Explore April 5, 1923 – September 29, 2001

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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
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
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Nanchang Uprising 1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05
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
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
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
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
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
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 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
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
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
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11

People

Joseph Joffre age 71
Bamir Topi born 1957-04-24
Alexander De Croo born 1975-11-03
Sophie Wilmès born 1975-01-15
Luis Arce born 1963-09-28
Jeanine Áñez born 1967-06-13
Jüri Ratas born 1978-07-02
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 19
Arnold Rüütel born 1928-05-10
Armand Fallières age 81
Michel Barnier born 1951-01-09
Enda Kenny born 1951-04-24
Andrus Ansip born 1956-10-01
Loukas Papademos born 1947-10-11
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 85
Erich Raeder age 46
Julius Streicher age 38
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
John J. Pershing age 62
Elihu Root age 78
Álvaro Uribe Vélez born 1952-07-04
Matti Vanhanen born 1955-11-04
Bernhard von Bülow age 73
Hjalmar Schacht age 46
Rodion Malinovsky age 24
Thomas R. Marshall age 69
Vahagn Khachatryan born 1959-04-22
Sandra Mason born 1949-01-17
Iván Duque born 1976-08-01
Jadranka Kosor born 1953-07-01
Daniel Noboa born 1987-11-30
Irakli Garibashvili born 1982-06-28
Bernard Cazeneuve born 1963-06-02
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 62
Semyon Timoshenko age 28
Mokgweetsi Masisi born 1961-07-21
Petr Fiala born 1964-09-01
Mauricio Funes born 1959-10-18
Bidzina Ivanishvili born 1956-02-18
Micheál Martin born 1960-08-16
Jean Monnet age 34
Brigitte Bierlein born 1949-06-25
Bart De Wever born 1970-12-21
Rosen Plevneliev born 1964-05-14
José Antonio Kast born 1966-01-18
Tassos Papadopoulos born 1934-01-07
Petteri Orpo born 1969-11-03
Antonis Samaras born 1951-05-23
Émile Loubet age 84
François Bayrou born 1951-05-25
Seretse Khama Ian Khama born 1953-02-27
Jorge Carlos Fonseca born 1950-10-20
Jyrki Katainen born 1971-10-14
Giorgi Gakharia born 1975-03-19
Jean Casimir-Perier age 75
Baldur von Schirach age 15
Bajram Begaj born 1967-03-20
Mulatu Teshome born 1957-01-29
Sébastien Lecornu born 1986-06-11
Alfred Moisiu born 1929-12-01
Zillur Rahman born 1929-03-09
Iliana Iotova born 1964-10-24
François Bozizé born 1946-10-14
Mirek Topolánek born 1956-05-15
Petr Nečas born 1964-11-19
Joseph Wirth age 43
Philipp Scheidemann age 57
James Comey born 1960-12-14
William Jennings Bryan age 63
Alfred Gusenbauer born 1960-02-08
Ali Asadov born 1956-11-30
Raman Halowchanka born 1973-08-10
Girma Wolde-Giorgis born 1924-12-28
Jean-Pierre Raffarin born 1948-08-03
Eduardo Duhalde born 1941-10-05
José Maria Neves born 1960-03-28
Taavi Rõivas born 1979-09-26
Irakli Kobakhidze born 1978-09-25
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 75
Gustav Bauer age 53
Brian Cowen born 1960-01-10
Abbas II of Egypt age 48
Walther Funk age 32
Fritz Sauckel age 28
Billy Hughes age 60
Christian Kern born 1966-01-04
Kristen Michal born 1975-07-12
Juha Sipilä born 1961-04-25
