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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

Richard O'Connor age 67
Douglas Hurd age 26
John Shalikashvili age 20
Michael Mukasey age 15
George Deukmejian age 28
Christine Todd Whitman age 9
He Yingqin age 66
Abderrahmane Farès age 45
Marc Forné Molné age 9
Vazgen Manukyan age 10
John Kerr age 41
Otto Ender age 80
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 38
Manuel Esquivel age 16
Sangay Ngedup age 3
Wálter Guevara age 44
David Padilla age 29
Enrique Peñaranda age 62
Enrique Hertzog age 58
Guido Vildoso age 19
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 2
Ephraïm Inoni age 9
Lol Mahamat Choua age 17
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 70
Josip Manolić age 36
Fabián Alarcón age 9
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 77
Aman Andom age 32
John Haglelgam age 7
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 2
Tengiz Sigua age 21
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 37
Sofoklis Venizelos age 61
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 72
Mohamed Said Fofana age 4
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 2
Aristides Gomes age 1
Ansumane Mané age 16
Moses Nagamootoo age 8
Martial Célestin age 42
Carlos Roberto Flor age 6
Ramón Villeda Morales age 46
Carlos Roberto Reina age 30
Móric Esterházy age 75
Mohammad Natsir age 48
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 31
Knud Kristensen age 75
Jo Cals age 42
Bujar Bukoshi age 9
Nexhat Daci age 12
Jakup Krasniqi age 5
Nikolai Tanayev age 10
Indulis Emsis age 4
Elias Sarkis age 32
Irena Degutienė age 7
Jacques Sylla age 10
Moctar Ouane age 10 months
Bernard Dowiyogo age 10
Tulsi Giri age 29
Silvia Cartwright age 12
Catherine Tizard age 25
Amadou Cheiffou age 13
Kim Il age 46
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 32
Henk Chin A Sen age 22
Kaspar Villiger age 15
Luai al-Atassi age 30
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 24
Basdeo Panday age 23
Maatia Toafa age 2
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 27
Paulo Muwanga age 32
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 9
Octavio Lepage age 32
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 10
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 3
Federico Chávez age 75
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 3
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 18
Dudley Senanayake age 45
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 20
Brock Chisholm age 60
Robert Bork age 29
Pat Brown age 51
George W. Casey Jr. age 8
Dale Bumpers age 31
Otto Hofmann age 60
William J. Brennan Jr. age 50
Adil Çarçani age 34
Peter Hollingworth age 21
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 8
Joseph Pholien age 71
Elmira Minita Gordon age 25
Khandu Wangchuk age 5
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 31
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 10
Son Ngoc Thanh age 47
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 6
Ali Soilih age 19
Zlatko Mateša age 7
Cyrille Adoula age 34
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 26
Ignacio Milam Tang age 16
Otto Tief age 67
Themba Dlamini age 5
Rainer von Fieandt age 65
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 58
Stylianos Gonatas age 80
Spiridon Markezinis age 47
Carlos Correia age 22
Francisco Mendes age 17
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 29
Jóhann Hafstein age 40
Wasfi Tal age 37
Nader al-Dahabi age 9
Teburoro Tito age 3
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 43
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 10 months
Boun Oum age 44
Charles Helou age 42
Abdullah al-Thani age 2
Shukri Ghanem age 13
Justas Paleckis age 57
Charles Rabemananjara age 9
Albert Camille Vital age 4
Imata Kabua age 13
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 16
Saw Maung age 27
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 56
Robert Muldoon age 34
Nikola Kljusev age 28
Christopher Hornsrud age 96
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 39
Gavril Dejeu age 23
Anastase Murekezi age 4
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 28
Susan Dougan age 1
Otto Stich age 29
Arnold Koller age 23
Max Petitpierre age 57
Liu Chao-shiuan age 13
Lin Chuan age 4
Zhang Qun age 67
Hedi Amara Nouira age 45
Şemsettin Günaltay age 73
Ferit Melen age 49
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 6
Amama Mbabazi age 7
Óscar Diego Gestido age 54
Serge Vohor age 1
Pham Hung age 44
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 71
Paulias Matane age 24
José Patricio Guggiari age 72
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 15
Borislav Paravac age 13
Jorge del Castillo age 6
Yasuji Okamura age 72
John J. McCloy age 61
Leon Brittan age 16
Joseph Grew age 76
W. Michael Blumenthal age 30
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 76
Peter Pace age 10
Norman Lamont age 14
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 9
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 40
John N. Mitchell age 42
Òscar Ribas Reig age 19
Paulo Kassoma age 5
França Van-Dúnem age 22
James Carlisle age 19
Vere Bird age 45
Ninian Stephen age 33
Abdus Sattar age 50
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 13
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 29
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 30
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 42
Abel Goumba age 29
Emmanuel Nadingar age 5
Saleh Kebzabo age 9
Vladimir Bakarić age 44
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 57
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 37
Isidro Ayora age 77
Otto Arosemena age 31
Arturo Armando Molina age 29
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 6
Cleopas Dlamini age 4
Bailey Olter age 24
Jocelerme Privert age 3
Emil Jónsson age 53
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 63
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 62
Robert Beugré Mambé age 4
Seydou Diarra age 22
Hani al-Mulki age 4
Bajram Rexhepi age 2
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 7 months