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Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Shanghai 1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Belchite (1937) 1937-08-24 - 1937-09-07
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Battle of Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Battle of Teruel 1937-12-15 - 1938-02-22
Battle of Cape Palos (1938) 1938-03-05 - 1938-03-06
Aragon Offensive 1938-03-07 - 1938-04-19
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Battle of Wuhan 1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro 1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Catalonia Offensive 1938-12-23 - 1939-02-10
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 1939-08-23
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Battle of Singapore 1942-02-08 - 1942-02-15
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 Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Allied invasion of Italy 1943-09-03 - 1943-09-16
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Hailstone 1944-02-17 - 1944-02-18
Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03
Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive 1944-08-20 - 1944-08-29
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Peleliu 1944-09-15 - 1944-11-27
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
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
Battle of Debrecen 1944-10-06 - 1944-10-29
Battle of Leyte 1944-10-17 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-10-23 - 1944-10-26
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Vistula–Oder offensive 1945-01-12 - 1945-02-02
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04
Vienna offensive 1945-03-16 - 1945-04-15
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy 1945-04-06 - 1945-05-02
Operation Ten-Go 1945-04-07 - 1945-04-07
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Prague offensive 1945-05-06 - 1945-05-11
Charter of the United Nations 1945-06-26
Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
Shangdang Campaign 1945-09-10 - 1945-10-12
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
Second Battle of Siping 1946-04-17 - 1946-05-19
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Direct Action Day 1946-08-16
Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Yan'an 1947-03-13 - 1947-03-19
Menglianggu Campaign 1947-05-13 - 1947-05-16
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Battle of Badgam 1947-11-03 - 1947-11-03
Battle of Shalateng 1947-11-07 - 1947-11-07
UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
Israeli Declaration of Independence 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 the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Operation Pleshet 1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Operation Hiram 1948-10-29 - 1948-10-31
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-12-10
Operation Horev 1948-12-22 - 1949-01-07
Operation Uvda 1949-03-05 - 1949-03-10
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
Battle of Guningtou 1949-10-25 - 1949-10-27
Battle of Dengbu Island 1949-11-03 - 1949-11-05
Chengdu Campaign 1949-12-11 - 1949-12-27
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
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
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
Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Philippeville massacre 1955-08-20 - 1955-08-25
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
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08
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
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
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
Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961-08-13
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
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
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
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
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23
Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31
Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06
Operation Grand Slam 1965-09-01 - 1965-09-06
Battle of Phillora 1965-09-07 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Asal Uttar 1965-09-08 - 1965-09-10
Battle of Burki 1965-09-10 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Chawinda 1965-09-14 - 1965-09-19
Battle of Ia Drang 1965-11-14 - 1965-11-18
1966 Syrian coup d'état 1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Battle of Long Tan 1966-08-18 - 1966-08-18
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05
Battle of Ammunition Hill 1967-06-06 - 1967-06-06
Battle of Tel Faher 1967-06-09 - 1967-06-09
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
Battle of Dak To 1967-11-03 - 1967-11-23
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02
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
Battle of Hamburger Hill 1969-05-10 - 1969-05-20
Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
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
Battle of Garibpur 1971-11-20 - 1971-11-21
Battle of Hilli 1971-11-22 - 1971-12-18
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17
Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18
Third Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-21 - 1973-10-22
Battle of Xuân Lộc 1975-04-09 - 1975-04-21
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
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
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
Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Invasion of South Georgia 1982-04-03 - 1982-04-03
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Operation Paraquet 1982-04-25 - 1982-04-25
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02
Battle of San Carlos (1982) 1982-05-21 - 1982-05-25
Battle of Goose Green 1982-05-28 - 1982-05-29
Bluff Cove air attacks 1982-06-08 - 1982-06-08
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03
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
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
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
