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Events

Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Air raids on Japan 1939-08-15 - 1945-08-15
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Siege of Malta (World War II) 1940-06-11 - 1942-11-20
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Tripartite Pact 1940-09-27 - 1945
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Axis occupation of Greece 1941-04 - 1944-10
Eastern Front (World War II) 1941-06-22 - 1955-01-21
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Crimean campaign 1941-10-18 - 1942-07-04
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
South-East Asian theatre of World War II 1941-12-08 - 1945-09-09
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Voronezh (1942) 1942 - 1942-07-24
Japanese occupation of Singapore 1942 - 1945
Battles of Rzhev 1942-01-05 - 1943-03-21
Demyansk Pocket 1942-01-07 - 1942-05-25

People

Saw Maung age 13
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 41
Robert Muldoon age 20
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 67
Nikola Kljusev age 14
Christopher Hornsrud age 82
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 24
Constantin Sănătescu age 57
Gavril Dejeu age 9
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 14
Otto Stich age 15
Arnold Koller age 8
Max Petitpierre age 43
Zhang Qun age 53
Hedi Amara Nouira age 31
Şemsettin Günaltay age 58
Ferit Melen age 35
Óscar Diego Gestido age 40
Pham Hung age 29
Jędrzej Moraczewski age 72
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 56
Paulias Matane age 10
José Patricio Guggiari age 58
Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias age 67
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 1
Charles Hardinge age 83
Yasuji Okamura age 58
John J. McCloy age 47
Leon Brittan age 2
Joseph Grew age 62
W. Michael Blumenthal age 16
Petar Živković age 63
Norman Lamont age 0 months
Marc Mitscher age 55
Harry Crerar age 54
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 17
Zhang Guotao age 44
Józef Haller age 68
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 11 months
Takeo Takagi age 50
Petar Bojović age 83
Constantin Prezan age 81
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 46
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 45
Erhard Raus age 53
Raoul Salan age 42
Dudley Pound age 64
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni age 34
Prince George William of Hanover age 27
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg age 39
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 72
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke age 55
Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk age 49
Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia age 35
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 30
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 14
Infante Alfonso of Spain age 7 months
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 8
José Serrato age 73
Oldřich Černík age 20
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 26
John N. Mitchell age 28
Òscar Ribas Reig age 5
França Van-Dúnem age 7
James Carlisle age 4
Vere Bird age 31
Arturo Rawson age 56
Ninian Stephen age 18
Abdus Sattar age 36
Hernando Siles Reyes age 59
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 14
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 16
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 28
Abel Goumba age 15
Vladimir Bakarić age 30
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 43
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 22
Isidro Ayora age 62
Otto Arosemena age 16
Arturo Armando Molina age 14
Bailey Olter age 10
Emil Jónsson age 39
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 49
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 47
Seydou Diarra age 8
Mustafa Ben Halim age 21
Bronislovas Lubys age 3
Mohamed Amin Didi age 31
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 8
Azzeddine Laraki age 13
Ahmed Laraki age 10
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 15
Man Mohan Adhikari age 21
Adolfo Díaz age 66
Ivar Lykke age 70
Thomas Remengesau age 10
Carlos Mota Pinto age 5
Nicolae Rădescu age 68
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 21
Habib Thiam age 9
Mamadou Dia age 31
Ramsewak Shankar age 4
Fred Ramdat Misier age 15
Kurt Furgler age 17
René Felber age 9
Hau Pei-tsun age 22
Salim Ahmed Salim age 3 months
Rachid Sfar age 8
Refik Saydam age 60
Valentyn Symonenko age 1
Juan José de Amézaga age 61
Alberto Demicheli age 45
Walter Lini age 4 months
Edward Babiuch age 14
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 5
Manuel Portela Valladares age 75
Jeremy Thorpe age 13
Sultan al-Atrash age 51
Jonathan M. Wainwright age 58
Bo Gu age 35
Du Yuesheng age 53
Walter Weiß age 51
John Peters Humphrey age 37
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 47
Walter Krueger age 61
Juan Yagüe Blanco age 50
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 74
Mahmoud Taleghani age 31
Théoneste Bagosora age 9 months
Hanako, Princess Hitachi age 1
Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia age 50
Lennart Bernadotte age 33
Walther Nehring age 49
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin age 50
Soong Ai-ling age 52
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1891) age 50
Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg age 55
Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt age 43
Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria age 71
Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 75
Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 48
Lady Pamela Hicks age 13
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz age 6
Johan Ferner age 14
Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria age 9
Richard Russell Jr. age 44
Ted Strickland age 9 months
Norman Tebbit age 11
Mika Špiljak age 25
Hermann Rauschning age 54
Arthur Goldberg age 33
Potter Stewart age 27
Clark Clifford age 35
Robert A. Lovett age 46
Fejzi Alizoti age 67
Mehdi Frashëri age 70
Youssef Yousfi age 7 months
Simon Vratsian age 60
Alexander Khatisian age 68
Carl Vaugoin age 68
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 9
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 21
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 26
Moudud Ahmed age 1
Errol Barrow age 22
Paul-Émile Janson age 70
Juan Pereda age 10
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 46
Stoyan Danev age 84
Penn Nouth age 36
Miguel Mariano Gómez age 52
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno age 82
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 5
Timoci Bavadra age 7
Penaia Ganilau age 23
Urho Castrén age 55
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 1 month
Otar Patsatsia age 13
Hudson Austin age 4
Paul Magloire age 34
Sándor Simonyi-Semadam age 78
Lajos Dinnyés age 41
Dénes Berinkey age 70
Björn Þórðarson age 63
Hugh Shearer age 19
Adnan Badran age 6
Mudar Badran age 8
Phoumi Vongvichit age 33
Mamohato of Lesotho age 1
Paul Boffa age 51
Mustafa Ould Salek age 6
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 56
Mário da Graça Machungo age 1
Norman Kirk age 19
Hong Song-nam age 12
António Maria da Silva age 70
Constantin Angelescu age 73
Josip Vidmar age 46
Johan Kraag age 28
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 52