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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
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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29

People

Lee Jong-wook age 15
Dušan Simović age 78
Kenneth Clarke age 20
Ramsey Clark age 33
Courtney Hodges age 74
Albert Pintat age 17
Carlos Lacoste age 32
Josef Klaus age 50
Juan José Torres age 41
Ivan Kostov age 11
Saye Zerbo age 28
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 18
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 37
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 21
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 37
Josef Tošovský age 10
Adolphe Muzito age 4
Sufi Abu Taleb age 36
Francisco Flores age 1
Tosiwo Nakayama age 29
Edwin Linkomies age 66
Xenophon Zolotas age 57
Tillman Thomas age 15
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 11
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 17
Gérard Latortue age 26
Jenő Fock age 44
Miklós Kállay age 74
Sutan Sjahrir age 52
P. J. Patterson age 25
Bruce Golding age 13
Abdullah Ensour age 22
Erik Eriksen age 58
Victor Marijnen age 44
Charles D. B. King age 86
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 11
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 13
Kessai Note age 10
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 23
Anand Satyanand age 16
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 7
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 77
Victor Ciorbea age 6
Constantin Dăscălescu age 37
Mugur Isărescu age 11
Frederick Ballantyne age 24
Abdoul Mbaye age 7
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 24
Andrej Bajuk age 17
Anton Rop age 2 months
Adib Shishakli age 52
Qahhor Mahkamov age 28
Mizengo Pinda age 12
Cleopa Msuya age 30
Apisai Ielemia age 5
Anatolii Kinakh age 6
Yevhen Marchuk age 20
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 48
Aparicio Méndez age 56
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 51
Guillermo Endara age 24
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 32
Kim Hwang-sik age 12
Chung Un-chan age 14
Kim Jong-pil age 35
Chung Sye-kyun age 10
William Gopallawa age 63
D. M. Jayaratne age 29
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 19
Matthew Ridgway age 66
He Long age 65
Manlio Brosio age 63
Franco Maria Malfatti age 33
David Malpass age 5
Denis Healey age 43
David Blunkett age 13
Amin al-Hafiz age 39
Dragiša Cvetković age 68
J. Lawton Collins age 64
John W. Snow age 21
John Healey age 1
Li Yuanchao age 10
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 42
Elliot Richardson age 40
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 15
Lester Bird age 23
Ramón Puerta age 9
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 77
Bill Hayden age 28
Alfons Gorbach age 62
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 20
Georges Theunis age 88
Paul van Zeeland age 67
Colville Young age 28
Stefan Janev age 1
Goukouni Oueddei age 19
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 69
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 34
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 14
Osvaldo Hurtado age 21
Galo Plaza age 55
Joseph Urusemal age 9
Teuvo Aura age 48
Keijo Liinamaa age 31
Sakari Tuomioja age 49
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 66
Ioannis Grivas age 38
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 33
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 30
Vinicio Cerezo age 18
Desmond Hoyte age 32
Henri Namphy age 28
Claudette Werleigh age 14
Tiburcio Carías age 85
Péter Boross age 32
Károly Grósz age 30
Geir Hallgrímsson age 35
Erik Scavenius age 83
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 8
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 46
Salim al-Huss age 31
Moses Blah age 13
Anton Buttigieg age 49
Litokwa Tomeing age 21
Khil Raj Regmi age 11
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 1
Cuthbert Sebastian age 39
Mahammed Dionne age 1
Zoran Živković age 3 months
Flavio Cotti age 21
H. H. Kung age 79
Chen Chien-jen age 9
Sanya Dharmasakti age 54
Kriangsak Chamanan age 43
Chatchai Chunhawan age 40
Arthur Foulkes age 32
Marguerite Pindling age 28
Eric Williams age 49
Ahmed Hachani age 4
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 38
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 53
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 59
Julius Chan age 21
Kim Boo-kyum age 3
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 45
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 4
Diego Martínez Barrio age 77
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 5
Edem Kodjo age 22
Miles Dempsey age 64
Masayoshi Ito age 47
Dirk Stikker age 64
James Wolfensohn age 27
Eric Shinseki age 18
Frank Carlucci age 30
Les Aspin age 22
Michael Mullen age 14
Lien Chan age 24
William H. Webster age 37
Rabah Bitat age 35
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 34
William Deane age 30
Clifford Husbands age 34
Jeffrey Bostic age 4 months
Reneta Indzhova age 7
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 12
Nikica Valentić age 10
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 50
Hipólito Mejía age 20
Atef Ebeid age 28
Jacob Nena age 19
Reino Kuuskoski age 54
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 62
Ralf Törngren age 62
Raymond Ndong Sima age 6
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 58
Ramiro de León Carpio age 19
Jorge Serrano Elías age 15
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 37
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 14
Gyula Kállai age 50
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 36
Hermann Jónasson age 64
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 50
Alexander Bustamante age 77
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 11
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 11
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 4
Djoomart Otorbaev age 5
Rashid Karami age 39
Sam Matekane age 3
Zigmantas Balčytis age 7
Richard Ratsimandrava age 30
Modibo Sidibé age 8
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 8
Abdellatif Filali age 33
René Harris age 13
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 21
Jerry Mateparae age 6
Jens Hundseid age 77