✦ History

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Events

Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
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 Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
Battle of Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
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

Vladimir Putin age 45
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 52
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 72
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 51
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 72
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 61
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 67
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 59
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 65
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 32
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 52
President - Brazil
Hosni Mubarak age 70
President - Egypt
Akihito age 64
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 55
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 54
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 72
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 67
President - Syria
Albert II of Belgium age 64
King - Belgium
Johannes Rau age 67
President - Germany
Roman Herzog age 64
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 56
President - Mexico
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 67
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 47
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 75
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 61
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 52
President - Guatemala
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 66
President - Syria
Alfonso Portillo age 46
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 57
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Ernesto Zedillo age 46
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 60
Secretary-General - United Nations
Benjamin Netanyahu age 48
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 45
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 68
Chancellor - Germany
Gerhard Schröder age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Romano Prodi age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 59
Director-General - World Health Organization
Junichiro Koizumi age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 55
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ehud Barak age 56
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 78
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 61
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 56
President - International Olympic Committee
Massimo D'Alema age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 69
Premier - People's Republic of China
Yoshirō Mori age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Jerzy Buzek age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 46
Taoiseach - Ireland
Javier Solana age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Bounnhang Vorachit age 61
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 50
Prime Minister - France
Keizō Obuchi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 61
President - European Commission
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 52
Secretary General - NATO
Leszek Miller age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Phan Văn Khải age 64
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Kamal Ganzouri age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
James Wolfensohn age 64
President - World Bank
Atef Ebeid age 66
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hong Song-nam age 68
Premier - North Korea
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 70
Prime Minister - Laos
Chang Chun-hsiung age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Shyi-kun age 50
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 57
Prime Minister - Syria
Vincent Siew age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Tang Fei age 66
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 63
Prime Minister - Syria
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 73
Prime Minister - India
William Rehnquist age 73
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 50
Vice President - United States
Dick Cheney age 57
Vice President - United States
Lien Chan age 61
Vice President - Republic of China
Zeng Qinghong age 59
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Richard Myers age 56
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Hugh Shelton age 56
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 61
Secretary Of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 66
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 61
Secretary Of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 56
Attorney General - United States
Janet Reno age 60
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 47
Attorney General - United States
Larry Summers age 43
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Cohen age 57
Secretary Of Defense - United States
David Blunkett age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 59
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Eric Shinseki age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Rubin age 59
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Dennis Reimer age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 54
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 48
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 56
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 65
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 50
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 60
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 78
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 68
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 37
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Iain Duncan Smith age 44
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 49
President - Sinn Féin
Joe Biden age 55
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 50
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 54
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 73
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 39
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Nelson Mandela age 80
President - South Africa
John Paul II age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 44
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 43
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 61
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 70
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 74
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 60
King - Spain
Pervez Musharraf age 55
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 58
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 36
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 58
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 61
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 61
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 56
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 34
King - Morocco
Martti Ahtisaari age 61
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 52
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 66
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 60
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 70
President - Georgia
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 51
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 54
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 60
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 40
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 54
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 75
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 75
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 74
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 57
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 45
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 58
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 53
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 60
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 73
President - Turkey
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 51
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 61
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 57
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 51
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 60
President - Peru
Roh Moo-hyun age 51
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 55
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 48
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 46
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 27
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 30
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 65
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 62
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 56
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 62
President - Indonesia
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 77
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 48
Emir - Bahrain
Abdurrahman Wahid age 57
President - Indonesia
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 54
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 43
President - Poland
Alija Izetbegović age 73
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 43
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Hassan II age 69
King - Morocco
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 56
President - Turkey
Carlos Menem age 68
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 43
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 53
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 63
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 35
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 52
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 43
President - Montenegro
Milo Đukanović age 36
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 68
President - Romania
Mohammed Omar age 38
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 61
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 33
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 55
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 47
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 47
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 79
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 71
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 53
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 41
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 66
President - Kenya
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 58
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Kufuor age 59
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 48
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 57
President - Slovakia
K. R. Narayanan age 77
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 73
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 75
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 46
Emir - Qatar