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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04

People

Rosario Murillo age 37
Kim Yong-il age 45
Per Borten age 76
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 51
Crin Antonescu age 29
Jules Wijdenbosch age 48
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 55
Hu'akavameiliku age 19
Anthony Carmona age 36
Nabbanja Robinah age 19
Serhii Koretskyi age 11
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 69
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 37
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 40
Jaime Lusinchi age 64
Lê Minh Hưng age 18
Phan Văn Khải age 55
Rashad al-Alimi age 35
Józef Oleksy age 42
Waldemar Pawlak age 29
Lee Hae Chan age 36
Šefik Džaferović age 31
Nebojša Radmanović age 39
Dragan Čović age 32
Giuseppe Bertello age 46
Giovanni Lajolo age 54
Zhang Xueliang age 87
Geoffrey Howe age 62
Shabana Mahmood age 8
William Cohen age 48
Loretta Lynch age 29
Warren E. Burger age 81
Christopher Wray age 22
Haxhi Lleshi age 75
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 34
Rodney Williams age 41
Jaime Paz Zamora age 50
Joseph Ngute age 35
Philémon Yang age 41
Julio César Turbay age 72
Spiros Cyprianou age 56
Sylvanie Burton age 33
Lucio Gutiérrez age 32
Hesham Qandil age 26
Ibrahim Mahlab age 40
Grigol Mgaloblishvili age 15
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 31
Henrique Rosa age 43
Donald Ramotar age 38
Oswaldo López Arellano age 67
Olzhas Bektenov age 8
Poul Hartling age 74
Barend Biesheuvel age 69
Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev age 21
Felix Kulov age 40
Sonexay Siphandone age 23
Nawaf Salam age 35
Tom Thabane age 49
Kailash Purryag age 41
Vasile Tarlev age 25
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 39
Brigi Rafini age 36
Choe Yong-rim age 58
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 29
Victor Khristenko age 31
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 37
Lojze Peterle age 40
Samuel Schmid age 42
Joseph Deiss age 43
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 56
Kassim Majaliwa age 28
Phumtham Wechayachai age 35
Hamadi Jebali age 40
Tito Okello age 74
Vitold Fokin age 56
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 63
Nigmatilla Yuldashev age 26
Tallis Obed Moses age 34
Chung Il-kwon age 71
Jung Hong-won age 44
Harini Amarasuriya age 19
Sulejman Tihić age 37
Ajay Banga age 29
Dan Caine age 20
Jacqui Smith age 26
Nadhim Zahawi age 21
Lloyd Bentsen age 68
Luis García Meza Tejada age 59
Jorge Quiroga age 29
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 75
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 40
Moussa Faki age 28
Jamil Mahuad age 39
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 37
Hazem Al Beblawi age 52
Tiit Vähi age 42
Mart Siimann age 42
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 47
Negasso Gidada age 45
Peter M. Christian age 41
Johannes Virolainen age 75
Georgios Rallis age 70
Nuno Nabiam age 22
Raimundo Pereira age 32
Charles Konan Banny age 46
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 45
Agim Çeku age 28
Moeketsi Majoro age 27
Ali Zeidan age 38
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 30
Michael Randrianirina age 15
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 29
Chiril Gaburici age 12
Natalia Gherman age 20
Željko Šturanović age 29
Nahas Angula age 45
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 61
Jim Bolger age 53
Daouda Malam Wanké age 43
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 40
Ernest Shonekan age 53
Talat Xhaferi age 27
Muhammad Junejo age 56
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 47
Vasco Gonçalves age 68
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani age 8
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu age 20
Mihai Tudose age 22
Bernard Makuza age 26
Kenny Anthony age 38
Ong Teng Cheong age 53
Maria das Neves age 30
Patrice Trovoada age 27
Thanin Kraiwichian age 62
Luis Herrera Campins age 64
Manuel Merino age 27
Nur Hassan Hussein age 51
Goh Kun age 51
Marais Viljoen age 73
Sicco Mansholt age 80
François-Xavier Ortoli age 64
Alistair Darling age 35
Grant Shapps age 20
Jack Lew age 33
Mark Milley age 30
Pandeli Majko age 21
Louise Lake-Tack age 44
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 69
Pierre Harmel age 78
Said Musa age 45
Norodom Ranariddh age 45
José María Figueres Olsen age 34
Kamal Ganzouri age 56
Alfredo Cristiani age 41
Andres Tarand age 49
David W. Panuelo age 25
V. J. Sukselainen age 82
Michael Stasinopoulos age 85
Alfonso Portillo age 37
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 53
András Hegedüs age 66
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 41
Ahmed Chalabi age 44
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 30
Patrick Allen age 38
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 69
Jelle Zijlstra age 70
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 48
Gyude Bryant age 40
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 43
Arnoldo Alemán age 43
Emil Dimitriev age 10
Wasim Sajjad age 48
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 50
Theodor Stolojan age 45
Manea Mănescu age 72
Nureddin al-Atassi age 60
Hussein Arnous age 36
Miguel Trovoada age 52
Yen Chia-kan age 83
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 56
Edward Natapei age 34
Nguyen Huu Tho age 78
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 19
Luis González Macchi age 41
Lee Nack-yon age 36
Nikola Špirić age 32
Raffaella Petrini age 20
Jack Lynch age 71
Willy Claes age 50
Martin Dempsey age 37
Harold Brown age 61
Melvin Laird age 66
Thomas Gage age 271
Juan José Arévalo age 84
Ali Kafi age 60
Eduardo Camaño age 42
Alen Simonyan age 9
Michael Jeffery age 51
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 33