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Events

Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05
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 Karbala (2003) 2003-03-23 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Nasiriyah 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-29
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
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
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
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
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
2010 Haiti earthquake 2010-01-12
Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2010-04-20 - 2010-09-19
Arab Spring 2010-12-17 - 2012-12-31
2011 South Sudanese independence referendum 2011-01-09 - 2011-01-15
Libyan civil war (2011) 2011-02-15 - 2011-10-23
Fukushima nuclear disaster 2011-03-11
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 2011-03-11
Syrian civil war 2011-03-15 - 2024-12-08
Killing of Osama bin Laden 2011-05-02
Occupy Wall Street 2011-09-17 - 2011-11-15
Mali War 2012-01-16
Discovery of the Higgs boson 2012-07-04
Euromaidan 2013-11-21 - 2014-02-22
Western African Ebola epidemic 2013-12-26 - 2016-06-09
Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-02-20
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation 2014-02-20 - 2014-03-26
Fall of Mosul 2014-06-04 - 2014-06-10
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 2014-07-17
2014 Scottish independence referendum 2014-09-18
2015 European migrant crisis 2015
Charlie Hebdo shooting 2015-01-07
April 2015 Nepal earthquake 2015-04-25
Obergefell v. Hodges 2015-06-26
Paris Agreement 2015-12-12
Panama Papers 2016-04-03
Brexit 2016-06-23 - 2020-01-31
2016 United States presidential election 2016-11-08
Colombian peace agreement 2016-11-24
2017 Catalan independence referendum 2017-10-01
Me Too movement 2017-10-15
2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit 2018-06-12
Prespa agreement 2018-06-17
2019–2020 Hong Kong protests 2019-03-15 - 2020-06-30
Notre-Dame de Paris fire 2019-04-15
COVID-19 pandemic 2019-12-01 - 2023-05-05
George Floyd protests 2020-05-26
2020 Beirut explosion 2020-08-04

