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Events

Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Occupation of the Baltic states 1940 - 1991
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mexican Dirty War 1954 - 2000
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
First Sudanese Civil War 1955-08-18 - 1972-03-27
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Escambray rebellion 1959 - 1965
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Rwandan Revolution 1959-11-01 - 1961-09
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Angolan War of Independence 1961-02-04 - 1974-04-25
Portuguese Colonial War 1961-02-04 - 1974-04-25
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Ahmed Chalabi age 16
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 2
Patrick Allen age 10
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 41
Louis Beel age 59
Jelle Zijlstra age 42
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 20
Gyude Bryant age 12
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 15
Arnoldo Alemán age 15
Wasim Sajjad age 20
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 67
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 22
Theodor Stolojan age 17
Manea Mănescu age 44
Nureddin al-Atassi age 32
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 49
Hussein Arnous age 8
Miguel Trovoada age 24
Yen Chia-kan age 55
Khuang Aphaiwong age 59
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 28
Edward Natapei age 6
Nguyen Huu Tho age 50
Mieczysław Rakowski age 34
Luis González Macchi age 13
Lee Nack-yon age 8
Nikola Špirić age 4
Ali Saibou age 21
John A. Costello age 70
Jack Lynch age 43
Willy Claes age 22
Rauf Orbay age 79
Martin Dempsey age 9
Nigel Lawson age 29
Harold Brown age 33
Alexander Vandegrift age 74
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 88
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 45
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 43
Aspasia Manos age 64
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 24
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 9
George Voinovich age 24
Evan Bayh age 5
Mike DeWine age 14
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 11 months
Larry Hogan age 5
Ken Starr age 14
Thomas Gage age 243
Juan José Arévalo age 56
Ali Kafi age 32
Eduardo Camaño age 15
Michael Jeffery age 23
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 5
Hubert Pierlot age 77
Jean Duvieusart age 61
Camille Huysmans age 90
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 42
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 43
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 5
Guillermo León Valencia age 52
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 53
Armando Calderón Sol age 13
Akwasi Afrifa age 25
Fred Akuffo age 24
Phaedon Gizikis age 44
Patrick Achi age 5
Edward Seaga age 31
Omar Razzaz age 1 month
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 19
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 7
René Moawad age 36
Hussein Onn age 39
Ibrahim Nasir age 34
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 28
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 67
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 37
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 72
Mike Moore age 12
Pak Pong-ju age 22
Kim Tok-hun age 5 months
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 55
Haruo Remeliik age 28
Allen Chastanet age 7 months
Ivan Stambolić age 24
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 4 months
Wu Den-yih age 13
Edward Lowassa age 7
Seni Pramoj age 56
Kukrit Pramoj age 50
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 14
Anand Panyarachun age 28
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 25
Hubert Ingraham age 13
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 20
Mohamed Ennaceur age 27
Apolo Nsibambi age 20
Godfrey Binaisa age 41
Vitalii Masol age 32
Sato Kilman age 3
Raúl Leoni age 56
Ramón José Velásquez age 44
Vo Van Kiet age 38
Mohammed Basindawa age 26
Arnulfo Arias age 59
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 67
Francisco Sagasti age 16
Momčilo Krajišnik age 16
Mladen Ivanić age 2
Andrés Rodríguez age 38
Liu Bocheng age 68
Glubb Pasha age 64
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 30
Albert Reynolds age 28
Lee Jong-wook age 16
Dušan Simović age 78
Kenneth Clarke age 20
John Smith age 22
Abdel Hakim Amer age 41
Fazlollah Zahedi age 69
Bai Chongxi age 68
Johannes Frießner age 69
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 65
Veljko Kadijević age 35
Shunroku Hata age 81
Princess Helen of Serbia age 76
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 47
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 40
Sam Manekshaw age 47
Ko Yong-hui age 9
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 57
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 75
Prince William of Gloucester age 19
Nathan Deal age 18
Sonny Perdue age 14
Mitch Daniels age 12
Gray Davis age 18
Otmar Hasler age 7
Milan Stojadinović age 72
Gaylord Nelson age 45
Jamshid bin Abdullah age 31
Ramsey Clark age 33
Courtney Hodges age 74
Albert Pintat age 18
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 16
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 11
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 17
Gérard Latortue age 27
Jenő Fock age 45
Miklós Kállay age 74
Sutan Sjahrir age 52
P. J. Patterson age 26
Bruce Golding age 13
Abdullah Ensour age 22
Erik Eriksen age 58
Victor Marijnen age 44
Phankham Viphavanh age 10
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 38
Mugur Isărescu age 11
Frederick Ballantyne age 24
Abdoul Mbaye age 8
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 24
Andrej Bajuk age 17
Anton Rop age 5 months
Adib Shishakli age 52
Qahhor Mahkamov age 29
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 49
Aparicio Méndez age 56
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 51