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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
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
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23

People

Nadhim Zahawi age 1
Lloyd Bentsen age 47
Liam Fox age 6
Ralph Northam age 8
Wang Zhen (general) age 60
Frank Jack Fletcher age 83
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 81
Tajuddin Ahmad age 43
Luis García Meza Tejada age 39
Jorge Quiroga age 8
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 54
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 19
Moussa Faki age 8
Jamil Mahuad age 19
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 16
Hazem Al Beblawi age 31
José Napoleón Duarte age 42
Tiit Vähi age 21
Mart Siimann age 21
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 26
Negasso Gidada age 24
Peter M. Christian age 20
Rafael Paasio age 65
Johannes Virolainen age 54
Georgios Rallis age 49
Nuno Nabiam age 1
Raimundo Pereira age 11
István Dobi age 69
Charles Konan Banny age 25
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 25
Agim Çeku age 7
Moeketsi Majoro age 6
Ali Zeidan age 17
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 9
Joseph Bech age 81
Ċensu Tabone age 55
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 9
Željko Šturanović age 8
Nahas Angula age 25
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 40
Jim Bolger age 33
Daouda Malam Wanké age 22
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 19
Ernest Shonekan age 32
Talat Xhaferi age 6
Muhammad Junejo age 36
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 7
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
Mike Beebe age 21
Asa Hutchinson age 17
Bill Weld age 23
Jon Corzine age 21
Phil Murphy age 11
George Allen age 16
Charlie Baker age 11
Pandeli Majko age 9 months
Louise Lake-Tack age 24
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 51
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 48
José María Guido age 58
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 50
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 36
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
George Voinovich age 32
Evan Bayh age 12
Mike DeWine age 21
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 8
Larry Hogan age 12
Ken Starr age 22
John Profumo age 53
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 4 months
Kim Min-seok age 4
Momčilo Krajišnik age 23