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Explore October 24, 1996 – May 16, 1997

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Events

Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11

People

René Préval age 53
President - Haiti
Kiro Gligorov age 79
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 57
President - Portugal
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 70
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 61
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 55
President - Slovenia
Zhelyu Zhelev age 61
President - Bulgaria
Árpád Göncz age 74
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 53
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 72
President - Israel
Benjamin Mkapa age 57
President - Tanzania
Quett Masire age 71
President - Botswana
Leonel Fernández age 42
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 75
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 50
President - Mali
Petar Stoyanov age 44
President - Bulgaria
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 80
President - Djibouti
Farooq Leghari age 56
President - Pakistan
Emil Constantinescu age 56
President - Romania
Rafael Caldera age 80
President - Venezuela
Guntis Ulmanis age 57
President - Latvia
Mircea Snegur age 56
President - Moldova
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 54
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 62
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 70
Emir - Kuwait
Julio María Sanguinetti age 60
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 60
President - Madagascar
Pascal Lissouba age 64
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 66
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 78
King - Tonga
Ange-Félix Patassé age 59
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 77
President - Cyprus
Sam Hinds age 52
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 53
President - Malawi
France-Albert René age 60
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 64
President - Sierra Leone
Pierre Buyoya age 46
President - Burundi
Liamine Zéroual age 55
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 63
Emir - Bahrain
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 66
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 66
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 70
President - Lebanon
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 52
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 46
President - Colombia
Amata Kabua age 67
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 54
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 56
President - Moldova
Momir Bulatović age 40
President - Montenegro
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 39
President - Ecuador
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 54
President - Mongolia
Ruth Perry age 57
President - Liberia
Jules Wijdenbosch age 55
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 69
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 76
President - Fiji
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 44
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 53
President - Ethiopia
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 47
President - Niger
Ong Teng Cheong age 60
President - Singapore
José María Figueres Olsen age 41
President - Costa Rica
Arnoldo Alemán age 50
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 59
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Armando Calderón Sol age 48
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 64
President - Malta
Momčilo Krajišnik age 51
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 82
President - Laos
Jacob Nena age 55
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 57
President - Somalia
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 57
President - Madagascar
Kuniwo Nakamura age 52
President - Palau
Fabián Alarcón age 49
President - Ecuador
Carlos Roberto Reina age 70
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 50
President - Nauru
Teburoro Tito age 43
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 53
President - Marshall Islands
Arnold Koller age 63
President - Switzerland
Bailey Olter age 64
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Noor Hassanali age 78
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Rosalio Lara age 74
President - Vatican City
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 60
President - Comoros
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 60
President - Switzerland
Lagumot Harris age 57
President - Nauru
Kinza Clodumar age 51
President - Nauru
Kennan Adeang age 53
President - Nauru
Cassam Uteem age 55
President - Mauritius
Ruben Kun age 54
President - Nauru
Hussein Farrah Aidid age 34
President - Somalia
Kunio Lemari age 53
President - Marshall Islands
Krešimir Zubak age 49
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jean-Marie Léyé age 64
President - Vanuatu
Gian Carlo Venturini age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Maurizio Rattini age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pasteur Bizimungu age 46
President - Rwanda
Paride Andreoli age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pier Marino Mularoni age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 75
King - Saudi Arabia
Zoran Lilić age 43
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Mahathir Mohamad age 71
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 43
Prime Minister - Pakistan
António Guterres age 47
Prime Minister - Portugal
Sheikh Hasina age 49
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Jean-Claude Juncker age 41
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 50
Prime Minister - Brunei
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 80
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Václav Klaus age 55
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Nawaz Sharif age 46
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Armen Sarkissian age 43
Prime Minister - Armenia
José María Aznar age 43
Prime Minister - Spain
Robert Kocharyan age 42
Prime Minister - Armenia
Meles Zenawi age 41
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 34
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 44
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 52
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 51
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 46
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Necmettin Erbakan age 70
Prime Minister - Turkey
Göran Persson age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Wim Kok age 58
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hage Geingob age 55
Prime Minister - Namibia
Thorbjørn Jagland age 46
Prime Minister - Norway
Artur Rasizade age 61
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Gyula Horn age 64
Prime Minister - Hungary
Goh Chok Tong age 55
Prime Minister - Singapore
Costas Simitis age 60
Prime Minister - Greece
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 50
Prime Minister - Nepal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 60
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 53
Prime Minister - Denmark
Davíð Oddsson age 48
Prime Minister - Iceland
Franz Vranitzky age 59
Chancellor - Austria
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 62
Prime Minister - Malta
Vladimír Mečiar age 54
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Paavo Lipponen age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 52
Prime Minister - Romania
Janet Jagan age 76
Prime Minister - Guyana
Sitiveni Rabuka age 48
Prime Minister - Fiji
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 53
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Viktor Klima age 49
Chancellor - Austria
Keith Mitchell age 49
Prime Minister - Grenada
Owen Arthur age 47
Prime Minister - Barbados
Denzil Douglas age 43
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Pavlo Lazarenko age 43
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Bashkim Fino age 34
Prime Minister - Albania
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 66
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Tiit Vähi age 49
Prime Minister - Estonia
Mart Siimann age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 54
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 53
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Jim Bolger age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Goh Kun age 58
Prime Minister - South Korea
Norodom Ranariddh age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Hubert Ingraham age 49
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
P. J. Patterson age 61
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Victor Ciorbea age 42
Prime Minister - Romania
Lester Bird age 58
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Julius Chan age 57
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Abdellatif Filali age 68
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 56
Prime Minister - Nepal
Alfred Sant age 48
Prime Minister - Malta
Pascoal Mocumbi age 55
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Marc Forné Molné age 49
Prime Minister - Andorra
Manuel Esquivel age 56
Prime Minister - Belize
Bujar Bukoshi age 49
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 64
Prime Minister - Thailand
Basdeo Panday age 63
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Zlatko Mateša age 47
Prime Minister - Croatia
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 66
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Serge Vohor age 41
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
França Van-Dúnem age 62
Prime Minister - Angola
Ion Ciubuc age 53
Prime Minister - Moldova
Habib Thiam age 63
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mohammad Rabbani age 41
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Hrant Bagratyan age 38
Prime Minister - Armenia
Zhan Videnov age 37
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Stefan Sofiyanski age 44
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Akejan Kajegeldin age 44
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani age 38
Prime Minister - Qatar
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 57
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
Mikhail Chyhir age 48
Prime Minister - Belarus
Syarhei Linh age 59
Prime Minister - Belarus
Hamed Karoui age 68
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Adrien Houngbédji age 54
Prime Minister - Benin
Andris Šķēle age 38
Prime Minister - Latvia
Laurynas Stankevičius age 61
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Hasan Muratović age 56
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 62
Prime Minister - Comoros
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 61
Prime Minister - Gabon
Rosny Smarth age 56
Prime Minister - Haiti
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 65
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kamuta Latasi age 60
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 66
Prime Minister - Somalia
Peter Mafany Musonge age 53
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 40
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 42
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 53
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Apas Jumagulov age 62
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Andrei Sangheli age 52
Prime Minister - Moldova