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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 39
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 36
José María Guido age 45
Pierre Harmel age 45
Said Musa age 12
Kimon Georgiev age 73
Norodom Ranariddh age 12
José María Figueres Olsen age 1
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 54
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 15
Kamal Ganzouri age 23
Alfredo Cristiani age 8
Andres Tarand age 16
V. J. Sukselainen age 49
Edward Akufo-Addo age 49
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 42
Michael Stasinopoulos age 52
Alfonso Portillo age 4
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 20
Géza Lakatos age 65
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 8
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 43
Ahmed Chalabi age 11
Patrick Allen age 5
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 36
Viggo Kampmann age 45
Louis Beel age 53
Jelle Zijlstra age 37
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 15
Gyude Bryant age 7
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 10
Arnoldo Alemán age 10
Wasim Sajjad age 14
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 17
Theodor Stolojan age 12
Manea Mănescu age 39
Nureddin al-Atassi age 27
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 43
Hussein Arnous age 3
Miguel Trovoada age 19
Yen Chia-kan age 50
Khuang Aphaiwong age 53
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 23
Edward Natapei age 1
Nguyen Huu Tho age 45
Mieczysław Rakowski age 29
Luis González Macchi age 8
Lee Nack-yon age 3
Ali Saibou age 15
Jack Lynch age 38
Willy Claes age 17
Rauf Orbay age 74
Martin Dempsey age 4
Nigel Lawson age 24
Harold Brown age 28
Alexander Vandegrift age 69
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 83
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 40
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
Evan Bayh age 2 months
Mike DeWine age 9
Ken Starr age 9
John Profumo age 41
Thomas Gage age 238
Juan José Arévalo age 51
Ali Kafi age 27
Eduardo Camaño age 9
Michael Jeffery age 18
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 3 months
Hubert Pierlot age 72
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 19
Phaedon Gizikis age 38
Patrick Achi age 4 months
Edward Seaga age 25
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 14
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 1
Fouad Chehab age 54
René Moawad age 30
Hussein Onn age 34
Ibrahim Nasir age 29
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 23
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 62
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 32
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 67
Mike Moore age 7
Pak Pong-ju age 16
Haruo Remeliik age 22
Ivan Stambolić age 19
Hashim al-Atassi age 80
Wu Den-yih age 8
Edward Lowassa age 2
Seni Pramoj age 50
Kukrit Pramoj age 44
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 9
Anand Panyarachun age 23
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 19
Hubert Ingraham age 8
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 14
Mohamed Ennaceur age 22
Apolo Nsibambi age 15
Godfrey Binaisa age 35
Vitalii Masol age 27
Raúl Leoni age 50
Ramón José Velásquez age 39
Vo Van Kiet age 33
Mohammed Basindawa age 20
Arnulfo Arias age 54
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 62
Francisco Sagasti age 11
Momčilo Krajišnik age 11
Andrés Rodríguez age 32
Liu Bocheng age 63
Glubb Pasha age 58
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 25
Claire Lee Chennault age 62
Albert Reynolds age 23
Lee Jong-wook age 10
Dušan Simović age 73
Kenneth Clarke age 15
John Smith age 17
Abdel Hakim Amer age 36
Fazlollah Zahedi age 63
Bai Chongxi age 63
Johannes Frießner age 64
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 59
Veljko Kadijević age 30
Shunroku Hata age 76
Princess Helen of Serbia age 71
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 42
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 35
Sam Manekshaw age 42
Ko Yong-hui age 3
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 52
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 70
Prince William of Gloucester age 14
Nathan Deal age 13
Sonny Perdue age 9
Mitch Daniels age 6
Gray Davis age 13
Otmar Hasler age 2
Milan Stojadinović age 67
Gaylord Nelson age 39
Ramsey Clark age 28
Courtney Hodges age 69
Albert Pintat age 12
Carlos Lacoste age 27
Josef Klaus age 45
Juan José Torres age 36
Ivan Kostov age 6
Saye Zerbo age 23
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 13
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 32
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 16
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 32
Josef Tošovský age 5
Sufi Abu Taleb age 31
Tosiwo Nakayama age 24
Edwin Linkomies age 61
Xenophon Zolotas age 52
Tillman Thomas age 10
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 6
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 12
Gérard Latortue age 21
Jenő Fock age 39
Miklós Kállay age 69
Sutan Sjahrir age 47
P. J. Patterson age 20
Bruce Golding age 8
Abdullah Ensour age 17
Erik Eriksen age 53
Dirk Jan de Geer age 85
Victor Marijnen age 39
Phankham Viphavanh age 5
Charles D. B. King age 81
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 6
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 8
Kessai Note age 5
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 18
Anand Satyanand age 11
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 2
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 72
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 69
Victor Ciorbea age 1
Constantin Dăscălescu age 32
Mugur Isărescu age 6
Frederick Ballantyne age 19
Abdoul Mbaye age 2