✦ History

Explore October 24, 1996 – May 16, 1997

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Events

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
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
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
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

Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 53
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Apas Jumagulov age 62
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Andrei Sangheli age 52
Prime Minister - Moldova
Solomon Mamaloni age 53
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Frederick Sumaye age 46
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 57
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 50
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Sidya Touré age 51
Prime Minister - Guinea
Boukary Adji age 57
Prime Minister - Niger
Baron Vaea age 75
Prime Minister - Tonga
Ahmed Abdou age 60
Prime Minister - Comoros
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 46
Prime Minister - Jordan
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 72
Prime Minister - Samoa
Yahyo Azimov age 48
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 40
Prime Minister - Burundi
Edison James age 53
Prime Minister - Dominica
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 41
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Amadou Cissé age 48
Prime Minister - Niger
Charles David Ganao age 69
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Raul Bragança Neto age 57
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 38
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 43
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Vaughan Lewis age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 43
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 58
Prime Minister - Yemen
Kwassi Klutse age 51
Prime Minister - Togo
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 40
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 50
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
John Giheno age 47
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Alberto Pandolfi age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Colville Young age 63
Governor-General - Belize
Cuthbert Sebastian age 75
Governor-General - Saint Kitts and Nevis
William Deane age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Husbands age 70
Governor-General - Barbados
James Carlisle age 59
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Howard Cooke age 81
Governor-General - Jamaica
Michael Hardie Boys age 65
Governor-General - New Zealand
Orville Turnquest age 67
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tulaga Manuella age 60
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Charles Antrobus age 63
Governor-General - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Wiwa Korowi age 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 35
Illinois Senate
Donald Trump age 50
Michael Jackson age 38
Vladimir Putin age 44
Ronald Reagan age 85
Bill Gates age 41
Jimmy Wales age 30
Pope Francis age 59
Steve Jobs age 41
Angela Merkel age 42
Neil Armstrong age 66
François Hollande age 42
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 18
Margaret Thatcher age 71
Gabriel García Márquez age 69
Mikhail Gorbachev age 65
Elon Musk age 25
Stephen Hawking age 54
Jimmy Carter age 72
Emmanuel Macron age 18
Benedict XVI age 69
Mother Teresa age 86
Hillary Clinton age 49
George H. W. Bush age 72
Kamala Harris age 32
Nicolas Sarkozy age 41
Xi Jinping age 43
Naruhito age 36
Hugo Chávez age 42
Muammar Gaddafi age 54
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 42
Muhammad Ali age 54
Charles III age 47
Osama bin Laden age 39
Kim Jong-un age 14
Lech Wałęsa age 53
Gerald Ford age 83
Leo XIV age 41
Diego Maradona age 36
Narendra Modi age 46
Rafael Correa age 33
Aung San Suu Kyi age 51
Dmitry Medvedev age 31
14th Dalai Lama age 61
Mark Zuckerberg age 12
Silvio Berlusconi age 60
Shinzo Abe age 42
Tim Berners-Lee age 41
Guillermo Lasso age 40
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 77
Yasser Arafat age 67
David Cameron age 30
Linus Torvalds age 26
Ban Ki-moon age 52
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 49
Boris Johnson age 32
Diana, Princess of Wales age 35
Bashar al-Assad age 31
Jair Bolsonaro age 41
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 51
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 40
Henry Kissinger age 73
Rishi Sunak age 16
Justin Trudeau age 24
Nicolás Maduro age 33
Dilma Rousseff age 48
Milton Friedman age 84
Valentina Tereshkova age 59
Pol Pot age 71
Ilham Aliyev age 34
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 58
Rosa Parks age 83
Shimon Peres age 73
Wangari Maathai age 56
Giorgia Meloni age 19
Prince Philip age 75
Olaf Scholz age 38
Keir Starmer age 34
Gerhard Schröder age 52
Hassan Rouhani age 47
Evo Morales age 37
Joko Widodo age 35
Petro Poroshenko age 31
Mikheil Saakashvili age 28
Liz Truss age 21
Augusto Pinochet age 80
Lee Kuan Yew age 73
Ursula von der Leyen age 38
Mike Pence age 37
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 43
Michelle Bachelet age 45
Ariel Sharon age 68
Felipe VI of Spain age 28
Desmond Tutu age 65
Viktor Yanukovych age 46
Mohamed Morsi age 45
Viktor Orbán age 33
Sergio Mattarella age 55
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 70
Manmohan Singh age 64
Pervez Musharraf age 53
Julia Gillard age 35
Abdullah Gül age 46
Lech Kaczyński age 47
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 40
Jeff Bezos age 32
Buzz Aldrin age 66
Mohammad Khatami age 53
Tsai Ing-wen age 40
Mariano Rajoy age 41
Larry Sanger age 28
Dick Cheney age 55
Condoleezza Rice age 41
Raúl Castro age 65
Giorgio Napolitano age 71
Mark Rutte age 29
Idi Amin age 71
Yulia Tymoshenko age 35
Rodrigo Duterte age 51
JD Vance age 12
Abdullah II of Jordan age 34
William, Prince of Wales age 14
Helmut Schmidt age 77
Stephen Harper age 37
Donald Tusk age 39
Corazon Aquino age 63
James Watson age 68
Hamid Karzai age 38
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 29
Jacinda Ardern age 16
José Mujica age 61
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 72
Yoshihide Suga age 47
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 28
Andrzej Duda age 24
Thabo Mbeki age 54
Viktor Yushchenko age 42
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 41
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 59
Jens Stoltenberg age 37
Vajiralongkorn age 44
Kaja Kallas age 19
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 33
Jacob Zuma age 54
Park Geun-hye age 44
Zuzana Čaputová age 23
Moon Jae-in age 43
Mitt Romney age 49
Juan Manuel Santos age 45
Matteo Renzi age 21
Pedro Sánchez age 24
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 60
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 65
Friedrich Merz age 40
Sauli Niinistö age 48
Giuseppe Conte age 32
Claudia Sheinbaum age 34
Imran Khan age 44
Ebrahim Raisi age 35