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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

People

Zaid al-Rifai age 18
Ahmad Obeidat age 16
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 9
Abdul Majid Kubar age 46
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 33
Muhammad Osman Said age 30
Adolfas Šleževičius age 7
Roger Kolo age 11
Jurelang Zedkaia age 5
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 34
Dharam Gokhool age 5
Mbarek Bekkay age 48
Mohamed Benhima age 31
Lagumot Harris age 16
Kinza Clodumar age 10
Derog Gioura age 22
Kennan Adeang age 12
Michael Hardie Boys age 23
Walter Nash age 73
Seyni Oumarou age 5
Alfonso Oiterong age 30
Alfred Raoul age 16
Jozef Moravčík age 10
Ezekiel Alebua age 8
Peter Kenilorea age 12
Willi Ritschard age 36
Karl Kobelt age 64
Willy Spühler age 53
Rudolf Minger age 73
Nello Celio age 41
Paul Chaudet age 50
Eduard von Steiger age 74
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 56
Hans Streuli age 63
Enrico Celio age 66
Khalid al-Azm age 60
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 1
Gabriel Costa age 8 months
Simon Chang age 1
Mao Chi-kuo age 6
Yu Shyi-kun age 7
Arthur Dion Hanna age 27
Estanislau da Silva age 3
Naim Talu age 36
Tomasi Puapua age 16
Willy Telavi age 1
Alberto Héber Usher age 37
Maxime Carlot Korman age 14
Joe Natuman age 2
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 73
Raimundo Rolón age 52
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 55
Abdullahi Issa age 32
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 44
Hasan Muratović age 15
Beatriz Merino age 7
Sebastiano Baggio age 42
Harry Hines Woodring age 68
Hiroshi Nakajima age 27
Griffin Bell age 36
Edwin Meese age 23
Frederick C. Weyand age 38
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 29
G. William Miller age 30
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 47
Reginald Maudling age 38
William B. Saxbe age 39
Kingorō Hashimoto age 65
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 50
Kastriot Islami age 2
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 35
Josep Pintat-Solans age 30
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 26
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 36
Tom Adams age 23
Pascal Koupaki age 4
Konstantin Muraviev age 62
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 2
Pen Sovan age 19
Long Boret age 22
Simon Achidi Achu age 20
André Nzapayeké age 3
Carlos Dávila age 67
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 21
Zlatko Tomčić age 10
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 29
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 76
Daniel Ona Ondo age 10
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 20
Léon Mébiame age 20
Bessarion Gugushvili age 10
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 63
Petros Voulgaris age 71
Ioannis Theotokis age 74
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 54
Nicholas Brathwaite age 30
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 40
Eugène Camara age 13
Mohamed Béavogui age 1
Victor Saúde Maria age 16
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 8
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 54
Stenio Vincent age 81
Rosny Smarth age 14
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 57
Tahir Yahya age 39
Taha al-Hashimi age 67
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 63
Rachid Solh age 29
Alfred Naqqache age 67
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 22
Gerard Batliner age 26
Django Sissoko age 7
Mandé Sidibé age 15
Yahya Ould Hademine age 1
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 9
Cassam Uteem age 14
Kenos Aroi age 13
Ruben Kun age 13
Domingos Oliveira age 82
Arthur Văitoianu age 91
Milton Cato age 40
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 24
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 3
Nathaniel Waena age 9
Roger Bonvin age 48
Ernst Brugger age 41
Markus Feldmann age 58
Rodolphe Rubattel age 58
Walther Stampfli age 70
Fawzi Selu age 50
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 14
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 1
Vincent Siew age 16
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 3
Kamuta Latasi age 18
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 16
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 0 months
Kazimierz Świtalski age 69
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 81
Hassan Abshir Farah age 10
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 25
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 1
Ivo Miro Jović age 5
Yehude Simon age 8
Paik Sun-yup age 34
Xue Yue age 58
Halfdan T. Mahler age 32
Hubert Gough age 85
Sun Yun-suan age 41
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 47
Archibald Cox age 43
Skënder Gjinushi age 5
Qasdi Mirbah age 17
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 18
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 9
Mulud Hamroush age 12
Zelman Cowen age 35
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 64
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 15
Joseph Conombo age 38
Pié Masumbuko age 23
Sisowath Monireth age 45
Sadou Hayatou age 13
Peter Mafany Musonge age 12
Alfredo González Flores age 78
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 8
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 25
Patrick John age 17
Pierre Charles age 1
Federico Páez age 79
Aly Maher Pasha age 73
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 15
Jona Senilagakali age 25
Tevita Momoedonu age 9
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 56
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 45
Franck Lavaud age 52
Franck Sylvain age 46
Yvon Neptune age 8
Smarck Michel age 18
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 25
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 44
Burhanuddin Harahap age 38
Naji Talib age 38
Ezzedine Salim age 12
Husayn al-Khalidi age 60
David D. Kpormakpor age 19
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 11
Mohieddin Fikini age 30
Walter Kieber age 24
Barlen Vyapoory age 10
Karl Offmann age 14
Veselin Đuranović age 30
Ahmed Balafrej age 47
Maung Maung age 30
Win Maung age 39
René Schick age 45
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 2
Domingos Leite Pereira age 72