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Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
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
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
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
Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961-08-13
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
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
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
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
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23
Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31
Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06
Operation Grand Slam 1965-09-01 - 1965-09-06
Battle of Phillora 1965-09-07 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Asal Uttar 1965-09-08 - 1965-09-10
Battle of Burki 1965-09-10 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Chawinda 1965-09-14 - 1965-09-19
Battle of Ia Drang 1965-11-14 - 1965-11-18
1966 Syrian coup d'état 1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Battle of Long Tan 1966-08-18 - 1966-08-18
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05
Battle of Ammunition Hill 1967-06-06 - 1967-06-06
Battle of Tel Faher 1967-06-09 - 1967-06-09
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
Battle of Dak To 1967-11-03 - 1967-11-23
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Battle of Hamburger Hill 1969-05-10 - 1969-05-20
Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
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
Battle of Garibpur 1971-11-20 - 1971-11-21
Battle of Hilli 1971-11-22 - 1971-12-18
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17
Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18
Third Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-21 - 1973-10-22
Battle of Xuân Lộc 1975-04-09 - 1975-04-21
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
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
Chinese economic reform 1978-12-18
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
Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03
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
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
First Battle of al-Faw 1986-02-11 - 1986-03-10
Second Battle of Zhawar 1986-02-28 - 1986-04-19
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
Operation Karbala-5 1987-01-08 - 1987-02-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Battle of Jaji 1987-04-17 - 1987-06-13
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Release of Nelson Mandela 1990-02-11
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope 1990-04-24
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
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
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Srebrenica massacre 1995-07-11 - 1995-07-22
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10
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
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
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
2004 enlargement of the European Union 2004-05-01
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 2004-12-26
Hurricane Katrina 2005-08-23 - 2005-08-31
Launch of the iPhone 2007-01-09
2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30
2008 United States presidential election 2008-11-04
Launch of Bitcoin 2009-01-03

People

Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
President - United States
Vladimir Putin age 5
President - Russia
Ronald Reagan age 47
President - United States
George W. Bush age 12
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 32
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 41
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 64
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Bill Clinton age 12
President - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 67
President - France
Fidel Castro age 32
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 27
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter age 33
President - United States
George H. W. Bush age 34
President - United States
Nicolas Sarkozy age 3
President - France
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 67
President - United States
Richard Nixon age 45
President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 50
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 45
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 21
President - Iraq
Nikita Khrushchev age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Dmitry Medvedev born 1965-09-14
President - Russia
Boris Yeltsin age 27
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 19
President - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 25
President - France
Hirohito age 57
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Bashar al-Assad born 1965-09-11
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 12
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 1
President - Iran
Georges Pompidou age 47
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 51
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 70
President - Republic of China
Hosni Mubarak age 30
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 41
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 55
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 24
Emperor - Japan
Josip Broz Tito age 66
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 40
President - Egypt
Anwar Sadat age 39
President - Egypt
Hu Jintao age 15
President - People's Republic of China
Haile Selassie age 66
Emperor - Ethiopia
Yuri Andropov age 44
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mohammad Khatami age 14
President - Iran
Raúl Castro age 27
President - Cuba
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 38
Shah - Iran
Konstantin Chernenko age 46
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jiang Zemin age 32
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Erich Honecker age 46
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 27
President - Syria
Horst Köhler age 15
President - Germany
Fulgencio Batista age 57
President - Cuba
Richard von Weizsäcker age 38
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 24
Monarch - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 24
President - Iran
Johannes Rau age 27
President - Germany
Walter Ulbricht age 65
First Secretary - East Germany
Victor Chernomyrdin age 20
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 24
President - Germany
Theodor Heuss age 74
President - Germany
Walter Scheel age 39
President - Germany
Jalal Talabani age 24
President - Iraq
Vicente Fox age 16
President - Mexico
Juscelino Kubitschek age 56
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 27
Monarch - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 37
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Ma Ying-jeou age 8
President - Republic of China
Gustav Heinemann age 59
President - Germany
Abolhassan Banisadr age 25
