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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Bruno Tshibala age 11 months
Carlos Arroyo age 63
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 20
Timoci Bavadra age 22
Penaia Ganilau age 38
Urho Castrén age 70
Casimir Oyé-Mba age 14
Otar Patsatsia age 27
Hudson Austin age 18
Paul Magloire age 49
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 9
Lajos Dinnyés age 55
Björn Þórðarson age 77
Hugh Shearer age 33
Adnan Badran age 21
Mudar Badran age 23
Akejan Kajegeldin age 4
Sergey Tereshchenko age 5
Phoumi Vongvichit age 47
Mamohato of Lesotho age 15
Albertas Šimėnas age 6
Omer Beriziky age 6
Paul Boffa age 66
Mustafa Ould Salek age 21
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 71
Mário da Graça Machungo age 16
Adriano Maleiane age 7
Norman Kirk age 34
Hong Song-nam age 27
Isidore Mvouba age 3
Alexandru Athanasiu age 2
Jean Kambanda age 1
Marcella Liburd age 3
Ján Čarnogurský age 13
Josip Vidmar age 61
Johan Kraag age 43
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 67
Alphons Egli age 32
Leon Schlumpf age 31
Rashidi Kawawa age 30
Hédi Baccouche age 27
Sadi Irmak age 52
Filoimea Telito age 11
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 72
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 59
Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov age 17
Harmodio Arias Madrid age 70
Natalicio González age 59
Rafael Franco age 60
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 32
Lee Beom-seok age 56
Babiker Awadalla age 39
César Villanueva age 10
Rosario Fernández age 1
Xu Xiangqian age 55
Seán Lester age 68
Donald Regan age 38
Lyman Lemnitzer age 57
Raymond T. Odierno age 2
Nicholas F. Brady age 26
Zeng Qinghong age 17
Rong Yiren age 40
Nicholas Katzenbach age 35
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 48
Ibrahim Biçakçiu age 51
Redha Malek age 25
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 35
Lúcio Lara age 27
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 35
Elliott Belgrave age 25
Mikhail Chyhir age 8
Syarhei Linh age 19
Celso Torrelio age 23
Alberto Natusch age 23
David Toro age 58
Lyuben Berov age 31
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 25
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 35
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 57
Franjo Gregurić age 17
Hrvoje Šarinić age 21
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 62
Joseph Iléo age 35
Eliud Williams age 8
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 36
Atef Sedki age 26
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 21
Álvaro Magaña age 31
Mahendra Chaudhry age 14
Nii Amaa Ollennu age 50
Konstantinos Kollias age 56
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 57
Eric Gairy age 34
Kabiné Komara age 6
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 4
Evans Paul age 1
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 25
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 69
Sa'dun Hammadi age 26
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 5
Howard Cooke age 41
Zeid bin Shaker age 22
Ieremia Tabai age 7
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 7
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 28
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 84
Valdis Birkavs age 14
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 17
George Borg Olivier age 45
Ahmed Bahnini age 48
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 37
Maati Bouabid age 29
Ahmed Osman age 27
Khin Nyunt age 17
San Yu age 38
Sao Shwe Thaik age 60
Geoffrey Palmer age 14
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 85
Ngiratkel Etpison age 31
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 51
Ion Gigurtu age 70
Edmund Lawrence age 24
Nikola Šainović age 8
Dragan Tomić age 21
Östen Undén age 70
Rudolf Gnägi age 39
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 43
Pierre Aubert age 29
Georges-André Chevallaz age 41
Pierre Graber age 48
Ahmad al-Khatib age 24
Jamil Mardam Bey age 64
Sean Chen age 7
Chang Chun-hsiung age 18
Cynthia A. Pratt age 11
Ellis Clarke age 39
Noor Hassanali age 38
Bahi Ladgham age 44
Hamed Karoui age 29
Ali Bozer age 31
Hasan Saka age 72
Toaripi Lauti age 28
Saufatu Sopoanga age 4
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 9
Pedro Carmona age 15
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 4
Tomás Romero Pereira age 70
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 51
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 11
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 9 months
Lee Wan-koo age 6
Lee Hong-koo age 22
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 46
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 1
Aníbal Torres age 14
Rosalio Lara age 34
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 67
C. Douglas Dillon age 47
Louis A. Johnson age 66
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 50
Byron White age 39
Pjetër Arbnori age 22
Rexhep Mitrovica age 69
Belaid Abdesselam age 28
Ismail Hamdani age 26
Lopo do Nascimento age 16
Yaqub Mammadov age 15
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 41
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 25
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 85
Adrien Houngbédji age 14
Lionel Zinsou age 2
Yeshey Zimba age 6
Néstor Guillén age 67
Carlos Quintanilla age 69
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 73
François Ngeze age 4
Simplice Sarandji age 1
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 3
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 0 months
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 38
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 20
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 49
Ali Sabri age 36
Ilias Tsirimokos age 49
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 75
Alexandros Othonaios age 78
Jean-Marie Doré age 18
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 6
Prosper Avril age 19
Marc Bazin age 24
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 54
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 46
Donald Sangster age 45
Kenneth O. Hall age 15
Norman Manley age 63
Teatao Teannaki age 21
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 4
Vilis Krištopans age 2
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 74