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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
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
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
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
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 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
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
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
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
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
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
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
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
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
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
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
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
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
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
Fukushima nuclear disaster 2011-03-11

People

Hu Yaobang age 23
Lázaro Cárdenas age 43
Lê Duẩn age 32
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
Leonid Brezhnev age 32
Ho Chi Minh age 48
Jimmy Carter age 14
Jiang Zemin age 12
Liu Shaoqi age 40
Harry S. Truman age 54
Hafez al-Assad age 8
Mikhail Gorbachev age 8
Mohamed Morsi born 1951-08-08
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 5
Gerald Ford age 25
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
George VI age 43
Georges Pompidou age 27
George H. W. Bush age 14
Albert Lebrun age 67
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
Nikita Khrushchev age 45
François Mitterrand age 22
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 13
Elizabeth II age 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 48
Dong Biwu age 53
Dmitry Medvedev born 1965-09-14
Kim Il-sung age 27
Chiang Kai-shek age 51
John F. Kennedy age 21
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Carlos Castillo Armas age 24
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Bashar al-Assad born 1965-09-11
Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
Anwar Sadat age 20
Ali Khamenei born 1939-04-19
Emmanuel Macron born 1977-12-21
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 4
Ahmed al-Sharaa born 1982-10-29
Kim Jong-un born 1982-01-08
Adolf Hitler age 50
Abolhassan Banisadr age 6
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi born 1954-11-19
Konstantin Chernenko age 27
Jacques Chirac age 6
Jacobo Árbenz age 25
Ruhollah Khomeini age 36
Saddam Hussein age 1
Raúl Castro age 7
Miguel Díaz-Canel born 1960-04-20
Li Xiannian age 29
Hosni Mubarak age 10
Fidel Castro age 12
Ebrahim Raisi born 1960-12-14
Mohammad Khatami born 1943-10-14
Masoud Pezeshkian born 1954-09-29
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956-10-28
Hassan Rouhani born 1948-11-12
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Lee Teng-hui age 16
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 57
Joseph Stalin age 60
Yang Shangkun age 31
Hirohito age 37
Yuri Andropov age 24
Lyndon B. Johnson age 30
Zhao Ziyang age 19
Vladimir Putin born 1952-10-07
Vincent Auriol age 54
Tôn Đức Thắng age 50
Chiang Ching-kuo age 28
Richard Nixon age 26
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 42
René Coty age 57
Ronald Reagan age 28
Kim Jong-il born 1941-02-16
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 21
Boris Yeltsin age 8
Charles de Gaulle age 48
Pol Pot age 13
Joseph Goebbels age 41
Benito Mussolini age 55
Liz Truss born 1975-07-26
Boris Johnson born 1964-06-19
Rishi Sunak born 1980-05-12
Helmut Schmidt age 20
David Ben-Gurion age 52
Mao Zedong age 45
David Cameron born 1966-10-09
Helmut Kohl age 9
Friedrich Merz born 1955-11-11
Edward Heath age 22
Clement Attlee age 56
Jawaharlal Nehru age 49
Hideki Tōjō age 54
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Hua Guofeng age 18
Harold Wilson age 23
Harold Macmillan age 45
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Gerhard Schröder born 1944-04-07
James Callaghan age 27
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
Souvanna Phouma age 37
Deng Xiaoping age 34
Margaret Thatcher age 13
Alec Douglas-Home age 35
Angela Merkel born 1954-07-17
Anthony Eden age 41
Zhu Rongji age 10
Zhou Enlai age 41
Winston Churchill age 64
Willy Brandt age 25
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
Sun Yun-suan age 25
Olaf Scholz born 1958-06-14
Neville Chamberlain age 70
Ludwig Erhard age 42
Li Peng age 10
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 35
Konrad Adenauer age 63
Keir Starmer born 1962-09-02
John Major born 1943-03-29
Harlan F. Stone age 66
Earl Warren age 48
Warren E. Burger age 31
William Rehnquist age 14
Charles Evans Hughes age 77
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
Fred M. Vinson age 49
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Lien Chan age 2
Hubert Humphrey age 27
Lee Yuan-tsu age 15
Alben W. Barkley age 61
JD Vance born 1984-08-02
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
Zhu De age 52
