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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
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
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

People

Chung Un-chan age 21
Kim Jong-pil age 42
Chung Sye-kyun age 17
William Gopallawa age 70
D. M. Jayaratne age 37
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 26
Matthew Ridgway age 73
Franco Maria Malfatti age 41
David Malpass age 12
David Blunkett age 21
Amin al-Hafiz age 46
Dragiša Cvetković age 75
J. Lawton Collins age 72
John W. Snow age 29
John Healey age 8
Li Yuanchao age 17
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 50
Elliot Richardson age 48
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 22
Lester Bird age 30
Ramón Puerta age 16
Bill Hayden age 35
Sam Mostyn age 2
Alfons Gorbach age 69
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 28
Paul van Zeeland age 74
Colville Young age 35
Stefan Janev age 8
Goukouni Oueddei age 26
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 76
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 53
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 41
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 4
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 21
Osvaldo Hurtado age 29
Galo Plaza age 62
Joseph Urusemal age 16
Teuvo Aura age 55
Keijo Liinamaa age 39
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 73
Ioannis Grivas age 45
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 40
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 37
Vinicio Cerezo age 25
Desmond Hoyte age 39
Henri Namphy age 35
Claudette Werleigh age 21
Tiburcio Carías age 92
Péter Boross age 39
Károly Grósz age 38
Geir Hallgrímsson age 42
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 15
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 54
Salim al-Huss age 38
Moses Blah age 21
Anton Buttigieg age 56
Litokwa Tomeing age 28
Alexandru Munteanu age 4
Khil Raj Regmi age 19
Salou Djibo age 3
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 8
Cuthbert Sebastian age 46
Mahammed Dionne age 8
Zoran Živković age 7
Flavio Cotti age 28
Chen Chien-jen age 17
Sanya Dharmasakti age 61
Kriangsak Chamanan age 50
Chatchai Chunhawan age 48
Arthur Foulkes age 40
Marguerite Pindling age 36
Ahmed Hachani age 11
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 45
Charlot Salwai age 5
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 61
Julius Chan age 28
Kim Boo-kyum age 10
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 52
Zoran Tegeltija age 6
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 12
Denis Zvizdić age 4
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 12
Edem Kodjo age 30
Miles Dempsey age 71
Masayoshi Ito age 54
Dirk Stikker age 71
James Wolfensohn age 34
Eric Shinseki age 25
Frank Carlucci age 37
Les Aspin age 30
Rab Butler age 65
Michael Mullen age 21
Lien Chan age 31
William H. Webster age 44
Rabah Bitat age 42
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 41
William Deane age 37
Clifford Husbands age 42
Jeffrey Bostic age 7
Reneta Indzhova age 15
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 19
Nikica Valentić age 17
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 57
Hipólito Mejía age 27
Atef Ebeid age 36
Jacob Nena age 26
Raymond Ndong Sima age 13
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 65
Ramiro de León Carpio age 26
Jorge Serrano Elías age 23
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 44
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 21
Gyula Kállai age 58
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 44
Hermann Jónasson age 71
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 57
Hamed Bakayoko age 3
Alexander Bustamante age 84
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 18
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 19
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 11
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 4
Jan Eduard de Quay age 66
Djoomart Otorbaev age 12
Rashid Karami age 46
Sam Matekane age 10
Zigmantas Balčytis age 14
Richard Ratsimandrava age 37
Modibo Sidibé age 15
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 4
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 15
Aureliu Ciocoi age 1 month
Abdellatif Filali age 40
René Harris age 20
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 28
Jerry Mateparae age 13
Ali Lamine Zeine age 3
Mohammad Mustafa age 13
Clément Mouamba age 24
Ilie Verdeț age 43
David Vunagi age 17
Cho Jung-tai age 9
Prawit Wongsuwon age 22
Lynden Pindling age 38
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 30
Feleti Sevele age 24
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 17
Ali Laarayedh age 12
Mohamed Mzali age 42
Ruhakana Rugunda age 20
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 35
Eleazar López Contreras age 85
Diosdado Cabello age 5
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 29
Choi Sang-mok age 8
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 52
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 34
Seán Lemass age 69
Alan Johnson age 18
John J. Sullivan age 8
Robert Rubin age 29
Francis Biddle age 82
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 42
Nadir al-Arbawi age 18
Hartwig Löger age 3
Edmond Leburton age 53
Jean Van Houtte age 61
Théo Lefèvre age 54
Philip Dimitrov age 13
Andrey Lukanov age 29
Dimitar Glavchev age 4
Paul Kaba Thieba age 8
Son Sann age 56
Eduardo Santos age 79
Said Mohamed Djohar age 49
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 76
Luis Alberto Monge age 42
Vlatko Pavletić age 37
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 65
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 19
Tafari Benti age 46
Leo Falcam age 32
Wesley Simina age 6
Laisenia Qarase age 27
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 72
Jean-Max Bellerive age 10
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 24
José Azcona del Hoyo age 41
György Lázár age 43
Ferenc Nagy age 64
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 55
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 15
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 20
Wim Schermerhorn age 73
Akylbek Japarov age 3
Suleiman Frangieh age 58
Amos Sawyer age 23
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 29
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 16
Alfred Sant age 20