✦ 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

Vladimir Putin age 39
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 45
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 65
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 45
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 65
President - Cuba
George H. W. Bush age 67
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 54
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 60
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 52
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 59
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 26
President - Syria
Hosni Mubarak age 63
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 75
President - France
Akihito age 58
Emperor - Japan
Mohammad Khatami age 48
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 65
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 61
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 71
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 57
King - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 57
President - Iran
Johannes Rau age 60
President - Germany
Victor Chernomyrdin age 53
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 57
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 49
President - Mexico
Baudouin of Belgium age 61
King - Belgium
Itamar Franco age 61
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 60
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 41
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 68
President - Republic of China
Fernando Collor de Mello age 42
President - Brazil
Trần Đức Lương age 54
President - Vietnam
Yang Shangkun age 84
President - People's Republic of China
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 45
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 71
President - Vietnam
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 59
President - Syria
Do Muoi age 74
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong age 79
President - Vietnam
Alfonso Portillo age 40
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 49
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 46
President - Guatemala
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 45
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 79
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Kim Jong-il age 50
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Ernesto Zedillo age 40
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 43
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 69
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 71
Secretary-General - United Nations
Benjamin Netanyahu age 42
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 38
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 61
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 68
Prime Minister - Israel
Gerhard Schröder age 47
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 63
Prime Minister - Israel
Yitzhak Rabin age 69
Prime Minister - Israel
John Major age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Romano Prodi age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
Junichiro Koizumi age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Giulio Andreotti age 72
Prime Minister - Italy
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 76
Prime Minister - Israel
Ehud Barak age 49
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 71
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 54
Prime Minister - France
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 70
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 66
President - European Commission
Jacques Rogge age 49
President - International Olympic Committee
Massimo D'Alema age 42
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 63
Premier - People's Republic of China
Édith Cresson age 57
Prime Minister - France
Yoshirō Mori age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Tomiichi Murayama age 67
Prime Minister - Japan
Li Peng age 63
Premier - People's Republic of China
Lamberto Dini age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Alain Juppé age 46
Prime Minister - France
Jerzy Buzek age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 40
Taoiseach - Ireland
Inder Kumar Gujral age 72
Prime Minister - India
Javier Solana age 49
Secretary General - NATO
Bounnhang Vorachit age 54
Prime Minister - Laos
Kiichi Miyazawa age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Tsutomu Hata age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Édouard Balladur age 62
Prime Minister - France
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Keizō Obuchi age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 54
President - European Commission
Morihiro Hosokawa age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Hanna Suchocka age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
Pierre Bérégovoy age 66
Prime Minister - France
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 45
Secretary General - NATO
Khamtai Siphandone age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
John Bruton age 44
Taoiseach - Ireland
Leszek Miller age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
Manfred Wörner age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Jan Olszewski age 61
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 66
Taoiseach - Ireland
Phan Văn Khải age 58
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Oleksy age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
Waldemar Pawlak age 32
Prime Minister - Poland
Kamal Ganzouri age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Willy Claes age 53
Secretary General - NATO
Vo Van Kiet age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
James Wolfensohn age 58
President - World Bank
Lien Chan age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Ebeid age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hau Pei-tsun age 72
Premier - Republic of China
Hong Song-nam age 62
Premier - North Korea
Atef Sedki age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 63
Prime Minister - Laos
Chang Chun-hsiung age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Shyi-kun age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Hiroshi Nakajima age 63
Director-General - World Health Organization
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 51
Prime Minister - Syria
Vincent Siew age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Yon Hyong-muk age 60
Premier - North Korea
Tang Fei age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 57
Prime Minister - Syria
Lewis Thompson Preston age 65
President - World Bank
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 67
Prime Minister - India
H. D. Deve Gowda age 58
Prime Minister - India
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 41
Prime Minister - Poland
William Rehnquist age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 43
Vice President - United States
Hu Jintao age 49
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Dick Cheney age 50
Vice President - United States
Dan Quayle age 44
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 83
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren age 75
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 68
Vice President - Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 49
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 87
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Colin Powell age 54
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Wen Jiabao age 49
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
John Shalikashvili age 55
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nie Rongzhen age 92
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Richard Myers age 49
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Hugh Shelton age 50
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
David E. Jeremiah age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 40
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 59
Secretary of Defense - United States
James Baker age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Lawrence Eagleburger age 61
Secretary of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 49
Attorney General - United States
Janet Reno age 53
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 40
Attorney General - United States
Larry Summers age 37
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Michael Howard age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Barr age 41
Attorney General - United States
William J. Perry age 64
Secretary of Defense - United States
William Cohen age 51
Secretary of Defense - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 70
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Kenneth Clarke age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Shinseki age 49
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Les Aspin age 53
Secretary of Defense - United States
Robert Rubin age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Norman Lamont age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Nicholas F. Brady age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Gordon R. Sullivan age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Frank G. Wisner age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Dennis Reimer age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Stuart M. Gerson age 47
Attorney General - United States
Robert Mueller age 47
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William S. Sessions age 61
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 41
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 73
President - African National Congress
Thabo Mbeki age 49
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 43
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 71
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 74
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 49
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Gus Macdonald age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sandra Day O'Connor age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 30
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Iain Duncan Smith age 37
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Neil Kinnock age 49
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Smith age 53
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Margaret Beckett age 48
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 43
President - Sinn Féin
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