Explore May 14, 1922 – December 10, 1999

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Events

Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30
1923 Great Kantō earthquake 1923-09-01
Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Shanghai massacre 1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12
Nanchang Uprising 1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Autumn Harvest Uprising 1927-09-07
Discovery of penicillin 1928-09-28
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Salt March 1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
1930 FIFA World Cup 1930-07-13 - 1930-07-30
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident 1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Holodomor 1932 - 1933
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power 1933-01-30
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives 1934-06-30 - 1934-07-02
Long March 1934-10-16 - 1935-10-19
Zunyi Conference 1935-01-15 - 1935-01-17
Nuremberg Laws enacted 1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936-03-07
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Xi'an Incident 1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Bombing of Guernica 1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Shanghai 1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Battle of Wuhan 1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro 1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 1939-08-23
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Charter of the United Nations 1945-06-26
Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Direct Action Day 1946-08-16
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-12-10
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China 1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of the Pusan Perimeter 1950-08-04 - 1950-09-18
Battle of Inchon 1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19
Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River 1950-11-25 - 1950-12-02
Battle of Chosin Reservoir 1950-11-27 - 1950-12-13
Treaty of Paris (1951) 1951-04-18
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Discovery of the structure of DNA 1953-04-25
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Korean Armistice Agreement 1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état 1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état 1954-02-01
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état 1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
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
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
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
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03
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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18
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
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
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
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
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
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
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
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
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20

