✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
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
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
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
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
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
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
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
2002 Bali bombings 2002-10-12
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 2003-02-01
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
Battle of Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
Battle of Karbala (2003) 2003-03-23 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Nasiriyah 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-29
Battle of Najaf (2003) 2003-03-24 - 2003-04-04
Operation Northern Delay 2003-03-26 - 2003-03-26
Battle of Baghdad (2003) 2003-04-03 - 2003-04-12

People

David Souter age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 29
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Iain Duncan Smith age 36
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Neil Kinnock age 48
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Smith age 52
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Margaret Beckett age 47
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 72
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 42
President - Sinn Féin
Joe Biden age 47
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 42
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 46
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 66
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 31
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 50
House of Representatives - United States
John Paul II age 70
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 36
President - Venezuela
Lech Wałęsa age 47
President - Poland
Alexander Lukashenko age 36
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 54
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 62
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 66
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 52
King - Spain
Suharto age 69
President - Indonesia
Pervez Musharraf age 47
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 50
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 28
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 50
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 57
President - Philippines
Harald V of Norway age 53
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 53
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 49
President - Serbia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 27
King - Morocco
Martti Ahtisaari age 53
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 44
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 59
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 52
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 62
President - Georgia
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 43
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 46
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 52
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 32
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 46
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 67
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 67
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 66
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 49
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 54
State President - South Africa
Kurt Waldheim age 71
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 60
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Emomali Rahmon age 38
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 50
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 46
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 52
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 65
President - Turkey
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 67
President - Poland
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 43
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 54
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 49
President - Czech Republic
Francesco Cossiga age 62
President - Italy
Leonid Kravchuk age 56
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 43
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 52
President - Peru
Roh Moo-hyun age 44
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 48
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 38
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 63
President - Turkey
Joseph Kabila age 19
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 22
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 57
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 54
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 48
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 54
President - Indonesia
Mary Robinson age 46
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 100
President - Malawi
Hamad II of Bahrain age 40
Emir - Bahrain
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 60
President - Iceland
Abdurrahman Wahid age 50
President - Indonesia
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 46
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 35
President - Poland
Alija Izetbegović age 65
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 51
President - Georgia
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 35
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Hassan II age 61
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 66
President - Zambia
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 49
President - Turkey
Carlos Menem age 60
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 36
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 45
President - Ivory Coast
Sali Berisha age 45
President - Albania
Stjepan Mesić age 55
President - Croatia
Michel Aoun age 57
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 27
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 44
President - Eritrea
Meles Zenawi age 35
President - Ethiopia
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 53
President - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 36
President - Montenegro
Milo Đukanović age 28
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 60
President - Romania
Kim Young-sam age 62
President - South Korea
Mohammed Omar age 30
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 53
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 87
King - Norway
Yahya Jammeh age 25
President - The Gambia
Fidel Ramos age 62
President - Philippines
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 47
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 39
President - Ireland
Mauno Koivisto age 66
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 39
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 72
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 63
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 45
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 33
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 58
President - Kenya
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 50
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Kufuor age 51
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 40
President - Slovenia
Mohammad Najibullah age 43
President - Afghanistan
Ivan Gašparovič age 49
President - Slovakia
K. R. Narayanan age 69
President - India
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 85
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 66
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 67
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 65
President - Portugal
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 38
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 57
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 42
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 62
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 44
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 45
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 41
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 44
President - Timor-Leste
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 50
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 34
King - Bhutan
Ivo Sanader age 37
President - Croatia
Violeta Chamorro age 60
President - Nicaragua
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 38
President - Colombia
R. Venkataraman age 79
President - India
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 52
President - Latvia
Siad Barre age 71
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 50
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 61
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 47
President - Nigeria
Juvénal Habyarimana age 53
President - Rwanda
Abdoulaye Wade age 64
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 72
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 57
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 43
President - Ghana
Tassos Papadopoulos age 56
President - Cyprus
João Bernardo Vieira age 51
President - Guinea-Bissau
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 72
President - India
Chaim Herzog age 72
President - Israel
Askar Akayev age 45
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 58
President - Lithuania
Roh Tae-woo age 57
President - South Korea
Ramiz Alia age 64
President - Albania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 45
President - Armenia
Festus Mogae age 51
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 61
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 42
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 52
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 54
President - Togo
Joseph Estrada age 53
President - Philippines
Alfred Moisiu age 60
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 43
President - Central African Republic
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 83
President - Greece
Than Shwe age 57
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 65
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 55
President - Guinea
René Préval age 47
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 49
President - Moldova
Kiro Gligorov age 73
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 51
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 49
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 52
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 64
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 55
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 49
President - Slovenia
Levy Mwanawasa age 42
President - Zambia
Abulfaz Elchibey age 52
President - Azerbaijan
Zhelyu Zhelev age 55
President - Bulgaria
Hissène Habré age 48
President - Chad
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 37
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 59
President - Hungary
Árpád Göncz age 68
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 47
President - Zambia
Alejandro Toledo age 45
President - Peru
Iajuddin Ahmed age 59
President - Bangladesh
Ezer Weizman age 66
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 54
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 40
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 51
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 46
President - Albania
Ayaz Mutallibov age 52
President - Azerbaijan
Quett Masire age 65
President - Botswana
Leonel Fernández age 36
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 69
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Mamadou Tandja age 52
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 66
President - Singapore