Kostas Karamanlis born 1956-09-14
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 55
Vasily Blyukher age 33
Paul Wolfowitz born 1943-12-22
Mohammad Hasan Akhund born 2000-01-01
Nicos Christodoulides born 1973-12-06
Adly Mansour born 1945-12-23
Nino Burjanadze born 1964-07-16
Georg Michaelis age 65
Constantin Fehrenbach age 71
Giovanni Giolitti age 80
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 50
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer born 1948-04-03
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Chris Watson age 56
Iajuddin Ahmed born 1931-02-01
Mohammad Shahabuddin born 1949-12-10
Luis Guillermo Solís born 1958-04-25
Jan Fischer born 1951-01-02
Danilo Medina born 1951-11-10
Hailemariam Desalegn born 1965-07-19
Giorgi Kvirikashvili born 1967-07-20
Fritz Todt age 31
Andrew Fisher age 60
Catherine Samba-Panza born 1954-06-26
Bohuslav Sobotka born 1971-10-23
Salvador Sánchez Cerén born 1944-06-18
Antti Rinne born 1962-11-03
Mohamed Bouazizi born 1984-03-29
Simon Harris born 1986-10-17
Jim Yong Kim born 1959-12-08
Tigran Sargsyan born 1960-01-29
Alfredo Palacio born 1939-01-22
Mostafa Madbouly born 1966-04-28
Rose Francine Rogombe born 1942-09-20
Matsukata Masayoshi age 88
Liz Cheney born 1966-07-28
George Wallace age 3
Xavier Espot Zamora born 1979-10-30
Carlos Mesa born 1953-08-12
Sergey Stanishev born 1966-05-05
Évariste Ndayishimiye born 1968-06-17
Anneli Jäätteenmäki born 1955-02-11
Peng Dehuai age 24
Gennady Yanayev born 1937-08-26
Dean Barrow born 1951-03-02
Mahamat Déby born 1984-04-04
Roosevelt Skerrit born 1972-06-08
Sherif Ismail born 1955-07-06
William Westmoreland age 9
Venceslau Brás age 55
Hans Fritzsche age 22
Christian Stocker born 1960-03-20
Kiril Petkov born 1980-04-17
Hun Manet born 1977-10-20
Jioji Konrote born 1947-12-26
Rose Christiane Raponda born 1963-06-30
Mikheil Kavelashvili born 1971-07-22
Nilo Peçanha age 55
Emilio De Bono age 57
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá born 1947-07-25
Lotay Tshering born 1969-05-10
Luis Abinader born 1967-07-12
Zurab Zhvania born 1963-12-09
Saionji Kinmochi age 73
Antonio Salandra age 69
Luigi Facta age 61
Margaret Chan born 1947-08-22
Ahmad Uyahya born 1952-07-02
Antoni Martí born 1963-07-30
Gaston Browne born 1967-02-09
Joseph Cook age 62
Karl Seitz age 53
Tshering Tobgay born 1965-09-19
Laura Fernández Delgado born 1986-07-04
Carlos Alvarado Quesada born 1980-01-14
Vladimír Špidla born 1951-04-22
Antoine Gizenga born 1925-10-05
Nicholas Liverpool born 1934-09-09
Mamuka Bakhtadze born 1982-06-09
Kash Patel born 1980-02-25
Pam Bondi born 1965-11-17
Quentin Bryce born 1942-12-23
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain born 1969-10-21
Mikhail Myasnikovich born 1950-05-06
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba born 1981-01-02
Paolo Boselli age 84
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 54
Mark W. Clark age 26
Epitácio Pessoa age 57
Abd al-Aziz Jarad born 1954-02-12
Rosen Zhelyazkov born 1968-04-05
Robert Borden age 68
Abelardo de la Espriella born 1978-07-31
Ikililou Dhoinine born 1962-08-14
Essam Sharaf born 1952-01-01
Ahmed Nazif born 1952-07-08
Antonio Saca born 1965-03-09
Takahashi Korekiyo age 68
Merrick Garland born 1952-11-13
Nandó dos Santos born 1950-03-05
Baldwin Spencer born 1948-10-08
Peter Cosgrove born 1947-07-28
Tarique Rahman born 1968-11-20
Freundel Stuart born 1951-04-27
Syarhiey Sidorski born 1954-03-13
Syarhei Rumas born 1969-12-01
Eduardo Rodríguez born 1956-03-02
Juhan Parts born 1966-08-27
Nika Gilauri born 1975-02-14
Ye Jianying age 25