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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
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
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 3
Mohamed Mzali age 29
Ruhakana Rugunda age 7
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 21
Eleazar López Contreras age 71
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 16
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 39
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 21
José Giral age 75
Seán Lemass age 55
Alan Johnson age 4
Hugh Gaitskell age 48
Robert Rubin age 16
Francis Biddle age 68
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 28
Nadir al-Arbawi age 5
Edmond Leburton age 39
Jean Van Houtte age 47
Théo Lefèvre age 41
Andrey Lukanov age 16
Son Sann age 43
Eduardo Santos age 66
Said Mohamed Djohar age 36
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 63
Luis Alberto Monge age 29
Vlatko Pavletić age 24
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 51
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 37
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 5
Tafari Benti age 33
Leo Falcam age 19
Laisenia Qarase age 13
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 59
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 11
José Azcona del Hoyo age 28
György Lázár age 30
Ferenc Nagy age 51
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 41
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 2
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 7
Wim Schermerhorn age 60
Suleiman Frangieh age 44
Amos Sawyer age 9
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 16
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 2
Alfred Sant age 6
Paul Xuereb age 31
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 13
Pascoal Mocumbi age 13
Soe Win age 7
Keith Holyoake age 50
Pak Song-chol age 41
Nurul Amin age 61
Shujaat Hussain age 15
Kuniwo Nakamura age 11
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 35
Tapley Seaton age 4
John Compton age 29
Henck Arron age 18
Adolf Ogi age 12
Nazim al-Kudsi age 48
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 11
Frank Hsieh age 8
Cornelius A. Smith age 17
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 15
Patrick Manning age 8
Habib Essid age 5
Bülent Ulusu age 31
Yusuf Lule age 42
Ham Lini age 3
Kazimierz Sabbat age 41
Michael Ogio age 12
Nicolás Lindley López age 46
Richard O'Connor age 65
Douglas Hurd age 24
John Shalikashvili age 18
Michael Mukasey age 13
He Yingqin age 64
Abderrahmane Farès age 44
Marc Forné Molné age 8
Vazgen Manukyan age 8
John Kerr age 40
Otto Ender age 79
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 37
Manuel Esquivel age 14
Sangay Ngedup age 1
Wálter Guevara age 42
David Padilla age 27
Enrique Peñaranda age 61
Enrique Hertzog age 57
Guido Vildoso age 17
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 7 months
Ephraïm Inoni age 7
Lol Mahamat Choua age 15
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 69
Josip Manolić age 34
Fabián Alarcón age 7
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 75
Aman Andom age 30
John Haglelgam age 5
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 1
Tengiz Sigua age 20
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 35
Sofoklis Venizelos age 60
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 70
Mohamed Said Fofana age 3
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 9 months
Aristides Gomes age 2 months
Ansumane Mané age 15
Moses Nagamootoo age 7
Martial Célestin age 41
Carlos Roberto Flor age 4
Ramón Villeda Morales age 45
Carlos Roberto Reina age 28
Móric Esterházy age 73
Mohammad Natsir age 46
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 29
Knud Kristensen age 74
Jo Cals age 40
Bujar Bukoshi age 7
Nexhat Daci age 10
Jakup Krasniqi age 4
Nikolai Tanayev age 9
Indulis Emsis age 3
Elias Sarkis age 30
Irena Degutienė age 5
Jacques Sylla age 8
Bernard Dowiyogo age 8
Tulsi Giri age 28
Silvia Cartwright age 11
Catherine Tizard age 23
Amadou Cheiffou age 12
Kim Il age 44
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 31
Henk Chin A Sen age 21
Kaspar Villiger age 13
Luai al-Atassi age 29
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 22
Basdeo Panday age 21
Maatia Toafa age 8 months
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 26
Paulo Muwanga age 30
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 7
Octavio Lepage age 31
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 8
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 1
Federico Chávez age 73
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 2
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 17
Dudley Senanayake age 43
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 19
Brock Chisholm age 58
Robert Bork age 27
Leo Amery age 81
Otto Hofmann age 58
William J. Brennan Jr. age 48
Adil Çarçani age 32
Peter Hollingworth age 19
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 7
Joseph Pholien age 70
Elmira Minita Gordon age 24
Khandu Wangchuk age 4
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 29
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 8
Son Ngoc Thanh age 46
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 4
Ali Soilih age 18
Zlatko Mateša age 5
Cyrille Adoula age 33
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 25
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 43
Ignacio Milam Tang age 14
Otto Tief age 65
Themba Dlamini age 4
Rainer von Fieandt age 64
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 56
Stylianos Gonatas age 78
Spiridon Markezinis age 45
Carlos Correia age 21
Francisco Mendes age 15
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 27
Jóhann Hafstein age 39
Wasfi Tal age 36
Nader al-Dahabi age 8
Teburoro Tito age 1
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 41
Boun Oum age 43
Charles Helou age 41
Abdullah al-Thani age 1
Shukri Ghanem age 12
Justas Paleckis age 56
Charles Rabemananjara age 7
Albert Camille Vital age 2
Imata Kabua age 11
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 15
Saw Maung age 26
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 54
Robert Muldoon age 33
Nikola Kljusev age 27
Christopher Hornsrud age 95