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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
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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Guy Scott age 29
Martín Torrijos age 10
Valentín Paniagua age 36
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 66
Ye Jianying age 76
Robert Zoellick age 20
Jack Straw age 27
Mark Esper age 9
Milan Babić age 17
Jang Song-thaek age 27
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 36
Prince Michael of Kent age 31
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 35
Martin O'Malley age 10
Deval Patrick age 17
Klaus Tschütscher age 6
Wim Duisenberg age 38
Ellison Onizuka age 27
Eric Holder age 22
Abd al-Malek Selal age 25
Liamine Zéroual age 32
Karen Karapetyan age 10
Johnny Briceño age 13
Nikolai Denkov age 10
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 26
Khieu Samphan age 42
Abel Pacheco age 39
Tihomir Orešković age 7
Giorgos Vasiliou age 42
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 21
Charles Savarin age 29
León Febres-Cordero age 42
Vano Merabishvili age 5
Hilla Limann age 38
Vasiliki Thanou age 22
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 74
Moussa Dadis Camara age 8
Carmen Pereira age 36
Roberto Micheletti age 30
József Antall age 41
Ayad Allawi age 29
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 1
Marouf al-Bakhit age 26
Jens Otto Krag age 58
Isa Mustafa age 22
Khamtai Siphandone age 49
Omar Karami age 38
Mahmoud Jibril age 21
Artūras Paulauskas age 20
David Kabua age 22
Nangolo Mbumba age 32
Ludwig Scotty age 25
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 20
Jan P. Syse age 42
Trygve Bratteli age 63
Odvar Nordli age 45
Chivu Stoica age 65
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 20
Tufuga Efi age 35
Wee Kim Wee age 57
Ignazio Cassis age 12
Carlos Vila Nova age 14
Rahmon Nabiyev age 42
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 22
Carlos Arias Navarro age 64
Trường Chinh age 66
Dương Văn Minh age 57
Garret FitzGerald age 47
John Bruton age 26
Henry Paulson age 27
Larry Summers age 18
Michael Howard age 32
Scott Bessent age 11
Timothy Geithner age 12
Mary Lou McDonald age 4
Sayako Kuroda age 4
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 80
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 31
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 29
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 30
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark age 8
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece age 6
Mark Warner age 18
W. Averell Harriman age 81
Eliot Spitzer age 14
Uğur Şahin age 7
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 48
Akhtar Mansour age 5
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 31
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 43
David Thompson age 11
Viačasław Kiebič age 37
Mark Eyskens age 40
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 56
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 43
Rodrigo Paz age 5
Plamen Oresharski age 13
Elisabeth Domitien age 48
Michel Djotodia age 24
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 51
Jiří Rusnok age 12
Stanislav Gross age 3
Ahmed Shafik age 31
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 58
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 28
Christos Sartzetakis age 44
Boniface Alexandre age 37
Nasry Asfura age 15
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 62
Elias Hrawi age 46
Pakalitha Mosisili age 28
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 35
Pravind Jugnauth age 11
Emilio Portes Gil age 82
Jhala Nath Khanal age 23
Enrique Bolaños age 45
Mahamane Ousmane age 23
Murtala Muhammed age 34
Vlado Bučkovski age 10
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 5
Radu Vasile age 30
Petre Roman age 27
Édouard Ngirente age 6 months
Pasteur Bizimungu age 23
Aminata Touré age 10
Mame Madior Boye age 32
Manasseh Sogavare age 18
Lương Cường age 16
Leszek Miller age 27
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 51
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 40
Guy Mollet age 67
Ferruccio Parri age 83
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 54
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 63
Vuk Drašković age 26
William Barr age 23
William J. Burns age 17
Harriet Harman age 23
Mehdi Bazargan age 66
Wang Qishan age 25
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 32
Yves Congar age 69
Empress Nagako age 70
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 71
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 29
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 43
Adrian Hasler age 9
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 6
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 55
Héctor José Cámpora age 64
Juan Carlos Onganía age 59
Hovik Abrahamyan age 15
Frank Forde age 83
David Hurley age 20
Viktor Klima age 26
Andrei Kobyakow age 12
Gaston Eyskens age 68
Duma Boko age 3
Michel Kafando age 31
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 18
Domitien Ndayizeye age 20
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 29
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 74
Ernesto Samper age 23
Judith Suminwa age 5
Juan Bosch age 64
Gustavo Noboa age 36
Zurab Noghaideli age 8
Keith Mitchell age 26
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 27
Ariel Henry age 23
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 11
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 26
Albert Zafy age 46
Christian Ntsay age 12
Anthony Mamo age 64
Amata Kabua age 44
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 31
Navin Ramgoolam age 26
Petru Lucinschi age 33
Ion Chicu age 1
Pavel Filip age 7
Momir Bulatović age 16
Abbas El Fassi age 32
Baburam Bhattarai age 19
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 48
David Lange age 31
Radmila Šekerinska age 1
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 22
Johnson Toribiong age 27
Rami Hamdallah age 15
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 59
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 39
Philip J. Pierre age 18
Su Tseng-chang age 26
Hubert Minnis age 19
Keith Rowley age 23
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 59
Le Duc Anh age 52