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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
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
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-12-10
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China 1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of the Pusan Perimeter 1950-08-04 - 1950-09-18
Battle of Inchon 1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19
Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River 1950-11-25 - 1950-12-02
Battle of Chosin Reservoir 1950-11-27 - 1950-12-13
Treaty of Paris (1951) 1951-04-18
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Discovery of the structure of DNA 1953-04-25
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
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
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
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
Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24
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
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
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
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
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
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
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
Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03
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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18
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
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
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
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
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
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
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
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
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
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
2010 Haiti earthquake 2010-01-12
Arab Spring 2010-12-17 - 2012-12-31
Fukushima nuclear disaster 2011-03-11
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 2011-03-11
Syrian civil war 2011-03-15 - 2024-12-08
Occupy Wall Street 2011-09-17 - 2011-11-15
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
Charlie Hebdo shooting 2015-01-07
Obergefell v. Hodges 2015-06-26
Paris Agreement 2015-12-12
Brexit 2016-06-23 - 2020-01-31
Me Too movement 2017-10-15
COVID-19 pandemic 2019-12-01 - 2023-05-05
George Floyd protests 2020-05-26
First COVID-19 vaccines approved 2020-12-02
January 6 United States Capitol attack 2021-01-06
Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022-02-24
Release of ChatGPT 2022-11-30
October 7 attacks 2023-10-07
Gaza war 2023-10-07

People

Trần Đức Lương age 10
Võ Văn Thưởng born 1970-12-13
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh born 1959-12-25
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 4
Trương Tấn Sang born 1949-01-21
Le Duc Anh age 26
Trần Đại Quang born 1956-10-12
Nguyen Huu Tho age 36
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân born 1970-01-08
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 3
Vo Chi Cong age 34
Trường Chinh age 40
Kofi Annan age 9
Ban Ki-moon age 2
Pol Pot age 22
Dag Hammarskjöld age 41
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 24
Kurt Waldheim age 28
U Thant age 38
Trygve Lie age 50
António Guterres born 1949-04-30
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 27
Winston Churchill age 72
Angela Merkel born 1954-07-17
Margaret Thatcher age 21
Jawaharlal Nehru age 57
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Indira Gandhi age 29
Aung San Suu Kyi age 1
Shinzo Abe born 1954-09-21
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
David Cameron born 1966-10-09
Boris Johnson born 1964-06-19
Konrad Adenauer age 71
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
Rishi Sunak born 1980-05-12
Deng Xiaoping age 42
David Ben-Gurion age 60
Helmut Kohl age 17
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Olaf Scholz born 1958-06-14
Willy Brandt age 33
Gerhard Schröder age 3
Liz Truss born 1975-07-26
Ursula von der Leyen born 1958-10-08
Helmut Schmidt age 28
Yoshihide Suga born 1948-12-06
Clement Attlee age 64
John Major age 4
Zhou Enlai age 49
Anthony Eden age 49
Menachem Begin age 33
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
Harold Macmillan age 53
Fumio Kishida born 1957-07-29
Harold Wilson age 31
Naoto Kan age 7 months
James Callaghan age 35
Ludwig Erhard age 50
Junichiro Koizumi age 5
Tarō Asō age 6
Wen Jiabao age 4
François Fillon born 1954-03-04
Eisaku Satō age 46
Yukio Hatoyama age 3 months
Georgy Malenkov age 45
Edward Heath age 30
Yoshihiko Noda born 1957-05-20
Yasuo Fukuda age 10
Dominique de Villepin born 1953-11-14
Manuel Valls born 1962-08-13
Alec Douglas-Home age 43
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus born 1965-03-03
Jean Castex born 1965-06-25
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 28
Leo Varadkar born 1979-01-18
Jean-Marc Ayrault born 1950-01-25
Édouard Philippe born 1970-11-28
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 26
Lionel Jospin age 9
Élisabeth Borne born 1961-04-18
Thomas Bach born 1953-12-29
Gabriel Attal born 1989-03-16
Jacques Delors age 21
Alexei Kosygin age 43
Jacques Rogge age 5
Zhu Rongji age 18
Pierre Mauroy age 18
Laurent Fabius age 9 months
Édith Cresson age 13
Enda Kenny born 1951-04-24
Robert McNamara age 30
Yoshirō Mori age 9
Bernard Cazeneuve born 1963-06-02
P. W. Botha age 31
Paul-Henri Spaak age 48
Tomiichi Murayama age 23
Nikolai Bulganin age 51
Micheál Martin born 1960-08-16
Li Peng age 18
Alain Juppé age 1
Shigeru Yoshida age 68
Kakuei Tanaka age 29
Bertie Ahern born 1951-09-12
Javier Solana age 4
Nobusuke Kishi age 50
Toshiki Kaifu age 16
Kiichi Miyazawa age 27
Tsutomu Hata age 11
Jean-Pierre Raffarin born 1948-08-03
Édouard Balladur age 18
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 9
Brian Cowen born 1960-01-10
Michel Rocard age 16
Paul Wolfowitz age 3
Hayato Ikeda age 47
Noboru Takeshita age 23
Keizō Obuchi age 9
Jan Smuts age 77
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer born 1948-04-03
Ichirō Hatoyama age 64
Takeo Fukuda age 42
Morihiro Hosokawa age 9
Hendrik Verwoerd age 45
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 17
Raymond Barre age 23
Jim Yong Kim born 1959-12-08
Mostafa Madbouly born 1966-04-28
Zenkō Suzuki age 36
Masayoshi Ōhira age 37
Sōsuke Uno age 24
Pierre Mendès France age 40
Sherif Ismail born 1955-07-06
Takeo Miki age 40
Nikolai Tikhonov age 42
Tanzan Ishibashi age 62
Michel Debré age 35
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 32
Margaret Chan born 1947-08-22
Tetsu Katayama age 59
Hitoshi Ashida age 59
Pierre Messmer age 31
Avery Brundage age 59
Maurice Couve de Murville age 40
Pierre Bérégovoy age 21
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 1
Walter Hallstein age 45
Essam Sharaf born 1952-01-01
Ahmed Nazif born 1952-07-08
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 59
Roy Jenkins age 26
J. Sigfrid Edström age 76
Robert Zoellick born 1953-07-25
Souvanna Phouma age 45
Garret FitzGerald age 21
John Bruton born 1947-05-18
Ahmed Shafik age 5
Guy Mollet age 41
Liam Cosgrave age 27
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 27
Manfred Wörner age 12
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 32
Manuel Marrero Cruz born 1963-07-11
Charles Haughey age 21
Joseph Luns age 35
Hesham Qandil born 1962-09-17
Ibrahim Mahlab born 1949-04-12
J. G. Strijdom age 53
Jean Rey age 44
Ajay Banga born 1959-11-10
Hazem Al Beblawi age 10
Sicco Mansholt age 38
François-Xavier Ortoli age 22
Kamal Ganzouri age 14
John A. Costello age 55
Jack Lynch age 29
Willy Claes age 8
Albert Reynolds age 14
Lee Jong-wook age 2
Manlio Brosio age 49
Franco Maria Malfatti age 19
David Malpass born 1956-03-08
Masayoshi Ito age 33
Dirk Stikker age 50
James Wolfensohn age 13
Lien Chan age 10
Atef Ebeid age 15
Seán Lemass age 47
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 67
Brock Chisholm age 51
John J. McCloy age 52
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 48
Atef Sedki age 16
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 11
Ali Sabri age 26
Mustafa Khalil age 26
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 59
Kamal Hassan Ali age 14
Hiroshi Nakajima age 19
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 21