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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
May 68 1968-05-02 - 1968-06-23

People

Elizabeth II age 42
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 74
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 77
President - France
Lyndon B. Johnson age 59
President - United States
Hirohito age 67
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 78
President - Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 80
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 76
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 50
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 75
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 48
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 74
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 37
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 73
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 69
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Abdul Rahman Arif age 52
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 61
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 57
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 49
President - Cuba
Artur da Costa e Silva age 68
President - Brazil
Nureddin al-Atassi age 39
President - Syria
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 52
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 56
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Pol Pot age 43
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 59
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 41
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 50
Prime Minister - India
Georges Pompidou age 56
Prime Minister - France
Zhou Enlai age 70
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Eisaku Satō age 67
Prime Minister - Japan
Alexei Kosygin age 64
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Robert McNamara age 51
President - World Bank
Avery Brundage age 80
President - International Olympic Committee
B. J. Vorster age 52
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 66
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 62
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 57
Prime Minister - Poland
Jean Rey age 65
President - European Commission
Yen Chia-kan age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Jack Lynch age 50
Taoiseach - Ireland
Manlio Brosio age 70
Secretary General - NATO
Yusuf Zuayyin age 36
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 56
Director-General - World Health Organization
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 64
Chancellor - Germany
Earl Warren age 77
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hubert Humphrey age 56
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 75
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 82
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 63
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 60
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 58
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 69
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 66
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 72
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 68
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Earle Wheeler age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
James Callaghan age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Dean Rusk age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Roy Jenkins age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Ramsey Clark age 40
Attorney General - United States
Clark Clifford age 61
Secretary of Defense - United States
Henry H. Fowler age 59
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 73
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Edward Heath age 51
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Warren Christopher age 42
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Abe Fortas age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Crosland age 49
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 39
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 50
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 44
President - Sinn Féin
Robert F. Kennedy age 42
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 40
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 43
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 54
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George H. W. Bush age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Alec Douglas-Home age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 83
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Carr age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan age 57
Governor of California - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 59
Governor of New York - United States
Spiro Agnew age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
John Connally age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Winthrop Rockefeller age 56
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Lester Maddox age 52
Governor of Georgia - United States
Mills Godwin age 53
Governor of Virginia - United States
Jim Rhodes age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Richard J. Hughes age 58
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Buford Ellington age 60
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Roger D. Branigin age 65
Governor of Indiana - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 40
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 50
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 75
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 70
Pope - Vatican City
Suharto age 46
President - Indonesia
Park Chung-hee age 50
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 61
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 37
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 74
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 46
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 47
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 32
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 64
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 78
President - Malawi
Omar Bongo age 32
President - Gabon
Urho Kekkonen age 67
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 85
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 38
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 44
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 64
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 55
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 46
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 61
President - Pakistan
Zakir Husain age 71
President - India
Juliana of the Netherlands age 59
Queen - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 42
President - Uganda
Frederik IX of Denmark age 69
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 85
King - Sweden
Cevdet Sunay age 69
President - Turkey
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 62
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 44
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 35
President - Algeria
François Duvalier age 61
President - Haiti
Makarios III age 54
President - Cyprus
Giuseppe Saragat age 69
President - Italy
Seretse Khama age 46
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 43
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 32
President - Togo
Modibo Keïta age 52
President - Mali
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 42
President - Nicaragua
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 39
King - Bhutan
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 47
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Franz Jonas age 68
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 68
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 74
President - Iceland
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 57
President - Chile
Fernando Belaúnde age 55
President - Peru
Zalman Shazar age 78
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 55
President - Madagascar
François Tombalbaye age 49
President - Chad
Yakubu Gowon age 33
President - Nigeria
Diori Hamani age 51
President - Niger
William Tubman age 72
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 49
King - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 61
President - Dominican Republic
Yusof bin Ishak age 57
President - Singapore
Moktar Ould Daddah age 43
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 27
President - Burundi
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 57
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 34
Emir - Bahrain
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 48
President - Bolivia
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 52
President - Ghana
Juan Carlos Onganía age 54
President - Argentina
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 52
President - Burkina Faso
Américo Tomás age 73
President - Portugal
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 48
President - Uruguay
Haxhi Lleshi age 54
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 46
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 30
King - Lesotho
Grégoire Kayibanda age 44
President - Rwanda
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 48
President - Somalia
Ismail al-Azhari age 67
President - Sudan
Hammer DeRoburt age 45
President - Nauru
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 47
President - Republic of the Congo
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 60
President - Colombia
Raúl Leoni age 63
President - Venezuela
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 50
President - El Salvador
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 48
Emir - Qatar
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Charles Helou age 54
President - Lebanon