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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04

People

François-Xavier Ortoli age 64
Grant Shapps age 20
Jack Lew age 33
Mark Milley age 30
Hugh Thompson Jr. age 46
Essam Sirius age 63
Jamshid Amouzegar age 65
Borisav Jović age 60
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 50
Boris Gromov age 45
Robert Cailliau age 42
Félicien Kabuga age 56
Kim Jong Chul age 7
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester age 42
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon age 15
Mike Beebe age 42
Asa Hutchinson age 38
Bill Weld age 43
Jon Corzine age 42
Phil Murphy age 31
George Allen age 37
Charlie Baker age 32
Daniel Risch age 11
Svetozar Marović age 34
Midge Ure age 35
Pandeli Majko age 21
Louise Lake-Tack age 44
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 69
Pierre Harmel age 78
Said Musa age 45
Norodom Ranariddh age 45
José María Figueres Olsen age 34
Kamal Ganzouri age 56
Alfredo Cristiani age 41
Andres Tarand age 49
David W. Panuelo age 25
V. J. Sukselainen age 82
Michael Stasinopoulos age 85
Alfonso Portillo age 37
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 53
András Hegedüs age 66
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 41
Ahmed Chalabi age 44
Amadou Gon Coulibaly age 30
Patrick Allen age 38
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 69
Jelle Zijlstra age 70
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 48
Gyude Bryant age 40
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 43
Arnoldo Alemán age 43
Emil Dimitriev age 10
Wasim Sajjad age 48
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 50
Theodor Stolojan age 45
Manea Mănescu age 72
Nureddin al-Atassi age 60
Hussein Arnous age 36
Miguel Trovoada age 52
Yen Chia-kan age 83
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 56
Edward Natapei age 34
Nguyen Huu Tho age 78
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 19
Luis González Macchi age 41
Lee Nack-yon age 36
Nikola Špirić age 32
Raffaella Petrini age 20
Claude Joseph age 9
Jack Lynch age 71
Willy Claes age 50
Martin Dempsey age 37
Harold Brown age 61
Ramzi Yousef age 21
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 73
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 71
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 52
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece age 20
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 37
George Voinovich age 52
Mike DeWine age 42
Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford age 28
Larry Hogan age 32
Ken Starr age 42
John Profumo age 74
Melvin Laird age 66
Thomas Gage age 271
Juan José Arévalo age 84
Ali Kafi age 60
Eduardo Camaño age 42
Alen Simonyan age 9
Michael Jeffery age 51
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 33
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 70
Galab Donev age 22
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 33
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 81
Armando Calderón Sol age 40
Phaedon Gizikis age 71
Patrick Achi age 33
Edward Seaga age 58
Omar Razzaz age 27
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 47
Temir Sariyev age 25
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 34
René Moawad age 64
Hussein Onn age 67
Ibrahim Nasir age 62
Amadou Sanogo age 16
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 56
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 65
Mike Moore age 40
Pak Pong-ju age 50
Kim Tok-hun age 28
Oliver Spasovski age 12
Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani age 21
Allen Chastanet age 28
Đuro Macut age 25
Ivan Stambolić age 52
Ľudovít Ódor age 12
Imad Khamis age 27
Wael al-Halqi age 25
Maria do Carmo Silveira age 28
Wu Den-yih age 41
Edward Lowassa age 35
Seni Pramoj age 84
Kukrit Pramoj age 78
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 42
Anand Panyarachun age 56
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 52
Hubert Ingraham age 41
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 48
Mohamed Ennaceur age 55
Apolo Nsibambi age 48
Godfrey Binaisa age 68
Vitalii Masol age 60
Sato Kilman age 31
Ramón José Velásquez age 72
Vo Van Kiet age 66
Mohammed Basindawa age 54
Francisco Sagasti age 44
Hassan Ali Khayre age 21
Kim Min-seok age 24
Momčilo Krajišnik age 44
Mladen Ivanić age 30
Mercedes Aráoz age 27
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 58
Albert Reynolds age 56
Lee Jong-wook age 44
Veljko Kadijević age 63
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 75
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 68
Sam Manekshaw age 75
Ko Yong-hui age 36
Nathan Deal age 46
Sonny Perdue age 42
Steve Barclay age 17
Mitch Daniels age 40
Gray Davis age 46
Otmar Hasler age 35
Gaylord Nelson age 72
Ramsey Clark age 61
Albert Pintat age 45
Carlos Lacoste age 60
Josef Klaus age 78
Romuald Wadagni age 12
Ivan Kostov age 39
Saye Zerbo age 56
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 46
Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni age 17
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 22
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 65
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 49
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 65
Josef Tošovský age 38
Adolphe Muzito age 32
Sufi Abu Taleb age 64
Francisco Flores age 29
Tosiwo Nakayama age 57
Lado Gurgenidze age 18
Xenophon Zolotas age 85
Tillman Thomas age 43
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 39
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 45
Gérard Latortue age 54
Jenő Fock age 73
P. J. Patterson age 54
Bruce Golding age 41
Abdullah Ensour age 50
Phankham Viphavanh age 38
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 39
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 41
Kessai Note age 38
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 51
Sprent Dabwido age 16
Anand Satyanand age 44
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 35
Victor Ciorbea age 34
Mugur Isărescu age 39
Frederick Ballantyne age 52