✦ 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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
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
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
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
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
Transnistria War 1992-03-02 - 1992-07-21
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
Earth Summit 1992-06-03 - 1992-06-14
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia 1993-01-01
1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993-02-26
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13

People

Ronald Reagan age 76
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 61
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 41
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 61
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 56
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
George H. W. Bush age 63
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 50
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 56
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 48
President - Iran
Kim Il-sung age 75
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Hirohito age 86
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 59
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 71
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 85
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 53
Emperor - Japan
Jiang Zemin age 61
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 75
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 57
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 67
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 53
King - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 53
President - Iran
Baudouin of Belgium age 57
King - Belgium
Zhao Ziyang age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Itamar Franco age 57
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 64
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 50
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 38
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 77
President - Republic of China
José Sarney age 57
President - Brazil
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 39
President - Mexico
Miguel de la Madrid age 53
President - Mexico
Li Xiannian age 78
President - People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun age 80
President - People's Republic of China
Le Duc Anh age 67
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 55
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Do Muoi age 70
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong age 75
President - Vietnam
Vinicio Cerezo age 44
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 45
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 42
President - Guatemala
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 41
President - Guatemala
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 65
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 67
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jacques Chirac age 55
Prime Minister - France
Deng Xiaoping age 83
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 57
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 65
Prime Minister - Israel
Rajiv Gandhi age 43
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giulio Andreotti age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 67
President - International Olympic Committee
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 66
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 62
President - European Commission
Édith Cresson age 53
Prime Minister - France
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Li Peng age 59
Premier - People's Republic of China
Chandra Shekhar age 60
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 56
Prime Minister - India
Toshiki Kaifu age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichi Miyazawa age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Édouard Balladur age 58
Prime Minister - France
Michel Rocard age 57
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Morihiro Hosokawa age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 58
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Ciriaco De Mita age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Sōsuke Uno age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Gennady Yanayev age 50
President - Soviet Union
Giovanni Goria age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Hanna Suchocka age 41
Prime Minister - Poland
Pierre Bérégovoy age 62
Prime Minister - France
Ante Marković age 63
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Khamtai Siphandone age 63
Prime Minister - Laos
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 68
Secretary General - NATO
Manfred Wörner age 53
Secretary General - NATO
Jan Olszewski age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Waldemar Pawlak age 28
Prime Minister - Poland
Mieczysław Rakowski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Vo Van Kiet age 65
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Lien Chan age 51
Premier - Republic of China
Pham Hung age 75
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 68
Premier - Republic of China
Branko Mikulić age 59
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Atef Sedki age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 59
Director-General - World Health Organization
Halfdan T. Mahler age 64
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yon Hyong-muk age 56
Premier - North Korea
Lee Huan age 70
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 52
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 65
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 61
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 73
Premier - Republic of China
Aleksandar Mitrović age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kim Jong-il age 46
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
William Rehnquist age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 39
Vice President - United States
Dan Quayle age 40
Vice President - United States
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 45
Vice President - Iraq
Wang Zhen (general) age 79
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren age 71
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 64
Vice President - Republic of China
Colin Powell age 50
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Zhu Rongji age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
John Shalikashvili age 51
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Nie Rongzhen age 88
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William J. Crowe age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Galvin age 58
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Dick Cheney age 46
Secretary of Defense - United States
James Baker age 57
Secretary of State - United States
George Shultz age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Lawrence Eagleburger age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Janet Reno age 49
Attorney General - United States
Michael Howard age 46
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Barr age 37
Attorney General - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 66
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nigel Lawson age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Frank Carlucci age 57
Secretary of Defense - United States
Les Aspin age 49
Secretary of Defense - United States
Douglas Hurd age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Nicholas F. Brady age 57
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 55
Attorney General - United States
Edwin Meese age 56
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 58
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Gordon R. Sullivan age 50
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Frank G. Wisner age 49
Secretary of State - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Michael Armacost age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Stuart M. Gerson age 43
Attorney General - United States
William S. Sessions age 57
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 37
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 69
President - African National Congress
Hu Jintao age 44
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 39
President - Sinn Féin
Clarence Thomas age 39
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Oliver Tambo age 70
President - African National Congress
Thurgood Marshall age 79
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 45
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Souter age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Smith age 49
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 81
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Steel age 49
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 55
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Philip Heymann age 55
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
George J. Terwilliger III age 37
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Ken Starr age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles Fried age 52
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Robert Mueller age 43
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Stephen Breyer age 49
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 40
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 45
Senate - United States
John McCain age 51
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 44
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 63
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 47
Senate - United States
Tony Blair age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Leon Panetta age 49
House of Representatives - United States
William Hague age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 69
House of Representatives - United States
Merlyn Rees age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mario Cuomo age 55
Governor of New York - United States
Michael Dukakis age 54
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Ann Richards age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
Bill Weld age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Voinovich age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
Evan Bayh age 31
Governor of Indiana - United States