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
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18
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
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
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
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
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Ten-Day War 1991-06-27 - 1991-07-07
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
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
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
1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993-02-26
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
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
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
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
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
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
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
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
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
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
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
First COVID-19 vaccines approved 2020-12-02
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People

Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
President - United States
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
President - United States
Adolf Hitler age 48
Führer - Germany
Vladimir Putin born 1952-10-07
President - Russia
Ronald Reagan age 26
President - United States
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
President - United States
Joseph Stalin age 58
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 11
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 20
President - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 55
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 43
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
President - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 46
President - France
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
President - France
Fidel Castro age 10
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 6
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jimmy Carter age 12
President - United States
Emmanuel Macron born 1977-12-21
President - France
Harry S. Truman age 53
President - United States
George H. W. Bush age 13
President - United States
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
President - France
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 46
President - United States
Richard Nixon age 24
President - United States
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Naruhito born 1960-02-23
Emperor - Japan
Charles III born 1948-11-14
King - United Kingdom
Lyndon B. Johnson age 28
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 24
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 3 months
President - Iraq
Nikita Khrushchev age 43
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Dmitry Medvedev born 1965-09-14
President - Russia
Boris Yeltsin age 6
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei born 1939-04-19
President - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 4
President - France
Hirohito age 36
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 47
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Bashar al-Assad born 1965-09-11
President - Syria
Jair Bolsonaro born 1955-03-21
President - Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945-10-27
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956-10-28
President - Iran
Georges Pompidou age 26
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 30
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 49
President - Republic of China
Hosni Mubarak age 9
President - Egypt
Dilma Rousseff born 1947-12-14
President - Brazil
François Mitterrand age 20
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 34
Supreme Leader - Iran
Akihito age 3
Emperor - Japan
Josip Broz Tito age 45
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 19
President - Egypt
Anwar Sadat age 18
President - Egypt
Hassan Rouhani born 1948-11-12
President - Iran
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
President - People's Republic of China
George VI age 41
King - United Kingdom
Mohamed Morsi born 1951-08-08
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 45
Emperor - Ethiopia
Yuri Andropov age 23
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Frank-Walter Steinmeier born 1956-01-05
President - Germany
Mohammad Khatami born 1943-10-14
President - Iran
Tsai Ing-wen born 1956-08-31
President - Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 6
President - Cuba
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 17
Shah - Iran
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi born 1954-11-19
President - Egypt
Konstantin Chernenko age 25
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Jiang Zemin age 10
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Ebrahim Raisi born 1960-12-14
President - Iran
Joachim Gauck born 1940-01-24
President - Germany
Philippe Pétain age 81
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Erich Honecker age 24
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 6
President - Syria
Horst Köhler born 1943-02-22
President - Germany
Philippe of Belgium born 1960-04-15
King - Belgium
Christian Wulff born 1959-06-19
President - Germany
Masoud Pezeshkian born 1954-09-29
President - Iran
Karl Dönitz age 45
Reich President - Germany
Fulgencio Batista age 36
President - Cuba
Richard von Weizsäcker age 17
President - Germany
Miguel Díaz-Canel born 1960-04-20
President - Cuba
Reza Shah age 59
Shah - Iran
Albert II of Belgium age 3
King - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 2
President - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 55
President - Brazil
Michel Temer born 1940-09-23
President - Brazil
Johannes Rau age 6
President - Germany
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 67
King - Italy
Walter Ulbricht age 44
First Secretary - East Germany
Trương Tấn Sang born 1949-01-21
