✦ 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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
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
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
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
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

People

Ronald Reagan age 73
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 58
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 58
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 53
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
George H. W. Bush age 60
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 47
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 53
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 45
President - Iran
Hirohito age 83
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 56
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 68
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 82
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 51
Emperor - Japan
Konstantin Chernenko age 73
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jiang Zemin age 58
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 72
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 54
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 64
President - Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 50
President - Iran
Baudouin of Belgium age 54
King - Belgium
Zhao Ziyang age 65
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Lee Teng-hui age 62
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 47
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 35
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 74
President - Republic of China
José Sarney age 54
President - Brazil
Hu Yaobang age 69
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
João Figueiredo age 67
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 77
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 75
President - People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun age 77
President - People's Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 77
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 52
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Vo Chi Cong age 72
President - Vietnam
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 54
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 42
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 39
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 72
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Miguel de la Madrid age 50
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 36
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 64
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jacques Chirac age 52
Prime Minister - France
Deng Xiaoping age 80
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 61
Prime Minister - Israel
Rajiv Gandhi age 40
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 41
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Giulio Andreotti age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 69
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Bettino Craxi age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 63
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 59
President - European Commission
Laurent Fabius age 38
Prime Minister - France
Édith Cresson age 50
Prime Minister - France
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Amintore Fanfani age 76
Prime Minister - Italy
Li Peng age 56
Premier - People's Republic of China
Chandra Shekhar age 57
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 53
Prime Minister - India
Toshiki Kaifu age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichi Miyazawa age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Rocard age 54
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 55
Chairman - Soviet Union
Ciriaco De Mita age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Sōsuke Uno age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Gennady Yanayev age 47
President - Soviet Union
Giovanni Goria age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Tikhonov age 79
Chairman - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 56
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 60
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Ante Marković age 60
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 64
Prime Minister - Laos
Khamtai Siphandone age 60
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 78
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Manfred Wörner age 50
Secretary General - NATO
Jan Olszewski age 54
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Do Muoi age 67
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Mieczysław Rakowski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Vo Van Kiet age 62
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Pham Hung age 72
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Sedki age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kamal Hassan Ali age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 56
Director-General - World Health Organization
Halfdan T. Mahler age 61
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yon Hyong-muk age 53
Premier - North Korea
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Lee Huan age 67
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 62
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 58
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 71
Premier - Republic of China
Alden W. Clausen age 61
President - World Bank
William Rehnquist age 60
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-il age 43
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Dan Quayle age 37
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 76
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 56
Vice President - Iraq
Lee Yuan-tsu age 61
Vice President - Republic of China
Colin Powell age 47
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
William J. Crowe age 60
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
John William Vessey Jr. age 62
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Dick Cheney age 43
Secretary Of Defense - United States
James Baker age 54
Secretary Of State - United States
George Shultz age 64
Secretary Of State - United States
William Barr age 34
Attorney General - United States
Nigel Lawson age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank Carlucci age 54
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Douglas Hurd age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 42
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Regan age 66
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Nicholas F. Brady age 54
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 52
Attorney General - United States
Edwin Meese age 53
Attorney General - United States
William French Smith age 67
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John A. Wickham Jr. age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Gordon R. Sullivan age 47
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Carl E. Vuono age 50
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Michael Armacost age 47
Secretary Of State - United States
William H. Webster age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William S. Sessions age 54
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 66
President - African National Congress
Antonin Scalia age 48
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 36
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 76
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 48
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 78
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 77
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 42
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 46
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 67
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 36
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 51
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 46
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 42
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 36
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 41
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 60
Senate - United States
John Lewis age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 38
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Lech Wałęsa age 41
President - Poland
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 57
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 60
President - Zimbabwe
Ferdinand Marcos age 67
President - Philippines
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 47
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 69
President - Chile
Suharto age 63
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 66
President - Romania
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 44
President - Kazakhstan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 44
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 51
President - Philippines
Harald V of Norway age 47
King - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 43
President - Serbia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 38
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 46
Queen - Netherlands
Thomas Sankara age 35
President - Burkina Faso
Muhammadu Buhari age 42
President - Nigeria
Daniel Ortega age 39
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 46
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 41
President - Sudan
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 44
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 48
State President - South Africa
Kurt Waldheim age 66
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 54
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Julius Nyerere age 62
President - Tanzania
Saparmurat Niyazov age 44
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 40
President - Uganda
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 48
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 56
President - Italy
Leonid Kravchuk age 51
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 37
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 46
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 42
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 32
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 57
President - Turkey
Mswati III age 16
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 51
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 49
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 81
President - Tunisia
Teodoro Obiang age 42
President - Equatorial Guinea
Mary Robinson age 40
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 95
President - Malawi