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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 11
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 12
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 4
Djoomart Otorbaev age 6
Rashid Karami age 39
Sam Matekane age 3
Zigmantas Balčytis age 7
Richard Ratsimandrava age 30
Modibo Sidibé age 8
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 8
Abdellatif Filali age 33
René Harris age 13
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 21
Jerry Mateparae age 6
Jens Hundseid age 78
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 75
Mohammad Mustafa age 7
Clément Mouamba age 17
Ilie Verdeț age 36
David Vunagi age 10
Cho Jung-tai age 2
Prawit Wongsuwon age 16
Lynden Pindling age 31
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 23
Feleti Sevele age 17
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 10
Ali Laarayedh age 6
Mohamed Mzali age 35
Ruhakana Rugunda age 13
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 28
Eleazar López Contreras age 78
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 22
Choi Sang-mok age 1
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 45
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 27
José Giral age 81
Alan Johnson age 11
John J. Sullivan age 1
Robert Rubin age 23
Francis Biddle age 75
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 35
Nadir al-Arbawi age 11
Edmond Leburton age 46
Jean Van Houtte age 54
Philip Dimitrov age 6
Andrey Lukanov age 22
Paul Kaba Thieba age 1
Son Sann age 49
Eduardo Santos age 73
Said Mohamed Djohar age 43
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 70
Luis Alberto Monge age 35
Vlatko Pavletić age 30
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 58
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 44
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 12
Tafari Benti age 39
Leo Falcam age 25
Laisenia Qarase age 20
Jean-Max Bellerive age 3
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 17
José Azcona del Hoyo age 34
György Lázár age 36
Ferenc Nagy age 57
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 48
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 8
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 13
Wim Schermerhorn age 66
Suleiman Frangieh age 51
Amos Sawyer age 16
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 22
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 9
Alfred Sant age 13
Paul Xuereb age 38
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 19
Pascoal Mocumbi age 20
Aires Ali age 5
Soe Win age 14
Pak Song-chol age 48
Nurul Amin age 68
Shujaat Hussain age 21
Kuniwo Nakamura age 17
Tapley Seaton age 11
John Compton age 36
Henck Arron age 25
Adolf Ogi age 19
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 17
Frank Hsieh age 15
Cornelius A. Smith age 24
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 22
Patrick Manning age 15
Habib Essid age 12
Bülent Ulusu age 38
Kausea Natano age 4
Enele Sopoaga age 5
Yusuf Lule age 49
Ham Lini age 9
Kazimierz Sabbat age 48
Michael Ogio age 19
Nicolás Lindley López age 52
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 1
Richard O'Connor age 72
Douglas Hurd age 31
John Shalikashvili age 25
Michael Mukasey age 20
He Yingqin age 71
Abderrahmane Farès age 50
Marc Forné Molné age 14
Vazgen Manukyan age 15
John Kerr age 46
Isa Gambar age 4
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 43
Manuel Esquivel age 21
Sangay Ngedup age 8
Wálter Guevara age 49
David Padilla age 34
Enrique Peñaranda age 67
Enrique Hertzog age 63
Guido Vildoso age 24
Marin Raykov age 8 months
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 7
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla age 3
Ephraïm Inoni age 14
Lol Mahamat Choua age 22
Josip Manolić age 41
Fabián Alarcón age 14
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 82
Aman Andom age 37
John Haglelgam age 12
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 7
Tengiz Sigua age 26
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 42
Sofoklis Venizelos age 66
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 77
Mohamed Said Fofana age 9
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 7
Aristides Gomes age 6
Ansumane Mané age 21
Moses Nagamootoo age 13
Martial Célestin age 47
Carlos Roberto Flor age 11
Carlos Roberto Reina age 35
Mohammad Natsir age 53
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 36
Knud Kristensen age 80
Jo Cals age 47
Bujar Bukoshi age 14
Nexhat Daci age 17
Jakup Krasniqi age 10
Nikolai Tanayev age 15
Igor Chudinov age 0 months
Indulis Emsis age 9
Elias Sarkis age 37
Irena Degutienė age 12
Jacques Sylla age 15
Moctar Ouane age 5
Norovyn Altankhuyag age 3
Bernard Dowiyogo age 15
Tulsi Giri age 34
Silvia Cartwright age 17
Catherine Tizard age 30
Amadou Cheiffou age 18
Kim Il age 51
Hari Kostov age 1
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 37
Henk Chin A Sen age 27
Kaspar Villiger age 20
Luai al-Atassi age 35
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 29
Basdeo Panday age 28
Maatia Toafa age 7
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 32
Paulo Muwanga age 37
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 14
Bob Loughman age 5 months
Octavio Lepage age 37
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 15
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 8
Federico Chávez age 80
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 8
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 23
Lee Ju-ho age 6 months
Dudley Senanayake age 50
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 25
Brock Chisholm age 65
Robert Bork age 34
Otto Hofmann age 65
Abdul Kabir age 3
Adil Çarçani age 39
Noureddine Bedoui age 1
Peter Hollingworth age 26
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 13
Joseph Pholien age 76
Elmira Minita Gordon age 30
Khandu Wangchuk age 10
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 36
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 15
Gilbert Diendéré age 1
Son Ngoc Thanh age 52
Nicolas Tiangaye age 4