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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
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
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
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
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Johan Ferrier age 62
Surayud Chulanont age 29
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 29
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 31
Guy Scott age 28
Martín Torrijos age 9
Valentín Paniagua age 36
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 66
Ye Jianying age 75
Robert Zoellick age 19
Jack Straw age 26
Mark Esper age 8
Milan Babić age 16
Jang Song-thaek age 26
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 64
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 35
Prince Michael of Kent age 30
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 34
Martin O'Malley age 9
Deval Patrick age 16
Klaus Tschütscher age 5
Wim Duisenberg age 37
Ellison Onizuka age 26
Eric Holder age 21
Abd al-Malek Selal age 24
Liamine Zéroual age 31
Karen Karapetyan age 9
Johnny Briceño age 12
Nikolai Denkov age 10
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 26
Khieu Samphan age 41
Abel Pacheco age 38
Tihomir Orešković age 6
Giorgos Vasiliou age 41
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 20
Charles Savarin age 29
León Febres-Cordero age 41
Vano Merabishvili age 4
Hilla Limann age 37
Vasiliki Thanou age 22
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 73
Moussa Dadis Camara age 7
Carmen Pereira age 36
Roberto Micheletti age 29
József Antall age 40
Ayad Allawi age 28
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 6 months
Marouf al-Bakhit age 25
Jens Otto Krag age 58
Isa Mustafa age 21
Khamtai Siphandone age 48
Omar Karami age 38
Mahmoud Jibril age 20
Artūras Paulauskas age 19
David Kabua age 21
Nangolo Mbumba age 31
Ludwig Scotty age 24
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 19
Jan P. Syse age 42
Trygve Bratteli age 62
Odvar Nordli age 45
Chivu Stoica age 64
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 19
Tufuga Efi age 34
Wee Kim Wee age 57
Ignazio Cassis age 11
Carlos Vila Nova age 13
Rahmon Nabiyev age 42
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 22
Carlos Arias Navarro age 63
Trường Chinh age 65
Dương Văn Minh age 56
Garret FitzGerald age 46
John Bruton age 25
Henry Paulson age 26
Larry Summers age 17
Michael Howard age 31
Scott Bessent age 10
Timothy Geithner age 11
Mary Lou McDonald age 3
Sayako Kuroda age 3
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 80
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 30
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 28
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 29
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 7
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 5
Mark Warner age 17
W. Averell Harriman age 81
Eliot Spitzer age 13
Uğur Şahin age 7
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 47
Akhtar Mansour age 4
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 31
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 42
David Thompson age 10
Viačasław Kiebič age 36
Mark Eyskens age 39
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 55
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 42
Rodrigo Paz age 5
Plamen Oresharski age 12
Elisabeth Domitien age 47
Michel Djotodia age 23
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 51
Jiří Rusnok age 12
Stanislav Gross age 3
Ahmed Shafik age 31
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 57
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 27
Christos Sartzetakis age 43
Boniface Alexandre age 36
Nasry Asfura age 14
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 61
Elias Hrawi age 46
Pakalitha Mosisili age 27
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 34
Pravind Jugnauth age 10
Emilio Portes Gil age 82
Jhala Nath Khanal age 22
Enrique Bolaños age 44
Mahamane Ousmane age 22
Murtala Muhammed age 34
Vlado Bučkovski age 9
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 4
Radu Vasile age 30
Petre Roman age 26
Pasteur Bizimungu age 22
Aminata Touré age 10
Mame Madior Boye age 31
Manasseh Sogavare age 17
Thanom Kittikachorn age 61
Lương Cường age 15
Leszek Miller age 26
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 51
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 39
Guy Mollet age 66
Ferruccio Parri age 82
Liam Cosgrave age 52
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 53
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 62
Vuk Drašković age 25
William Barr age 22
William J. Burns age 16
Harriet Harman age 22
Mehdi Bazargan age 65
Wang Qishan age 24
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 31
Yves Congar age 68
Empress Nagako age 69
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 70
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 28
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 42
Adrian Hasler age 8
James R. Schlesinger age 43
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 6
Héctor José Cámpora age 63
Juan Carlos Onganía age 58
Hovik Abrahamyan age 14
Frank Forde age 82
David Hurley age 19
Viktor Klima age 25
Andrei Kobyakow age 11
Duma Boko age 2
Michel Kafando age 30
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 17
Domitien Ndayizeye age 19
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 28
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 74
Ernesto Samper age 22
Judith Suminwa age 5
Juan Bosch age 63
Gustavo Noboa age 35
Zurab Noghaideli age 8
Keith Mitchell age 26
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 26
Ariel Henry age 23
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 44
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 30
Navin Ramgoolam age 25
Petru Lucinschi age 32
Ion Chicu age 8 months
Pavel Filip age 6
Momir Bulatović age 16
Abbas El Fassi age 32
Baburam Bhattarai age 18
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 47
David Lange age 30
Radmila Šekerinska age 5 months
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 21
Johnson Toribiong age 26
Rami Hamdallah age 14
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 58
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 38
Philip J. Pierre age 18