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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18

People

Elizabeth II age 47
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 80
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Richard Nixon age 61
President - United States
Hirohito age 72
Emperor - Japan
Georges Pompidou age 62
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 67
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 86
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 81
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 55
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 81
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 54
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 61
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 43
President - Syria
Baudouin of Belgium age 43
King - Belgium
Gustav Heinemann age 74
President - Germany
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 59
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 52
President - Mexico
Lê Duẩn age 66
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Osvaldo Dorticós age 54
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 68
President - Brazil
Dong Biwu age 87
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 85
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 55
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 61
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Pol Pot age 48
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 47
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 56
Prime Minister - India
Golda Meir age 75
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 75
Premier - People's Republic of China
Edward Heath age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Kosygin age 69
Chairman - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 57
President - World Bank
Kakuei Tanaka age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Chiang Ching-kuo age 63
Premier - Republic of China
Mariano Rumor age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Messmer age 57
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 58
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 72
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 67
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Liam Cosgrave age 53
Taoiseach - Ireland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 59
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 62
Secretary General - NATO
François-Xavier Ortoli age 48
President - European Commission
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 64
Prime Minister - Poland
Kim Il age 63
Premier - North Korea
Halfdan T. Mahler age 50
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 42
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Gerald Ford age 60
Vice President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 36
Vice President - Iraq
Soong Ching-ling age 81
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Yen Chia-kan age 68
Vice President - Republic of China
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 45
Vice President - Iraq
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 50
Secretary Of State - United States
George Shultz age 53
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
James R. Schlesinger age 44
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Creighton Abrams age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William B. Saxbe age 57
Attorney General - United States
Robert Carr age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Clarence M. Kelley age 62
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Harold Wilson age 57
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Thurgood Marshall age 65
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 49
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jeremy Thorpe age 44
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 56
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 41
President - Sinn Féin
John Paul Stevens age 53
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 31
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 46
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 62
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 49
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 48
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan age 62
Governor of California - United States
Jimmy Carter age 49
Governor of Georgia - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 46
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 56
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 81
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 58
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 52
President - Indonesia
Idi Amin age 49
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 33
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 27
King - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 56
President - South Korea
Juan Perón age 78
President - Argentina
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 33
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 67
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 43
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 80
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 51
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 52
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 68
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 38
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 70
President - Tunisia
Hastings Banda age 84
President - Malawi
Urho Kekkonen age 73
President - Finland
Hassan II age 44
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 49
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 70
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 61
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 52
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 64
Queen - Netherlands
Fahri Korutürk age 70
President - Turkey
V. V. Giri age 79
President - India
Giovanni Leone age 65
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 68
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 50
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 41
President - Algeria
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 18
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 54
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 36
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 55
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 50
President - Equatorial Guinea
Seretse Khama age 52
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 49
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 38
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 22
President - Haiti
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 64
President - Afghanistan
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 53
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Franz Jonas age 74
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 74
King - Eswatini
Ephraim Katzir age 57
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 37
President - Mali
Rafael Caldera age 58
President - Venezuela
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 49
President - The Gambia
François Tombalbaye age 55
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 57
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 39
President - Nigeria
José Figueres Ferrer age 67
President - Costa Rica
Diori Hamani age 57
President - Niger
William Richard Tolbert age 60
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 55
King - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 63
President - Peru
Gaafar Nimeiry age 43
President - Sudan
Hugo Banzer age 47
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 67
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 42
President - Guinea-Bissau
Juan María Bordaberry age 45
President - Uruguay
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 68
President - Ireland
Moktar Ould Daddah age 49
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 33
President - Burundi
Marien Ngouabi age 35
President - Republic of the Congo
Isa II of Bahrain age 40
Emir - Bahrain
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 41
Emir - Qatar
Arthur Chung age 56
President - Guyana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 58
President - Burkina Faso
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 70
President - Pakistan
Américo Tomás age 79
President - Portugal
Siaka Stevens age 68
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 66
President - Singapore
Haxhi Lleshi age 60
President - Albania
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 42
President - Ghana
Oswaldo López Arellano age 52
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 35
King - Lesotho
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 67
President - Madagascar
Hammer DeRoburt age 51
President - Nauru
Phaedon Gizikis age 56
President - Greece
Ibrahim Nasir age 47
President - Maldives
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 50
President - Colombia
William Gopallawa age 76
President - Sri Lanka
Suleiman Frangieh age 63
President - Lebanon
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 60
Emir - Kuwait
Arturo Armando Molina age 46
President - El Salvador
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 52
President - Bangladesh
Ernst Brugger age 59
President - Switzerland
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 30
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 75
State President - South Africa
Kuan Yew Lee age 50
Prime Minister - Singapore
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 53
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 46
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Olof Palme age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 54
Prime Minister - Canada
Gough Whitlam age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Bruno Kreisky age 63
Chancellor - Austria
Abdou Diouf age 38
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 38
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Marcelo Caetano age 67
Prime Minister - Portugal
Abdul Razak Hussein age 51
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 47
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Joop den Uyl age 54
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 57
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 57
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 61
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 43
Prime Minister - Finland
Trygve Bratteli age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
Carlos Arias Navarro age 65
Prime Minister - Spain
Michael Manley age 49
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Pierre Werner age 60
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 71
Prime Minister - Romania
George Cadle Price age 55
Premier - Belize
Kamisese Mara age 53
Prime Minister - Fiji