People

Richard Myers age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Hillary Clinton age 55
Secretary Of State - United States
Rishi Sunak age 22
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Condoleezza Rice age 48
Secretary Of State - United States
John Kerry age 59
Secretary Of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 70
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 65
Secretary Of State - United States
Mike Pompeo age 39
Secretary Of State - United States
Rex Tillerson age 50
Secretary Of State - United States
Robert Gates age 59
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Jim Mattis age 52
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Jeff Sessions age 56
Attorney General - United States
Priti Patel age 30
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 64
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Philip Hammond age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 31
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Ash Carter age 48
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Sajid Javid age 33
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Chuck Hagel age 56
Secretary Of Defense - United States
John Ashcroft age 60
Attorney General - United States
Steven Mnuchin age 40
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Amber Rudd age 39
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Mark Esper age 38
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Eric Holder age 52
Attorney General - United States
Henry Paulson age 56
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Timothy Geithner age 41
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Barr age 52
Attorney General - United States
William J. Burns age 46
Secretary Of State - United States
Alberto Gonzales age 47
Attorney General - United States
Loretta Lynch age 43
Attorney General - United States
Jacqui Smith age 40
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Jack Lew age 47
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
David Blunkett age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 63
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Eric Shinseki age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Alan Johnson age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John J. Sullivan age 43
Secretary Of State - United States
Michael Mukasey age 61
Attorney General - United States
Sally Yates age 42
Attorney General - United States
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Raymond T. Odierno age 48
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Thomas A. Shannon Jr. age 45
Secretary Of State - United States
Matthew Whitaker age 33
Attorney General - United States
Charles Clarke age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Peter Schoomaker age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
James C. McConville age 43
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dana Boente age 49
Attorney General - United States
Paul Clement age 36
Attorney General - United States
Adam Szubin age 31
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Neal S. Wolin age 41
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Mark Filip age 36
Attorney General - United States
Peter Keisler age 42
Attorney General - United States
Robert Mueller age 58
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
James Comey age 42
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Christopher Wray age 36
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Keir Starmer age 40
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Liz Truss age 27
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Thabo Mbeki age 60
President - African National Congress
Jacob Zuma age 60
President - African National Congress
Cyril Ramaphosa age 50
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Howard age 61
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
John Paul Stevens age 82
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lien Chan age 66
Chairman - Kuomintang
Sandra Day O'Connor age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Iain Duncan Smith age 48
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Harriet Harman age 52
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Ed Miliband age 33
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Jeremy Corbyn age 53
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wu Po-hsiung age 63
Chairman - Kuomintang
Eric Chu age 41
Chairman - Kuomintang
Hung Hsiu-chu age 54
Chairman - Kuomintang
Johnny Chiang age 31
Chairman - Kuomintang
Gerry Adams age 54
President - Sinn Féin
Mary Lou McDonald age 33
President - Sinn Féin
Kamala Harris age 38
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 78
Senate - United States
John Lewis age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Pope Francis age 66
Pope - Vatican City
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 25
President - Ukraine
John Paul II age 82
Pope - Vatican City
Benedict XVI age 75
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 48
President - Venezuela
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 49
President - Turkey
Rafael Correa age 39
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 48
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 75
King - Thailand
Nicolás Maduro age 40
President - Venezuela
Robert Mugabe age 79
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 41
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 64
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 79
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 65
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 43
President - Bolivia
Joko Widodo age 41
President - Indonesia
Petro Poroshenko age 37
President - Ukraine
Mikheil Saakashvili age 35
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 50
President - Argentina
Michelle Bachelet age 51
President - Chile
Felipe VI of Spain age 35
King - Spain
Viktor Yanukovych age 52
President - Ukraine
Sergio Mattarella age 61
President - Italy
Pervez Musharraf age 59
President - Pakistan
Abdullah Gül age 52
President - Turkey
Lech Kaczyński age 53
President - Poland
Giorgio Napolitano age 77
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 62
President - Kazakhstan
Rodrigo Duterte age 57
President - Philippines
Abdullah II of Jordan age 41
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 62
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 45
President - Afghanistan
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 35
King - Netherlands
José Mujica age 67
President - Uruguay
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 78
King - Saudi Arabia
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 34
President - Croatia
Andrzej Duda age 30
President - Poland
Harald V of Norway age 66
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 49
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 66
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 39
King - Morocco
Park Geun-hye age 51
President - South Korea
Zuzana Čaputová age 29
President - Slovakia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
Moon Jae-in age 50
President - South Korea
Juan Manuel Santos age 51
President - Colombia
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 67
King - Saudi Arabia
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 71
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 65
Queen - Netherlands
Sauli Niinistö age 54
President - Finland
Eduard Shevardnadze age 75
President - Georgia
Serzh Sargsyan age 48
President - Armenia
Pranab Mukherjee age 67
President - India
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 56
President - Indonesia
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 45
President - Uzbekistan
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 23
King - Bhutan
Kersti Kaljulaid age 33
President - Estonia
Muhammadu Buhari age 60
President - Nigeria
Sebastián Piñera age 53
President - Chile
Tarja Halonen age 59
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 57
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 65
President - Uzbekistan
George Weah age 36
President - Liberia
Paul Kagame age 45
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 59
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 68
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 53
President - Indonesia
Heydar Aliyev age 79
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 80
King - Cambodia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 62
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 47
President - Pakistan
Ashraf Ghani age 53
President - Afghanistan
Alexander Van der Bellen age 59
President - Austria
Miloš Zeman age 58
President - Czech Republic
Salome Zourabichvili age 50
President - Georgia
Emomali Rahmon age 50
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 45
President - Turkmenistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 63
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 58
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 64
President - Ukraine
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 49
President - Kazakhstan
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 44
Prince - Monaco
Klaus Iohannis age 43
President - Romania
Aleksandar Vučić age 33
President - Serbia
Bronisław Komorowski age 50
President - Poland
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 55
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 49
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 66
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 61
President - Czech Republic
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 47
President - Lithuania
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 55
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 64
President - Austria
Michael D. Higgins age 61
President - Ireland
Roh Moo-hyun age 56
President - South Korea
Ram Nath Kovind age 57
President - India
José Eduardo dos Santos age 60
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 53
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 50
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 31
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 34
King - Eswatini
Sahle-Work Zewde age 53
President - Ethiopia
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 41
President - Nepal
Mauricio Macri age 44
President - Argentina
Traian Băsescu age 51
President - Romania
Rumen Radev age 39
President - Bulgaria
Paul Biya age 70
President - Cameroon
Nayib Bukele age 21
President - El Salvador
Borut Pahor age 39
President - Slovenia
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 54
President - United Arab Emirates
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 57
President - Algeria
Teodoro Obiang age 60
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 82
President - Italy
Alberto Fernández age 43
President - Argentina
Hamad II of Bahrain age 53
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 44
President - Gabon