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Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
First Battle of the Marne 1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12
First Battle of Ypres 1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22
Armenian genocide 1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01
Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
National Protection War 1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Battle of Verdun 1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
Battle of the Somme 1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Second Battle of the Marne 1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Meuse–Argonne offensive 1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11
German Revolution 1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11
Polish–Ukrainian War 1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18
Armistice of 11 November 1918 1918-11-11
Battle of Saint-Mihiel 1918-11-12 - 1918-09-15
Biennio Rosso 1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31
Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30
Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives 1934-07-02 - 1934-07-05
Nuremberg Laws enacted 1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936-03-07
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-11-24 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Korean Armistice Agreement 1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état 1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état 1954-02-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état 1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War 1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement 1963-01-01 - 1966-01-01
1963 Syrian coup d'état 1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963-06-11
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-11-22
Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964 1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01
Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06
1966 Syrian coup d'état 1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
1967 Plainfield riots 1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16
1967 Detroit riot 1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28
Orangeburg massacre 1968-02-08
Mỹ Lai massacre 1968-03-16
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968-04-04
Fair Housing Act 1968-04-11
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Corrective Movement (Syria) 1970-11-13
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16
Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-10-29
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30

People

Nicholas II of Russia age 44
Tôn Đức Thắng age 23
Hirohito age 11
Anthony Eden age 14
Clement Attlee age 29
Mehmed VI age 51
Mehmed V age 67
William Howard Taft age 54
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 30
Jacques Chirac born 1932-11-29
Joseph Stalin age 33
Gerald Ford born 1913-07-14
Harry S. Truman age 28
Lee Teng-hui born 1923-01-15
Boris Yeltsin born 1931-02-01
Charles de Gaulle age 21
Winston Churchill age 37
Lyndon B. Johnson age 3
Puyi age 6
Chiang Ching-kuo age 2
Gamal Abdel Nasser born 1918-01-15
Adolf Hitler age 23
David Lloyd George age 49
H. H. Asquith age 59
John F. Kennedy born 1917-05-29
Georges Clemenceau age 70
Raymond Poincaré age 51
Charles I of Austria age 24
Wilhelm II age 53
Mikhail Gorbachev born 1931-03-02
Leonid Brezhnev age 5
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 81
Fidel Castro born 1926-08-13
Hu Yaobang born 1915-11-20
Zhao Ziyang born 1919-10-17
Ho Chi Minh age 22
Calvin Coolidge age 39
Richard Nixon born 1913-01-09
Konstantin Chernenko age 7 months
Pol Pot born 1925-05-19
Woodrow Wilson age 55
Emperor Taishō age 32
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
George H. W. Bush born 1924-06-12
Lê Duẩn age 5
Ronald Reagan age 1
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
John Major born 1943-03-29
Carlos Castillo Armas born 1914-11-04
Neville Chamberlain age 43
Margaret Thatcher born 1925-10-13
Herbert Hoover age 37
Saddam Hussein born 1937-04-28
Jiang Zemin born 1926-08-17
Souvanna Phouma age 10
Hafez al-Assad born 1930-10-06
Jimmy Carter born 1924-10-01
Nikita Khrushchev age 18
Emperor Meiji age 59
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 21
Chiang Kai-shek age 24
Jacobo Árbenz born 1913-09-14
Warren G. Harding age 46
Deng Xiaoping age 7
Liu Shaoqi age 13
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
Thomas R. Marshall age 58
James S. Sherman age 56
Elizabeth II born 1926-04-21
Mao Zedong age 18
George VI age 16
Kurt von Schleicher age 30
Ruhollah Khomeini age 9
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
Joseph Goebbels age 14
Spiro Agnew born 1918-11-09
Hubert Humphrey age 11 months
Alben W. Barkley age 34
Henry A. Wallace age 23
John Nance Garner age 43
Charles Curtis age 52
Charles G. Dawes age 46
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
Li Xiannian age 2
Yang Shangkun age 4
Dong Biwu age 26
Hua Guofeng born 1921-02-16
Kim Il-sung age 1 month
George V age 46
Sun Yun-suan born 1913-11-10
Lee Yuan-tsu born 1923-09-24
Lien Chan born 1936-08-27
Edward VIII age 17
Kim Jong-il born 1941-02-16
Konrad Adenauer age 36
Walter Mondale born 1928-01-05
Józef Piłsudski age 44
Robert F. Kennedy born 1925-11-20
