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Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Civil rights movement
1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence
1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race
1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War
1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Great Leap Forward
1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine
1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War
1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement
1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Guatemalan Civil War
1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement
1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Vostok 1
1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders
1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
1961 Syrian coup d'état
1961-09-28
Apollo Program
1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War
1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement
1963-01-01 - 1966-01-01
1963 Syrian coup d'état
1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign
1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
1963-06-11
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963-11-22
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964
1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement
1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01
Selma to Montgomery marches
1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1965-08-06
1966 Syrian coup d'état
1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution
1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War
1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War
1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Nigerian Civil War
1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
1967 Plainfield riots
1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16
1967 Detroit riot
1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28
Orangeburg massacre
1968-02-08
Mỹ Lai massacre
1968-03-16
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968-04-04
Fair Housing Act
1968-04-11
Poor People's Campaign
1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
1968-06-06
Apollo 11
1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Corrective Movement (Syria)
1970-11-13
Bangladesh genocide
1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
1971 Dhaka University massacre
1971-03-25
Bangladesh War of Independence
1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Yom Kippur War
1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Lebanese Civil War
1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide
1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Islamist uprising in Syria
1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution
1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War
1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16
Taiwan Relations Act
1979-04-10
Iran hostage crisis
1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War
1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War
1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut
1983-04-18
United States invasion of Grenada
1983-10-25 - 1983-10-29
Battle of Tripoli (1983)
1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Chernobyl disaster
1986-04-26
1987 Lieyu massacre
1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989-11-09
United States invasion of Panama
1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Gulf War
1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
People
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 29
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Hirohito
age 59
Emperor
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Japan
Souvanna Phouma
age 59
Prime Minister
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Laos
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 52
President
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United States
Chiang Kai-shek
age 73
President
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Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle
age 70
President
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France
Boris Yeltsin
age 29
President
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Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter
age 36
President
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United States
Jacques Chirac
age 27
President
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France
Saddam Hussein
age 23
President
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Iraq
Richard Nixon
age 47
President
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United States
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 72
President
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Vietnam
Jiang Zemin
age 34
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Margaret Thatcher
age 35
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Zhao Ziyang
age 41
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 45
General Secretary
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Communist Party of China
Fidel Castro
age 34
President
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Cuba
Pol Pot
age 35
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Bill Clinton
age 14
President
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United States
Ronald Reagan
age 49
President
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United States
Hafez al-Assad
age 30
President
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Syria
Lee Teng-hui
age 37
President
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Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 70
President
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United States
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 50
President
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Republic of China
Leonid Brezhnev
age 53
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
John Major
age 17
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Gerald Ford
age 47
President
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United States
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 42
President
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Egypt
Ho Chi Minh
age 70
President
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Vietnam
Konstantin Chernenko
age 49
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Lê Duẩn
age 53
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
John F. Kennedy
age 43
President
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United States
George H. W. Bush
age 36
President
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United States
Hua Guofeng
age 39
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping
age 56
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Walter Mondale
age 32
Vice President
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United States
Dong Biwu
age 74
Acting Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Dan Quayle
age 13
Vice President
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United States
Yang Shangkun
age 53
President
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People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian
age 51
President
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People's Republic of China
Sun Yun-suan
age 47
Premier
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Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 37
Vice President
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Republic of China
Mao Zedong
age 66
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Spiro Agnew
age 42
Vice President
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 49
Vice President
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United States
Al Gore
age 12
Vice President
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United States
Konrad Adenauer
age 84
Chancellor
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Germany
Liu Shaoqi
age 62
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 34
Queen
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United Kingdom
Kim Jong-il
age 19
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army
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North Korea
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 58
Supreme Leader
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Iran
Kim Il-sung
age 48
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Lien Chan
age 24
Vice President
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Republic of China
Robert F. Kennedy
age 35
Senate
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United States
Joe Biden
age 17
Senate
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 36
Senate
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United States
Li Peng
age 32
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Zhou Enlai
age 62
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Dick Cheney
age 19
House of Representatives
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United States
Warren Christopher
age 35
Secretary Of State
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United States
John Connally
age 43
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 38
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Ramsey Clark
age 32
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
James Baker
age 30
Secretary Of State
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United States
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 30
Secretary Of State
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 67
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 52
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren
age 44
Vice President
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People's Republic of China
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 54
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Robert McNamara
age 44
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Clark Clifford
age 53
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 38
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
James R. Schlesinger
age 31
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Henry Kissinger
age 37
Secretary Of State
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United States
William Rehnquist
age 36
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 55
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
Warren E. Burger
age 53
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Earl Warren
age 69
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George Shultz
age 39
Secretary Of State
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United States
Winston Churchill
age 86
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Colin Powell
age 23
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
William H. Webster
age 36
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley
age 49
Director of the FBI
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Department of Justice
Hu Jintao
age 17
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
John Marshall Harlan II
age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 50
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 30
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia
age 24
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy
age 24
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
David Souter
age 21
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens
age 40
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer
age 22
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 27
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Byron White
age 43
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 52
Governor of New York
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United States
George W. Bush
age 14
Governor of Texas
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United States
John Kerry
age 16
United States Navy
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Herbert Hoover
age 86
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 13
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 6
Republican Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 80
United States Army
John Lewis
age 20
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 41
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 69
Nazi Party
Mike Pence
age 1
Republican Party (United States)
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 5
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 18
Communist Party of China
J. Edgar Hoover
age 65
Republican Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 66
Nazi Party
Archibald Cox
age 48
Democratic Party (United States)
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 31
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Chester W. Nimitz
age 75
Harry S. Truman
age 76
Francisco Franco
age 67
Rosa Parks
age 47
Rodion Malinovsky
age 62
Franz von Papen
age 81
Hjalmar Schacht
age 83
Baldur von Schirach
age 53
Souphanouvong
age 51
Otto Hofmann
age 64
Kliment Voroshilov
age 79
Semyon Timoshenko
age 65
He Yingqin
age 70
Naoki Hoshino
age 68
Hubert Gough
age 90
Kim Jong-un
born 1982-01-08
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 5
François Hollande
age 6
Tim Berners-Lee
age 5
Muhammad Ali
age 18
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 15
Jo Ann Robinson
age 48
Malcolm X
age 35
Thomas Gage
age 242
Charles III
age 12
Robert A. Lovett
age 65
Juan José Arévalo
age 56
Jacobo Árbenz
age 47
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 52
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 45
Tony Blair
age 7
Gordon Brown
age 9
David Cameron
born 1966-10-09
Theresa May
age 4
Boris Johnson
born 1964-06-19
Liz Truss
born 1975-07-26
Rishi Sunak
born 1980-05-12
Keir Starmer
born 1962-09-02
Gennady Yanayev
age 23
Narendra Modi
age 10
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 42
Yuri Andropov
age 46
Donald Trump
age 14
Albert Speer
age 55
Clement Attlee
age 77
Anthony Eden
age 63
John Roberts
age 5
Peng Dehuai
age 62
Henry A. Wallace
age 72
John Nance Garner
age 92
Xi Jinping
age 7
Erich von Manstein
age 73
Omar Bradley
age 67
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 80
Puyi
age 54
Zhu De
age 74
Zeng Qinghong
age 21
Zhu Rongji
age 32
Ronald McNair
age 10
Ellison Onizuka
age 14
Edward VIII
age 66
Yasser Arafat
age 31
Courtney Hodges
age 73
Raymond A. Spruance
age 74
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 75
Clarence Thomas
age 12
Nelson Mandela
age 42