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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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
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
German Autumn 1977-09-05 - 1977-10-18
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Birth of Louise Brown 1978-07-25
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
Jonestown massacre 1978-11-18
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
1979 Equatorial Guinean coup d'état 1979-08-03
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
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 Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 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
December murders 1982-12-08 - 1982-12-09
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
1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état 1983-08-04
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
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency 1987
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
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
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
Somali Civil War 1991-01-26
Battle of Khafji 1991-01-29 - 1991-02-01
Liberation of Kuwait campaign 1991-02-24 - 1991-02-28
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
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
Djiboutian Civil War 1991-11-01 - 1994-12-26
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
Zapatista uprising 1994-01-01 - 1994-01-12
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
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29
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
Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998-05-06 - 2000-06-18
Guinea-Bissau Civil War 1998-06-07 - 1999-05-10
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

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
Nicéphore Soglo age 40
President - Benin
Petar Mladenov age 39
President - Bulgaria
Michel Micombero age 35
President - Burundi
Belisario Betancur age 52
President - Colombia
Kumba Ialá age 22
President - Guinea-Bissau
Amine Gemayel age 33
President - Lebanon
Marien Ngouabi age 36
President - Republic of the Congo
Devan Nair age 52
President - Singapore
Johan Ferrier age 65
President - Suriname
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 34
President - Uruguay
Valentín Paniagua age 39
President - Peru
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 69
President - Sri Lanka
Liamine Zéroual age 34
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 42
Emir - Bahrain
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 29
President - Burundi
Giorgos Vasiliou age 44
President - Cyprus
León Febres-Cordero age 44
President - Ecuador
Hilla Limann age 40
President - Ghana
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 76
President - Greece
Carmen Pereira age 39
President - Guinea-Bissau
Wee Kim Wee age 60
President - Singapore
Rahmon Nabiyev age 45
President - Tajikistan
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 50
President - Afghanistan
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 45
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 45
President - Bolivia
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 54
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 46
President - Greece
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 64
President - Ireland
Elias Hrawi age 49
President - Lebanon
Enrique Bolaños age 47
President - Nicaragua
Mahamane Ousmane age 25
President - Niger
Murtala Muhammed age 37
President - Nigeria
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 43
Emir - Qatar
Pasteur Bizimungu age 25
President - Rwanda
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 54
President - Peru
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 20
President - Burundi
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 31
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 25
President - Colombia
Gustavo Noboa age 38
President - Ecuador
Arthur Chung age 57
President - Guyana
Albert Zafy age 48
President - Madagascar
Anthony Mamo age 66
President - Malta
Amata Kabua age 47
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 33
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 35
President - Moldova
Momir Bulatović age 19
President - Montenegro
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 61
President - Portugal
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 59
President - Burkina Faso
André Kolingba age 39
President - Central African Republic
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 18
President - Ecuador
Leslie Manigat age 45
President - Haiti
Robert Guéï age 34
President - Ivory Coast
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 33
President - Mongolia
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 71
President - Pakistan
James Mancham age 36
President - Seychelles
Siaka Stevens age 70
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 68
President - Singapore
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 40
President - Somalia
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 49
President - Bangladesh
Alfonso López Michelsen age 62
President - Colombia
Ahmed Abdallah age 56
President - Comoros
Ricardo Maduro age 29
President - Honduras
Mátyás Szűrös age 42
President - Hungary
Ruth Perry age 36
President - Liberia
Jules Wijdenbosch age 34
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 48
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Jaime Lusinchi age 51
President - Venezuela
Haxhi Lleshi age 62
President - Albania
Jaime Paz Zamora age 36
President - Bolivia
Julio César Turbay age 59
President - Colombia
Spiros Cyprianou age 43
President - Cyprus
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 40
President - Ecuador
Kamisese Mara age 55
President - Fiji
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 44
President - Ghana
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 37
King - Lesotho
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 25
President - Mongolia
Tito Okello age 61
President - Uganda
