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Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
Armenian genocide 1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01
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
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 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
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
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
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
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
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
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
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
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
Fall of Saigon 1975-04-30 - 1975-04-30
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
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
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
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
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
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
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18

People

Hafez al-Assad born 1930-10-06
Lázaro Cárdenas age 21
Gerald Ford age 2
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
George VI age 20
Paul Deschanel age 61
Paul Doumer age 59
George V age 51
Georges Pompidou age 5
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
George H. W. Bush born 1924-06-12
Raymond Poincaré age 55
Albert Lebrun age 44
René Coty age 34
Calvin Coolidge age 44
Richard Nixon age 3
Carlos Castillo Armas age 1
François Mitterrand born 1916-10-26
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing born 1926-02-02
Charles I of Austria age 28
Chiang Ching-kuo age 6
Wilhelm II age 57
Ali Khamenei born 1939-04-19
Alexandre Millerand age 57
Liu Shaoqi age 17
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani born 1934-08-25
Adolf Hitler age 27
Abolhassan Banisadr born 1933-03-22
Mehmed VI age 55
Jacques Chirac born 1932-11-29
Jacobo Árbenz age 2
Mikhail Gorbachev born 1931-03-02
Hu Yaobang age 7 months
Mohammad-Ali Rajai born 1933-06-15
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
Anwar Sadat born 1918-12-25
Ho Chi Minh age 26
Leonid Brezhnev age 9
Jimmy Carter born 1924-10-01
Jiang Zemin born 1926-08-17
Harry S. Truman age 32
Nikita Khrushchev age 22
Bashar al-Assad born 1965-09-11
Lê Duẩn age 9
Dong Biwu age 30
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 25
Herbert Hoover age 41
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 34
Edward VIII age 22
Elizabeth II born 1926-04-21
Emperor Taishō age 36
Warren G. Harding age 50
Kim Il-sung age 4
Joseph Stalin age 37
Nicholas II of Russia age 48
Woodrow Wilson age 59
Hirohito age 15
Yang Shangkun age 8
Lyndon B. Johnson age 7
Yuri Andropov age 2
John F. Kennedy born 1917-05-29
Vladimir Putin born 1952-10-07
Zhao Ziyang born 1919-10-17
Vincent Auriol age 31
Tôn Đức Thắng age 27
Konstantin Chernenko age 4
Charles de Gaulle age 25
Boris Yeltsin born 1931-02-01
Ronald Reagan age 5
Gaston Doumergue age 52
Gamal Abdel Nasser born 1918-01-15
Kim Jong-il born 1941-02-16
Ruhollah Khomeini age 13
Saddam Hussein born 1937-04-28
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 19
Chiang Kai-shek age 28
Puyi age 10
Li Xiannian age 7
Hosni Mubarak born 1928-05-04
Fidel Castro born 1926-08-13
Mohammad Khatami born 1943-10-14
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 85
Mehmed V age 71
Lee Teng-hui born 1923-01-15
Pol Pot born 1925-05-19
David Ben-Gurion age 29
David Lloyd George age 53
Anthony Eden age 19
Edward Heath born 1916-07-09
Andrew Bonar Law age 57
John Major born 1943-03-29
Józef Piłsudski age 48
Mao Zedong age 22
Benito Mussolini age 32
Joseph Goebbels age 18
Kurt von Schleicher age 34
Vladimir Lenin age 46
Margaret Thatcher born 1925-10-13
Deng Xiaoping age 11
Souvanna Phouma age 14
H. H. Asquith age 63
Jawaharlal Nehru age 26
