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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Haruo Remeliik age 22
Ivan Stambolić age 19
Hashim al-Atassi age 80
Wu Den-yih age 8
Edward Lowassa age 2
Seni Pramoj age 50
Kukrit Pramoj age 44
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 9
Anand Panyarachun age 23
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 19
Hubert Ingraham age 8
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 14
Mohamed Ennaceur age 21
Apolo Nsibambi age 15
Godfrey Binaisa age 35
Vitalii Masol age 27
Raúl Leoni age 50
Ramón José Velásquez age 39
Vo Van Kiet age 33
Mohammed Basindawa age 20
Arnulfo Arias age 54
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 62
Francisco Sagasti age 11
Momčilo Krajišnik age 11
Andrés Rodríguez age 32
Liu Bocheng age 63
Claire Lee Chennault age 62
Albert Reynolds age 23
Lee Jong-wook age 10
Dušan Simović age 73
Kenneth Clarke age 15
Ramsey Clark age 28
Courtney Hodges age 69
Albert Pintat age 12
Carlos Lacoste age 27
Josef Klaus age 45
Juan José Torres age 36
Ivan Kostov age 6
Saye Zerbo age 23
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 13
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 32
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 16
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 32
Josef Tošovský age 5
Sufi Abu Taleb age 31
Tosiwo Nakayama age 24
Edwin Linkomies age 61
Xenophon Zolotas age 51
Tillman Thomas age 10
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 6
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 12
Gérard Latortue age 21
Jenő Fock age 39
Miklós Kállay age 69
Sutan Sjahrir age 47
P. J. Patterson age 20
Bruce Golding age 8
Abdullah Ensour age 17
Erik Eriksen age 53
Dirk Jan de Geer age 85
Victor Marijnen age 39
Charles D. B. King age 81
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 5
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 8
Kessai Note age 5
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 18
Anand Satyanand age 11
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 2
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 72
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 69
Victor Ciorbea age 1
Constantin Dăscălescu age 32
Mugur Isărescu age 6
Frederick Ballantyne age 19
Abdoul Mbaye age 2
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 19
Andrej Bajuk age 12
Adib Shishakli age 47
Qahhor Mahkamov age 23
Mizengo Pinda age 7
Cleopa Msuya age 25
Apisai Ielemia age 6 months
Anatolii Kinakh age 1
Yevhen Marchuk age 15
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 43
Aparicio Méndez age 51
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 46
Guillermo Endara age 19
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 27
Kim Hwang-sik age 7
Chung Un-chan age 8
Kim Jong-pil age 30
Chung Sye-kyun age 5
William Gopallawa age 58
D. M. Jayaratne age 24
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 14
Matthew Ridgway age 61
He Long age 59
Manlio Brosio age 58
Franco Maria Malfatti age 28
Denis Healey age 38
David Blunkett age 8
Amin al-Hafiz age 34
Dragiša Cvetković age 63
J. Lawton Collins age 59
John W. Snow age 16
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 37
Elliot Richardson age 35
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 10
Lester Bird age 18
Ramón Puerta age 4
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 72
Eduardo Lonardi age 59
Bill Hayden age 23
Alfons Gorbach age 57
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 15
Georges Theunis age 83
Paul van Zeeland age 62
Colville Young age 23
Aleksandar Tsankov age 76
Goukouni Oueddei age 14
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 64
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 40
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 29
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 8
Osvaldo Hurtado age 16
Galo Plaza age 50
Joseph Urusemal age 3
Teuvo Aura age 43
Keijo Liinamaa age 26
Sakari Tuomioja age 44
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 61
Ioannis Grivas age 33
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 28
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 25
Vinicio Cerezo age 13
Desmond Hoyte age 26
Henri Namphy age 23
Claudette Werleigh age 9
Tiburcio Carías age 80
Péter Boross age 27
Károly Grósz age 25
Geir Hallgrímsson age 30
Erik Scavenius age 78
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 2
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 41
Salim al-Huss age 26
Moses Blah age 8
Anton Buttigieg age 44
Litokwa Tomeing age 16
Khil Raj Regmi age 6
Luis Somoza Debayle age 33
Cuthbert Sebastian age 34
Flavio Cotti age 16
H. H. Kung age 74
Chen Chien-jen age 4
Yen Hsi-shan age 72
Sanya Dharmasakti age 48
Kriangsak Chamanan age 38
Chatchai Chunhawan age 35
Arthur Foulkes age 27
Marguerite Pindling age 23
Eric Williams age 44
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 33
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 48
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 54
Julius Chan age 16
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 40
Diego Martínez Barrio age 72
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 1 month
Edem Kodjo age 17
Miles Dempsey age 59
Masayoshi Ito age 42
Dirk Stikker age 59
James Wolfensohn age 22
Eric Shinseki age 13
Frank Carlucci age 25
Les Aspin age 17
Rab Butler age 53
Michael Mullen age 9
Lien Chan age 19
William H. Webster age 31
Rabah Bitat age 30
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 29
William Deane age 25
Clifford Husbands age 29
Reneta Indzhova age 2
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 6
Nikica Valentić age 5
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 45
Hipólito Mejía age 15
Atef Ebeid age 23
Jacob Nena age 14
Reino Kuuskoski age 49
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 57
Ralf Törngren age 57
Raymond Ndong Sima age 1
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 53
Ramiro de León Carpio age 14
Jorge Serrano Elías age 10