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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
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
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
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
Fukushima nuclear disaster 2011-03-11

People

Chiang Kai-shek age 52
Charles de Gaulle age 49
Boris Yeltsin age 9
Lyndon B. Johnson age 31
Margaret Thatcher age 14
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
Jacques Chirac age 7
Jiang Zemin age 13
Chiang Ching-kuo age 29
Souvanna Phouma age 38
Hafez al-Assad age 9
Harry S. Truman age 55
Joseph Stalin age 61
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 58
Tôn Đức Thắng age 51
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 49
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 22
Hirohito age 38
Mikhail Gorbachev age 8
Winston Churchill age 65
Lee Teng-hui age 17
Gerald Ford age 26
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
John F. Kennedy age 22
Clement Attlee age 57
Anthony Eden age 42
Adolf Hitler age 50
Leonid Brezhnev age 33
Pol Pot age 14
Fidel Castro age 13
Konstantin Chernenko age 28
Richard Nixon age 27
Ho Chi Minh age 49
Lê Duẩn age 32
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
David Cameron born 1966-10-09
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
John Major born 1943-03-29
Saddam Hussein age 2
Carlos Castillo Armas age 25
Jimmy Carter age 15
Hu Yaobang age 24
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
Jacobo Árbenz age 26
Neville Chamberlain age 70
George H. W. Bush age 15
Zhao Ziyang age 20
Ronald Reagan age 29
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Nikita Khrushchev age 45
Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
Yang Shangkun age 32
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
Alben W. Barkley age 62
Hubert Humphrey age 28
Spiro Agnew age 21
Sun Yun-suan age 26
Lee Yuan-tsu age 16
Lien Chan age 3
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
Li Xiannian age 30
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
Liu Shaoqi age 41
Henry A. Wallace age 51
Dong Biwu age 54
Hua Guofeng age 19
John Nance Garner age 71
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Joseph Goebbels age 42
Konrad Adenauer age 64
Kim Jong-il born 1941-02-16
George VI age 44
Deng Xiaoping age 35
Mao Zedong age 46
Elizabeth II age 13
Walter Mondale age 12
Ruhollah Khomeini age 37
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
Kim Il-sung age 27
Robert F. Kennedy age 14
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Zhu Rongji age 11
Daniel Inouye age 15
Li Peng age 11
Kamala Harris born 1964-10-20
Zhou Enlai age 41
Hermann Göring age 47
Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30
George Shultz age 19
Charles Evans Hughes age 77
Harlan F. Stone age 67
Robert McNamara age 23
Fred M. Vinson age 50
Earl Warren age 48
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 33
George C. Marshall age 59
Warren E. Burger age 32
William Rehnquist age 15
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
Colin Powell age 2
Condoleezza Rice born 1954-11-14
Ramsey Clark age 12
Nicholas Katzenbach age 18
Warren Christopher age 14
Lawrence Eagleburger age 9
James Baker age 9
John Connally age 22
Clark Clifford age 33
Melvin Laird age 17
Rong Yiren age 23
Wang Zhen (general) age 31
Zhu De age 53
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 34
John Foster Dulles age 52
Robert A. Lovett age 44
James R. Schlesinger age 11
Soong Ching-ling age 47
Omar Bradley age 47
David Lloyd George age 77
Clarence M. Kelley age 28
William H. Webster age 15
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
Zeng Qinghong age 6 months
Abe Fortas age 29
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 6
Stephen Breyer age 1
John Paul Stevens age 19
David Souter age 5 months
Anthony Kennedy age 3
Antonin Scalia age 3
Sandra Day O'Connor age 9
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 32
Arthur Goldberg age 31
Potter Stewart age 25
William J. Brennan Jr. age 33
John Marshall Harlan II age 40
Thurgood Marshall age 31
Byron White age 22
Nelson Rockefeller age 31
Heinrich Himmler age 39
Herbert Hoover age 65
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Liz Cheney born 1966-07-28
Wilhelm Frick age 62
Yoshijirō Umezu age 58
Karl Dönitz age 48
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
George Wallace age 20
John Lewis born 1940-02-21
George S. Patton age 54
Courtney Hodges age 53
Raymond A. Spruance age 53
Frank Jack Fletcher age 54
Douglas MacArthur age 60
Rudolf Hess age 45
Kurt Daluege age 42
Reinhard Heydrich age 35
Martin Bormann age 39
Archibald Cox age 27
J. Edgar Hoover age 45
Henry Kissinger age 16
Martin Luther King Jr. age 11
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hubert Gough age 69
Naoki Hoshino age 47
Kōki Hirota age 62
Doihara Kenji age 56
Akira Mutō age 47
He Yingqin age 49
Rodion Malinovsky age 41
Heitarō Kimura age 51
Semyon Timoshenko age 45
Kliment Voroshilov age 59
Kingorō Hashimoto age 50
Friedrich Jeckeln age 45
Seishirō Itagaki age 55
Franz von Papen age 60
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 72
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 36
Wilhelm Keitel age 57
Kyösti Kallio age 66
Hjalmar Schacht age 63
Walther Funk age 49
Rosa Parks age 27
Hideki Tōjō age 55
Baldur von Schirach age 32
Hans Fritzsche age 39
Claus von Stauffenberg age 32
Erich Raeder age 63
Alfred Rosenberg age 47
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 47
Fritz Sauckel age 45
Puyi age 34
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Ellison Onizuka born 1946-06-24
Edward VIII age 45
Yasser Arafat age 10
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Albert Einstein age 60
Mahatma Gandhi age 70
Nelson Mandela age 21
Kim Jong-un born 1982-01-08
Nikola Tesla age 83
Tim Berners-Lee born 1955-06-08
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Jo Ann Robinson age 27
Malcolm X age 14
Thomas Gage age 222
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Juan José Arévalo age 35
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 31
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 24
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 2
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Souphanouvong age 30
Benito Mussolini age 56
Francisco Franco age 47
Iwane Matsui age 61
Manuel Azaña age 60
Chester W. Nimitz age 55
Isoroku Yamamoto age 55
Eva Braun age 28
Hans Frank age 39
Otto Rasch age 48
Fritz Todt age 48
Otto Hofmann age 43
Alfred Jodl age 49
Julius Streicher age 55
Yuri Andropov age 25
Albert Speer age 34
Emilio De Bono age 73
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
Peng Dehuai age 41
Leon Trotsky age 60
Charles G. Dawes age 74
Wilhelm II age 81
Erich von Manstein age 52
Gerd von Rundstedt age 64
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 60
John J. Pershing age 79
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 21