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Zhu Rongji born 1928-10-23
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
Zhou Enlai age 14
Li Peng born 1928-10-20
Daniel Inouye born 1924-09-07
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30
Hermann Göring age 19
George Shultz born 1920-12-13
Colin Powell born 1937-04-05
John Foster Dulles age 24
George C. Marshall age 31
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 6
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 6
Robert McNamara born 1916-06-09
James R. Schlesinger born 1929-02-15
Melvin Laird born 1922-09-01
Edward Douglass White age 66
Clark Clifford age 5
William Rehnquist born 1924-10-01
Warren E. Burger age 4
Earl Warren age 21
Fred M. Vinson age 22
Charles Evans Hughes age 50
Harlan F. Stone age 39
Lawrence Eagleburger born 1930-08-01
James Baker born 1930-04-28
Warren Christopher born 1925-10-27
Nicholas Katzenbach born 1922-01-17
Ramsey Clark born 1927-12-18
Rong Yiren born 1916-05-01
Wang Zhen (general) age 4
Zhu De age 25
John Connally born 1917-02-27
Soong Ching-ling age 19
Omar Bradley age 19
Douglas MacArthur age 32
William H. Webster born 1924-03-06
Clarence M. Kelley age 6 months
Vladimir Lenin age 42
Zeng Qinghong born 1939-07-30
Abe Fortas age 1
Arthur Goldberg age 3
Potter Stewart born 1915-01-23
William J. Brennan Jr. age 6
John Marshall Harlan II age 13
Byron White born 1917-06-08
Ruth Bader Ginsburg born 1933-03-15
Thurgood Marshall age 3
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 4
Sandra Day O'Connor born 1930-03-26
Stephen Breyer born 1938-08-15
John Paul Stevens born 1920-04-20
David Souter born 1939-09-17
Antonin Scalia born 1936-03-11
Anthony Kennedy born 1936-07-23
Nelson Rockefeller age 3
Reinhard Heydrich age 8
Heinrich Himmler age 11
Martin Bormann age 11
Karl Dönitz age 20
Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
Condoleezza Rice born 1954-11-14
Wilhelm Frick age 35
Yoshijirō Umezu age 30
John Lewis born 1940-02-21
George Wallace born 1919-08-25
Rudolf Hess age 18
Robert A. Lovett age 16
Henry Kissinger born 1923-05-27
Frank Jack Fletcher age 27
Raymond A. Spruance age 25
Courtney Hodges age 25
Archibald Cox born 1912-05-17
J. Edgar Hoover age 17
Sun Yat-sen age 45
George S. Patton age 26
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Kurt Daluege age 14
Kamala Harris born 1964-10-20
John J. Pershing age 51
Liz Cheney born 1966-07-28
Levi P. Morton age 88
Iwane Matsui age 33
Franz von Papen age 32
Theodore Roosevelt age 53
Martin Luther King Jr. born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Kōki Hirota age 34
Souphanouvong age 2
Naoki Hoshino age 20
Paul von Hindenburg age 64
Benito Mussolini age 28
Kliment Voroshilov age 31
Hubert Gough age 41
Semyon Timoshenko age 17
He Yingqin age 22
Akira Mutō age 19
Doihara Kenji age 28
Yuan Shikai age 52
Hideki Tōjō age 27
Rosa Parks born 1913-02-04
Rodion Malinovsky age 13
Heitarō Kimura age 23
Seishirō Itagaki age 27
Claus von Stauffenberg age 4
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 44
Kyösti Kallio age 39
Hjalmar Schacht age 35
Baldur von Schirach age 5
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 19
Fritz Sauckel age 17
Alfred Rosenberg age 19
Erich Raeder age 36
Hans Fritzsche age 12
Kingorō Hashimoto age 22
Walther Funk age 21
Wilhelm Keitel age 29
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 8
Friedrich Jeckeln age 17
Malcolm X born 1925-05-19
Jo Ann Robinson age 1 month
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Tim Berners-Lee born 1955-06-08
Nikola Tesla age 55
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
Kim Jong-un born 1982-01-08
Nelson Mandela born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi age 42
Albert Einstein age 33
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Yasser Arafat born 1929-08-24
Joseph Gallieni age 63
Ellison Onizuka born 1946-06-24
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio born 1918-07-17
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Gennady Yanayev born 1937-08-26
Keir Starmer born 1962-09-02
Rishi Sunak born 1980-05-12
Liz Truss born 1975-07-26
Boris Johnson born 1964-06-19
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
David Cameron born 1966-10-09
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Julio César Méndez Montenegro born 1915-11-23
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 3
Juan José Arévalo age 7
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 74
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage age 194
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Albert Speer age 7
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Yuri Andropov born 1914-06-15
Julius Streicher age 27
Alfred Jodl age 22
Otto Hofmann age 16
Fritz Todt age 20
Otto Rasch age 20
Hans Frank age 11
Eva Braun age 3 months
Ernst Röhm age 24
Isoroku Yamamoto age 28
Chester W. Nimitz age 27
Manuel Azaña age 32
Francisco Franco age 19
Wilhelm Groener age 44
Charles W. Fairbanks age 60
Matthias Erzberger age 36
Ferdinand Foch age 60
Joseph Chamberlain age 75
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 32
Gerd von Rundstedt age 36
Erich von Manstein age 24
Ōyama Iwao age 69
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 48
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
Cai E age 29
Leon Trotsky age 32
Peng Dehuai age 13
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
Joseph Joffre age 60
Emilio De Bono age 46
Erich Ludendorff age 47