People

Heinrich Himmler age 21
Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30
Douglas MacArthur age 42
Hermann Göring age 29
Madeleine Albright born 1937-05-15
George C. Marshall age 41
Robert F. Kennedy born 1925-11-20
Rudolf Hess age 28
Cordell Hull age 50
Frank B. Kellogg age 65
John Foster Dulles age 34
Dean Acheson age 29
James Baker born 1930-04-28
George Shultz age 1
Warren Christopher born 1925-10-27
Henry L. Stimson age 54
Alexander Haig born 1924-12-02
James F. Byrnes age 40
Lawrence Eagleburger born 1930-08-01
Dean Rusk age 13
Cyrus Vance age 5
Robert H. Jackson age 30
Janet Reno born 1938-07-21
Edmund Muskie age 8
Dwight F. Davis age 42
John Connally age 5
James R. Schlesinger born 1929-02-15
Christian Herter age 27
William P. Rogers age 8
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 21
Melvin Laird born 1922-09-01
Ramsey Clark born 1927-12-18
Elliot Richardson age 1
Francis Biddle age 36
John N. Mitchell age 8
Clark Clifford age 15
Robert A. Lovett age 26
Nicholas Katzenbach age 3 months
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 16
George Dern age 49
Tom C. Clark age 22
Harry Hines Woodring age 34
Robert P. Patterson age 31
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 16
John W. Weeks age 62
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 18
Patrick J. Hurley age 39
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 27
J. Edgar Hoover age 27
William H. Webster born 1924-03-06
William S. Sessions born 1930-05-27
Louis Freeh born 1950-01-06
Clarence M. Kelley age 10
Ruth Bader Ginsburg born 1933-03-15
Wilhelm Frick age 45
Antonin Scalia born 1936-03-11
Stephen Breyer born 1938-08-15
Thurgood Marshall age 13
Anthony Kennedy born 1936-07-23
John Paul Stevens age 2
David Souter born 1939-09-17
William J. Brennan Jr. age 16
Arthur Goldberg age 13
Potter Stewart age 7
Byron White age 4
John Marshall Harlan II age 22
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 14
Abe Fortas age 11
Sandra Day O'Connor born 1930-03-26
Archibald Cox age 9
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Daniel Inouye born 1924-09-07
John Lewis born 1940-02-21
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
Nelson Mandela age 3
Mahatma Gandhi age 52
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 41
Lech Wałęsa born 1943-09-29
Kwame Nkrumah age 12
Alexander Lukashenka born 1954-08-30
Václav Havel born 1936-10-05
Ferdinand Marcos age 4
Sukarno age 20
Salvador Allende age 13
Augusto Pinochet age 6
Suharto age 11 months
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa born 1937-03-02
Martti Ahtisaari born 1937-06-23
Eduard Shevardnadze born 1928-01-25
Thomas Sankara born 1949-12-21
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 2
Juan Perón age 26
Heydar Aliyev born 1923-05-10
F. W. de Klerk born 1936-03-18
Mobutu Sese Seko born 1930-10-14
Jomo Kenyatta age 28
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 54
Ahmad ibn Billah age 5
José Eduardo dos Santos born 1942-08-28
Idriss Déby born 1952-06-18
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 1
Paul Biya born 1933-02-13
Isabel Martínez de Perón born 1931-02-04
Teodoro Obiang born 1942-06-05
Óscar Arias Sánchez born 1941-09-13
Jorge Rafael Videla born 1925-08-02
Urho Kekkonen age 21
Zviad Gamsakhurdia born 1939-03-31
Carlos Menem born 1930-07-02
Robert Kocharyan born 1954-08-31
Sali Berisha born 1944-10-15
Isaias Afwerki born 1946-02-02
Meles Zenawi born 1955-05-08
Mengistu Haile Mariam born 1937-05-21
Agostinho Neto born 1922-09-17
Mauno Koivisto born 1923-11-25
Blaise Compaoré born 1951-02-03
Raúl Alfonsín born 1927-03-12
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 51
Laurent-Désiré Kabila born 1939-11-27
Mohammad Najibullah born 1947-08-06
Zog I of Albania age 26
Karl Renner age 51
Rafael Trujillo age 30
Houari Boumédiène born 1932-08-23
Mathieu Kérékou born 1933-09-02
Ismail Omar Guelleh born 1947-11-27
Burhanuddin Rabbani born 1940-09-20
Ivo Sanader born 1953-06-08
Makarios III age 8
Thomas Klestil born 1932-11-04
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko born 1924-01-01
Konstantin Päts age 48
Jerry Rawlings born 1947-06-22
Ferhat Abbas age 22
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 57
Ramiz Alia born 1925-10-18
Leopoldo Galtieri born 1926-07-15
Levon Ter-Petrosyan born 1945-01-09
Festus Mogae born 1939-08-21
Seretse Khama age 10 months
Ahmadou Ahidjo born 1924-08-24
Lennart Meri born 1929-03-29
Risto Ryti age 33
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 60
Hafizullah Amin born 1929-08-01
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 15
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 12
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 71
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos born 1926-08-15
Kyösti Kallio age 49
Ziaur Rahman born 1936-01-19
Abulfaz Elchibey born 1938-06-24
Zhelyu Zhelev born 1935-03-03
Hissène Habré born 1942-08-13
Georgios Papadopoulos age 3
Lauri Kristian Relander age 38
Rexhep Meidani born 1944-08-17
Reynaldo Bignone born 1928-01-21
Ayaz Mutallibov born 1938-05-12
Quett Masire born 1925-07-23
David Dacko born 1930-03-24
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 12
Leonel Fernández born 1953-12-26
Azali Assoumani born 1959-01-01
Franz Jonas age 22
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 7
Petar Stoyanov born 1952-05-25
Patricio Aylwin age 3
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 5
Chadli Bendjedid born 1929-04-14
Aristides Pereira born 1923-11-17
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 11
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 8 months
Sylvie Kinigi born 1952-11-24
Léon M'ba age 20
Arturo Umberto Illia age 21
Arturo Frondizi age 13
François Tombalbaye age 3
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle born 1942-06-24
Souphanouvong age 12
César Gaviria born 1947-03-31
José Figueres Ferrer age 15
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 10 months
Michael Hainisch age 63
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 14
Melchior Ndadaye born 1953-01-01
Mohamed Boudiaf age 2
Roberto Eduardo Viola born 1924-10-13
Adolf Schärf age 32
Theodor Körner age 49
Hugo Banzer born 1926-05-10
Ange-Félix Patassé born 1937-01-25
Glafcos Clerides age 3
Joaquín Balaguer age 15
Hussain Muhammad Ershad born 1930-02-01
Pierre Buyoya born 1949-11-24
Jorge Alessandri age 26
Arturo Alessandri age 53