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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
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
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
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
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Birth of Louise Brown 1978-07-25
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
Egypt–Israel peace treaty 1979-03-26
Three Mile Island accident 1979-03-28
Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
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 Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Harriet 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
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
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
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
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
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

François-Xavier Ortoli age 50
President - European Commission
Kamal Ganzouri age 42
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mieczysław Rakowski age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Jack Lynch age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Willy Claes age 36
Secretary General - NATO
Vo Van Kiet age 53
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 43
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 66
Prime Minister - Poland
Masayoshi Ito age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
James Wolfensohn age 41
President - World Bank
Lien Chan age 39
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Ebeid age 43
Prime Minister - Egypt
Pak Song-chol age 62
Premier - North Korea
Kim Il age 65
Premier - North Korea
Pham Hung age 63
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hau Pei-tsun age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Edward Babiuch age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Hong Song-nam age 46
Premier - North Korea
Atef Sedki age 45
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 40
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 47
Prime Minister - Laos
Chang Chun-hsiung age 37
Premier - Republic of China
Mustafa Khalil age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kamal Hassan Ali age 42
Prime Minister - Egypt
Yu Shyi-kun age 27
Premier - Republic of China
Hiroshi Nakajima age 47
Director-General - World Health Organization
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 34
Prime Minister - Syria
Vincent Siew age 36
Premier - Republic of China
Halfdan T. Mahler age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Veselin Đuranović age 50
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Yon Hyong-muk age 44
Premier - North Korea
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Mamdouh Salem age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Lee Huan age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Tang Fei age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 40
Prime Minister - Syria
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 53
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 49
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 61
Premier - Republic of China
Alden W. Clausen age 52
President - World Bank
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Hsu Ching-chung age 68
Premier - Republic of China
Morarji Desai age 79
Prime Minister - India
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 50
Prime Minister - India
H. D. Deve Gowda age 42
Prime Minister - India
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 38
Prime Minister - Syria
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 25
Prime Minister - Poland
Džemal Bijedić age 58
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Branko Mikulić age 47
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Aleksandar Mitrović age 42
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
William Rehnquist age 51
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 27
Vice President - United States
Hu Jintao age 32
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Dick Cheney age 34
Vice President - United States
Dan Quayle age 28
Vice President - United States
Walter Mondale age 47
Vice President - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 67
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 67
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren age 59
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 47
Vice President - Iraq
Lee Yuan-tsu age 52
Vice President - Republic of China
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 33
Vice President - Iraq
Colin Powell age 38
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Wen Jiabao age 33
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
John Shalikashvili age 39
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nie Rongzhen age 75
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Richard Myers age 33
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Hugh Shelton age 33
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
George Scratchley Brown age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
David C. Jones age 54
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
William J. Crowe age 50
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
David E. Jeremiah age 41
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John William Vessey Jr. age 53
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Gordon Brown age 24
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 38
Secretary of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 43
Secretary of Defense - United States
James Baker age 45
Secretary of State - United States
George Shultz age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Alexander Haig age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Lawrence Eagleburger age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Cyrus Vance age 58
Secretary of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 33
Attorney General - United States
Janet Reno age 37
Attorney General - United States
Edmund Muskie age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Jack Straw age 29
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 24
Attorney General - United States
Larry Summers age 20
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Michael Howard age 34
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Barr age 25
Attorney General - United States
James R. Schlesinger age 46
Secretary of Defense - United States
William J. Perry age 48
Secretary of Defense - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 35
Secretary of Defense - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nigel Lawson age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Brown age 48
Secretary of Defense - United States
Kenneth Clarke age 35
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Denis Healey age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 28
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Shinseki age 32
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Frank Carlucci age 45
Secretary of Defense - United States
Les Aspin age 37
Secretary of Defense - United States
Robert Rubin age 37
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Douglas Hurd age 45
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 36
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
W. Michael Blumenthal age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Norman Lamont age 33
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Regan age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nicholas F. Brady age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 43
Attorney General - United States
Griffin Bell age 57
Attorney General - United States
Edwin Meese age 43
Attorney General - United States
Frederick C. Weyand age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
G. William Miller age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William E. Simon age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 58
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 46
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Benjamin Civiletti age 40
Attorney General - United States
John A. Wickham Jr. age 47
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Gordon R. Sullivan age 38
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward H. Levi age 64
Attorney General - United States
Bernard W. Rogers age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward C. Meyer age 46
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Frank G. Wisner age 37
Secretary of State - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 41
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dennis Reimer age 36
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
David D. Newsom age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Michael Armacost age 38
Secretary of State - United States
Richard N. Cooper age 41
Secretary of State - United States
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Stuart M. Gerson age 31
Attorney General - United States
Caspar Weinberger age 58
Secretary of Defense - United States
Robert Mueller age 31
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William H. Webster age 51
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William S. Sessions age 45
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 25
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley age 64
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 57
President - African National Congress
Thabo Mbeki age 33
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 42
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 39
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 27
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 37
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 39
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 36
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Norman Tebbit age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Potter Stewart age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Francis Pym age 53
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 59
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Cecil Parkinson age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 29
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 33
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 38
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Gus Macdonald age 35
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 43
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Larry Thompson age 30
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Philip Heymann age 43
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere age 36
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 36
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harold R. Tyler Jr. age 53
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
George J. Terwilliger III age 25
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor age 45
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 14
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Iain Duncan Smith age 21
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Michael Foot age 62
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Neil Kinnock age 33
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Smith age 37
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Margaret Beckett age 32
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 37
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jeremy Thorpe age 46
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jo Grimond age 62
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 58
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Gerry Adams age 27
President - Sinn Féin
Ken Starr age 29
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Robert Bork age 48
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Theodore Olson age 35
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Charles Fried age 40
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Barbara Underwood age 31
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
James Comey age 14
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Jeff Sessions age 28
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 32
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 28
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 31
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 64
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 51
Senate - United States