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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
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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
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
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02

People

Luis García Meza Tejada age 38
Jorge Quiroga age 7
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 53
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 19
Moussa Faki age 7
Jamil Mahuad age 18
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 25
Negasso Gidada age 24
Peter M. Christian age 20
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 24
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 54
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 8
Željko Šturanović age 8
Nahas Angula age 24
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 39
Jim Bolger age 32
Daouda Malam Wanké age 21
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 18
Ernest Shonekan age 31
Talat Xhaferi age 5
Muhammad Junejo age 35
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 26
Vasco Gonçalves age 46
Mihai Tudose age 11 months
Bernard Makuza age 5
Kenny Anthony age 17
Ong Teng Cheong age 32
Maria das Neves age 9
Patrice Trovoada age 5
Thanin Kraiwichian age 40
Philip "Brave" Davis age 16
Luis Herrera Campins age 42
Manuel Merino age 6
Manuel Odría age 70
Nur Hassan Hussein age 30
Goh Kun age 30
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 43
C. R. Swart age 73
Marais Viljoen age 52
Sicco Mansholt age 59
François-Xavier Ortoli age 43
Alistair Darling age 14
Jack Lew age 12
Mark Milley age 9
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 24
Essam Sirius age 42
Jamshid Amouzegar age 44
Kamal Jumblatt age 50
Husband E. Kimmel age 86
Borisav Jović age 39
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 29
Boris Gromov age 24
Robert Cailliau age 21
Félicien Kabuga age 34
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 21
Mike Beebe age 21
Asa Hutchinson age 17
Bill Weld age 22
Jon Corzine age 21
Phil Murphy age 10
George Allen age 15
Charlie Baker age 11
Svetozar Marović age 12
Midge Ure age 14
Lubomír Štrougal age 43
Kigeli V Ndahindurwa age 31
Pandeli Majko age 3 months
Louise Lake-Tack age 23
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 51
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 48
José María Guido age 57
Pierre Harmel age 56
Said Musa age 23
Kimon Georgiev age 85
Norodom Ranariddh age 24
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 67
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 3
V. J. Sukselainen age 61
Edward Akufo-Addo age 61
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 54
Michael Stasinopoulos age 64
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 57
Louis Beel age 65
Jelle Zijlstra age 49
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 27
Gyude Bryant age 19
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 22
Arnoldo Alemán age 22
Wasim Sajjad age 26
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 29
Theodor Stolojan age 24
Manea Mănescu age 51
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 55
Hussein Arnous age 15
Miguel Trovoada age 31
Khuang Aphaiwong age 65
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 35
Edward Natapei age 13
Nguyen Huu Tho age 57
Mieczysław Rakowski age 41
Luis González Macchi age 20
Lee Nack-yon age 15
Nikola Špirić age 11
Ali Saibou age 27
John A. Costello age 76
Willy Claes age 29
Martin Dempsey age 15
Nigel Lawson age 35
Harold Brown age 40
Alexander Vandegrift age 80
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 52
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 50
Aspasia Manos age 71
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 31
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 16
George Voinovich age 31
Evan Bayh age 12
Mike DeWine age 21
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 7
Larry Hogan age 11
Ken Starr age 21
John Profumo age 53
Thomas Gage age 250
Juan José Arévalo age 63
Ali Kafi age 39
Eduardo Camaño age 21
Michael Jeffery age 30
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 12
Jean Duvieusart age 67
Camille Huysmans age 96
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 49
Galab Donev age 11 months
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 11
Guillermo León Valencia age 58
Armando Calderón Sol age 19
Akwasi Afrifa age 31
Fred Akuffo age 30
Phaedon Gizikis age 50
Patrick Achi age 12
Edward Seaga age 37
Omar Razzaz age 6
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 26
Temir Sariyev age 4
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 13
Fouad Chehab age 65
René Moawad age 42
Hussein Onn age 46
Ibrahim Nasir age 41
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 35
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 43
Mike Moore age 19
Pak Pong-ju age 28
Kim Tok-hun age 7
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 62
Haruo Remeliik age 34
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 1 month
Allen Chastanet age 7
Đuro Macut age 4
Ivan Stambolić age 31
Imad Khamis age 6
Wael al-Halqi age 4
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 7
Wu Den-yih age 20
Edward Lowassa age 14
Seni Pramoj age 62
Kukrit Pramoj age 56
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 21
Anand Panyarachun age 35
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 31
Hubert Ingraham age 20