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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
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
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Dan Caine age 4
Jacqui Smith age 10
Nadhim Zahawi age 5
Choe Yong-gon age 72
Ralph Abernathy age 46
David Elazar age 47
Sylvia Rivera age 21
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark age 59
Iñaki Urdangarin age 4
Mark Phillips (born 1948) age 24
Liam Fox age 11
Ralph Northam age 13
Wang Zhen (general) age 64
Frank Jack Fletcher age 87
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 85
Tajuddin Ahmad age 47
Luis García Meza Tejada age 43
Jorge Quiroga age 12
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 58
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 24
Moussa Faki age 12
Jamil Mahuad age 23
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 20
Hazem Al Beblawi age 36
José Napoleón Duarte age 47
Tiit Vähi age 25
Mart Siimann age 26
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 30
Negasso Gidada age 29
Peter M. Christian age 25
Rafael Paasio age 69
Johannes Virolainen age 58
Georgios Rallis age 53
Nuno Nabiam age 6
Raimundo Pereira age 16
Charles Konan Banny age 30
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 29
Agim Çeku age 12
Moeketsi Majoro age 11
Ali Zeidan age 21
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh age 13
Joseph Bech age 85
Ċensu Tabone age 59
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 13
Natalia Gherman age 3
Željko Šturanović age 12
Nahas Angula age 29
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 44
Jim Bolger age 37
Daouda Malam Wanké age 26
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 23
Ernest Shonekan age 36
Talat Xhaferi age 10
Muhammad Junejo age 40
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 31
Vasco Gonçalves age 51
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 51
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu age 4
Mihai Tudose age 5
Bernard Makuza age 10
Kenny Anthony age 21
Ong Teng Cheong age 36
Maria das Neves age 14
Patrice Trovoada age 10
Thanin Kraiwichian age 45
Philip "Brave" Davis age 21
Luis Herrera Campins age 47
Manuel Merino age 11
Manuel Odría age 75
Nur Hassan Hussein age 34
Goh Kun age 34
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 48
C. R. Swart age 78
Marais Viljoen age 57
François-Xavier Ortoli age 47
Alistair Darling age 18
Grant Shapps age 4
Jack Lew age 17
Mark Milley age 14
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 29
Essam Sirius age 46
Jamshid Amouzegar age 49
Kamal Jumblatt age 54
Borisav Jović age 44
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 33
Boris Gromov age 29
Robert Cailliau age 25
Félicien Kabuga age 39
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 26
Mike Beebe age 25
Asa Hutchinson age 21
Bill Weld age 27
Jon Corzine age 25
Phil Murphy age 15
George Allen age 20
Charlie Baker age 16
Svetozar Marović age 17
Midge Ure age 19
Pandeli Majko age 5
Louise Lake-Tack age 28
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 56
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 52
José María Guido age 62
Pierre Harmel age 61
Said Musa age 28
Norodom Ranariddh age 28
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 72
José María Figueres Olsen age 17
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 70
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 32
Kamal Ganzouri age 39
Alfredo Cristiani age 25
Andres Tarand age 32
David W. Panuelo age 8
V. J. Sukselainen age 66
Edward Akufo-Addo age 66
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 59
Michael Stasinopoulos age 69
Alfonso Portillo age 21
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 36
András Hegedüs age 50
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 25
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 59
Ahmed Chalabi age 28
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 13
Patrick Allen age 21
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 52
Viggo Kampmann age 62
Louis Beel age 70
Jelle Zijlstra age 54
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 31
Gyude Bryant age 23
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 27
Arnoldo Alemán age 26
Wasim Sajjad age 31
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 33
Theodor Stolojan age 29
Manea Mănescu age 56
Nureddin al-Atassi age 43
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 60
Hussein Arnous age 19
Miguel Trovoada age 35
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 40
Edward Natapei age 18
Nguyen Huu Tho age 62
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 2
Mieczysław Rakowski age 45
Luis González Macchi age 24
Lee Nack-yon age 19
Nikola Špirić age 16
Raffaella Petrini age 3
Ali Saibou age 32
John A. Costello age 81
Willy Claes age 34
Martin Dempsey age 20
Nigel Lawson age 40
Harold Brown age 45
Alexander Vandegrift age 85
Ramzi Yousef age 4
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 57
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 55
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 36
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece age 4
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 21
George Voinovich age 36
Evan Bayh age 16
Mike DeWine age 25
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 12
Larry Hogan age 16
Ken Starr age 26
John Profumo age 57
Thomas Gage age 254
Juan José Arévalo age 68
Ali Kafi age 44
Eduardo Camaño age 26
Michael Jeffery age 34
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 16
Jean Duvieusart age 72
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 53
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 54
Galab Donev age 5
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 16
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 64
Armando Calderón Sol age 24
Akwasi Afrifa age 36
Fred Akuffo age 35
Phaedon Gizikis age 55
Patrick Achi age 17
Edward Seaga age 42
Omar Razzaz age 11
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 30
Temir Sariyev age 9
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 18
Fouad Chehab age 70
René Moawad age 47
Hussein Onn age 50
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 40
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 48
Mike Moore age 23
Pak Pong-ju age 33