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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
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Martin O'Malley age 5
Deval Patrick age 12
Klaus Tschütscher age 1
Wim Duisenberg age 33
Ellison Onizuka age 22
Eric Holder age 17
Abd al-Malek Selal age 20
Liamine Zéroual age 27
Karen Karapetyan age 5
Johnny Briceño age 8
Nikolai Denkov age 6
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 22
Khieu Samphan age 37
Abel Pacheco age 34
Tihomir Orešković age 2
Giorgos Vasiliou age 37
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 16
Charles Savarin age 25
León Febres-Cordero age 37
Vano Merabishvili age 7 months
Hilla Limann age 34
Vasiliki Thanou age 18
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 69
Moussa Dadis Camara age 3
Carmen Pereira age 32
Roberto Micheletti age 25
József Antall age 36
Ayad Allawi age 24
Marouf al-Bakhit age 21
Jens Otto Krag age 54
Isa Mustafa age 17
Khamtai Siphandone age 44
Omar Karami age 34
Mahmoud Jibril age 16
Artūras Paulauskas age 15
David Kabua age 17
Nangolo Mbumba age 27
Ludwig Scotty age 20
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 15
Jan P. Syse age 38
Trygve Bratteli age 58
Odvar Nordli age 41
Chivu Stoica age 60
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 15
Tufuga Efi age 30
Wee Kim Wee age 53
Ignazio Cassis age 7
Carlos Vila Nova age 9
Rahmon Nabiyev age 38
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 18
Carlos Arias Navarro age 60
Trường Chinh age 61
Dương Văn Minh age 52
Garret FitzGerald age 42
John Bruton age 21
Henry Paulson age 22
Larry Summers age 14
Michael Howard age 27
Scott Bessent age 6
Timothy Geithner age 7
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 76
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 26
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 24
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 25
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 3
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 1
Mark Warner age 13
W. Averell Harriman age 77
Thomas E. Dewey age 66
Eliot Spitzer age 9
Uğur Şahin age 3
John Paul Stevens age 48
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 43
Akhtar Mansour age 11 months
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 27
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 65
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 38
David Thompson age 6
Viačasław Kiebič age 32
Mark Eyskens age 35
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 51
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 38
Rodrigo Paz age 1
Plamen Oresharski age 8
Elisabeth Domitien age 43
Michel Djotodia age 19
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 47
Jiří Rusnok age 8
Ahmed Shafik age 27
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 23
Christos Sartzetakis age 39
Boniface Alexandre age 32
Nasry Asfura age 10
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 57
Elias Hrawi age 42
Pakalitha Mosisili age 23
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 30
Pravind Jugnauth age 6
Emilio Portes Gil age 78
Jhala Nath Khanal age 18
Enrique Bolaños age 40
Mahamane Ousmane age 18
Murtala Muhammed age 30
Vlado Bučkovski age 6
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 3 months
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 36
Fulbert Youlou age 51
Radu Vasile age 26
Petre Roman age 22
Pasteur Bizimungu age 18
Aminata Touré age 6
Mame Madior Boye age 28
Manasseh Sogavare age 13
Lương Cường age 11
Leszek Miller age 22
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 47
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 35
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 69
Guy Mollet age 62
Ferruccio Parri age 78
Liam Cosgrave age 48
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 49
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 58
Vuk Drašković age 22
William Barr age 18
William J. Burns age 12
Harriet Harman age 18
Mehdi Bazargan age 61
Wang Qishan age 20
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 27
Yves Congar age 64
Empress Nagako age 65
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 66
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 24
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 38
Adrian Hasler age 4
Raymond A. Spruance age 82
Tôn Đức Thắng age 80
James R. Schlesinger age 39
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 2
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 50
Héctor José Cámpora age 59
Hovik Abrahamyan age 10
Frank Forde age 78
David Hurley age 15
Viktor Klima age 21
Andrei Kobyakow age 8
Michel Kafando age 26
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 13
Domitien Ndayizeye age 15
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 24
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 70
Ernesto Samper age 18
Judith Suminwa age 1
Juan Bosch age 59
Gustavo Noboa age 31
Zurab Noghaideli age 4
Keith Mitchell age 22
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 22
Arthur Chung age 50
Ariel Henry age 19
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 6
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 21
Michael Manley age 44
Albert Zafy age 41
Christian Ntsay age 7
Anthony Mamo age 59
Amata Kabua age 40
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 27
Navin Ramgoolam age 21
Petru Lucinschi age 28
Pavel Filip age 2
Momir Bulatović age 12
Abbas El Fassi age 28
Baburam Bhattarai age 14
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 43
David Lange age 26
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 17
Johnson Toribiong age 22
Rami Hamdallah age 10
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 54
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 34
Philip J. Pierre age 14
Su Tseng-chang age 21
Hubert Minnis age 14
Keith Rowley age 19
Muteesa II of Buganda age 44
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 54
Le Duc Anh age 48
José Raúl Mulino age 9
Ibrahim Abboud age 68
Manfred Wörner age 34
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 54
Alberto Gonzales age 13
Vladimir Ivashko age 36
Neil Kinnock age 26
Sisavang Vatthana age 61
Mark Felt age 55
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 85
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 54