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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

Flavio Cotti age 16
H. H. Kung age 75
Chen Chien-jen age 5
Yen Hsi-shan age 73
Sanya Dharmasakti age 49
Kriangsak Chamanan age 38
Chatchai Chunhawan age 36
Arthur Foulkes age 28
Marguerite Pindling age 24
Eric Williams age 44
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 33
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 49
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 55
Julius Chan age 17
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 40
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 3 months
Diego Martínez Barrio age 72
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 7 months
Edem Kodjo age 18
Miles Dempsey age 59
Masayoshi Ito age 42
Dirk Stikker age 59
James Wolfensohn age 22
Eric Shinseki age 13
Frank Carlucci age 25
Les Aspin age 18
Michael Mullen age 9
Lien Chan age 20
William H. Webster age 32
Rabah Bitat age 30
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 29
William Deane age 25
Clifford Husbands age 30
Reneta Indzhova age 3
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 7
Nikica Valentić age 5
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 45
Hipólito Mejía age 15
Atef Ebeid age 24
Jacob Nena age 14
Reino Kuuskoski age 49
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 58
Ralf Törngren age 57
Raymond Ndong Sima age 1
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 53
Ramiro de León Carpio age 14
Jorge Serrano Elías age 11
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 32
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 9
Gyula Kállai age 46
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 32
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 45
Alexander Bustamante age 72
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 6
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 7
Jan Eduard de Quay age 55
Djoomart Otorbaev age 1
Rashid Karami age 34
Zigmantas Balčytis age 2
Richard Ratsimandrava age 25
Modibo Sidibé age 3
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 3
Abdellatif Filali age 28
René Harris age 8
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 16
Jerry Mateparae age 1
Jens Hundseid age 73
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 70
Mohammad Mustafa age 1
Clément Mouamba age 12
Ilie Verdeț age 31
David Vunagi age 5
Prawit Wongsuwon age 11
Lynden Pindling age 26
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 18
Feleti Sevele age 12
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 5
Ali Laarayedh age 1
Mohamed Mzali age 30
Ruhakana Rugunda age 8
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 23
Eleazar López Contreras age 73
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 17
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 40
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 22
José Giral age 76
Seán Lemass age 57
Alan Johnson age 6
Robert Rubin age 18
Francis Biddle age 70
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 30
Nadir al-Arbawi age 6
Edmond Leburton age 41
Jean Van Houtte age 49
Théo Lefèvre age 42
Philip Dimitrov age 1
Andrey Lukanov age 17
Son Sann age 44
Eduardo Santos age 68
Said Mohamed Djohar age 38
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 65
Luis Alberto Monge age 30
Vlatko Pavletić age 25
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 53
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 39
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 7
Tafari Benti age 34
Leo Falcam age 20
Laisenia Qarase age 15
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 60
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 12
José Azcona del Hoyo age 29
György Lázár age 31
Ferenc Nagy age 52
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 43
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 3
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 8
Wim Schermerhorn age 61
Suleiman Frangieh age 46
Amos Sawyer age 11
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 17
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 4
Alfred Sant age 8
Paul Xuereb age 33
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 14
Pascoal Mocumbi age 15
Aires Ali age 8 months
Soe Win age 9
Keith Holyoake age 52
Pak Song-chol age 43
Nurul Amin age 63
Shujaat Hussain age 16
Kuniwo Nakamura age 12
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 36
Tapley Seaton age 6
John Compton age 31
Henck Arron age 20
Adolf Ogi age 14
Nazim al-Kudsi age 50
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 12
Frank Hsieh age 10
Cornelius A. Smith age 19
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 17
Patrick Manning age 10
Habib Essid age 7
Bülent Ulusu age 33
Enele Sopoaga age 6 months
Yusuf Lule age 44
Ham Lini age 4
Kazimierz Sabbat age 43
Michael Ogio age 14
Nicolás Lindley López age 47
Richard O'Connor age 67
Douglas Hurd age 26
John Shalikashvili age 20
Michael Mukasey age 15
He Yingqin age 66
Abderrahmane Farès age 45
Marc Forné Molné age 9
Vazgen Manukyan age 10
John Kerr age 41
Otto Ender age 80
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 38
Manuel Esquivel age 16
Sangay Ngedup age 3
Wálter Guevara age 44
David Padilla age 29
Enrique Peñaranda age 62
Enrique Hertzog age 58
Guido Vildoso age 19
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 2
Ephraïm Inoni age 9
Lol Mahamat Choua age 17
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 70
Josip Manolić age 36
Fabián Alarcón age 9
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 77
Aman Andom age 32
John Haglelgam age 7
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 2
Tengiz Sigua age 21
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 37
Sofoklis Venizelos age 61
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 72
Mohamed Said Fofana age 4
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 2
Aristides Gomes age 1
Ansumane Mané age 16
Moses Nagamootoo age 8
Martial Célestin age 42
Carlos Roberto Flor age 6
Ramón Villeda Morales age 46
Carlos Roberto Reina age 30
Móric Esterházy age 75
Mohammad Natsir age 48
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 31
Knud Kristensen age 75
Jo Cals age 42
Bujar Bukoshi age 9
Nexhat Daci age 12