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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
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
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
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
Fukushima nuclear disaster 2011-03-11

People

Hafez al-Assad age 11
Nikita Khrushchev age 47
Charles de Gaulle age 51
Boris Yeltsin age 10
Chiang Kai-shek age 54
Lyndon B. Johnson age 33
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
Jacques Chirac age 9
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 51
Harry S. Truman age 57
Joseph Stalin age 63
Winston Churchill age 67
Lee Teng-hui age 19
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 60
Tôn Đức Thắng age 53
Gerald Ford age 28
Hirohito age 40
Mikhail Gorbachev age 10
Clement Attlee age 59
Anthony Eden age 44
John F. Kennedy age 24
Adolf Hitler age 52
Zhao Ziyang age 22
Hu Yaobang age 26
Fidel Castro age 15
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 24
Leonid Brezhnev age 35
Pol Pot age 16
Richard Nixon age 29
Ho Chi Minh age 51
Konstantin Chernenko age 30
Lê Duẩn age 34
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
George H. W. Bush age 17
David Cameron born 1966-10-09
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
John Major born 1943-03-29
Carlos Castillo Armas age 27
Ronald Reagan age 30
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
Souvanna Phouma age 40
Jiang Zemin age 15
Margaret Thatcher age 16
Jimmy Carter age 17
Saddam Hussein age 4
Jacobo Árbenz age 28
Chiang Ching-kuo age 31
Sun Yun-suan age 28
Liu Shaoqi age 43
Lee Yuan-tsu age 18
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Lien Chan age 5
Walter Mondale age 14
Hua Guofeng age 20
Elizabeth II age 15
Dong Biwu age 55
Yang Shangkun age 34
Li Xiannian age 32
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
Deng Xiaoping age 37
Kim Jong-il age 11 months
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
George VI age 46
Ruhollah Khomeini age 39
Joseph Goebbels age 44
Mao Zedong age 48
Konrad Adenauer age 66
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
Spiro Agnew age 23
Hubert Humphrey age 30
Alben W. Barkley age 64
Henry A. Wallace age 53
Kim Il-sung age 29
Zhou Enlai age 43
Daniel Inouye age 17
Li Peng age 13
Zhu Rongji age 13
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Robert F. Kennedy age 16
Dick Cheney age 11 months
Hermann Göring age 49
William Rehnquist age 17
Warren E. Burger age 34
Earl Warren age 50
Fred M. Vinson age 52
Robert McNamara age 25
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 35
George C. Marshall age 61
Harlan F. Stone age 69
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
Clark Clifford age 35
Melvin Laird age 19
James R. Schlesinger age 12
Colin Powell age 4
Rong Yiren age 25
Ramsey Clark age 14
Nicholas Katzenbach age 20
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 36
Warren Christopher age 16
Lawrence Eagleburger age 11
James Baker age 11
John Connally age 24
John Foster Dulles age 53
Robert A. Lovett age 46
Wang Zhen (general) age 33
Zhu De age 55
Soong Ching-ling age 49
George Shultz age 21
Condoleezza Rice born 1954-11-14
Clarence M. Kelley age 30
William H. Webster age 17
David Lloyd George age 79
Omar Bradley age 48
Zeng Qinghong age 2
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
John Marshall Harlan II age 42
William J. Brennan Jr. age 35
Arthur Goldberg age 33
Abe Fortas age 31
Potter Stewart age 27
Thurgood Marshall age 33
Byron White age 24
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 8
Stephen Breyer age 3
John Paul Stevens age 21
David Souter age 2
Anthony Kennedy age 5
Antonin Scalia age 5
Sandra Day O'Connor age 11
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 34
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
Nelson Rockefeller age 33
John Lewis age 1
Herbert Hoover age 67
George Wallace age 22
Martin Bormann age 41
Reinhard Heydrich age 37
Henry Kissinger age 18
Rudolf Hess age 47
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
Karl Dönitz age 50
Kamala Harris born 1964-10-20
Wilhelm Frick age 64
Courtney Hodges age 55
Liz Cheney born 1966-07-28
Heinrich Himmler age 41
Raymond A. Spruance age 55
Archibald Cox age 29
J. Edgar Hoover age 47
George S. Patton age 56
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Douglas MacArthur age 62
Kurt Daluege age 44
Yoshijirō Umezu age 60
Frank Jack Fletcher age 56
Martin Luther King Jr. age 13
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hubert Gough age 71
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 38
Heitarō Kimura age 53
Naoki Hoshino age 49
Kōki Hirota age 63
Doihara Kenji age 58
Friedrich Jeckeln age 46
Kliment Voroshilov age 60
Rodion Malinovsky age 43
Semyon Timoshenko age 46
He Yingqin age 51
Akira Mutō age 49
Souphanouvong age 32
Wilhelm Keitel age 59
Walther Funk age 51
Hans Fritzsche age 41
Franz von Papen age 62
Erich Raeder age 65
Alfred Rosenberg age 49
Fritz Sauckel age 47
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 49
Baldur von Schirach age 34
Hjalmar Schacht age 65
Kingorō Hashimoto age 51
Claus von Stauffenberg age 34
Seishirō Itagaki age 57
Rosa Parks age 28
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 74
Hideki Tōjō age 57
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Ellison Onizuka born 1946-06-24
Edward VIII age 47
Yasser Arafat age 12
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Albert Einstein age 62
Mahatma Gandhi age 72
Nelson Mandela age 23
Kim Jong-un born 1982-01-08
Nikola Tesla age 85
Tim Berners-Lee born 1955-06-08
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Jo Ann Robinson age 29
Malcolm X age 16
Thomas Gage age 224
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo age 37
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 33
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 26
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
Boris Johnson born 1964-06-19
Liz Truss born 1975-07-26
Rishi Sunak born 1980-05-12
Keir Starmer born 1962-09-02
Gennady Yanayev age 4
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Benito Mussolini age 58
Francisco Franco age 49
Iwane Matsui age 63
Chester W. Nimitz age 56
Isoroku Yamamoto age 57
Eva Braun age 29
Hans Frank age 41
Otto Rasch age 50
Fritz Todt age 50
Otto Hofmann age 45
Alfred Jodl age 51
Julius Streicher age 56
Yuri Andropov age 27
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Albert Speer age 36
Emilio De Bono age 75
Charles Evans Hughes age 79
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai age 43
John Nance Garner age 73
Charles G. Dawes age 76
Erich von Manstein age 54
Gerd von Rundstedt age 66
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 62
John J. Pershing age 81
Puyi age 35
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 23