Explore 1961-07-01 to 1997-08-31

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
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
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
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
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
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
Fall of Saigon 1975-04-30 - 1975-04-30
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
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
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
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
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23

People

Guy Mollet age 55
Ferruccio Parri age 71
Umberto II of Italy age 56
Patrick J. Hurley age 78
Harry Hines Woodring age 74
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 66
Ngo Dinh Diem age 60
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 38
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 30
Dương Văn Minh age 45
William Westmoreland age 47
Creighton Abrams age 46
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 49
Lê Đức Thọ age 49
Văn Tiến Dũng age 44
Matthew Ridgway age 66
Mark W. Clark age 65
James Van Fleet age 69
Paik Sun-yup age 40
Yasuji Okamura age 77
Xue Yue age 64
Su Yu age 53
He Long age 65
Xu Xiangqian age 59
Ye Jianying age 64
Hu Zongnan age 65
Zhang Xueliang age 60
Andrei Gromyko age 51
George F. Kennan age 57
Nie Rongzhen age 61
Che Guevara age 33
Osama bin Laden age 4
Henri Navarre age 62
Radovan Karadžić age 16
Ratko Mladić age 19
Mohamed Bouazizi born 1984-03-29
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 37
Franjo Tuđman age 39
Venceslau Brás age 93
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 78
Café Filho age 62
Juscelino Kubitschek age 58
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 15
Dilma Rousseff age 13
Michel Temer age 20
Jair Bolsonaro age 6
Leopold III of Belgium age 59
Philippe of Belgium age 1
W. T. Cosgrave age 81
John A. Costello age 70
Brian Cowen age 1
Enda Kenny age 10
Leo Varadkar born 1979-01-18
Micheál Martin age 10 months
Simon Harris born 1986-10-17
Farouk of Egypt age 41
Fuad II of Egypt age 9
Edward Almond age 68