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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Battle of Hamburger Hill 1969-05-10 - 1969-05-20
Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
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
Battle of Garibpur 1971-11-20 - 1971-11-21
Battle of Hilli 1971-11-22 - 1971-12-18
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16
Bloody Sunday (1972) 1972-01-30
Nixon's visit to China 1972-02-21 - 1972-02-28
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16
Munich massacre 1972-09-05 - 1972-09-06
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23
Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18
Third Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-21 - 1973-10-22
Carnation Revolution 1974-04-25
Turkish invasion of Cyprus 1974-07-20 - 1974-08-18
Battle of Xuân Lộc 1975-04-09 - 1975-04-21
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
Helsinki Accords 1975-08-01
Green March 1975-11-06
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Birth of Louise Brown 1978-07-25
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
Chinese economic reform 1978-12-18
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16
Egypt–Israel peace treaty 1979-03-26
Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
IBM Personal Computer 1981-08-12
Assassination of Anwar Sadat 1981-10-06
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Invasion of South Georgia 1982-04-03 - 1982-04-03
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Operation Paraquet 1982-04-25 - 1982-04-25
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02
Battle of San Carlos (1982) 1982-05-21 - 1982-05-25
Battle of Goose Green 1982-05-28 - 1982-05-29
Bluff Cove air attacks 1982-06-08 - 1982-06-08
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
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
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984-10-31
Bhopal disaster 1984-12-02 - 1984-12-03
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
Live Aid 1985-07-13
Plaza Accord 1985-09-22
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
First Battle of al-Faw 1986-02-11 - 1986-03-10
Second Battle of Zhawar 1986-02-28 - 1986-04-19
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12
Operation Karbala-5 1987-01-08 - 1987-02-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Battle of Jaji 1987-04-17 - 1987-06-13
Black Monday (1987) 1987-10-19
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987-12-08
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
Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
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
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
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
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
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
Battle of Mogadishu (1993) 1993-10-03 - 1993-10-04
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
Marrakesh Agreement 1994-04-15
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29
First Chechen War 1994-12-11 - 1996-08-31
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Oklahoma City bombing 1995-04-19
Operation Flash 1995-05-01 - 1995-05-04
Srebrenica massacre 1995-07-11 - 1995-07-22
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
Operation Storm 1995-08-04 - 1995-08-07
Operation Deliberate Force 1995-08-30 - 1995-09-20
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997-08-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10

People

Souvanna Phouma age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Khamtai Siphandone age 44
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 62
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 42
Taoiseach - Ireland
John Bruton age 21
Taoiseach - Ireland
Liam Cosgrave age 48
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 49
Secretary General - NATO
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Manfred Wörner age 34
Secretary General - NATO
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 54
President - International Olympic Committee
Jan Olszewski age 38
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 43
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Phan Văn Khải age 34
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Oleksy age 22
Prime Minister - Poland
Waldemar Pawlak age 9
Prime Minister - Poland
Do Muoi age 51
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Jean Rey age 66
President - European Commission
Sicco Mansholt age 60
President - European Commission
François-Xavier Ortoli age 43
President - European Commission
Kamal Ganzouri age 35
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mieczysław Rakowski age 41
Prime Minister - Poland
Jack Lynch age 51
Taoiseach - Ireland
Willy Claes age 29
Secretary General - NATO
Vo Van Kiet age 45
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 35
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Manlio Brosio age 71
Secretary General - NATO
Franco Maria Malfatti age 41
President - European Commission
Masayoshi Ito age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
James Wolfensohn age 34
President - World Bank
Lien Chan age 32
Premier - Republic of China
Pak Song-chol age 55
Premier - North Korea
Kim Il age 58
Premier - North Korea
Pham Hung age 56
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 49
Premier - Republic of China
Edward Babiuch age 40
Prime Minister - Poland
Atef Sedki age 38
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 33
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 40
Prime Minister - Laos
Mustafa Khalil age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kamal Hassan Ali age 35
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 40
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 42
Prime Minister - Egypt
Vincent Siew age 29
Premier - Republic of China
Halfdan T. Mahler age 45
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Yon Hyong-muk age 36
Premier - North Korea
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 36
Prime Minister - Syria
Yusuf Zuayyin age 36
Prime Minister - Syria
Mamdouh Salem age 50
Prime Minister - Egypt
Lee Huan age 51
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Fawzi age 68
Prime Minister - Egypt
Aziz Sedki age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Zuabi age 33
Prime Minister - Syria
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 41
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 57
Director-General - World Health Organization
Barber Conable age 45
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 42
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Alden W. Clausen age 45
President - World Bank
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 45
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 36
Prime Minister - Syria
Hsu Ching-chung age 61
Premier - Republic of China
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 64
Chancellor - Germany
Morarji Desai age 72
Prime Minister - India
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 43
Prime Minister - India
H. D. Deve Gowda age 35
Prime Minister - India
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 31
Prime Minister - Syria
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 18
Prime Minister - Poland
Earl Warren age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 44
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger age 61
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 20
Vice President - United States
Hu Jintao age 25
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Dan Quayle age 21
Vice President - United States
