✦ History

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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
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
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
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16
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
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
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
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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
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
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
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
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 Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 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 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
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
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
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
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
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
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
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
1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993-02-26
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
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

Ronald Reagan age 57
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 42
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 74
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Bill Clinton age 22
President - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 77
President - France
Fidel Castro age 42
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 37
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter age 44
President - United States
George H. W. Bush age 44
President - United States
Richard Nixon age 55
President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 60
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 55
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 31
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 37
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 29
President - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 35
President - France
Hirohito age 67
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 78
President - Vietnam
Georges Pompidou age 57
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 80
President - Republic of China
Hosni Mubarak age 40
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 51
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 66
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 34
Emperor - Japan
Josip Broz Tito age 76
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 50
President - Egypt
Anwar Sadat age 49
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 76
Emperor - Ethiopia
Yuri Andropov age 54
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mohammad Khatami age 24
President - Iran
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 48
Shah - Iran
Konstantin Chernenko age 57
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jiang Zemin age 42
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 56
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 38
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 48
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 34
Monarch - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 34
President - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 75
First Secretary - East Germany
Victor Chernomyrdin age 30
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 34
President - Germany
Walter Scheel age 49
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 38
Monarch - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 47
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Gustav Heinemann age 69
President - Germany
Abolhassan Banisadr age 35
President - Iran
Zhao Ziyang age 49
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Karl Carstens age 53
President - Germany
Itamar Franco age 38
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 37
President - Brazil
Heinrich Lübke age 74
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 69
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 35
President - Iran
Lee Teng-hui age 45
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 31
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 19
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 58
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 54
President - Iraq
José Sarney age 38
President - Brazil
José López Portillo age 48
President - Mexico
Alain Poher age 59
President - France
Hu Yaobang age 52
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Luis Echeverría age 46
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 50
President - Brazil
Ernesto Geisel age 61
President - Brazil
Trần Đức Lương age 31
President - Vietnam
Lê Duẩn age 61
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 59
President - People's Republic of China
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 57
President - Mexico
Yang Shangkun age 61
President - People's Republic of China
Efraín Ríos Montt age 42
President - Guatemala
Osvaldo Dorticós age 49
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 62
President - Brazil
Artur da Costa e Silva age 69
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 61
President - Vietnam
Dong Biwu age 82
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 80
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 22
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 47
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 35
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Vo Chi Cong age 56
President - Vietnam
Nureddin al-Atassi age 39
President - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 62
President - Republic of China
Nguyen Huu Tho age 58
President - Vietnam
Sufi Abu Taleb age 43
President - Egypt
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 50
President - Guatemala
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 37
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 25
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 26
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 23
President - Guatemala
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 52
President - Guatemala
Ahmad al-Khatib age 35
President - Syria
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 21
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 56
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Kim Jong-il age 27
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 42
President - France
Miguel de la Madrid age 33
President - Mexico
Ernesto Zedillo age 16
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 20
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 30
Secretary-General - United Nations
Pol Pot age 43
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 45
Secretary-General - United Nations
Kurt Waldheim age 49
Secretary-General - United Nations
U Thant age 59
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 48
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 43
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 50
Prime Minister - India
Benjamin Netanyahu age 18
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 32
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 15
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Golda Meir age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Deng Xiaoping age 64
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 38
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 45
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 46
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 49
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 24
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 25
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai age 70
Premier - People's Republic of China
Romano Prodi age 29
Prime Minister - Italy
Menachem Begin age 55
Prime Minister - Israel
Harold Wilson age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
Giulio Andreotti age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Francesco Cossiga age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Eisaku Satō age 67
Prime Minister - Japan
Edward Heath age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 52
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 50
Prime Minister - Japan
Giuliano Amato age 30
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 48
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 31
Prime Minister - France
Bettino Craxi age 34
Prime Minister - Italy
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 47
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 43
President - European Commission
Giovanni Leone age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 64
Chairman - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhu Rongji age 39
Premier - People's Republic of China
Pierre Mauroy age 40
Prime Minister - France
Laurent Fabius age 22
Prime Minister - France
Édith Cresson age 34
Prime Minister - France
Robert McNamara age 52
President - World Bank
Charan Singh age 65
Prime Minister - India
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 41
Prime Minister - Poland
P. W. Botha age 52
Prime Minister - South Africa
Amintore Fanfani age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Tomiichi Murayama age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Li Peng age 39
Premier - People's Republic of China
Lamberto Dini age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Alain Juppé age 23
Prime Minister - France
Chandra Shekhar age 41
Prime Minister - India
Jerzy Buzek age 28
Prime Minister - Poland
Kakuei Tanaka age 50
Prime Minister - Japan
Bertie Ahern age 17
Taoiseach - Ireland
Inder Kumar Gujral age 48
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 37
Prime Minister - India
Javier Solana age 26
Secretary General - NATO
Toshiki Kaifu age 37
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichi Miyazawa age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Tsutomu Hata age 33
Prime Minister - Japan
Édouard Balladur age 39
Prime Minister - France
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 31
Prime Minister - Japan
Emilio Colombo age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Michel Rocard age 38
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 31
President - European Commission
Takeo Fukuda age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Morihiro Hosokawa age 30
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 39
Chairman - Soviet Union
Raymond Barre age 44
Prime Minister - France
Mariano Rumor age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Ciriaco De Mita age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Zenkō Suzuki age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 43
Prime Minister - Italy
Arnaldo Forlani age 42
Prime Minister - Italy
Masayoshi Ōhira age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Sōsuke Uno age 46
Prime Minister - Japan
Gennady Yanayev age 31
President - Soviet Union
Giovanni Goria age 25
Prime Minister - Italy
Hanna Suchocka age 22
Prime Minister - Poland
Takeo Miki age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Tikhonov age 63
Chairman - Soviet Union
Yigal Allon age 50
Prime Minister - Israel
Gaston Thorn age 40
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 43
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 53
Prime Minister - France
Pierre Messmer age 52
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 81
President - International Olympic Committee
Maurice Couve de Murville age 61
Prime Minister - France
Pierre Bérégovoy age 42
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 52
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ante Marković age 43
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 47
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 47
President - European Commission