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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

Hugh Thompson Jr. age 13
Essam Sirius age 30
Jamshid Amouzegar age 33
Kamal Jumblatt age 38
Husband E. Kimmel age 74
Borisav Jović age 27
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 17
Boris Gromov age 12
Robert Cailliau age 9
Félicien Kabuga age 23
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 72
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 73
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 10
Mike Beebe age 9
Asa Hutchinson age 5
Bill Weld age 11
Jon Corzine age 9
George Allen age 4
Svetozar Marović age 1
Midge Ure age 2
Lubomír Štrougal age 31
Louise Lake-Tack age 12
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 40
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 36
José María Guido age 46
Pierre Harmel age 45
Said Musa age 12
Kimon Georgiev age 74
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 50
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 43
Michael Stasinopoulos age 53
Alfonso Portillo age 4
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 20
Géza Lakatos age 66
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 8
Ólafur Thors age 64
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 43
Ahmed Chalabi age 11
Patrick Allen age 5
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 36
Viggo Kampmann age 46
Louis Beel age 54
Jelle Zijlstra age 38
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 15
Gyude Bryant age 7
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 11
Arnoldo Alemán age 10
Wasim Sajjad age 15
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 17
Theodor Stolojan age 12
Manea Mănescu age 40
Nureddin al-Atassi age 27
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 44
Hussein Arnous age 3
Miguel Trovoada age 19
Yen Chia-kan age 50
Khuang Aphaiwong age 54
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 24
Edward Natapei age 2
Nguyen Huu Tho age 46
Mieczysław Rakowski age 29
Luis González Macchi age 8
Lee Nack-yon age 3
Nikola Špirić age 0 months
Ali Saibou age 16
Jack Lynch age 39
Willy Claes age 17
Rauf Orbay age 75
Martin Dempsey age 4
Nigel Lawson age 24
Harold Brown age 28
Alexander Vandegrift age 69
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 84
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 40
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 66
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 39
Aspasia Manos age 60
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 20
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 5
George Voinovich age 20
Evan Bayh age 8 months
Mike DeWine age 9
Larry Hogan age 3 months
Ken Starr age 10
John Profumo age 41
Thomas Gage age 238
Juan José Arévalo age 52
Ali Kafi age 27
Eduardo Camaño age 10
Michael Jeffery age 18
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 9 months
Hubert Pierlot age 72
Jean Duvieusart age 56
Camille Huysmans age 85
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 37
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 38
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 4 months
Guillermo León Valencia age 47
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 48
Armando Calderón Sol age 8
Akwasi Afrifa age 20
Fred Akuffo age 19
Phaedon Gizikis age 39
Patrick Achi age 9 months
Edward Seaga age 26
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 14
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 2
Fouad Chehab age 54
René Moawad age 31
Hussein Onn age 34
Ibrahim Nasir age 30
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 17
Haruo Remeliik age 23
Ivan Stambolić age 19
Hashim al-Atassi age 80
Wu Den-yih age 8
Edward Lowassa age 3
Seni Pramoj age 51
Kukrit Pramoj age 45
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 9
Anand Panyarachun age 24
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 20
Hubert Ingraham age 9
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 15
Mohamed Ennaceur age 22
Apolo Nsibambi age 15
Godfrey Binaisa age 36
Vitalii Masol age 27
Raúl Leoni age 51
Ramón José Velásquez age 39
Vo Van Kiet age 33
Mohammed Basindawa age 21
Arnulfo Arias age 55
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 62
Francisco Sagasti age 11
Momčilo Krajišnik age 11
Andrés Rodríguez age 33
Liu Bocheng age 63
Glubb Pasha age 59
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 26
Claire Lee Chennault age 63
Albert Reynolds age 23
Lee Jong-wook age 11
Dušan Simović age 73
Kenneth Clarke age 16
John Smith age 17
Abdel Hakim Amer age 36
Fazlollah Zahedi age 64
Bai Chongxi age 63
Johannes Frießner age 64
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 60
Veljko Kadijević age 30
Shunroku Hata age 77
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 4
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 53
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 70
Prince William of Gloucester age 14
Nathan Deal age 14
Sonny Perdue age 9
Mitch Daniels age 7
Gray Davis age 13
Otmar Hasler age 2
Milan Stojadinović age 68
Gaylord Nelson age 40
Jamshid bin Abdullah age 26
Ramsey Clark age 28
Courtney Hodges age 69
Albert Pintat age 13
Carlos Lacoste age 27
Josef Klaus age 46
Juan José Torres age 36
Ivan Kostov age 6
Saye Zerbo age 24
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 14
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 11