President - Iran
Zhao Ziyang age 38
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Karl Carstens age 43
President - Germany
Itamar Franco age 28
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 27
President - Brazil
Heinrich Lübke age 63
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 59
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 25
President - Iran
René Coty age 76
President - France
Chen Shui-bian age 7
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 35
President - Republic of China
João Goulart age 39
President - Brazil
Egon Krenz age 21
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello age 9
President - Brazil
Chiang Ching-kuo age 48
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 44
President - Iraq
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 15
President - Vietnam
José Sarney age 28
President - Brazil
José López Portillo age 38
President - Mexico
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 60
President - Brazil
Alain Poher age 49
President - France
Hu Yaobang age 42
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Abdul Salam Arif age 37
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 36
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 40
President - Brazil
Abdul Rahman Arif age 42
President - Iraq
Ernesto Geisel age 51
President - Brazil
Álvaro Colom age 7
President - Guatemala
Trần Đức Lương age 21
President - Vietnam
Lê Duẩn age 51
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 49
President - People's Republic of China
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 47
President - Mexico
Adolfo López Mateos age 48
President - Mexico
Yang Shangkun age 51
President - People's Republic of China
Jânio Quadros age 41
President - Brazil
Efraín Ríos Montt age 32
President - Guatemala
Osvaldo Dorticós age 39
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 52
President - Brazil
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 67
President - Mexico
Óscar Berger age 12
President - Guatemala
Artur da Costa e Silva age 58
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 51
President - Vietnam
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 48
President - Brazil
Dong Biwu age 72
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 70
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 12
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 37
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 25
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 5 months
President - Iraq
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 54
President - Iraq
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 26
President - Syria
Vo Chi Cong age 46
President - Vietnam
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 56
President - Cuba
Alfonso Portillo age 6
President - Guatemala
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 45
President - Iraq
Nureddin al-Atassi age 29
President - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 52
President - Republic of China
Nguyen Huu Tho age 48
President - Vietnam
Sufi Abu Taleb age 33
President - Egypt
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 40
President - Guatemala
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 27
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 15
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 16
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 13
President - Guatemala
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 62
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 52
President - Syria
Luai al-Atassi age 32
President - Syria
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 42
President - Guatemala
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 50
President - Guatemala
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 63
Acting - Cuba
Ahmad al-Khatib age 25
President - Syria
Zakaria Mohieddin age 40
President - Egypt
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 11
President - Guatemala
Amin al-Hafez age 32
President - Syria
Izzat al-Nuss age 46
President - Syria
Kim Il-sung age 46
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Kim Jong-il age 17
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 32
President - France
Felipe Calderón born 1962-08-18
President - Mexico
Miguel de la Madrid age 23
President - Mexico
Ernesto Zedillo age 6
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 10
President - Mexico
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 44
President - Syria
Kofi Annan age 20
Secretary-General - United Nations
Ban Ki-moon age 14
Secretary-General - United Nations
Pol Pot age 33
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Dag Hammarskjöld age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 35
Secretary-General - United Nations
Kurt Waldheim age 39
Secretary-General - United Nations
U Thant age 49
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 38
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 4
Chancellor - Germany
Margaret Thatcher age 32
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 68
Prime Minister - India
Indira Gandhi age 40
Prime Minister - India
Benjamin Netanyahu age 8
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 21
Prime Minister - Italy
Shinzo Abe age 3
Prime Minister - Japan
Tony Blair age 5
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Konrad Adenauer age 82
Chancellor - Germany
Golda Meir age 60
Prime Minister - Israel
Deng Xiaoping age 54
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
David Ben-Gurion age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Kohl age 28
Chancellor - Germany
Gordon Brown age 7
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Shimon Peres age 35
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 44
Chancellor - Germany
Gerhard Schröder age 14
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 30
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 25
Prime Minister - India
Yitzhak Rabin age 36
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 39
Chancellor - Germany
Donald Tusk age 1
Prime Minister - Poland
Rajiv Gandhi age 14
Prime Minister - India
John Major age 15
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai age 60
Premier - People's Republic of China
Romano Prodi age 19
Prime Minister - Italy
Menachem Begin age 45
Prime Minister - Israel
Harold Macmillan age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 19
Director-General - World Health Organization
Harold Wilson age 42
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 61
Chancellor - Germany
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 35
Prime Minister - Poland
Junichiro Koizumi age 16
Prime Minister - Japan
Tarō Asō age 17
Prime Minister - Japan
Giulio Andreotti age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Wen Jiabao age 15
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ehud Olmert age 12
Prime Minister - Israel
Francesco Cossiga age 30
Prime Minister - Italy
François Fillon age 4
Prime Minister - France
Eisaku Satō age 57
Prime Minister - Japan