✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
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 Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 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
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-12-15
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Kurdish–Turkish conflict 1984-08-15
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
Spitak earthquake 1988-12-07
Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Exxon Valdez oil spill 1989-03-24
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
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
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
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
Transnistria War 1992-03-02 - 1992-07-21
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
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 1995-11-04
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
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
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998-07-17
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20
Introduction of the euro 1999-01-01
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 1999-03-24 - 1999-06-10
Battle of Košare 1999-04-09 - 1999-06-10
Columbine High School massacre 1999-04-20
Kargil War 1999-05-03 - 1999-07-26
Battle of Tololing 1999-05-22 - 1999-06-13
Battle of Tiger Hill 1999-07-03 - 1999-07-08
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
East Timorese independence referendum 1999-08-30

People

Vladimir Putin age 27
President - Russia
Ronald Reagan age 69
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 54
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 33
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 53
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 49
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter age 55
President - United States
George H. W. Bush age 55
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 43
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 49
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 41
President - Iran
Kim Il-sung age 68
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Jacques Chirac age 47
President - France
Hirohito age 79
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 73
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hosni Mubarak age 52
President - Egypt
Kim Jong-il age 39
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
François Mitterrand age 63
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 77
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 46
Emperor - Japan
Anwar Sadat age 61
President - Egypt
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 54
President - France
Yuri Andropov age 65
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mohammad Khatami age 36
President - Iran
Konstantin Chernenko age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jiang Zemin age 53
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 67
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 49
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 60
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 45
President - Iran
Johannes Rau age 49
President - Germany
Victor Chernomyrdin age 42
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 46
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 49
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 59
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Abolhassan Banisadr age 47
President - Iran
Zhao Ziyang age 60
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Karl Carstens age 65
President - Germany
Itamar Franco age 49
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 48
President - Brazil
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 46
President - Iran
Lee Teng-hui age 57
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 43
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 30
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 70
President - Republic of China
Ernesto Zedillo age 28
President - Mexico
José Sarney age 50
President - Brazil
José López Portillo age 59
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 32
President - Mexico
Hu Yaobang age 64
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Miguel de la Madrid age 45
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 62
President - Brazil
Trần Đức Lương age 43
President - Vietnam
Lê Duẩn age 73
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 70
President - People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun age 72
President - People's Republic of China
Efraín Ríos Montt age 53
President - Guatemala
Trường Chinh age 73
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 34
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 59
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 47
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Do Muoi age 63
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong age 67
President - Vietnam
Nguyen Huu Tho age 69
President - Vietnam
Sufi Abu Taleb age 55
President - Egypt
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 49
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 37
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 38
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 35
President - Guatemala
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 33
President - Guatemala
Kofi Annan age 42
Secretary-General - United Nations
Pol Pot age 55
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 57
Secretary-General - United Nations
Kurt Waldheim age 61
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 60
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 62
Prime Minister - India
Benjamin Netanyahu age 30
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 43
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 27
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping age 75
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 50
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 56
Prime Minister - Israel
Gerhard Schröder age 36
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 58
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 61
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 35
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 37
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Romano Prodi age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Menachem Begin age 66
Prime Minister - Israel
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 41
Director-General - World Health Organization
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 55
Prime Minister - India
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 56
Prime Minister - Poland
Giulio Andreotti age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Francesco Cossiga age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 64
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Ehud Barak age 38
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 42
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 59
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 42
Prime Minister - France
Bettino Craxi age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 58
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 54
President - European Commission
Alexei Kosygin age 76
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Massimo D'Alema age 31
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 51
Premier - People's Republic of China
Pierre Mauroy age 51
Prime Minister - France
Laurent Fabius age 33
Prime Minister - France
Édith Cresson age 46
Prime Minister - France
Robert McNamara age 63
President - World Bank
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
P. W. Botha age 64
Prime Minister - South Africa
Amintore Fanfani age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Tomiichi Murayama age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Li Peng age 51
Premier - People's Republic of China
Lamberto Dini age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Alain Juppé age 34
Prime Minister - France
Chandra Shekhar age 53
Prime Minister - India
Jerzy Buzek age 39
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 28
Taoiseach - Ireland
Inder Kumar Gujral age 60
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 48
Prime Minister - India
Javier Solana age 37
Secretary General - NATO
Toshiki Kaifu age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichi Miyazawa age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Tsutomu Hata age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Édouard Balladur age 51
Prime Minister - France
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Rocard age 49
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Keizō Obuchi age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 43
President - European Commission
Morihiro Hosokawa age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
H. D. Deve Gowda age 47
Prime Minister - India
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 50
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Raymond Barre age 56
Prime Minister - France
Ciriaco De Mita age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Zenkō Suzuki age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Arnaldo Forlani age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Masayoshi Ōhira age 70
Prime Minister - Japan
Sōsuke Uno age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Gennady Yanayev age 42
President - Soviet Union
Giovanni Goria age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Hanna Suchocka age 34
Prime Minister - Poland
Nikolai Tikhonov age 75
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 51
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 55
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Pierre Bérégovoy age 54
Prime Minister - France
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 34
Secretary General - NATO
Ante Marković age 55
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 59
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 59
President - European Commission
Khamtai Siphandone age 56
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 74
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 29
Prime Minister - Poland
Garret FitzGerald age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
John Bruton age 33
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 60
Secretary General - NATO
Manfred Wörner age 45
Secretary General - NATO
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 65
President - International Olympic Committee
Jan Olszewski age 49
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 68
Secretary General - NATO
Phan Văn Khải age 46
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Oleksy age 33
Prime Minister - Poland
Waldemar Pawlak age 20
Prime Minister - Poland
Kamal Ganzouri age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mieczysław Rakowski age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Willy Claes age 41
Secretary General - NATO
Vo Van Kiet age 57
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 47
Taoiseach - Ireland
Masayoshi Ito age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
James Wolfensohn age 46
President - World Bank
Lien Chan age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Ebeid age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Pham Hung age 67
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Edward Babiuch age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Hong Song-nam age 50
Premier - North Korea
Branko Mikulić age 51
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Atef Sedki age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 44
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 52
Prime Minister - Laos
Kamal Hassan Ali age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 54
Prime Minister - Egypt
Vincent Siew age 41
Premier - Republic of China
Halfdan T. Mahler age 57
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 66
Premier - Republic of China
Veselin Đuranović age 55
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Yon Hyong-muk age 48
Premier - North Korea
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Lee Huan age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 45
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 57
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 53
President - World Bank