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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01

People

Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 5
Tafari Benti age 32
Leo Falcam age 18
Laisenia Qarase age 13
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 58
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 10
José Azcona del Hoyo age 27
György Lázár age 29
Ferenc Nagy age 50
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 41
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 1
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 6
Wim Schermerhorn age 59
Suleiman Frangieh age 43
Amos Sawyer age 8
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 15
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 2
Alfred Sant age 6
Paul Xuereb age 30
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 12
Pascoal Mocumbi age 13
Soe Win age 7
Keith Holyoake age 50
Pak Song-chol age 40
Nurul Amin age 60
Shujaat Hussain age 14
Kuniwo Nakamura age 10
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 34
Tapley Seaton age 3
John Compton age 29
Henck Arron age 18
Adolf Ogi age 11
Nazim al-Kudsi age 48
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 10
Frank Hsieh age 8
Cornelius A. Smith age 17
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 15
Patrick Manning age 7
Habib Essid age 4
Bülent Ulusu age 31
Yusuf Lule age 42
Ham Lini age 2
Kazimierz Sabbat age 41
Michael Ogio age 11
Nicolás Lindley López age 45
Richard O'Connor age 64
Douglas Hurd age 24
John Shalikashvili age 17
Michael Mukasey age 12
He Yingqin age 64
Abderrahmane Farès age 43
Marc Forné Molné age 7
Vazgen Manukyan age 8
John Kerr age 39
Otto Ender age 78
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 36
Manuel Esquivel age 14
Sangay Ngedup age 10 months
Wálter Guevara age 42
David Padilla age 26
Enrique Peñaranda age 60
Enrique Hertzog age 56
Guido Vildoso age 17
Ephraïm Inoni age 6
Lol Mahamat Choua age 14
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 68
Josip Manolić age 34
Fabián Alarcón age 7
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 74
Aman Andom age 29
John Haglelgam age 4
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 4 months
Tengiz Sigua age 19
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 34
Sofoklis Venizelos age 59
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 70
Mohamed Said Fofana age 2
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 1 month
Ansumane Mané age 14
Moses Nagamootoo age 6
Martial Célestin age 40
Carlos Roberto Flor age 4
Ramón Villeda Morales age 44
Carlos Roberto Reina age 28
Móric Esterházy age 73
Mohammad Natsir age 45
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 29
Knud Kristensen age 73
Jo Cals age 39
Bujar Bukoshi age 7
Nexhat Daci age 9
Jakup Krasniqi age 3
Nikolai Tanayev age 8
Indulis Emsis age 2
Elias Sarkis age 29
Irena Degutienė age 4
Jacques Sylla age 7
Bernard Dowiyogo age 8
Tulsi Giri age 27
Silvia Cartwright age 10
Catherine Tizard age 23
Amadou Cheiffou age 11
Kim Il age 44
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 30
Henk Chin A Sen age 20
Kaspar Villiger age 13
Luai al-Atassi age 28
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 22
Basdeo Panday age 21
Maatia Toafa age 0 months
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 25
Paulo Muwanga age 30
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 7
Octavio Lepage age 30
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 8
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 1
Federico Chávez age 73
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 1
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 16
Dudley Senanayake age 42
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 18
Brock Chisholm age 58
Robert Bork age 27
Leo Amery age 80
Otto Hofmann age 58
William J. Brennan Jr. age 48
Adil Çarçani age 32
Peter Hollingworth age 19
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 6
Joseph Pholien age 69
Elmira Minita Gordon age 23
Khandu Wangchuk age 3
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 28
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 8
Son Ngoc Thanh age 45
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 4
Ali Soilih age 17
Zlatko Mateša age 4
Cyrille Adoula age 32
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 24
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 42
Ignacio Milam Tang age 13
Otto Tief age 64
Themba Dlamini age 3
Rainer von Fieandt age 63
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 55
Stylianos Gonatas age 77
Spiridon Markezinis age 45
Carlos Correia age 20
Francisco Mendes age 15
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 27
Jóhann Hafstein age 38
Wasfi Tal age 35
Nader al-Dahabi age 7
Vilhelm Buhl age 72
Teburoro Tito age 8 months
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 41
Boun Oum age 42
Charles Helou age 40
Abdullah al-Thani age 4 months
Shukri Ghanem age 11
Justas Paleckis age 55
Charles Rabemananjara age 6
Albert Camille Vital age 1
Imata Kabua age 11
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 14
Saw Maung age 25
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 53
Robert Muldoon age 32
Nikola Kljusev age 26
Christopher Hornsrud age 94
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 36
Gavril Dejeu age 21
Anastase Murekezi age 1
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 26
Otto Stich age 27
Arnold Koller age 20
Max Petitpierre age 55
Liu Chao-shiuan age 11
Lin Chuan age 2
Zhang Qun age 65
Hedi Amara Nouira age 43
Şemsettin Günaltay age 70
Ferit Melen age 47
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 4
Amama Mbabazi age 5
Óscar Diego Gestido age 52
Pham Hung age 41
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 68
Paulias Matane age 22
José Patricio Guggiari age 70
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 13
Borislav Paravac age 11
Jorge del Castillo age 3
Yasuji Okamura age 70
John J. McCloy age 59
Leon Brittan age 14
Joseph Grew age 74
W. Michael Blumenthal age 28
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 74