Walter Mondale age 40
Vice President - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 57
Vice President - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 60
Vice President - United States
Spiro Agnew age 49
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 75
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Wang Zhen (general) age 60
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren age 52
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Hardan al-Tikriti age 43
Vice President - Iraq
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 40
Vice President - Iraq
Lee Yuan-tsu age 45
Vice President - Republic of China
Colin Powell age 31
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Wen Jiabao age 26
Vice Premier Of The People's Republic Of China - People's Republic of China
John Shalikashvili age 32
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Hugh Shelton age 26
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 56
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
George Scratchley Brown age 50
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
David C. Jones age 47
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
William J. Crowe age 43
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Earle Wheeler age 60
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
David E. Jeremiah age 34
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
John William Vessey Jr. age 46
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 45
Secretary Of State - United States
Gordon Brown age 17
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Dick Cheney age 27
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Madeleine Albright age 31
Secretary Of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 36
Secretary Of Defense - United States
James Baker age 38
Secretary Of State - United States
George Shultz age 47
Secretary Of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 42
Secretary Of State - United States
Alexander Haig age 43
Secretary Of State - United States
William Westmoreland age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Lawrence Eagleburger age 38
Secretary Of State - United States
Dean Rusk age 59
Secretary Of State - United States
Cyrus Vance age 51
Secretary Of State - United States
Janet Reno age 30
Attorney General - United States
Edmund Muskie age 54
Secretary Of State - United States
John Connally age 51
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Jack Straw age 22
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 27
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Barr age 18
Attorney General - United States
James R. Schlesinger age 39
Secretary Of Defense - United States
William P. Rogers age 55
Secretary Of State - United States
Creighton Abrams age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William J. Perry age 41
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 28
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 47
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Nigel Lawson age 36
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Brown age 41
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Melvin Laird age 46
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Kenneth Clarke age 28
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Ramsey Clark age 40
Attorney General - United States
Denis Healey age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elliot Richardson age 48
Attorney General - United States
Frank Carlucci age 37
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Les Aspin age 30
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Robert Rubin age 30
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Douglas Hurd age 38
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Bork age 41
Attorney General - United States
Leon Brittan age 29
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
W. Michael Blumenthal age 42
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Norman Lamont age 26
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John N. Mitchell age 55
Attorney General - United States
Clark Clifford age 61
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Donald Regan age 49
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Nicholas F. Brady age 38
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 36
Attorney General - United States
Iain Macleod age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Griffin Bell age 49
Attorney General - United States
Edwin Meese age 36
Attorney General - United States
Frederick C. Weyand age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
G. William Miller age 43
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Reginald Maudling age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William B. Saxbe age 52
Attorney General - United States
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 63
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William E. Simon age 40
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Richard Kleindienst age 45
Attorney General - United States
Henry H. Fowler age 60
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 51
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Civiletti age 33
Attorney General - United States
Joseph W. Barr age 50
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
John A. Wickham Jr. age 40
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Gordon R. Sullivan age 31
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Carr age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward H. Levi age 57
Attorney General - United States
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Anthony Barber age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Bernard W. Rogers age 47
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 33
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward C. Meyer age 39
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Rush age 58
Secretary Of State - United States
Frank G. Wisner age 30
Secretary Of State - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 33
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dennis Reimer age 29
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
David D. Newsom age 50
Secretary Of State - United States
Michael Armacost age 31
Secretary Of State - United States
Richard N. Cooper age 34
Secretary Of State - United States
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 48
Secretary Of State - United States
Stuart M. Gerson age 24
Attorney General - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 73
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William H. Webster age 44
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William S. Sessions age 38
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 18
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley age 56
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 50
President - African National Congress
Thabo Mbeki age 26
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 35
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 32
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 20
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 30
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 32
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Eric Holder age 17
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Paul Stevens age 48
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 29
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 69
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Abe Fortas age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 38
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary