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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 15
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 8
Federico Chávez age 80
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 8
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 23
Lee Ju-ho age 6 months
Dudley Senanayake age 50
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 25
Brock Chisholm age 65
Robert Bork age 34
Otto Hofmann age 65
Abdul Kabir age 3
Adil Çarçani age 39
Noureddine Bedoui age 1
Peter Hollingworth age 26
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 13
Joseph Pholien age 76
Elmira Minita Gordon age 30
Khandu Wangchuk age 10
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 36
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 15
Gilbert Diendéré age 1
Son Ngoc Thanh age 52
Nicolas Tiangaye age 4
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 11
Ali Soilih age 24
Zlatko Mateša age 12
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 31
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 49
Ignacio Milam Tang age 21
Otto Tief age 72
Themba Dlamini age 10
Rainer von Fieandt age 70
Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet age 4 months
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 63
Stylianos Gonatas age 85
Spiridon Markezinis age 52
Carlos Correia age 27
Francisco Mendes age 22
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 34
Jóhann Hafstein age 45
Wasfi Tal age 42
Nader al-Dahabi age 14
Teburoro Tito age 8
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 48
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 5
Charles Helou age 47
Abdullah al-Thani age 7
Shukri Ghanem age 18
Justas Paleckis age 62
Charles Rabemananjara age 14
Albert Camille Vital age 9
Imata Kabua age 18
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 21
Alberto Vaquina age 1 month
Saw Maung age 32
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 61
Robert Muldoon age 39
Kim Jae-ryong age 2
Nikola Kljusev age 33
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 44
Gavril Dejeu age 28
Anastase Murekezi age 9
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 33
Susan Dougan age 6
Otto Stich age 34
Arnold Koller age 28
Max Petitpierre age 62
Liu Chao-shiuan age 18
Lin Chuan age 9
Zhang Qun age 72
Hedi Amara Nouira age 50
Şemsettin Günaltay age 78
Ferit Melen age 54
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 11
Amama Mbabazi age 12
Óscar Diego Gestido age 59
Serge Vohor age 6
Pham Hung age 49
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 76
Paulias Matane age 29
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 20
Borislav Paravac age 18
Jorge del Castillo age 11
Yasuji Okamura age 77
John J. McCloy age 66
Leon Brittan age 21
Joseph Grew age 81
W. Michael Blumenthal age 35
Sally Yates age 1
Peter Pace age 15
Norman Lamont age 19
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 14
Herbert Morrison age 73
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 45
John N. Mitchell age 47
Òscar Ribas Reig age 24
Paulo Kassoma age 10
França Van-Dúnem age 27
James Carlisle age 24
Vere Bird age 50
Aram Sargsyan age 7 months
Ninian Stephen age 38
Abdus Sattar age 55
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 18
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 34
Georgi Bliznashki age 4
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 35
Tertius Zongo age 4
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 47
Abel Goumba age 34
Félix Moloua age 4
Emmanuel Nadingar age 10
Saleh Kebzabo age 14
Vladimir Bakarić age 49
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 62
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 42
Isidro Ayora age 82
Otto Arosemena age 36
Arturo Armando Molina age 34
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 11
Cleopas Dlamini age 9
Bailey Olter age 29
Julien Nkoghe Békale age 3
Ioannis Sarmas age 4
Rui Duarte de Barros age 1
Jocelerme Privert age 8
Emil Jónsson age 58
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 68
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 67
Robert Beugré Mambé age 9
Seydou Diarra age 27
Hani al-Mulki age 9
Bajram Rexhepi age 7
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 5
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 5
Adylbek Kasymaliev age 8 months
Māris Gailis age 10
Ali Tarhouni age 10
Mustafa Ben Halim age 40
Bronislovas Lubys age 22
Aleksandras Abišala age 5
Cécile Manorohanta age 11
Modibo Keita age 19
Choguel Kokalla Maïga age 3
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 7
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 28
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 18
Valeriu Muravschi age 12
Ion Ciubuc age 18
Azzeddine Laraki age 32
Ahmed Laraki age 29
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 34
Man Mohan Adhikari age 41
Adolfo Díaz age 86
Thomas Remengesau age 29
Carlos Mota Pinto age 25
Habib Thiam age 28
Frank Kabui age 15
Ramsewak Shankar age 23
Fred Ramdat Misier age 34
Kurt Furgler age 37
René Felber age 28
Philipp Etter age 69
Adel Safar age 8
Hau Pei-tsun age 42
Salim Ahmed Salim age 19
Bonfoh Abass age 12
Rachid Sfar age 27
Valentyn Symonenko age 21
Alberto Demicheli age 65
Walter Lini age 19
Edward Babiuch age 33
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 24
Higinio Morínigo age 64
Adnan Terzić age 1
Violeta Bermúdez age 0 months
Arthur Goldberg age 53
Clark Clifford age 54
Robert A. Lovett age 65
Mohammad Rabbani age 5
Ylli Bufi age 13
Mehdi Frashëri age 89
Ali ibn Flais age 16
Youssef Yousfi age 19
Hrant Bagratyan age 2
Simon Vratsian age 79
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 28
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 40
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 45
Moudud Ahmed age 21
Errol Barrow age 41
Hyenadz Navitski age 12
Kinzang Dorji age 10
Juan Pereda age 30
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 65
Zhan Videnov age 2
Stefan Sofiyanski age 9
Paramanga Ernest Yonli age 4
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye age 11