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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Operation Pleshet 1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03

People

Peter Schoomaker age 2
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 65
William S. Sessions age 18
Kostaq Kota age 59
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 73
Salman II of Bahrain age 54
Nita Barrow age 31
Yem Sambaur age 35
Ung Huot age 3
Sim Var age 42
Sisowath Watchayavong age 56
Norodom Kantol age 27
Nhiek Tioulong age 39
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 20
Pedro Opaso age 71
Évariste Kimba age 21
Léonard Mulamba age 20
Osborne Riviere age 16
Andrés F. Córdova age 56
Antonio Pons age 50
Julio Enrique Moreno age 69
Mamdouh Salem age 30
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 73
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 2
Obed Dlamini age 11
Mabandla Dlamini age 17
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 36
George Brizan age 5
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 36
Francisco Javier Arana age 42
Daniel Fignolé age 34
Robert Malval age 4
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 27
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 45
Clifford Campbell age 55
Florizel Glasspole age 38
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 40
Jumabek Ibraimov age 4
Nasirdin Isanov age 4
Adolph Bowler age 58
Abdallah El-Yafi age 46
Amin al-Hafez age 22
Hae Phoofolo age 1
Josef Hoop age 52
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 9
Ruben Zackhras age 6 months
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 62
Jack Marshall age 36
Francisco Urcuyo age 32
Lorenzo Guerrero age 47
Boukary Adji age 9
Francisco Cunha Leal age 59
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 76
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso age 84
Bernard Kolélas age 14
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 7
Arnhim Eustace age 3
Žarko Korać age 1
Milan Čič age 16
Viktor Avbelj age 34
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 8
Muhsin al-Barazi age 44
Lee Huan age 30
Tang Fei age 16
Tu'i Pelehake age 26
Baron Vaea age 27
Tahar Ben Ammar age 58
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 46
Washington Beltrán age 34
Benito Nardone age 41
Jean-Marie Léyé age 16
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 6
Živko Radišić age 10
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 47
Abdessalam Jalloud age 3
Fu Zuoyi age 53
Henri Navarre age 49
David Waddington age 18
Benjamin Civiletti age 12
Arthur W. Radford age 52
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 54
Joseph W. Barr age 30
Neil H. McElroy age 43
John A. Wickham Jr. age 19
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 0 months
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 54
Fuad Guliyev age 6
Firuz Mustafayev age 14
Grantley Herbert Adams age 50
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 18
Oum Cheang Sun age 48
Hang Thun Hak age 23
Bello Bouba Maigari age 1
Célestin Gaombalet age 6
Henri Maïdou age 12
Mohamed Ahmed age 30
Ahmed Abdou age 12
Mahmoud Fawzi age 47
Aziz Sedki age 27
Makhosini Dlamini age 34
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 2
Abebe Aregai age 44
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 2
Ben Jones age 23
Luis Arturo González López age 47
Jean Marie Chérestal age 11 months
Wilopo age 38
Hikmat Sulayman age 59
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 48
Hazza' al-Majali age 29
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 8
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 5
Andrei Iordan age 13
Shafik Wazzan age 23
Takieddin el-Solh age 40
Gustav Schädler age 64
Léon Kauffman age 78
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 17
Yoro Diakité age 15
Dashiin Byambasüren age 5
Mitar Martinović age 77
David Beattie age 24
Aliou Mahamidou age 12 months
Hamid Algabid age 7
Vitorino Guimarães age 71
Winston Cenac age 22
Monica Dacon age 14
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 24
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 26
Janez Stanovnik age 25
Jamil al-Elshi age 65
Mahmoud Zuabi age 13
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 21
Yahyo Azimov age 6 months
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 7
Gerald Cash age 31
Milo Butler age 41
Tulaga Manuella age 11
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 51
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 72
Vincent Eri age 11
Osman Jama Ali age 7
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 7
Hyun Soong-jong age 29
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 13
Koffi Sama age 4
Shlomo Shamir age 32
Edward Almond age 55
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 37
Barber Conable age 25
Lewis Thompson Preston age 21
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 42
Christopher Soames age 27
Gordon R. Sullivan age 10
George Scratchley Brown age 29
J. R. Clynes age 79
Robert Carr age 31
Peyton C. March age 83
Naoki Hoshino age 56
Mokdad Sifi age 8
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 51
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 39
Fazlul Haque age 9
Ieu Koeus age 43
Huy Kanthoul age 39
Leng Ngeth age 48
Gonzalo Güell age 53
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 47
Edison James age 4
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 27
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 52
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 29
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 9
Maphevu Dlamini age 26
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 31
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 53
Lamine Sidimé age 4
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 21
Muzahim Pachachi age 57
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 52
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 11
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 6
Kenneth Blackburne age 40
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 31
Ahmad Toukan age 44
Ahmad Lawzi age 23
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 10 months
Mamadou Dembelé age 14
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 14
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 52
Radoje Kontić age 11
José Domingues dos Santos age 61
Charles David Ganao age 20
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 31
Charles Antrobus age 15
Peter Colotka age 23
Raul Bragança Neto age 9
Yu Kuo-hwa age 34
Tomu Sione age 6
Carlos Fischer age 45