Walter Mondale age 11
Spiro Agnew age 20
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
Soong Ching-ling age 46
Wang Zhen (general) age 31
Henry A. Wallace age 50
Rong Yiren age 22
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
John Nance Garner age 70
Omar Bradley age 46
Cordell Hull age 67
Tom C. Clark age 39
Eric Holder born 1951-01-21
Francis Biddle age 52
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 35
Elliot Richardson age 18
George Shultz age 18
Mike Pompeo born 1963-12-30
Merrick Garland born 1952-11-13
Melvin Laird age 16
Robert McNamara age 22
Janet Reno age 9 months
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 33
Marco Rubio born 1971-05-28
Dean Rusk age 30
Dean Acheson age 46
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Ramsey Clark age 11
Condoleezza Rice born 1954-11-14
Robert A. Lovett age 43
George C. Marshall age 58
John Foster Dulles age 51
Rex Tillerson born 1952-03-23
Nicholas Katzenbach age 17
Henry Kissinger age 15
Colin Powell age 2
Robert H. Jackson age 47
James Baker age 8
James R. Schlesinger age 10
Pam Bondi born 1965-11-17
Warren Christopher age 13
Edmund Muskie age 25
William P. Rogers age 25
Madeleine Albright age 1
Christian Herter age 44
John N. Mitchell age 25
Clark Clifford age 32
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 38
James F. Byrnes age 57
John Connally age 22
Cyrus Vance age 22
Lawrence Eagleburger age 8
Alexander Haig age 14
Antony Blinken born 1962-04-16
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 33
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
John Ashcroft born 1942-05-09
Louis Freeh born 1950-01-06
James Comey born 1960-12-14
Christopher Wray born 1966-12-17
William S. Sessions age 8
Kash Patel born 1980-02-25
Clarence M. Kelley age 27
William H. Webster age 15
Robert Mueller born 1944-08-07
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 6
John Paul Stevens age 19
Anthony Kennedy age 2
Antonin Scalia age 3
Arthur Goldberg age 30
Potter Stewart age 24
Thurgood Marshall age 30
John Marshall Harlan II age 39
Byron White age 21
Zeng Qinghong born 1939-07-30
William J. Brennan Jr. age 33
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 31
Stephen Breyer age 8 months
Abe Fortas age 28
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
David Souter born 1939-09-17
Sandra Day O'Connor age 9
Robert F. Kennedy age 13
Daniel Inouye age 14
Kamala Harris born 1964-10-20
Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30
Hermann Göring age 46
David Lloyd George age 76
Nelson Rockefeller age 30
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
J. Edgar Hoover age 44
Martin Bormann age 38
Karl Dönitz age 47
Archibald Cox age 26
John Lewis born 1940-02-21
Liz Cheney born 1966-07-28
Heinrich Himmler age 38
Herbert Hoover age 64
Reinhard Heydrich age 35
Kurt Daluege age 41
Rudolf Hess age 45
George Wallace age 19
Wilhelm Frick age 62
Frank Jack Fletcher age 54
Courtney Hodges age 52
Douglas MacArthur age 59
George S. Patton age 53
Raymond A. Spruance age 52
Yoshijirō Umezu age 57
Martin Luther King Jr. age 10
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Yuri Gagarin age 5
Stanley Baldwin age 71
Yasser Arafat age 9
Kingorō Hashimoto age 49
Walther Funk age 48
Francisco Franco age 46
Ellison Onizuka born 1946-06-24
Edward VIII age 44
Chester W. Nimitz age 54
Isoroku Yamamoto age 55
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 71
Emilio De Bono age 73
Rodion Malinovsky age 40
He Yingqin age 49
Naoki Hoshino age 47
Eva Braun age 27
Heitarō Kimura age 50
Iwane Matsui age 60
Manuel Azaña age 59
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 35
Thomas Gage age 221
Alfred Rosenberg age 46
Akira Mutō age 46
Wilhelm Groener age 71
Friedrich Jeckeln age 44
Hjalmar Schacht age 62
Doihara Kenji age 55
Erich Raeder age 63
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Gerd von Rundstedt age 63
Hans Frank age 38
Hans Fritzsche age 39
Jo Ann Robinson age 27
Henry L. Stimson age 71
Leon Trotsky age 59
Hubert Gough age 68
Kyösti Kallio age 66
Kōki Hirota age 61
Kliment Voroshilov age 58
Albert Einstein age 60
Albert Speer age 34
Alexandre Millerand age 80
Alfred Jodl age 48
Julius Streicher age 54
Andy Burnham born 1970-01-07
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 23
Juan José Arévalo age 34
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 46
Bainbridge Colby age 69
Baldur von Schirach age 31
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 20
Charles G. Dawes age 73
Claus von Stauffenberg age 31
Erich von Manstein age 51
Wilhelm Keitel age 56
Souphanouvong age 29
Semyon Timoshenko age 44
Seishirō Itagaki age 54
Franz von Papen age 59
John J. Pershing age 78
Puyi age 33
Rosa Parks age 26
Fritz Sauckel age 44
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Mahatma Gandhi age 69
Tim Berners-Lee born 1955-06-08
Fritz Todt age 47
Gennady Yanayev age 1
Malcolm X age 13
Wilhelm II age 80
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 30
Peng Dehuai age 40
Otto Rasch age 47
Otto Hofmann age 43
Nikola Tesla age 82
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 59
Nelson Mandela age 20
Neil Armstrong age 8