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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26

Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20

Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29

Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01

Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29

South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21

Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23

The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13

Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06

Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04

Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04

Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16

Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000

Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20

1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985

Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18

Operation Blue Star 1984-06-01 - 1984-06-10

Kurdish–Turkish conflict 1984-08-15

Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984-10-31

Bhopal disaster 1984-12-02 - 1984-12-03

Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20

Live Aid 1985-07-13

Iran–Contra affair 1985-08-20 - 1987-03-04

Plaza Accord 1985-09-22

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

Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08

Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12

Lord's Resistance Army insurgency 1987

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

Black Monday (1987) 1987-10-19

Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987-12-08

First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13

Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08

First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12

Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18

1988 Chilean presidential referendum 1988-10-05

Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20

Spitak earthquake 1988-12-07

Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21

Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06

Exxon Valdez oil spill 1989-03-24

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04

Baltic Way 1989-08-23

Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09

Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29

Romanian Revolution 1989-12-16 - 1989-12-27

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

Somali Civil War 1991-01-26

Battle of Khafji 1991-01-29 - 1991-02-01

Liberation of Kuwait campaign 1991-02-24 - 1991-02-28

Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26

Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27

Battle of Medina Ridge 1991-02-27 - 1991-02-27

Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12

Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12

Ten-Day War 1991-06-27 - 1991-07-07

1991 Soviet coup attempt 1991-08-19 - 1991-08-21

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

Djiboutian Civil War 1991-11-01 - 1994-12-26

Belovezha Accords 1991-12-08

Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08

Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07

Transnistria War 1992-03-02 - 1992-07-21

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

Zapatista uprising 1994-01-01 - 1994-01-12

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

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 1995-11-04

Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21

Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05

First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16

1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11

Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29

Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01

1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998

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

Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998-05-06 - 2000-06-18

Guinea-Bissau Civil War 1998-06-07 - 1999-05-10

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

Columbine High School massacre 1999-04-20

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

East Timorese independence referendum 1999-08-30

Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08

Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15

War on terror 2001-09-11

September 11 attacks 2001-09-11

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30

First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04

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 Nasiriyah 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-29

