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Events

Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Occupation of the Baltic states 1940 - 1991
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
White Terror (Taiwan) 1949-05-19 - 1992-11-06
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mexican Dirty War 1954 - 2000
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Communist insurgency in Sarawak 1962-06-22 - 1990-11-03
White Revolution 1963 - 1979
Dhofar rebellion 1963-06-09 - 1976-03-11
Rhodesian Bush War 1964-07-04 - 1979-12-12
Communist insurgency in Thailand 1965 - 1983
Chadian Civil War (1965–1979) 1965 - 1979
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon 1968 - 1982
Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989) 1968 - 1989
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Operation Banner 1969-08-14 - 2007-07-31
Basic Treaty, 1972 1972-12-21 - 1990-10-03
Ethiopian Civil War 1974-09-12 - 1991-06-04
Cuban intervention in Angola 1975 - 1991
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Third Indochina War 1975-05-01 - 1991-10-23

People

Elizabeth II age 49
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 81
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Gerald Ford age 61
President - United States
Kim Il-sung age 63
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Hirohito age 74
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Josip Broz Tito age 83
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 56
President - Egypt
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 49
President - France
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 55
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 62
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 44
President - Syria
Walter Scheel age 55
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 44
King - Belgium
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 60
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 53
President - Mexico
Ernesto Geisel age 67
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Osvaldo Dorticós age 56
President - Cuba
Tôn Đức Thắng age 86
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Yen Chia-kan age 69
President - Republic of China
Pol Pot age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 48
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 57
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 42
Prime Minister - France
Yitzhak Rabin age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 77
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 71
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 59
President - World Bank
Chiang Ching-kuo age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Takeo Miki age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
B. J. Vorster age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 73
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Liam Cosgrave age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 63
Secretary General - NATO
François-Xavier Ortoli age 50
President - European Commission
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 65
Prime Minister - Poland
Kim Il age 65
Premier - North Korea
Džemal Bijedić age 58
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Halfdan T. Mahler age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mamdouh Salem age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 38
Vice President - Iraq
Nelson Rockefeller age 66
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 70
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 66
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Alexander Haig age 50
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Nie Rongzhen age 75
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
George Scratchley Brown age 56
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Roy Jenkins age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James R. Schlesinger age 46
Secretary of Defense - United States
Denis Healey age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frederick C. Weyand age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William E. Simon age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward H. Levi age 63
Attorney General - United States
William Colby age 55
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Clarence M. Kelley age 63
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher age 49
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 57
President - African National Congress
Thurgood Marshall age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jeremy Thorpe age 46
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Potter Stewart age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 42
President - Sinn Féin
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harold R. Tyler Jr. age 53
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Robert Bork age 48
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Antonin Scalia age 39
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Anthony Kennedy age 38
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 55
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 32
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 47
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 64
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 50
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 61
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 54
Senate - United States
James Callaghan age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Nigel Lawson age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Carr age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jerry Brown age 37
Governor of California - United States
Hugh Carey age 56
Governor of New York - United States
David Pryor age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Otis Bowen age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Busbee age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Brendan Byrne age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Marvin Mandel age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
Dolph Briscoe age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
Mills Godwin age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
Jim Rhodes age 65
Governor of Ohio - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 47
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 57
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 82
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 59
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 54
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 57
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 50
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 35
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 29
King - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 57
President - South Korea
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 55
President - Bangladesh
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 34
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 68
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 44
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 81
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 53
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 54
President - Central African Republic
Hussein I of Jordan age 39
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 71
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 44
President - Argentina
Hastings Banda age 85
President - Malawi
Omar Bongo age 39
President - Gabon
Urho Kekkonen age 74
President - Finland
Hassan II age 45
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 51
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 71
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 62
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 53
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 66
Queen - Netherlands
Gustáv Husák age 62
President - Czechoslovakia
Fahri Korutürk age 71
President - Turkey
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Giovanni Leone age 66
President - Italy
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 69
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 52
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 42
President - Algeria
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 70
President - India
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 19
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 55
President - Somalia
Juvénal Habyarimana age 38
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 57
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 51
President - Equatorial Guinea
Seretse Khama age 53
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 50
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 39
President - Togo
Ian Smith age 56
Prime Minister - Rhodesia
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 23
President - Haiti
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 65
President - Afghanistan
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 49
President - Nicaragua
Ne Win age 64
President - Myanmar
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 54
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 60
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 75
King - Eswatini
Ephraim Katzir age 59
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 38
President - Mali
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 51
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 52
President - Venezuela
Kristján Eldjárn age 58
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 40
President - Nigeria
William Richard Tolbert age 62
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 56
King - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 65
President - Peru
Gaafar Nimeiry age 44
President - Sudan
Hugo Banzer age 49
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 68
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 44
President - Guinea-Bissau
Juan María Bordaberry age 47
President - Uruguay
Moktar Ould Daddah age 50
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 34
President - Burundi
Marien Ngouabi age 36
President - Republic of the Congo
Isa II of Bahrain age 42
Emir - Bahrain
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 64
President - Ireland
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 42
Emir - Qatar
Arthur Chung age 57
President - Guyana
Anthony Mamo age 66
President - Malta
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 60
President - Portugal
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 59
President - Burkina Faso
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 71
President - Pakistan
Siaka Stevens age 69
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 67
President - Singapore