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
Clement Attlee age 33
Helmut Kohl born 1930-04-03
Helmut Schmidt born 1918-12-23
Georges Clemenceau age 74
Gerhard Schröder born 1944-04-07
Harold Macmillan age 22
Harold Wilson age 4 months
Hideki Tōjō age 31
Hua Guofeng born 1921-02-16
James Callaghan age 4
Alec Douglas-Home age 13
Ludwig Erhard age 19
Neville Chamberlain age 47
Li Peng born 1928-10-20
Sun Yun-suan age 2
Ramsay MacDonald age 49
Willy Brandt age 2
Winston Churchill age 41
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 12
Stanley Baldwin age 48
Konrad Adenauer age 40
Zhou Enlai age 18
Zhu Rongji born 1928-10-23
Fred M. Vinson age 26
Warren E. Burger age 8
William Howard Taft age 58
William Rehnquist born 1924-10-01
Harlan F. Stone age 43
Earl Warren age 25
Edward Douglass White age 70
Wang Zhen (general) age 8
Walter Mondale born 1928-01-05
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
Lien Chan born 1936-08-27
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
Henry A. Wallace age 27
Spiro Agnew born 1918-11-09
John Nance Garner age 47
Charles G. Dawes age 50
Charles Curtis age 56
Lee Yuan-tsu born 1923-09-24
Zhu De age 29
Alben W. Barkley age 38
Thomas R. Marshall age 62
Soong Ching-ling age 23
Hubert Humphrey age 5
Rong Yiren age 2 months
Omar Bradley age 23
Lawrence Eagleburger born 1930-08-01
Bainbridge Colby age 46
Ramsey Clark born 1927-12-18
Henry Kissinger born 1923-05-27
Francis Biddle age 30
Melvin Laird born 1922-09-01
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 12
A. Mitchell Palmer age 44
Douglas MacArthur age 36
Elliot Richardson born 1920-07-20
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 10
George Shultz born 1920-12-13
James F. Byrnes age 34
Henry L. Stimson age 48
William P. Rogers age 3
Nicholas Katzenbach born 1922-01-17
Alexander Haig born 1924-12-02
John N. Mitchell age 2
James R. Schlesinger born 1929-02-15
Robert H. Jackson age 24
Robert Lansing age 51
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 10
Dean Acheson age 23
Dean Rusk age 7
John Foster Dulles age 28
George C. Marshall age 35
Robert McNamara age 1 month
Edmund Muskie age 2
John Ashcroft born 1942-05-09
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 15
Condoleezza Rice born 1954-11-14
Colin Powell born 1937-04-05
Janet Reno born 1938-07-21
Warren Christopher born 1925-10-27
James Baker born 1930-04-28
Cyrus Vance born 1917-03-27
Clark Clifford age 9
Tom C. Clark age 16
John Connally born 1917-02-27
Robert A. Lovett age 20
Frank B. Kellogg age 59
Cordell Hull age 44
Charles Evans Hughes age 54
Madeleine Albright born 1937-05-15
Christian Herter age 21
William H. Webster born 1924-03-06
William S. Sessions born 1930-05-27
Robert Mueller born 1944-08-07
Clarence M. Kelley age 4
Louis Freeh born 1950-01-06
Thurgood Marshall age 8
Stephen Breyer born 1938-08-15
Sandra Day O'Connor born 1930-03-26
Potter Stewart age 1
Ruth Bader Ginsburg born 1933-03-15
William J. Brennan Jr. age 10
Zeng Qinghong born 1939-07-30
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 8
Anthony Kennedy born 1936-07-23
Abe Fortas age 6
Antonin Scalia born 1936-03-11
John Paul Stevens born 1920-04-20
Arthur Goldberg age 7
John Marshall Harlan II age 17
David Souter born 1939-09-17
Byron White born 1917-06-08
Daniel Inouye born 1924-09-07
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
Robert F. Kennedy born 1925-11-20
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
Hermann Göring age 23
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30
Nelson Rockefeller age 8
Archibald Cox age 4
Reinhard Heydrich age 12
Karl Dönitz age 24
Kamala Harris born 1964-10-20
Levi P. Morton age 92
Kurt Daluege age 18
Wilhelm Frick age 39
Martin Bormann age 16
John Lewis born 1940-02-21
Heinrich Himmler age 15
Theodore Roosevelt age 57
J. Edgar Hoover age 21
Rudolf Hess age 22
Sun Yat-sen age 49
George Wallace born 1919-08-25
Liz Cheney born 1966-07-28
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
