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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

Vladimir Putin age 23
President - Russia
Ronald Reagan age 64
President - United States
George W. Bush age 29
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 49
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 81
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Bill Clinton age 29
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 49
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 44
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter age 51
President - United States
George H. W. Bush age 51
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 62
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 38
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 44
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 36
President - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 42
President - France
Hirohito age 74
Emperor - Japan
Bashar al-Assad age 10
President - Syria
Leonid Brezhnev age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hosni Mubarak age 47
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 59
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 73
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 41
Emperor - Japan
Josip Broz Tito age 83
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 56
President - Egypt
Yuri Andropov age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mohammad Khatami age 32
President - Iran
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 56
Shah - Iran
Konstantin Chernenko age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jiang Zemin age 49
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 63
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 45
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 55
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 41
King - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 41
President - Iran
Johannes Rau age 44
President - Germany
Victor Chernomyrdin age 37
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 41
President - Germany
Walter Scheel age 56
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 33
President - Mexico
Baudouin of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 54
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Abolhassan Banisadr age 42
President - Iran
Zhao Ziyang age 56
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Karl Carstens age 60
President - Germany
Itamar Franco age 45
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 44
President - Brazil
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 42
President - Iran
Chen Shui-bian age 25
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 52
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 38
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 26
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 65
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 61
President - Iraq
José Sarney age 45
President - Brazil
José López Portillo age 55
President - Mexico
Hu Yaobang age 60
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Luis Echeverría age 53
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 57
President - Brazil
Ernesto Geisel age 68
President - Brazil
Trần Đức Lương age 38
President - Vietnam
Lê Duẩn age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 66
President - People's Republic of China
Yang Shangkun age 68
President - People's Republic of China
Efraín Ríos Montt age 49
President - Guatemala
Osvaldo Dorticós age 56
President - Cuba
Trường Chinh age 68
President - Vietnam
Tôn Đức Thắng age 87
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 29
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 54
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 43
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 43
President - Syria
Do Muoi age 58
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong age 63
President - Vietnam
Alfonso Portillo age 24
President - Guatemala
Yen Chia-kan age 70
President - Republic of China
Nguyen Huu Tho age 65
President - Vietnam
Sufi Abu Taleb age 50
President - Egypt
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 44
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 32
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 33
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 30
President - Guatemala
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 28
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 63
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Kim Jong-il age 34
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 49
President - France
Miguel de la Madrid age 40
President - Mexico
Ernesto Zedillo age 23
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 27
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 37
Secretary-General - United Nations
Pol Pot age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Kurt Waldheim age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 58
Prime Minister - India
Benjamin Netanyahu age 26
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 22
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping age 71
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 52
Prime Minister - Israel
Gerhard Schröder age 31
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 47
Prime Minister - Israel
Yitzhak Rabin age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 31
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 32
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai age 77
Premier - People's Republic of China
Romano Prodi age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Menachem Begin age 62
Prime Minister - Israel
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 36
Director-General - World Health Organization
Harold Wilson age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Junichiro Koizumi age 33
Prime Minister - Japan
Giulio Andreotti age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Francesco Cossiga age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 60
Prime Minister - Israel
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Ehud Barak age 33
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 55
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 38
Prime Minister - France
Bettino Craxi age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 54
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 50
President - European Commission
Alexei Kosygin age 71
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Jacques Rogge age 33
President - International Olympic Committee
Massimo D'Alema age 26
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 47
Premier - People's Republic of China
Pierre Mauroy age 47
Prime Minister - France
Laurent Fabius age 29
Prime Minister - France
Édith Cresson age 41
Prime Minister - France
Robert McNamara age 59
President - World Bank
Charan Singh age 72
Prime Minister - India
Yoshirō Mori age 38
Prime Minister - Japan
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
P. W. Botha age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
Amintore Fanfani age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Tomiichi Murayama age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Li Peng age 47
Premier - People's Republic of China
Lamberto Dini age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Alain Juppé age 30
Prime Minister - France
Chandra Shekhar age 48
Prime Minister - India
Jerzy Buzek age 35
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 24
Taoiseach - Ireland
Inder Kumar Gujral age 55
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 44
Prime Minister - India
Javier Solana age 33
Secretary General - NATO
Bounnhang Vorachit age 38
Prime Minister - Laos
Toshiki Kaifu age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichi Miyazawa age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Tsutomu Hata age 40
Prime Minister - Japan
Édouard Balladur age 46
Prime Minister - France
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 38
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Rocard age 45
Prime Minister - France
Noboru Takeshita age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Keizō Obuchi age 38
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 38
President - European Commission
Takeo Fukuda age 70
Prime Minister - Japan
Morihiro Hosokawa age 37
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 46
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Raymond Barre age 51
Prime Minister - France
Ciriaco De Mita age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Zenkō Suzuki age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Arnaldo Forlani age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Masayoshi Ōhira age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Sōsuke Uno age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Gennady Yanayev age 38
President - Soviet Union
Giovanni Goria age 32
Prime Minister - Italy
Hanna Suchocka age 29
Prime Minister - Poland
Takeo Miki age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Tikhonov age 70
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 47
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 51
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Pierre Bérégovoy age 49
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 29
Secretary General - NATO
Ante Marković age 50
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 54
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 55
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 74
Prime Minister - Laos
Khamtai Siphandone age 51
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
John Bruton age 28
Taoiseach - Ireland
Leszek Miller age 29
Prime Minister - Poland
Liam Cosgrave age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Manfred Wörner age 41
Secretary General - NATO
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Jan Olszewski age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 50
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 64
Secretary General - NATO
Phan Văn Khải age 41
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Oleksy age 29
Prime Minister - Poland
Waldemar Pawlak age 16
Prime Minister - Poland