✦ 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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
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
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War on terror 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30

People

Theodore Olson age 51
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Barbara Underwood age 47
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
James Comey age 31
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Jeff Sessions age 45
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 49
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 44
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 48
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 67
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 45
Senate - United States
John McCain age 55
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Cameron age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Leon Panetta age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nigel Lawson age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Douglas Hurd age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Underwood age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Clarke age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Merlyn Rees age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Huckabee age 36
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Rick Perry age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
Mario Cuomo age 59
Governor of New York - United States
Mark Warner age 37
Governor of Virginia - United States
Ann Richards age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
George Pataki age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Bill Weld age 46
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Allen age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Voinovich age 55
Governor of Ohio - United States
Evan Bayh age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
Gray Davis age 49
Governor of California - United States
Jim Gilmore age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
Zell Miller age 59
Governor of Georgia - United States
Pete Wilson age 58
Governor of California - United States
Christine Todd Whitman age 45
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Jim Guy Tucker age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Paul Cellucci age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim McGreevey age 34
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Nancy Hollister age 42
Governor of Ohio - United States
Douglas Wilder age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
Jane Swift age 26
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Bob Taft age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Don Sundquist age 55
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Roy Barnes age 43
Governor of Georgia - United States
James Florio age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Donald DiFrancesco age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ned McWherter age 61
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Donald Schaefer age 70
Governor of Maryland - United States
Parris Glendening age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank O'Bannon age 61
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Farmer Jr. age 34
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John O. Bennett age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Barber Conable age 69
New York State Senate - United States
John Paul II age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 37
President - Venezuela
Lech Wałęsa age 48
President - Poland
Alexander Lukashenko age 37
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 55
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 64
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 67
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 54
King - Spain
Suharto age 70
President - Indonesia
Pervez Musharraf age 48
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 51
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 29
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 51
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 58
President - Philippines
Harald V of Norway age 54
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 54
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 50
President - Serbia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 28
King - Morocco
Martti Ahtisaari age 54
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 45
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 53
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 63
President - Georgia
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 44
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 48
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 53
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 34
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 48
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 68
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 69
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 68
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 51
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 55
State President - South Africa
Kurt Waldheim age 73
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 61
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Emomali Rahmon age 39
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 51
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 47
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 53
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 67
President - Turkey
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 44
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 55
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 63
President - Italy
Leonid Kravchuk age 57
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 44
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 53
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 49
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 39
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 64
President - Turkey
Joseph Kabila age 20
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 23
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 58
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 56
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 49
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 55
President - Indonesia
Mary Robinson age 47
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 102
President - Malawi
Hamad II of Bahrain age 41
Emir - Bahrain
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 61
President - Iceland
Abdurrahman Wahid age 51
President - Indonesia
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 48
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 37
President - Poland
Omar Bongo age 56
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 66
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 52
President - Georgia
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 36
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Hassan II age 62
King - Morocco
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 50
President - Turkey
Carlos Menem age 61
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 37
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 46
President - Ivory Coast
Sali Berisha age 47
President - Albania
Stjepan Mesić age 57
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 28
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 45
President - Eritrea
Meles Zenawi age 36
President - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 29
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 61
President - Romania
Kim Young-sam age 64
President - South Korea
Mohammed Omar age 32
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 54
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 26
President - The Gambia
Fidel Ramos age 63
President - Philippines
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 48
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 40
President - Ireland
Mauno Koivisto age 68
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 40
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 73
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 65
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 46
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 34
President - Bulgaria
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 52
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Kufuor age 53
President - Ghana
Mohammad Najibullah age 44
President - Afghanistan
Ivan Gašparovič age 50
President - Slovakia
K. R. Narayanan age 71
President - India
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 86
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 67
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 68
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 67
President - Portugal
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 40
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 58
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 44
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 63
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 46
President - Israel
Amadou Toumani Touré age 43
President - Mali
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 51
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 36
King - Bhutan
Ivo Sanader age 38
President - Croatia
Violeta Chamorro age 62
President - Nicaragua
R. Venkataraman age 81
President - India
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 54
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 52
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 62
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 48
President - Nigeria
Juvénal Habyarimana age 54
President - Rwanda
Abdoulaye Wade age 65
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 73
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 59
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 44
President - Ghana
Vojislav Koštunica age 47
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
João Bernardo Vieira age 52
President - Guinea-Bissau
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 73
President - India
Chaim Herzog age 73
President - Israel
Askar Akayev age 47
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 59
President - Lithuania
Roh Tae-woo age 59
President - South Korea
Ramiz Alia age 66
President - Albania