Tanaka age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
V. P. Singh age 35
Prime Minister - India
Toshiki Kaifu age 35
Prime Minister - Japan
Emilio Colombo age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Michel Rocard age 36
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Takeo Fukuda age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 65
Prime Minister - South Africa
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 36
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Raymond Barre age 42
Prime Minister - France
Mariano Rumor age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Ciriaco De Mita age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Zenkō Suzuki age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Arnaldo Forlani age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Masayoshi Ōhira age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Sōsuke Uno age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Goria age 23
Prime Minister - Italy
Takeo Miki age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Tikhonov age 61
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Yigal Allon age 47
Prime Minister - Israel
Gaston Thorn age 38
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 41
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 51
Prime Minister - France
Pierre Messmer age 50
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 78
President - International Olympic Committee
Maurice Couve de Murville age 59
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 50
Prime Minister - South Africa
Walter Hallstein age 64
President - European Commission
Ante Marković age 41
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 45
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 45
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 64
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 60
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 40
Taoiseach - Ireland
Liam Cosgrave age 46
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 47
Secretary General - NATO
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 55
Prime Minister - Poland
Manfred Wörner age 31
Secretary General - NATO
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 52
President - International Olympic Committee
Charles Haughey age 40
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 55
Secretary General - NATO
Do Muoi age 49
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Jean Rey age 64
President - European Commission
Sicco Mansholt age 57
President - European Commission
François-Xavier Ortoli age 41
President - European Commission
Mieczysław Rakowski age 39
Prime Minister - Poland
Jack Lynch age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 56
Prime Minister - Poland
Manlio Brosio age 69
Secretary General - NATO
Franco Maria Malfatti age 39
President - European Commission
Masayoshi Ito age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Seán Lemass age 67
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pak Song-chol age 53
Premier - North Korea
Kim Il age 56
Premier - North Korea
Pham Hung age 54
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Edward Babiuch age 38
Prime Minister - Poland
Atef Sedki age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 30
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mustafa Khalil age 45
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kamal Hassan Ali age 33
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 38
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 40
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 43
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Veselin Đuranović age 41
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
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