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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21

People

Talat Xhaferi age 6
Muhammad Junejo age 35
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 27
Vasco Gonçalves age 47
Mihai Tudose age 1
Bernard Makuza age 5
Kenny Anthony age 17
Ong Teng Cheong age 32
Maria das Neves age 10
Patrice Trovoada age 6
Thanin Kraiwichian age 41
Luis Herrera Campins age 43
Manuel Merino age 6
Manuel Odría age 70
Nur Hassan Hussein age 30
Goh Kun age 30
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 44
Marais Viljoen age 52
Sicco Mansholt age 59
François-Xavier Ortoli age 43
Alistair Darling age 14
Jack Lew age 12
Mark Milley age 10
Pandeli Majko age 8 months
Louise Lake-Tack age 24
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 51
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 48
José María Guido age 57
Pierre Harmel age 57
Said Musa age 24
Kimon Georgiev age 86
Norodom Ranariddh age 24
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 68
José María Figueres Olsen age 13
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 66
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 27
Kamal Ganzouri age 35
Alfredo Cristiani age 20
Andres Tarand age 28
David W. Panuelo age 4
V. J. Sukselainen age 61
Edward Akufo-Addo age 62
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 55
Michael Stasinopoulos age 65
Alfonso Portillo age 16
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 32
András Hegedüs age 45
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 20
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 55
Ahmed Chalabi age 23
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 9
Patrick Allen age 17
Viggo Kampmann age 58
Louis Beel age 66
Jelle Zijlstra age 49
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 27
Gyude Bryant age 19
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 23
Arnoldo Alemán age 22
Wasim Sajjad age 27
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 29
Theodor Stolojan age 24
Manea Mănescu age 52
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 56
Hussein Arnous age 15
Miguel Trovoada age 31
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 35
Edward Natapei age 14
Nguyen Huu Tho age 58
Mieczysław Rakowski age 41
Luis González Macchi age 20
Lee Nack-yon age 15
Nikola Špirić age 11
Ali Saibou age 28
John A. Costello age 77
Willy Claes age 29
Martin Dempsey age 16
Nigel Lawson age 36
Harold Brown age 40
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 17
Thomas Gage age 250
Juan José Arévalo age 63
Ali Kafi age 39
Eduardo Camaño age 22
Michael Jeffery age 30
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 12
Jean Duvieusart age 68
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 49
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 50
Galab Donev age 1
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 12
Guillermo León Valencia age 59
Armando Calderón Sol age 20
Akwasi Afrifa age 32
Fred Akuffo age 31
Phaedon Gizikis age 51
Patrick Achi age 12
Edward Seaga age 38
Omar Razzaz age 7
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 26
Temir Sariyev age 5
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 14
Fouad Chehab age 66
René Moawad age 43
Hussein Onn age 46
Ibrahim Nasir age 41
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 35
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 44
Mike Moore age 19
Pak Pong-ju age 29
Kim Tok-hun age 7
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 63
Haruo Remeliik age 35
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 7 months
Allen Chastanet age 7
Ivan Stambolić age 31
Imad Khamis age 7
Wael al-Halqi age 4
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 7
Wu Den-yih age 20
Edward Lowassa age 14
Seni Pramoj age 63
Kukrit Pramoj age 57
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 21
Anand Panyarachun age 36
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 32
Hubert Ingraham age 21
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 27
Mohamed Ennaceur age 34
Apolo Nsibambi age 27
Godfrey Binaisa age 48
Vitalii Masol age 39
Sato Kilman age 10
Ramón José Velásquez age 51
Vo Van Kiet age 45
Mohammed Basindawa age 33
Arnulfo Arias age 67
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 74
Francisco Sagasti age 23
Hassan Ali Khayre age 3 months
Kim Min-seok age 4
Momčilo Krajišnik age 23
Mladen Ivanić age 9
Mercedes Aráoz age 6
Andrés Rodríguez age 45
Liu Bocheng age 75
Albert Reynolds age 35
Lee Jong-wook age 23
Kenneth Clarke age 28
Albert Pintat age 25
Carlos Lacoste age 39
Juan José Torres age 48
Ivan Kostov age 18
Saye Zerbo age 35
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 26
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 1
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 44
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 28
Josef Tošovský age 17
Adolphe Muzito age 11
Sufi Abu Taleb age 43
Francisco Flores age 8
Tosiwo Nakayama age 36
Xenophon Zolotas age 64
Tillman Thomas age 23
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 18
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 24
Gérard Latortue age 34
P. J. Patterson age 33
Bruce Golding age 20
Abdullah Ensour age 29
Erik Eriksen age 65
Victor Marijnen age 51
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 18
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 20
Kessai Note age 17
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 30
Anand Satyanand age 24
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 14
Victor Ciorbea age 13
Constantin Dăscălescu age 45
Mugur Isărescu age 19
Frederick Ballantyne age 32
Abdoul Mbaye age 15
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 31
Andrej Bajuk age 24
Anton Rop age 7
Jeremiah Manele age 4 months
Riyad Farid Hijab age 2
Qahhor Mahkamov age 36
Mizengo Pinda age 19
Cleopa Msuya age 37
Apisai Ielemia age 12
Anatolii Kinakh age 14
Yevhen Marchuk age 27
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 56
Aparicio Méndez age 63
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 58
Guillermo Endara age 32
Kim Hwang-sik age 19