✦ 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
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
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
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
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
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
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 Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 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
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
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope 1990-04-24
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
German reunification 1990-10-03
Air campaign of the Gulf War 1991-01-17 - 1991-02-23
Battle of Khafji 1991-01-29 - 1991-02-01
Liberation of Kuwait campaign 1991-02-24 - 1991-02-28
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of Medina Ridge 1991-02-27 - 1991-02-27
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Ten-Day War 1991-06-27 - 1991-07-07
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Vukovar 1991-08-25 - 1991-11-18

People

Ronald Reagan age 64
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 49
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 81
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Fidel Castro age 49
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 44
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter age 51
President - United States
George H. W. Bush age 51
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 62
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 38
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 44
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 36
President - Iran
Hirohito age 74
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hosni Mubarak age 47
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 59
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 73
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 41
Emperor - Japan
Josip Broz Tito age 83
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 56
President - Egypt
Yuri Andropov age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 56
Shah - Iran
Konstantin Chernenko age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jiang Zemin age 49
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 63
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 45
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 55
President - Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 41
President - Iran
Walter Scheel age 56
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 54
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Abolhassan Banisadr age 42
President - Iran
Zhao Ziyang age 56
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Karl Carstens age 60
President - Germany
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 42
President - Iran
Lee Teng-hui age 52
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 38
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 26
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 65
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 61
President - Iraq
José Sarney age 45
President - Brazil
José López Portillo age 55
President - Mexico
Hu Yaobang age 59
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Luis Echeverría age 53
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 57
President - Brazil
Ernesto Geisel age 68
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 66
President - People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun age 68
President - People's Republic of China
Efraín Ríos Montt age 49
President - Guatemala
Osvaldo Dorticós age 56
President - Cuba
Trường Chinh age 68
President - Vietnam
Tôn Đức Thắng age 87
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 43
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Do Muoi age 58
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong age 63
President - Vietnam
Yen Chia-kan age 70
President - Republic of China
Nguyen Huu Tho age 65
President - Vietnam
Sufi Abu Taleb age 50
President - Egypt
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 44
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 32
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 30
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 63
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 49
President - France
Miguel de la Madrid age 40
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 27
President - Mexico
Pol Pot age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 57
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 42
Prime Minister - France
Deng Xiaoping age 71
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 52
Prime Minister - Israel
Yitzhak Rabin age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 31
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 32
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai age 77
Premier - People's Republic of China
Menachem Begin age 62
Prime Minister - Israel
Harold Wilson age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Giulio Andreotti age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Francesco Cossiga age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 60
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 55
President - International Olympic Committee
Bettino Craxi age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 54
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 50
President - European Commission
Alexei Kosygin age 71
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Pierre Mauroy age 47
Prime Minister - France
Laurent Fabius age 29
Prime Minister - France
Édith Cresson age 41
Prime Minister - France
Robert McNamara age 59
President - World Bank
Charan Singh age 72
Prime Minister - India
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
P. W. Botha age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
Amintore Fanfani age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Li Peng age 47
Premier - People's Republic of China
Chandra Shekhar age 48
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 44
Prime Minister - India
Toshiki Kaifu age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Rocard age 45
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Takeo Fukuda age 70
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 46
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Raymond Barre age 51
Prime Minister - France
Ciriaco De Mita age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Zenkō Suzuki age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Arnaldo Forlani age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Masayoshi Ōhira age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Sōsuke Uno age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Gennady Yanayev age 38
President - Soviet Union
Giovanni Goria age 32
Prime Minister - Italy
Takeo Miki age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Tikhonov age 70
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 47
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 50
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
B. J. Vorster age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ante Marković age 50
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 54
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 55
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 74
Prime Minister - Laos
Khamtai Siphandone age 51
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
Liam Cosgrave age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Manfred Wörner age 41
Secretary General - NATO
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Charles Haughey age 50
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 64
Secretary General - NATO
François-Xavier Ortoli age 50
President - European Commission
Mieczysław Rakowski age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Jack Lynch age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Vo Van Kiet age 52
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 66
Prime Minister - Poland
Masayoshi Ito age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Pak Song-chol age 62
Premier - North Korea
Kim Il age 65
Premier - North Korea
Pham Hung age 63
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Edward Babiuch age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Atef Sedki age 45
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 40
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mustafa Khalil age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kamal Hassan Ali age 42
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 47
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Yon Hyong-muk age 44
Premier - North Korea
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Mamdouh Salem age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Lee Huan age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 40
Prime Minister - Syria
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 53
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 49
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 61
Premier - Republic of China
Alden W. Clausen age 52
President - World Bank
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Hsu Ching-chung age 68
Premier - Republic of China
Morarji Desai age 79
Prime Minister - India
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 38
Prime Minister - Syria
William Rehnquist age 51
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dan Quayle age 28
Vice President - United States
Walter Mondale age 47
Vice President - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 67
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 67
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 47
Vice President - Iraq
Lee Yuan-tsu age 52
Vice President - Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 33
Vice President - Iraq
Colin Powell age 38
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nie Rongzhen age 75
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
George Scratchley Brown age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
David C. Jones age 54
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
William J. Crowe age 50
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John William Vessey Jr. age 53
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Dick Cheney age 34
Secretary of Defense - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 43
Secretary of Defense - United States
James Baker age 45
Secretary of State - United States
George Shultz age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Alexander Haig age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Cyrus Vance age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Edmund Muskie age 61
Secretary of State - United States
William Barr age 25
Attorney General - United States
James R. Schlesinger age 46
Secretary of Defense - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Nigel Lawson age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Brown age 48
Secretary of Defense - United States
Denis Healey age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank Carlucci age 45
Secretary of Defense - United States