Battle of Karbala (2003) 2003-03-23 - 2003-04-06

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

Rose Revolution 2003-11-03 - 2003-11-23

Launch of Facebook 2004-02-04

2004 Madrid train bombings 2004-03-11

First Battle of Fallujah 2004-04-04 - 2004-05-01

2004 enlargement of the European Union 2004-05-01

Battle of Najaf (2004) 2004-08-05 - 2004-08-27

Beslan school siege 2004-09-01 - 2004-09-03

Second Battle of Fallujah 2004-11-07 - 2004-12-23

Orange Revolution 2004-11-22 - 2005-01-23

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 2004-12-26

Tulip Revolution 2005-03-22 - 2005-04-11

Andijan massacre 2005-05-13

7 July 2005 London bombings 2005-07-07

Hurricane Katrina 2005-08-23 - 2005-08-31

Battle of Ramadi (2006) 2006-06-17 - 2006-11-15

Launch of the iPhone 2007-01-09

2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30

Treaty of Lisbon 2007-12-13

Cyclone Nargis 2008-05-02

2008 Sichuan earthquake 2008-05-12

Russo-Georgian War 2008-08-07 - 2008-08-16

2008 Summer Olympics 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-24

2008 United States presidential election 2008-11-04

2008 Mumbai attacks 2008-11-26 - 2008-11-29

2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10

Eurozone crisis 2009

Launch of Bitcoin 2009-01-03

2009 Iranian presidential election protests 2009-06-13 - 2010-02-11

Boko Haram insurgency 2009-07-26

2010 Haiti earthquake 2010-01-12

Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2010-04-20 - 2010-09-19

Tunisian revolution 2010-12-17 - 2011-01-14

Arab Spring 2010-12-17 - 2012-12

People

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 70

Barham Salih age 23

Karim Massimov age 18

Albin Kurti age 9

Robert Abela age 6

Nnamdi Azikiwe age 79

Nataša Pirc Musar age 15

Simonetta Sommaruga age 23

Moncef Marzouki age 38

Kais Saied age 26

Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 29

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 28

Jean Casimir-Perier age 136

Ingrid Alexandra, Crown Princess of Norway born 2004-01-21

Ian Smith age 65

Bajram Begaj age 17

Mulatu Teshome age 27

Xiomara Castro age 24

Fuad Masum age 46

Tony Tan Keng Yam age 44

Kakuei Tanaka age 65

Sébastien Lecornu born 1986-06-11

Tariq Aziz age 47

Bob Geldof age 32

Babrak Karmal age 55

Iliana Iotova age 19

Tamás Sulyok age 28

Abdulla Yameen age 24

Jakov Milatović born 1986-12-07

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 31

Bill English age 22

Zoran Zaev age 9

Alenka Bratušek age 14

Volodymyr Hroisman age 6

Luis Lacalle Pou age 10

Hakainde Hichilema age 21

Jim Mattis age 33

Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland age 1

Ali Asadov age 27

Raman Halowchanka age 10

Andris Bērziņš age 39

Hilda Heine age 33

Nobusuke Kishi age 87

David Petraeus age 31

Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 39

Igor Girkin age 13

Infanta Sofía of Spain born 2007-04-29

Queen Mary of Denmark age 12

Greg Abbott age 26

Malcolm Fraser age 53

José Maria Neves age 24

Taavi Rõivas age 4

Irakli Kobakhidze age 5

Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 11

Fayez al-Sarraj age 24

Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 15

Mohamed Bazoum age 24

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 30

Viorica Dăncilă age 20

Chan Santokhi age 25

Tô Lâm age 26

Michael Sata age 46

Martín Vizcarra age 21

Diosdado Macapagal age 73

Stanislav Shushkevich age 49

Empress Masako age 20

Christian Kern age 18

Kristen Michal age 8

Juha Sipilä age 22

Jimmy Morales age 15

Haider Al-Abadi age 31

Catherine Connolly age 28

Emilio Colombo age 64

Inga Ruginienė age 2

Joseph Muscat age 10

José López Portillo age 63

Milovan Đilas age 72

Pedro Passos Coelho age 19

Viola Amherd age 21

Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 34

Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 15

Alain Poher age 75

Kemi Badenoch age 4

Empress Michiko age 49

Prince Henrik of Denmark age 49

Mohammad Hasan Akhund born 2000-01-01

Nicos Christodoulides age 10

Adly Mansour age 38

Georgios Papadopoulos age 64

Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 9

Laimdota Straujuma age 33

Joseph Aoun age 20

Min Aung Hlaing age 27

Ivica Dačić age 18

Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 27

Lawrence Wong age 11

Francisco Guterres age 29

Olexii Honcharuk born 1984-07-07

Juan Carlos Varela age 20

Hwang Kyo-ahn age 26

Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland age 4

Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 10

Mohammad Shahabuddin age 34

Luis Guillermo Solís age 25

Danilo Medina age 32

Hailemariam Desalegn age 18

Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 16

Isaac Navon age 63

Dries van Agt age 53

Thongloun Sisoulith age 38

Krišjānis Kariņš age 19

Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 25

Lazarus Chakwera age 29

Luis Echeverría age 62

Natalia Gavrilița age 6

Ne Win age 72

Ram Chandra Poudel age 39

Luís Montenegro age 11

Ueli Maurer age 33

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 23

Takeo Fukuda age 79

Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 91

Reynaldo Bignone age 56

David Dacko age 54

Catherine Samba-Panza age 29

Bohuslav Sobotka age 12

Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 39

Antti Rinne age 21

Abdul Rahman Arif age 68

George William Vella age 41

Win Myint age 32

Baron Waqa age 24

Igor Matovič age 10

Didier Burkhalter age 23

Taur Matan Ruak age 27

Fouad Mebazaa age 50

Raymond Barre age 60

Mohamed Bouazizi born 1984-03-29

Ernesto Geisel age 76

Simon Harris born 1986-10-17

Jim Yong Kim age 24

Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 49

Tarana Burke age 10

Ingrid of Sweden age 74

Princess Beatrice born 1988-08-08

Lon Nol age 70

Mostafa Madbouly age 17

Otto Pérez Molina age 33

Joseph Michel Martelly age 23

Halla Tómasdóttir age 15

Mariano Rumor age 68

Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 88

Assimi Goïta age 4 months

Myriam Spiteri Debono age 31

Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 21

Zdravko Krivokapić age 25

Dritan Abazović born 1985-12-25

Bassirou Diomaye Faye age 4

Miro Cerar age 20

Alain Berset age 11

Srettha Thavisin age 22

Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 75

Choi Kyu-hah age 64

Željka Cvijanović age 17

Zenkō Suzuki age 73

Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 18

Princess Caroline of Monaco age 27

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 19

Timothy McVeigh age 15

Liz Cheney age 17

George Wallace age 64

Alexander Haig age 59

Xavier Espot Zamora age 4

Évariste Ndayishimiye age 15

Konstantinos Tasoulas age 24

Irfaan Ali age 3

Giovanni Spadolini age 58

Arnaldo Forlani age 58

Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 43

Mohamed Muizzu age 5

Aziz Akhannouch age 22

Einar Gerhardsen age 86

Eduard Heger age 7

Tage Erlander age 82

Abdulla Aripov age 22

Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 57

Ri Sol-ju born 1985-01-01

Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark born 2005-10-15

Michael Gove age 16

Mahamat Déby born 1984-04-04

Sherif Ismail age 28

Ephraim Katzir age 67

Asqar Mamin age 18

Algirdas Butkevičius age 25

Muhyiddin Yassin age 36

Milojko Spajić born 1987-09-24

U Nu age 76

Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 54

Dacian Cioloș age 14

Julius Maada Bio age 19

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