✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
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
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
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 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
December murders 1982-12-08 - 1982-12-09
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
1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état 1983-08-04
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
Operation Blue Star 1984-06-01 - 1984-06-10
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
Iran–Contra affair 1985-08-20 - 1987-03-04
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
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency 1987
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
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
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
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
Somali Civil War 1991-01-26
Battle of Khafji 1991-01-29 - 1991-02-01
Liberation of Kuwait campaign 1991-02-24 - 1991-02-28
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
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
1991 Soviet coup attempt 1991-08-19 - 1991-08-21
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
Djiboutian Civil War 1991-11-01 - 1994-12-26
Belovezha Accords 1991-12-08
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08

People

Ronald Reagan age 68
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 53
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 53
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 48
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter age 55
President - United States
George H. W. Bush age 55
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 42
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 48
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 40
President - Iran
Kim Il-sung age 67
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Hirohito age 78
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 72
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hosni Mubarak age 51
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 63
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 77
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 45
Emperor - Japan
Josip Broz Tito age 87
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 60
President - Egypt
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 53
President - France
Yuri Andropov age 65
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Konstantin Chernenko age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jiang Zemin age 53
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 67
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 49
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 59
President - Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 45
President - Iran
Baudouin of Belgium age 49
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 58
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Abolhassan Banisadr age 46
President - Iran
Zhao Ziyang age 60
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Karl Carstens age 64
President - Germany
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 46
President - Iran
Lee Teng-hui age 56
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 42
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 30
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 69
President - Republic of China
José Sarney age 49
President - Brazil
José López Portillo age 59
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 31
President - Mexico
Hu Yaobang age 63
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Miguel de la Madrid age 44
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 61
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 72
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 70
President - People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun age 72
President - People's Republic of China
Efraín Ríos Montt age 53
President - Guatemala
Trường Chinh age 72
President - Vietnam
Tôn Đức Thắng age 91
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 46
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Do Muoi age 62
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong age 67
President - Vietnam
Nguyen Huu Tho age 69
President - Vietnam
Sufi Abu Taleb age 54
President - Egypt
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 48
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 36
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 34
President - Guatemala
Pol Pot age 54
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Kurt Waldheim age 60
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 59
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 61
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 46
Prime Minister - France
Deng Xiaoping age 75
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 49
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 56
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 35
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 36
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Menachem Begin age 66
Prime Minister - Israel
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 56
Prime Minister - Poland
Giulio Andreotti age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Francesco Cossiga age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 64
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 59
President - International Olympic Committee
Bettino Craxi age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 58
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 54
President - European Commission
Alexei Kosygin age 75
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Pierre Mauroy age 51
Prime Minister - France
Laurent Fabius age 33
Prime Minister - France
Édith Cresson age 45
Prime Minister - France
Robert McNamara age 63
President - World Bank
Charan Singh age 76
Prime Minister - India
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
P. W. Botha age 63
Prime Minister - South Africa
Amintore Fanfani age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Li Peng age 51
Premier - People's Republic of China
Chandra Shekhar age 52
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 48
Prime Minister - India
Toshiki Kaifu age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichi Miyazawa age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Rocard age 49
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 50
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Raymond Barre age 55
Prime Minister - France
Ciriaco De Mita age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Zenkō Suzuki age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Arnaldo Forlani age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Masayoshi Ōhira age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Sōsuke Uno age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Gennady Yanayev age 42
President - Soviet Union
Giovanni Goria age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Tikhonov age 74
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 51
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Ante Marković age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 58
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 58
President - European Commission
Khamtai Siphandone age 55
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 73
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 53
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 60
Secretary General - NATO
Manfred Wörner age 45
Secretary General - NATO
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 65
President - International Olympic Committee
Jan Olszewski age 49
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 68
Secretary General - NATO
Mieczysław Rakowski age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Jack Lynch age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Vo Van Kiet age 56
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 70
Prime Minister - Poland
Masayoshi Ito age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Pham Hung age 67
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Edward Babiuch age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Branko Mikulić age 51
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Atef Sedki age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 44
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mustafa Khalil age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kamal Hassan Ali age 46
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 51
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 53
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 56
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Veselin Đuranović age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Yon Hyong-muk age 47
Premier - North Korea
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 47
Prime Minister - Syria
Lee Huan age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 44
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 56
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 53
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Alden W. Clausen age 56
President - World Bank
Aleksandar Mitrović age 46
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 42
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Jong-il age 38
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
William Rehnquist age 55
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dan Quayle age 32
Vice President - United States
Walter Mondale age 51
Vice President - United States
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 37
Vice President - Iraq
Wang Zhen (general) age 71
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 56
Vice President - Republic of China
Colin Powell age 42
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nie Rongzhen age 79
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Bernard W. Rogers age 58
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
David C. Jones age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
William J. Crowe age 54
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John William Vessey Jr. age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Galvin age 50
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Dick Cheney age 38
Secretary of Defense - United States
Robert Gates age 36
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
James Baker age 49
Secretary of State - United States
George Shultz age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Alexander Haig age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Cyrus Vance age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Edmund Muskie age 65
Secretary of State - United States
William Barr age 29
Attorney General - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Caspar Weinberger age 62
Secretary of Defense - United States
Nigel Lawson age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Brown age 52
Secretary of Defense - United States
Frank Carlucci age 49
Secretary of Defense - United States
William H. Webster age 55
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Douglas Hurd age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 40
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 37
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Regan age 60
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nicholas F. Brady age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 47
Attorney General - United States
Edwin Meese age 47
Attorney General - United States
G. William Miller age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 62
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Civiletti age 44
Attorney General - United States
John A. Wickham Jr. age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Gordon R. Sullivan age 42
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward C. Meyer age 50
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 45
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
David D. Newsom age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Michael Armacost age 42
Secretary of State - United States
Richard N. Cooper age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Stansfield Turner age 55
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
William J. Casey age 66
Director of Central Intelligence - United States