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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
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
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 Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Wireless Ridge 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
War on terror 2001-09-11
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30

People

John McCain age 39
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 31
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 64
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 51
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 29
Senate - United States
David Cameron age 9
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 16
House of Representatives - United States
Andy Burnham age 5
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Leon Panetta age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 4
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 6
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Clarke age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Carr age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Huckabee age 20
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Rick Perry age 25
Governor of Texas - United States
Jerry Brown age 37
Governor of California - United States
Mario Cuomo age 43
Governor of New York - United States
Michael Dukakis age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mark Warner age 20
Governor of Virginia - United States
Ann Richards age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
Lamar Alexander age 35
Governor of Tennessee - United States
George Pataki age 30
Governor of New York - United States
Bill Weld age 30
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Allen age 23
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Voinovich age 39
Governor of Ohio - United States
Evan Bayh age 19
Governor of Indiana - United States
Gray Davis age 32
Governor of California - United States
Jim Gilmore age 26
Governor of Virginia - United States
Zell Miller age 43
Governor of Georgia - United States
Pete Wilson age 42
Governor of California - United States
George Deukmejian age 47
Governor of California - United States
Christine Todd Whitman age 29
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Jim Guy Tucker age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Mark White age 35
Governor of Texas - United States
Paul Cellucci age 27
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim McGreevey age 18
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Nancy Hollister age 26
Governor of Ohio - United States
Bill Clements age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
Douglas Wilder age 44
Governor of Virginia - United States
Chuck Robb age 36
Governor of Virginia - United States
Jane Swift age 10
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Hugh Carey age 56
Governor of New York - United States
David Pryor age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Otis Bowen age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
Bob Taft age 33
Governor of Ohio - United States
Thomas Kean age 40
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Don Sundquist age 39
Governor of Tennessee - United States
George Busbee age 48
Governor of Georgia - United States
Brendan Byrne age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Edward J. King age 50
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Marvin Mandel age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
Roy Barnes age 27
Governor of Georgia - United States
Harry Hughes age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
Gerald Baliles age 35
Governor of Virginia - United States
Dolph Briscoe age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
James Florio age 38
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Frank D. White age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Dick Celeste age 38
Governor of Ohio - United States
Mills Godwin age 61
Governor of Virginia - United States
Donald DiFrancesco age 30
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Joe Frank Harris age 39
Governor of Georgia - United States
Jim Rhodes age 66
Governor of Ohio - United States
John N. Dalton age 44
Governor of Virginia - United States
Ned McWherter age 45
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Joe Purcell age 52
Governor of Arkansas - United States
William Donald Schaefer age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
Parris Glendening age 33
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert D. Orr age 58
Governor of Indiana - United States
Frank O'Bannon age 45
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Farmer Jr. age 18
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John O. Bennett age 27
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John Paul II age 55
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 21
President - Venezuela
Lech Wałęsa age 32
President - Poland
Alexander Lukashenko age 21
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 39
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 47
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 51
President - Zimbabwe
Ferdinand Marcos age 58
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 82
Caudillo - Spain
John Paul I age 63
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 37
King - Spain
Paul VI age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 60
President - Chile
Suharto age 54
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 57
President - Romania
Pervez Musharraf age 32
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 35
President - Kazakhstan
Idi Amin age 50
President - Uganda
Abdullah II of Jordan age 13
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 35
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 42
President - Philippines
Harald V of Norway age 38
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 38
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 34
President - Serbia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 12
King - Morocco
Martti Ahtisaari age 38
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 29
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 37
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 47
President - Georgia
Park Chung-hee age 58
President - South Korea
Thomas Sankara age 25
President - Burkina Faso
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 28
President - Indonesia
Muhammadu Buhari age 32
President - Nigeria
Tarja Halonen age 31
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 30
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 37
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 18
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 31
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 52
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 53
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 51
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 35
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 69
President - Senegal
F. W. de Klerk age 39
State President - South Africa
Mobutu Sese Seko age 45
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 82
President - Kenya
Emomali Rahmon age 23
President - Tajikistan
Julius Nyerere age 53
President - Tanzania
Saparmurat Niyazov age 35
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 31
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 37
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 51
President - Turkey
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 28
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 39
President - Tunisia
Leonid Kravchuk age 41
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 28
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 37
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 33
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 23
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 48
President - Turkey
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 54
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kabila age 4
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 7
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 42
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 40
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 72
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 44
President - Argentina
Teodoro Obiang age 33
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 39
President - Indonesia
Mary Robinson age 31
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 85
President - Malawi
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 54
King - Saudi Arabia
Hamad II of Bahrain age 25
Emir - Bahrain
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 45
President - Iceland
Abdurrahman Wahid age 35
President - Indonesia
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 31
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 21
President - Poland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 34
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 39
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 50
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jorge Rafael Videla age 50
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 75
President - Finland
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 36
President - Georgia
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 20
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Hassan II age 46
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 51
President - Zambia
Alan García age 26
President - Peru
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 34
President - Turkey
Carlos Menem age 45
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 21
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 30
President - Ivory Coast
Kenan Evren age 58
President - Turkey
Sali Berisha age 31
President - Albania
Stjepan Mesić age 40
President - Croatia
Michel Aoun age 42
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 12
King - Lesotho
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 51
President - Pakistan
Isaias Afwerki age 29
President - Eritrea
Meles Zenawi age 20
President - Ethiopia
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 38
President - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 13
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 45
President - Romania
Kim Young-sam age 47
President - South Korea
Sandro Pertini age 79
President - Italy
Mohammed Omar age 15
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 38
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 72
King - Norway
Yahya Jammeh age 10
President - The Gambia
Alfredo Stroessner age 63
President - Paraguay
Fidel Ramos age 47
President - Philippines
Agostinho Neto age 53
President - Angola
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 53
President - Guinea
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 32
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 24
President - Ireland