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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

People

Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 48
Armando Calderón Sol age 8
Akwasi Afrifa age 20
Fred Akuffo age 19
Phaedon Gizikis age 39
Patrick Achi age 9 months
Edward Seaga age 26
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 14
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 2
Fouad Chehab age 54
René Moawad age 31
Hussein Onn age 34
Ibrahim Nasir age 29
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 23
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 62
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 32
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 67
Mike Moore age 7
Pak Pong-ju age 17
Haruo Remeliik age 23
Ivan Stambolić age 19
Hashim al-Atassi age 80
Wu Den-yih age 8
Edward Lowassa age 2
Seni Pramoj age 51
Kukrit Pramoj age 45
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 9
Anand Panyarachun age 24
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 20
Hubert Ingraham age 9
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 15
Mohamed Ennaceur age 22
Apolo Nsibambi age 15
Godfrey Binaisa age 36
Vitalii Masol age 27
Raúl Leoni age 51
Ramón José Velásquez age 39
Vo Van Kiet age 33
Mohammed Basindawa age 21
Arnulfo Arias age 55
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 62
Francisco Sagasti age 11
Momčilo Krajišnik age 11
Andrés Rodríguez age 33
Liu Bocheng age 63
Claire Lee Chennault age 63
Albert Reynolds age 23
Lee Jong-wook age 11
Dušan Simović age 73
Kenneth Clarke age 16
Ramsey Clark age 28
Courtney Hodges age 69
Albert Pintat age 13
Carlos Lacoste age 27
Josef Klaus age 46
Juan José Torres age 36
Ivan Kostov age 6
Saye Zerbo age 24
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 14
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 52
Tillman Thomas age 11
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 6
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 13
Gérard Latortue age 22
Jenő Fock age 40
Miklós Kállay age 69
Sutan Sjahrir age 47
P. J. Patterson age 21
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 6
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 8
Kessai Note age 6
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 18
Anand Satyanand age 12
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 2
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 73
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 69
Victor Ciorbea age 1
Constantin Dăscălescu age 33
Mugur Isărescu age 7
Frederick Ballantyne age 20
Abdoul Mbaye age 3
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 19
Andrej Bajuk age 12
Adib Shishakli age 47
Qahhor Mahkamov age 24
Mizengo Pinda age 8
Cleopa Msuya age 25
Apisai Ielemia age 1
Anatolii Kinakh age 2
Yevhen Marchuk age 15
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 44
Aparicio Méndez age 52
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 46
Guillermo Endara age 20
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 28
Kim Hwang-sik age 8
Chung Un-chan age 9
Kim Jong-pil age 30
Chung Sye-kyun age 5
William Gopallawa age 58
D. M. Jayaratne age 25
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 15
Matthew Ridgway age 61
He Long age 60
Manlio Brosio age 59
Franco Maria Malfatti age 29
David Malpass age 5 months
Denis Healey age 39
David Blunkett age 9
Amin al-Hafiz age 34
Dragiša Cvetković age 63
J. Lawton Collins age 60
John W. Snow age 17
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 38
Elliot Richardson age 36
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 10
Lester Bird age 18
Ramón Puerta age 4
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 72
Bill Hayden age 23
Alfons Gorbach age 58
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 16
Georges Theunis age 83
Paul van Zeeland age 62
Colville Young age 23
Aleksandar Tsankov age 77
Goukouni Oueddei age 14
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 64
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 41
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 29
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 9
Osvaldo Hurtado age 17
Galo Plaza age 50
Joseph Urusemal age 4
Teuvo Aura age 43
Keijo Liinamaa age 27
Sakari Tuomioja age 45
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 27
Henri Namphy age 23
Claudette Werleigh age 9
Tiburcio Carías age 80
Péter Boross age 28
Károly Grósz age 26
Geir Hallgrímsson age 30
Erik Scavenius age 79
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 3
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 42
Salim al-Huss age 26
Moses Blah age 9
Anton Buttigieg age 44
Litokwa Tomeing age 16
Khil Raj Regmi age 7
Luis Somoza Debayle age 33
Cuthbert Sebastian age 34
Flavio Cotti age 16
H. H. Kung age 75
Chen Chien-jen age 5
Yen Hsi-shan age 73
Sanya Dharmasakti age 49
Kriangsak Chamanan age 38
Chatchai Chunhawan age 36
Arthur Foulkes age 28
Marguerite Pindling age 24
Eric Williams age 44
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 33
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 49
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 55
Julius Chan age 17
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 40
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 3 months
Diego Martínez Barrio age 72
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 7 months
Edem Kodjo age 18
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 18
Rab Butler age 53
Michael Mullen age 9