President - Vietnam
Victor Chernomyrdin born 1938-04-09
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 3
President - Germany
Umberto II of Italy age 32
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 35
King - Belgium
Theodor Heuss age 53
President - Germany
Walter Scheel age 18
President - Germany
Jalal Talabani age 3
President - Iraq
Vicente Fox born 1942-07-02
President - Mexico
Trần Đại Quang born 1956-10-12
President - Vietnam
Juscelino Kubitschek age 34
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 6
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 16
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Ma Ying-jeou born 1950-07-13
President - Republic of China
Lai Ching-te born 1959-10-06
President - Republic of China
Gustav Heinemann age 38
President - Germany
Abolhassan Banisadr age 4
President - Iran
Zhao Ziyang age 17
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Nguyễn Phú Trọng born 1944-04-14
President - Vietnam
Karl Carstens age 22
President - Germany
Vincent Auriol age 52
President - France
Itamar Franco age 7
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 6
President - Brazil
Farouk of Egypt age 17
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Heinrich Lübke age 42
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 38
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 4
President - Iran
Mohamed Naguib age 36
President - Egypt
René Coty age 55
President - France
Lázaro Cárdenas age 42
President - Mexico
Chen Shui-bian born 1950-10-12
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 14
President - Republic of China
João Goulart age 18
President - Brazil
Egon Krenz age 4 months
General Secretary - East Germany
Fernando Collor de Mello born 1949-08-12
President - Brazil
Jacobo Árbenz age 23
President - Guatemala
Barham Salih born 1960-09-12
President - Iraq
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc born 1954-07-20
President - Vietnam
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 13
King - Yugoslavia
Fuad Masum born 1938-01-01
President - Iraq
Chiang Ching-kuo age 27
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 23
President - Iraq
Nguyễn Minh Triết born 1942-10-08
President - Vietnam
Tô Lâm born 1957-07-10
President - Vietnam
José Sarney age 7
President - Brazil
Jimmy Morales born 1969-03-18
President - Guatemala
José López Portillo age 17
President - Mexico
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 39
President - Brazil
Alain Poher age 28
President - France
Adly Mansour born 1945-12-23
President - Egypt
Hu Yaobang age 21
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Abdul Salam Arif age 16
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 15
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 19
President - Brazil
Abdul Rahman Arif age 21
President - Iraq
Ernesto Geisel age 30
President - Brazil
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 40
President - Mexico
Otto Pérez Molina born 1950-12-01
President - Guatemala
Álvaro Colom born 1951-06-15
President - Guatemala
Wang Jingwei age 54
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 2 months
President - Vietnam
Lê Duẩn age 30
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Xiannian age 28
President - People's Republic of China
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 26
President - Mexico
Adolfo López Mateos age 27
President - Mexico
Georges Bidault age 37
President - France
Yang Shangkun age 30
President - People's Republic of China
Alejandro Giammattei born 1956-03-09
President - Guatemala
Bernardo Arévalo de León born 1958-10-07
President - Guatemala
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 36
President - Mexico
Jânio Quadros age 20
President - Brazil
Efraín Ríos Montt age 11
President - Guatemala
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 54
President - Brazil
Fuad II of Egypt born 1952-01-16
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Osvaldo Dorticós age 18
President - Cuba
Abdul Latif Rashid born 1944-08-10
President - Iraq
Võ Văn Thưởng born 1970-12-13
President - Vietnam
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 31
President - Brazil
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 46
President - Mexico
Café Filho age 38
President - Brazil
Óscar Berger born 1946-08-11
President - Guatemala
Artur da Costa e Silva age 37
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 30
President - Vietnam
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 27
President - Brazil
Dong Biwu age 51
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 48
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen born 1946-03-14
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 16
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 4
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Carlos Castillo Armas age 22
President - Guatemala
Li Tsung-jen age 48
President - Republic of China
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh born 1959-12-25
President - Vietnam
Nereu Ramos age 48
President - Brazil
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer born 1958-03-11
President - Iraq
Shukri al-Quwatli age 45
President - Syria
José Linhares age 51
President - Brazil
Carlos Luz age 43
President - Brazil
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 33
President - Iraq
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 5
President - Syria
Vo Chi Cong age 25
President - Vietnam
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 35
President - Cuba
Alfonso Portillo born 1951-09-24
President - Guatemala
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 1
President - Guatemala
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 24
President - Iraq
Nureddin al-Atassi age 8
President - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 31
President - Republic of China
Nguyen Huu Tho age 27
President - Vietnam
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân born 1970-01-08
President - Vietnam
Juan José Arévalo age 32
President - Guatemala
Jorge Ubico age 58
President - Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi age 61
President - Syria
Sufi Abu Taleb age 12
President - Egypt
Adib Shishakli age 28
President - Syria