Raymond A. Spruance age 30
John J. Pershing age 55
Frank Jack Fletcher age 31
Courtney Hodges age 29
George S. Patton age 30
Iwane Matsui age 37
Franz von Papen age 36
Yoshijirō Umezu age 34
Martin Luther King Jr. born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Ferdinand Foch age 64
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 12
Heitarō Kimura age 27
Raúl Castro born 1931-06-03
Alfred Rosenberg age 23
Akira Mutō age 23
Friedrich Jeckeln age 21
Matthias Erzberger age 40
Semyon Timoshenko age 21
Doihara Kenji age 32
Erich Raeder age 40
Seishirō Itagaki age 31
Hjalmar Schacht age 39
Naoki Hoshino age 24
Manuel Azaña age 36
William Jennings Bryan age 56
Thomas Gage age 198
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
Eva Braun age 4
Wilhelm Groener age 48
Isoroku Yamamoto age 32
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Emilio De Bono age 50
Chester W. Nimitz age 31
Hassan Rouhani born 1948-11-12
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956-10-28
Masoud Pezeshkian born 1954-09-29
William R. Day age 67
Erich Ludendorff age 51
Walther Funk age 25
Ebrahim Raisi born 1960-12-14
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
Francisco Franco age 23
Erich von Manstein age 28
Yasser Arafat born 1929-08-24
Wilhelm Keitel age 33
Ernst Röhm age 28
Kingorō Hashimoto age 26
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 48
Souphanouvong age 6
Miguel Díaz-Canel born 1960-04-20
Rodion Malinovsky age 17
Yuri Gagarin born 1934-03-09
He Yingqin age 26
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio born 1918-07-17
Kyösti Kallio age 43
Cai E age 33
Boris Johnson born 1964-06-19
Baldur von Schirach age 9
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 23
Leon Trotsky age 36
Antony Blinken born 1962-04-16
Angela Merkel born 1954-07-17
Andy Burnham born 1970-01-07
Alfred Jodl age 26
Albert Speer age 11
Albert Einstein age 37
Emmanuel Macron born 1977-12-21
Ahmed al-Sharaa born 1982-10-29
Marco Rubio born 1971-05-28
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi born 1954-11-19
James Comey born 1960-12-14
Merrick Garland born 1952-11-13
Mike Pompeo born 1963-12-30
John W. Foster age 80
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
Joseph Joffre age 64
Juan José Arévalo age 11
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 7 months
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 36
JD Vance born 1984-08-02
Julius Streicher age 31
Ellison Onizuka born 1946-06-24
Elihu Root age 71
Kash Patel born 1980-02-25
Keir Starmer born 1962-09-02
Kim Jong-un born 1982-01-08
Dmitry Medvedev born 1965-09-14
Kliment Voroshilov age 35
David Cameron born 1966-10-09
Kōki Hirota age 38
Claus von Stauffenberg age 8
Charles W. Fairbanks age 64
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Christopher Wray born 1966-12-17
Eric Holder born 1951-01-21
Philander C. Knox age 63
Rex Tillerson born 1952-03-23
Richard Olney age 80
Friedrich Merz born 1955-11-11
Robert Bacon age 56
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 8
Rishi Sunak born 1980-05-12
Malcolm X born 1925-05-19
Liz Truss born 1975-07-26
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Gennady Yanayev born 1937-08-26
Rosa Parks age 3
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Fritz Todt age 24
Tim Berners-Lee born 1955-06-08
Mahatma Gandhi age 46
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Mohamed Morsi born 1951-08-08
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Hubert Gough age 45
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Neil Armstrong born 1930-08-05
Nelson Mandela born 1918-07-18
Jo Ann Robinson age 4
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
Nikola Tesla age 60
Olaf Scholz born 1958-06-14
Hans Fritzsche age 16
Hans Frank age 16
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Otto Hofmann age 20
Gerd von Rundstedt age 40
Otto Rasch age 24
Ōyama Iwao age 73
Pam Bondi born 1965-11-17
Paul von Hindenburg age 68
Peng Dehuai age 17
Fritz Sauckel age 21