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 49
President - Uruguay
Raif Dizdarević age 48
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Luis García Meza Tejada age 46
President - Bolivia
Jorge Quiroga age 15
President - Bolivia
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 61
President - Bolivia
Jamil Mahuad age 26
President - Ecuador
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 23
President - Ecuador
José Napoleón Duarte age 50
President - El Salvador
Negasso Gidada age 32
President - Ethiopia
Forbes Burnham age 52
President - Guyana
Ċensu Tabone age 62
President - Malta
Hammer DeRoburt age 53
President - Nauru
Daouda Malam Wanké age 29
President - Niger
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 26
President - Niger
Ernest Shonekan age 39
President - Nigeria
Ong Teng Cheong age 39
President - Singapore
Luis Herrera Campins age 50
President - Venezuela
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 51
President - Sri Lanka
Marais Viljoen age 59
State President - South Africa
José María Figueres Olsen age 20
President - Costa Rica
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 35
President - Ecuador
Alfredo Cristiani age 27
President - El Salvador
Arnoldo Alemán age 29
President - Nicaragua
Wasim Sajjad age 34
President - Pakistan
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 36
President - Republic of the Congo
Miguel Trovoada age 38
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Edward Natapei age 21
President - Vanuatu
Luis González Macchi age 27
President - Paraguay
Ali Saibou age 35
President - Niger
Ali Kafi age 47
President - Algeria
Eduardo Camaño age 29
President - Argentina
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 19
President - Burundi
Armando Calderón Sol age 27
President - El Salvador
Fred Akuffo age 38
President - Ghana
René Moawad age 50
President - Lebanon
Ibrahim Nasir age 49
President - Maldives
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 43
President - Malta
Haruo Remeliik age 42
President - Palau
Ivan Stambolić age 39
President - Serbia
Godfrey Binaisa age 55
President - Uganda
Ramón José Velásquez age 58
President - Venezuela
Momčilo Krajišnik age 30
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Andrés Rodríguez age 52
President - Paraguay
Carlos Lacoste age 46
President - Argentina
Saye Zerbo age 43
President - Burkina Faso
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 33
President - Burkina Faso
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 35
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 16
President - El Salvador
Tosiwo Nakayama age 43
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 32
President - Haiti
Kessai Note age 25
President - Marshall Islands
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 38
President - Sierra Leone
Qahhor Mahkamov age 43
President - Tajikistan
Aparicio Méndez age 71
President - Uruguay
Guillermo Endara age 39
President - Panama
William Gopallawa age 78
President - Sri Lanka
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 34
President - Sudan
Ramón Puerta age 24
President - Argentina
Goukouni Oueddei age 33
President - Chad
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 48
President - Costa Rica
Osvaldo Hurtado age 36
President - Ecuador
Desmond Hoyte age 46
President - Guyana
Henri Namphy age 43
President - Haiti
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 61
President - Laos
Anton Buttigieg age 63
President - Malta
Flavio Cotti age 36
President - Switzerland
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 52
President - Uruguay
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 59
President - Sri Lanka
Nicolaas Diederichs age 72
State President - South Africa
Rabah Bitat age 49
President - Algeria
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 49
President - Argentina
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 26
President - Costa Rica
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 64
President - Dominican Republic
Hipólito Mejía age 34
President - Dominican Republic
Jacob Nena age 34
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 51
President - Guinea
René Harris age 28
President - Nauru
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 37
President - Timor-Leste
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 36
President - Somalia
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 41
President - Sudan
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 49
President - Afghanistan
Said Mohamed Djohar age 57
President - Comoros
Luis Alberto Monge age 49
President - Costa Rica
Vlatko Pavletić age 44
President - Croatia
Tafari Benti age 54
President - Ethiopia
Leo Falcam age 40
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 32
President - Honduras
José Azcona del Hoyo age 48
President - Honduras
Suleiman Frangieh age 65
President - Lebanon
Amos Sawyer age 30
President - Liberia
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 37
President - Madagascar
Paul Xuereb age 52
President - Malta
Kuniwo Nakamura age 31
President - Palau
Adolf Ogi age 33
President - Switzerland
Yusuf Lule age 63
President - Uganda
Kazimierz Sabbat age 62
President - Poland
Isa Gambar age 18
President - Azerbaijan
Wálter Guevara age 63
President - Bolivia
David Padilla age 48
President - Bolivia
Guido Vildoso age 38
President - Bolivia
Lol Mahamat Choua age 36
President - Chad
Fabián Alarcón age 28
President - Ecuador
John Haglelgam age 26
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ansumane Mané age 35
President - Guinea-Bissau
Carlos Roberto Flor age 25
President - Honduras
Carlos Roberto Reina age 49
President - Honduras
Elias Sarkis age 51
President - Lebanon
Bernard Dowiyogo age 29
President - Nauru
Valentine Strasser age 8
President - Sierra Leone
Henk Chin A Sen age 41
President - Suriname
Kaspar Villiger age 34
President - Switzerland
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 46
President - Uganda
Paulo Muwanga age 51
President - Uganda
Octavio Lepage age 52
President - Venezuela
Ali Soilih age 38
President - Comoros
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 48
President - Honduras