✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
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
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
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
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
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
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
Siege of Dubrovnik 1991-10-01 - 1992-05-31
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08

People

Nikola Kljusev age 57
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Òscar Ribas Reig age 48
Prime Minister - Andorra
França Van-Dúnem age 50
Prime Minister - Angola
Vere Bird age 74
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 51
Prime Minister - Malta
Valeriu Muravschi age 35
Prime Minister - Moldova
Azzeddine Laraki age 55
Prime Minister - Morocco
Habib Thiam age 51
Prime Minister - Senegal
Salim Ahmed Salim age 42
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Rachid Sfar age 51
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Walter Lini age 43
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Ylli Bufi age 36
Prime Minister - Albania
Moudud Ahmed age 44
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Errol Barrow age 64
Prime Minister - Barbados
Timoci Bavadra age 50
Prime Minister - Fiji
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 42
Prime Minister - Gabon
Mudar Badran age 50
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sergey Tereshchenko age 33
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Albertas Šimėnas age 34
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Mário da Graça Machungo age 44
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Ján Čarnogurský age 41
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Hédi Baccouche age 55
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Franjo Gregurić age 45
Prime Minister - Croatia
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 53
Prime Minister - Haiti
Sa'dun Hammadi age 54
Prime Minister - Iraq
Zeid bin Shaker age 50
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 65
Prime Minister - Morocco
Geoffrey Palmer age 42
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hamed Karoui age 57
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Ali Bozer age 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Donald Kalpokas age 41
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Chung Won-shik age 56
Prime Minister - South Korea
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 48
Prime Minister - Algeria
Hasan Hasanov age 44
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 47
Prime Minister - Barbados
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Zaid al-Rifai age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ahmad Obeidat age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ezekiel Alebua age 38
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Peter Kenilorea age 41
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Tomasi Puapua age 46
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Maxime Carlot Korman age 43
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Josep Pintat-Solans age 59
Prime Minister - Andorra
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 56
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Tom Adams age 53
Prime Minister - Barbados
Léon Mébiame age 50
Prime Minister - Gabon
Bessarion Gugushvili age 39
Prime Minister - Georgia
Nicholas Brathwaite age 59
Prime Minister - Grenada
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 53
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 45
Prime Minister - Yemen
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 55
Prime Minister - Somalia
Qasdi Mirbah age 46
Prime Minister - Algeria
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 47
Prime Minister - Algeria
Mulud Hamroush age 42
Prime Minister - Algeria
Sadou Hayatou age 42
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 44
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 40
Prime Minister - Libya
Kennedy Simmonds age 48
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 28
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Cesar Virata age 54
Prime Minister - Philippines
Herbert Blaize age 66
Prime Minister - Grenada
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 46
Prime Minister - Libya
Soumana Sacko age 34
Prime Minister - Mali
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 51
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Solomon Mamaloni age 41
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
John Malecela age 50
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 54
Prime Minister - Somalia
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 46
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Obed Dlamini age 47
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Nasirdin Isanov age 41
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 43
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Milan Čič age 53
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Tu'i Pelehake age 63
Prime Minister - Tonga
Baron Vaea age 63
Prime Minister - Tonga
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 84
Prime Minister - Peru
Hans Brunhart age 39
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 39
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Ben Jones age 60
Prime Minister - Grenada
Taher Masri age 43
Prime Minister - Jordan
Andrei Iordan age 50
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Dashiin Byambasüren age 42
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Aliou Mahamidou age 37
Prime Minister - Niger
Hamid Algabid age 44
Prime Minister - Niger
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 60
Prime Minister - Samoa
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 44
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Mamadou Dembelé age 50
Prime Minister - Mali
Radoje Kontić age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Peter Colotka age 60
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Malimba Masheke age 43
Prime Minister - Zambia
Kebby Musokotwane age 38
Prime Minister - Zambia
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 46
Prime Minister - Somalia
Ro Jai-bong age 48
Prime Minister - South Korea
Fazal khaliq age 51
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Édouard Frank age 50
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Guy Razanamasy age 56
Prime Minister - Madagascar
Mircea Druc age 43
Prime Minister - Moldova
Mamane Oumarou age 40
Prime Minister - Niger
Luis Alva Castro age 42
Prime Minister - Peru
Adrien Sibomana age 31
Prime Minister - Burundi
Ange Édouard Poungui age 43
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 49
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Pretaap Radhakishun age 50
Prime Minister - Suriname
Nalumino Mundia age 57
Prime Minister - Zambia
Armando Villanueva age 69
Prime Minister - Peru
Hailu Yimenu age 50
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Daniel Daio age 38
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Radivoje Brajović age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Wim Udenhout age 47
Prime Minister - Suriname
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 37
Prime Minister - Togo
Tesfaye Dinka age 45
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 44
Prime Minister - Peru
Luis Pércovich Roca age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Guillermo Larco Cox age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Carlos Torres y Torres Lara age 42
Prime Minister - Peru
Vuko Vukadinović age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Alfonso de los Heros age 45
Prime Minister - Peru
Bill Hayden age 51
Governor-General - Australia
Catherine Tizard age 53
Governor-General - New Zealand
Elmira Minita Gordon age 54
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Howard Cooke age 69
Governor-General - Jamaica
Toaripi Lauti age 56
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 73
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Tupua Leupena age 62
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Nita Barrow age 68
Governor-General - Barbados
Florizel Glasspole age 75
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 60
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 67
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Vincent Eri age 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Ignatius Kilage age 43
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Edward Zacca age 53
Governor-General - Jamaica
Kingsford Dibela age 52
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Henry Milton Taylor age 81
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Wiwa Korowi age 36
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Dennis Young age 49
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 23
Donald Trump age 38
Michael Jackson age 26
Vladimir Putin age 32
George W. Bush age 38
Bill Gates age 29
Jimmy Wales age 18
Pope Francis age 48
Steve Jobs age 29
Angela Merkel age 30
Neil Armstrong age 54
François Hollande age 30
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 6
Gabriel García Márquez age 57
Elon Musk age 13
Stephen Hawking age 43
Jimmy Carter age 60
Emmanuel Macron age 7
Benedict XVI age 57
Mother Teresa age 74
Hillary Clinton age 37
Kamala Harris age 20
Nicolas Sarkozy age 29
Richard Nixon age 72
Xi Jinping age 31
Naruhito age 24
Hugo Chávez age 30
Simone de Beauvoir age 77
Muammar Gaddafi age 42
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 30
Muhammad Ali age 42
Kofi Annan age 46
Charles III age 36
Osama bin Laden age 27
Kim Jong-un age 2
Gerald Ford age 71
Leo XIV age 29
Diego Maradona age 24
Narendra Modi age 34
Rafael Correa age 21
Aung San Suu Kyi age 39
Benjamin Netanyahu age 35
Dmitry Medvedev age 19
14th Dalai Lama age 49
Mark Zuckerberg age 7 months
Silvio Berlusconi age 48
Shinzo Abe age 30
Tim Berners-Lee age 29
Guillermo Lasso age 29
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 66
Alexander Lukashenko age 30
Yasser Arafat age 55
David Cameron age 18
Linus Torvalds age 15
Ban Ki-moon age 40
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 37
Boris Johnson age 20
Diana, Princess of Wales age 23
Bashar al-Assad age 19
Jair Bolsonaro age 29
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 39
Theresa May age 28
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 28
Henry Kissinger age 61