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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16

People

V. J. Sukselainen age 48
Edward Akufo-Addo age 49
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 42
Michael Stasinopoulos age 52
Alfonso Portillo age 4
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 19
Géza Lakatos age 65
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 7
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 42
Ahmed Chalabi age 10
Patrick Allen age 4
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 35
Viggo Kampmann age 45
Louis Beel age 53
Jelle Zijlstra age 37
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 14
Gyude Bryant age 6
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 10
Arnoldo Alemán age 9
Wasim Sajjad age 14
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 16
Theodor Stolojan age 11
Manea Mănescu age 39
Nureddin al-Atassi age 26
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 43
Hussein Arnous age 2
Miguel Trovoada age 18
Yen Chia-kan age 49
Khuang Aphaiwong age 53
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 23
Edward Natapei age 1
Nguyen Huu Tho age 45
Mieczysław Rakowski age 28
Luis González Macchi age 7
Lee Nack-yon age 2
Ali Saibou age 15
Jack Lynch age 38
Willy Claes age 16
Rauf Orbay age 74
Martin Dempsey age 3
Nigel Lawson age 23
Harold Brown age 28
Alexander Vandegrift age 68
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 83
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 39
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 65
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 38
Aspasia Manos age 59
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 19
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 4
George Voinovich age 19
Mike DeWine age 8
Ken Starr age 9
John Profumo age 40
Thomas Gage age 237
Juan José Arévalo age 51
Ali Kafi age 26
Eduardo Camaño age 9
Michael Jeffery age 17
Hubert Pierlot age 71
Jean Duvieusart age 55
Camille Huysmans age 84
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 36
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 37
Guillermo León Valencia age 46
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 47
Armando Calderón Sol age 7
Akwasi Afrifa age 19
Fred Akuffo age 18
Phaedon Gizikis age 38
Edward Seaga age 25
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 13
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 1
Fouad Chehab age 53
René Moawad age 30
Hussein Onn age 33
Ibrahim Nasir age 29
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 22
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 61
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 31
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 66
Mike Moore age 6
Pak Pong-ju age 16
Haruo Remeliik age 22
Ivan Stambolić age 18
Hashim al-Atassi age 79
Wu Den-yih age 7
Edward Lowassa age 2
Seni Pramoj age 50
Kukrit Pramoj age 44
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 8
Anand Panyarachun age 23
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 19
Hubert Ingraham age 8
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 14
Mohamed Ennaceur age 21
Apolo Nsibambi age 14
Godfrey Binaisa age 35
Vitalii Masol age 26
Raúl Leoni age 50
Ramón José Velásquez age 38
Vo Van Kiet age 32
Mohammed Basindawa age 20
Arnulfo Arias age 54
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 61
Francisco Sagasti age 10
Momčilo Krajišnik age 10
Andrés Rodríguez age 32
Liu Bocheng age 62
Glubb Pasha age 58
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 25
Claire Lee Chennault age 62
Albert Reynolds age 22
Lee Jong-wook age 10
Dušan Simović age 72
Kenneth Clarke age 15
John Smith age 17
Abdel Hakim Amer age 35
Fazlollah Zahedi age 63
Bai Chongxi age 62
Johannes Frießner age 63
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 59
Veljko Kadijević age 29
Shunroku Hata age 76
Princess Helen of Serbia age 70
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 41
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 34
Sam Manekshaw age 41
Ko Yong-hui age 3
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 52
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 69
Prince William of Gloucester age 13
Nathan Deal age 13
Sonny Perdue age 8
Mitch Daniels age 6
Gray Davis age 12
Otmar Hasler age 1
Milan Stojadinović age 67
Gaylord Nelson age 39
Jamshid bin Abdullah age 26
Ramsey Clark age 27
Courtney Hodges age 68
Albert Pintat age 12
Carlos Lacoste age 26
Josef Klaus age 45
Juan José Torres age 35
Ivan Kostov age 5
Saye Zerbo age 23
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 13
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 31
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 15
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 31
Josef Tošovský age 4
Sufi Abu Taleb age 30
Tosiwo Nakayama age 23
Edwin Linkomies age 60
Xenophon Zolotas age 51
Tillman Thomas age 10
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 5
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 12
Gérard Latortue age 21
Jenő Fock age 39
Miklós Kállay age 68
Sutan Sjahrir age 46
P. J. Patterson age 20
Bruce Golding age 7
Abdullah Ensour age 16
Erik Eriksen age 52
Dirk Jan de Geer age 84
Victor Marijnen age 38
Phankham Viphavanh age 4
Charles D. B. King age 80
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 5
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 7
Kessai Note age 5
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 17
Anand Satyanand age 11
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 1
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 72
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 68
Victor Ciorbea age 11 months
Constantin Dăscălescu age 32
Mugur Isărescu age 6
Frederick Ballantyne age 19
Abdoul Mbaye age 2
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 18
Andrej Bajuk age 11
Adib Shishakli age 46
Qahhor Mahkamov age 23
Mizengo Pinda age 7
Cleopa Msuya age 24
Apisai Ielemia age 1 month
Anatolii Kinakh age 1
Yevhen Marchuk age 14
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 43
Aparicio Méndez age 51
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 45
Guillermo Endara age 19
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 27
Kim Hwang-sik age 7