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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

Mauno Koivisto age 51
President - Finland
Juliana of the Netherlands age 66
Queen - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 49
President - Uganda
Blaise Compaoré age 24
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 57
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 49
President - Lithuania
Samora Moisés Machel age 42
President - Mozambique
Fahri Korutürk age 72
President - Turkey
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 30
President - Sri Lanka
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Raúl Alfonsín age 48
President - Argentina
Georgi Parvanov age 18
President - Bulgaria
Chun Doo-hwan age 44
President - South Korea
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 35
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Kufuor age 36
President - Ghana
Mohammad Najibullah age 28
President - Afghanistan
Giovanni Leone age 67
President - Italy
Ivan Gašparovič age 34
President - Slovakia
K. R. Narayanan age 55
President - India
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 70
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 51
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 52
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 50
President - Portugal
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 23
Emir - Qatar
Houari Boumédiène age 43
President - Algeria
Mathieu Kérékou age 42
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 27
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 47
President - Estonia
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 70
President - India
Moshe Katsav age 29
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 30
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 27
President - Mali
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 35
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 20
King - Bhutan
Ivo Sanader age 22
President - Croatia
Violeta Chamorro age 46
President - Nicaragua
R. Venkataraman age 64
President - India
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 37
President - Latvia
Siad Barre age 56
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 36
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 46
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 32
President - Nigeria
Juvénal Habyarimana age 38
President - Rwanda
Abdoulaye Wade age 49
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 57
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 43
President - Austria
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 51
President - Equatorial Guinea
Jerry Rawlings age 28
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 59
President - India
Vojislav Koštunica age 31
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
João Bernardo Vieira age 36
President - Guinea-Bissau
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 57
President - India
Chaim Herzog age 57
President - Israel
Askar Akayev age 31
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 43
President - Lithuania
Roh Tae-woo age 42
President - South Korea
Ramiz Alia age 50
President - Albania
Leopoldo Galtieri age 49
President - Argentina
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 30
President - Armenia
Festus Mogae age 36
President - Botswana
Seretse Khama age 54
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 51
President - Cameroon
Lennart Meri age 46
President - Estonia
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 62
President - India
Charles Taylor age 27
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 37
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 52
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 39
President - Togo
Joseph Estrada age 38
President - Philippines
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 24
President - Haiti
Hafizullah Amin age 46
President - Afghanistan
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 68
President - Greece
Than Shwe age 42
President - Myanmar
Fernando de la Rúa age 38
President - Argentina
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 50
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 40
President - Guinea
René Préval age 32
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 34
President - Moldova
Kiro Gligorov age 58
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 36
President - Portugal
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 66
President - Afghanistan
Eduardo Duhalde age 34
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 37
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 49
President - Greece
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 49
President - Nicaragua
Ziaur Rahman age 39
President - Bangladesh
Abdou Diouf age 40
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 34
President - Slovenia
Levy Mwanawasa age 27
President - Zambia
Abulfaz Elchibey age 37
President - Azerbaijan
Zhelyu Zhelev age 40
President - Bulgaria
Hissène Habré age 33
President - Chad
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 22
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 44
President - Hungary
Árpád Göncz age 53
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 32
President - Zambia
Alejandro Toledo age 30
President - Peru
Ezer Weizman age 51
President - Israel
Isaac Navon age 54
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 39
President - Lebanon
Samuel Doe age 24
President - Liberia
Ne Win age 64
President - Myanmar
Benjamin Mkapa age 37
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 31
President - Albania
Reynaldo Bignone age 47
President - Argentina
Ayaz Mutallibov age 37
President - Azerbaijan
Quett Masire age 50
President - Botswana
David Dacko age 45
President - Central African Republic
Leonel Fernández age 21
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 54
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Mamadou Tandja age 37
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 51
President - Singapore
Canaan Banana age 39
President - Zimbabwe
Azali Assoumani age 16
President - Comoros
Frank Bainimarama age 21
President - Fiji
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 29
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 19
President - North Macedonia
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 60
President - Pakistan
Choi Kyu-hah age 56
President - South Korea
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 60
President - Austria
Petar Stoyanov age 23
President - Bulgaria
Patricio Aylwin age 56
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 59
President - Djibouti
Sobhuza II age 76
King - Eswatini
Farooq Leghari age 35
President - Pakistan
Emil Constantinescu age 36
President - Romania
Chadli Bendjedid age 46
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 52
President - Cape Verde
Pedro Pires age 41
President - Cape Verde
Ephraim Katzir age 59
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 39
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 34
President - Nigeria
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 46
President - Pakistan
Vladimír Mečiar age 33
President - Slovakia
Ronald Venetiaan age 39
President - Suriname
Rafael Caldera age 59
President - Venezuela
Fernando Belaúnde age 63
President - Peru
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 54
President - Bolivia
Sylvie Kinigi age 22
President - Burundi
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 28
President - Guinea-Bissau
Guntis Ulmanis age 36
President - Latvia
Mircea Snegur age 35
President - Moldova
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 19
President - Palau
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 51
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 53
President - Venezuela
Dobrica Ćosić age 53
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 28
President - Argentina
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 33
President - Chile
Kristján Eldjárn age 58
President - Iceland
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 63
President - India
Henri Konan Bédié age 41
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 49
Emir - Kuwait
Shehu Shagari age 50
President - Nigeria
Rudolf Schuster age 41
President - Slovakia
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 50
President - Tanzania
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 55
President - Poland
Souphanouvong age 66
President - Laos
César Gaviria age 28
President - Colombia
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 54
President - Ecuador
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 20
President - Slovakia
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 48
President - Uruguay
Julio María Sanguinetti age 39
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 29
President - Panama
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 68
President - Bolivia
Melchior Ndadaye age 22
President - Burundi
Bharrat Jagdeo age 11
President - Guyana
William Richard Tolbert age 62
President - Liberia
Didier Ratsiraka age 39
President - Madagascar
Pascal Lissouba age 44
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 45
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 57
King - Tonga
Gaafar Nimeiry age 44
President - Sudan
Mohamed Boudiaf age 56
President - Algeria
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 51
President - Argentina
Hugo Banzer age 49
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 38
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 56
President - Cyprus
Joaquín Balaguer age 69
President - Dominican Republic
Josefa Iloilo age 54
President - Fiji
Luís Cabral age 44
President - Guinea-Bissau
Sam Hinds age 31
President - Guyana
Janet Jagan age 55
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 32
President - Malawi
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 33
President - Nigeria
António Ramalho Eanes age 40
President - Portugal
Milan Milutinović age 32
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 40
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 43
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 35
President - Switzerland
Fradique de Menezes age 33
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 38
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Juan María Bordaberry age 47
President - Uruguay
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 45
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 25
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 21
President - Colombia
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 49
President - Dominican Republic
Patrick Hillery age 52
President - Ireland
Guido de Marco age 44
President - Malta
Moktar Ould Daddah age 50
President - Mauritania
Moritz Leuenberger age 29
President - Switzerland