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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
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02

People

Jules Sedney age 26
Bahij al-Khatib age 54
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 17
Yusuf Zuayyin age 17
Sabri al-Asali age 46
Edward Sokoine age 10
John Malecela age 15
Orville Turnquest age 19
Clifford Darling age 27
Kléber Dadjo age 34
Tupua Leupena age 26
Koloa Talake age 14
Luis Giannattasio age 54
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 13
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 9
Artur Śliwiński age 71
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 37
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 18
Giuliano Gozi age 54
Krešimir Zubak age 2
Antero Flores Aráoz age 7
Patrick J. Hurley age 66
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 54
Hu Zongnan age 53
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 64
George M. Humphrey age 59
Duncan Sandys age 41
Homer Stille Cummings age 79
Henry H. Fowler age 40
Hugh Shelton age 7
William French Smith age 31
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 37
Peter Schoomaker age 3
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 66
William S. Sessions age 18
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 74
Salman II of Bahrain age 55
Nita Barrow age 32
Ung Huot age 4
Chhean Vam age 33
Sim Var age 43
Sisowath Watchayavong age 57
Norodom Kantol age 28
Nhiek Tioulong age 40
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 21
Pedro Opaso age 72
Évariste Kimba age 22
Léonard Mulamba age 21
Osborne Riviere age 17
Andrés F. Córdova age 57
Antonio Pons age 51
Julio Enrique Moreno age 70
Mamdouh Salem age 31
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 73
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 3
Obed Dlamini age 12
Mabandla Dlamini age 18
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 37
George Brizan age 6
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 37
Francisco Javier Arana age 43
Daniel Fignolé age 35
Robert Malval age 5
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 28
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 46
Clifford Campbell age 56
Florizel Glasspole age 39
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 41
Jumabek Ibraimov age 5
Nasirdin Isanov age 5
Adolph Bowler age 59
Abdallah El-Yafi age 47
Amin al-Hafez age 23
Hae Phoofolo age 2
Josef Hoop age 53
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 10
Ruben Zackhras age 1
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 63
Jack Marshall age 37
Francisco Urcuyo age 33
Lorenzo Guerrero age 48
Boukary Adji age 10
Francisco Cunha Leal age 60
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 77
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso age 84
Bernard Kolélas age 15
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 8
Arnhim Eustace age 4
Žarko Korać age 2
Milan Čič age 17
Viktor Avbelj age 35
Francis Billy Hilly age 9 months
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 9
Muhsin al-Barazi age 45
Lee Huan age 31
Tang Fei age 17
Tu'i Pelehake age 27
Baron Vaea age 28
Tahar Ben Ammar age 59
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 47
Washington Beltrán age 35
Benito Nardone age 42
Jean-Marie Léyé age 17
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 7
Živko Radišić age 11
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 48
Abdessalam Jalloud age 4
Fu Zuoyi age 53
Henri Navarre age 50
David Waddington age 19
Benjamin Civiletti age 13
Arthur W. Radford age 53
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 55
Joseph W. Barr age 31
Neil H. McElroy age 44
John A. Wickham Jr. age 20
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 11 months
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 55
Fuad Guliyev age 7
Firuz Mustafayev age 15
Grantley Herbert Adams age 51
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 19
Oum Cheang Sun age 48
Hang Thun Hak age 24
Bello Bouba Maigari age 2
Célestin Gaombalet age 7
Henri Maïdou age 13
Mohamed Ahmed age 31
Ahmed Abdou age 13
Mahmoud Fawzi age 48
Aziz Sedki age 28
Makhosini Dlamini age 35
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 3
Abebe Aregai age 45
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 3
Ben Jones age 24
Luis Arturo González López age 48
Jean Marie Chérestal age 1
Wilopo age 39
Hikmat Sulayman age 60
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 49
Hazza' al-Majali age 30
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 9
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 6
Andrei Iordan age 14
Shafik Wazzan age 24
Takieddin el-Solh age 41
Gustav Schädler age 65
Léon Kauffman age 79
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 18
Yoro Diakité age 16
Dashiin Byambasüren age 6
Mitar Martinović age 78
David Beattie age 25
Aliou Mahamidou age 1
Hamid Algabid age 8
Vitorino Guimarães age 72
Winston Cenac age 23
Monica Dacon age 14
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 24
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 27
Janez Stanovnik age 26
Jamil al-Elshi age 66
Mahmoud Zuabi age 14
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 22
Yahyo Azimov age 1
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 8
Gerald Cash age 31
Milo Butler age 42
Tulaga Manuella age 12
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 52
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 61
Vincent Eri age 12
Osman Jama Ali age 8
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 8
Hyun Soong-jong age 30
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 14
Koffi Sama age 5
Shlomo Shamir age 33
Edward Almond age 56
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 37
Barber Conable age 26
Lewis Thompson Preston age 22
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 43
Christopher Soames age 28
Gordon R. Sullivan age 11
George Scratchley Brown age 30
J. R. Clynes age 80
Robert Carr age 32
Peyton C. March age 84
Naoki Hoshino age 57
Mokdad Sifi age 9
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 52
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 39
Fazlul Haque age 10
Ieu Koeus age 44
Huy Kanthoul age 40
Leng Ngeth age 49
Gonzalo Güell age 54
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 48