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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
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16

People

Judith Suminwa age 4
Juan Bosch age 63
Gustavo Noboa age 34
Zurab Noghaideli age 7
Keith Mitchell age 25
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 26
Ariel Henry age 22
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 10
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 25
Albert Zafy age 45
Christian Ntsay age 11
Anthony Mamo age 63
Amata Kabua age 43
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 30
Navin Ramgoolam age 25
Petru Lucinschi age 32
Ion Chicu age 5 months
Pavel Filip age 6
Momir Bulatović age 15
Abbas El Fassi age 31
Baburam Bhattarai age 18
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 47
David Lange age 30
Radmila Šekerinska age 2 months
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 21
Johnson Toribiong age 26
Rami Hamdallah age 14
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 38
Philip J. Pierre age 17
Su Tseng-chang age 25
Hubert Minnis age 18
Keith Rowley age 22
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 58
Le Duc Anh age 51
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 61
José Raúl Mulino age 13
Ibrahim Abboud age 71
Manfred Wörner age 37
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 58
Alberto Gonzales age 17
Yvette Cooper age 3
Vladimir Ivashko age 39
Ann Richards age 38
David Souter age 32
Vazgen Sargsyan age 13
Owen Arthur age 22
George Cadle Price age 53
André Kolingba age 36
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 14
Rodrigo Chaves age 11
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 9
Jiří Paroubek age 19
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 14
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 15
Edgar Savisaar age 22
Taye Atske Selassie age 16
Epeli Nailatikau age 31
Karl-August Fagerholm age 70
Leslie Manigat age 42
Miklós Németh age 24
Robert Guéï age 31
Bah Ndaw age 21
Dioncounda Traoré age 30
Iurie Leancă age 8
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 30
Cindy Kiro age 14
Patsy Reddy age 18
Lars Korvald age 56
John Lyng age 67
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 68
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 28
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 14
Denzil Douglas age 19
James Mancham age 33
Chuan Leekpai age 34
Perry Christie age 28
Mari Alkatiri age 22
Yıldırım Akbulut age 36
Pavlo Lazarenko age 19
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 12
Jan Olszewski age 42
José María Balcázar age 29
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 37
Ho Chong age 76
Creighton Abrams age 57
Charles Haughey age 46
William J. Perry age 44
Han Zheng age 18
Lamar Alexander age 32
Bashkim Fino age 9
John McEwen age 72
Novruz Mammadov age 25
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 45
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 6
Alfonso López Michelsen age 59
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 66
Ahmed Abdallah age 53
Ivica Račan age 28
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini age 4
Manny Mori age 23
Wiliame Katonivere age 8
Ahti Karjalainen age 49
Martti Miettunen age 65
Maurice Bishop age 28
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 24
Ricardo Maduro age 26
Mátyás Szűrös age 38
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 44
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 14
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 42
Thongsing Thammavong age 28
Camille Chamoun age 72
Ruth Perry age 33
Driss Jettou age 27
Lionel Aingimea age 6
Rosario Murillo age 21
Kim Yong-il age 28
Per Borten age 59
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 34
Crin Antonescu age 12
Jules Wijdenbosch age 31
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 39
Hu'akavameiliku age 2
Anthony Carmona age 19
A. N. R. Robinson age 45
Nabbanja Robinah age 2
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 52
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 20
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 23
Jaime Lusinchi age 48
Lê Minh Hưng age 1
Phan Văn Khải age 38
Rashad al-Alimi age 18
Józef Oleksy age 26
Waldemar Pawlak age 12
Lee Hae Chan age 20
Šefik Džaferović age 14
Nebojša Radmanović age 22
Dragan Čović age 15
Giuseppe Bertello age 29
Giovanni Lajolo age 37
Zhang Xueliang age 71
Maxwell D. Taylor age 71
William Cohen age 31
Loretta Lynch age 13
Brian Kemp age 8
George Pataki age 27
Christopher Wray age 5
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 17
Rodney Williams age 24
Achille Van Acker age 74
Jaime Paz Zamora age 33
Joseph Ngute age 18
Philémon Yang age 25
Julio César Turbay age 56
Spiros Cyprianou age 39
Sylvanie Burton age 16
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 37
Lucio Gutiérrez age 15
Hesham Qandil age 9
Ibrahim Mahlab age 23
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 14
Henrique Rosa age 26
Donald Ramotar age 21
Oswaldo López Arellano age 51
Poul Hartling age 58
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 4
Felix Kulov age 23
Sonexay Siphandone age 6
Nawaf Salam age 18
Tom Thabane age 33
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 66
Kailash Purryag age 24
Vasile Tarlev age 8
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 22
Brigi Rafini age 19
Choe Yong-rim age 41
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 12
Victor Khristenko age 14
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 21
Lojze Peterle age 24
Samuel Schmid age 25
Joseph Deiss age 26
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 40
Kassim Majaliwa age 11
Phumtham Wechayachai age 18
Hamadi Jebali age 23
Tito Okello age 57
Vitold Fokin age 39
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 46
Nigmatilla Yuldashev age 9
Tallis Obed Moses age 17
Do Muoi age 55
Chung Il-kwon age 54
Jung Hong-won age 27
Harini Amarasuriya age 2
Raif Dizdarević age 45
Sulejman Tihić age 20
Vo Chi Cong age 60
Jean Rey age 70