✦ History

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Events

Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
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
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
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
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
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30

People

Vladimir Putin age 42
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 48
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 68
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 48
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 68
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 57
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 63
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 55
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 62
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 29
President - Syria
Hosni Mubarak age 66
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 78
President - France
Akihito age 61
Emperor - Japan
Mohammad Khatami age 51
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 64
President - Syria
Albert II of Belgium age 60
Monarch - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 60
President - Iran
Johannes Rau age 64
President - Germany
Victor Chernomyrdin age 56
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 60
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 52
President - Mexico
Itamar Franco age 64
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 63
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 44
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 72
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 57
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 48
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 74
President - Vietnam
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 62
President - Syria
Alfonso Portillo age 43
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 53
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 53
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Ernesto Zedillo age 43
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 72
Secretary-General - United Nations
Benjamin Netanyahu age 45
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 41
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 64
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Gerhard Schröder age 50
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 66
Prime Minister - Israel
Yitzhak Rabin age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
John Major age 51
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Romano Prodi age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 55
Director-General - World Health Organization
Junichiro Koizumi age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Ehud Barak age 52
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 74
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 57
Prime Minister - France
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 73
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 69
President - European Commission
Jacques Rogge age 52
President - International Olympic Committee
Massimo D'Alema age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 66
Premier - People's Republic of China
Yoshirō Mori age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Tomiichi Murayama age 70
Prime Minister - Japan
Li Peng age 66
Premier - People's Republic of China
Lamberto Dini age 63
Prime Minister - Italy
Alain Juppé age 49
Prime Minister - France
Jerzy Buzek age 54
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 43
Taoiseach - Ireland
Inder Kumar Gujral age 75
Prime Minister - India
Javier Solana age 52
Secretary General - NATO
Bounnhang Vorachit age 57
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 46
Prime Minister - France
Édouard Balladur age 65
Prime Minister - France
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Keizō Obuchi age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 57
President - European Commission
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 48
Secretary General - NATO
Khamtai Siphandone age 70
Prime Minister - Laos
John Bruton age 47
Taoiseach - Ireland
Leszek Miller age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Phan Văn Khải age 61
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Oleksy age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Waldemar Pawlak age 35
Prime Minister - Poland
Kamal Ganzouri age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Willy Claes age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Vo Van Kiet age 72
Prime Minister - Vietnam
James Wolfensohn age 61
President - World Bank
Lien Chan age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Ebeid age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hong Song-nam age 65
Premier - North Korea
Atef Sedki age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 66
Prime Minister - Laos
Chang Chun-hsiung age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Shyi-kun age 46
Premier - Republic of China
Hiroshi Nakajima age 66
Director-General - World Health Organization
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 54
Prime Minister - Syria
Vincent Siew age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Tang Fei age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 60
Prime Minister - Syria
Lewis Thompson Preston age 68
President - World Bank
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 70
Prime Minister - India
H. D. Deve Gowda age 61
Prime Minister - India
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
William Rehnquist age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 46
Vice President - United States
Hu Jintao age 52
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Dick Cheney age 53
Vice President - United States
Rong Yiren age 78
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 71
Vice President - Republic of China
Wen Jiabao age 52
Vice Premier Of The People's Republic Of China - People's Republic of China
John Shalikashvili age 58
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Richard Myers age 52
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Hugh Shelton age 53
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 57
Secretary Of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 62
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 57
Secretary Of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 69
Secretary Of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 52
Attorney General - United States
Janet Reno age 56
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 43
Attorney General - United States
Larry Summers age 40
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Michael Howard age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William J. Perry age 67
Secretary Of Defense - United States
William Cohen age 54
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Kenneth Clarke age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 47
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Shinseki age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Rubin age 56
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Gordon R. Sullivan age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dennis Reimer age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 50
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 45
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 76
President - African National Congress
Thabo Mbeki age 52
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 61
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 46
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 74
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 33
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Iain Duncan Smith age 40
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 46
President - Sinn Féin
Joe Biden age 52
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 47
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 51
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 70
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 35
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 54
House of Representatives - United States
John Paul II age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 40
President - Venezuela
Lech Wałęsa age 51
President - Poland
Alexander Lukashenka age 40
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 58
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 67
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 70
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 57
Monarch - Spain
Suharto age 73
President - Indonesia
Pervez Musharraf age 51
President - Pakistan
Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev age 54
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 32
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 54
Monarch - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 57
Monarch - Norway
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa age 57
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 53
President - Serbia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 31
King - Morocco
Martti Ahtisaari age 57
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 48
Monarch - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 63
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 56
King - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 66
President - Georgia
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 47
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 51
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 56
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 37
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 51
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 71
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 72
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 71
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 54
Sultan - Oman
Mobutu Sese Seko age 64
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Emomali Rahmon age 42
President - Tajikistan
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 54
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 50
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 56
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 70
President - Turkey
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 47
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 58
President - Tunisia
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 47
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 56
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 52
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 42
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 23
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 26
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 61
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 59
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 52
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 58
President - Indonesia
Mary Robinson age 50
President - Ireland
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 74
President - Italy