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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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20

People

Hans Schaffner age 47
Hans Hürlimann age 38
Fritz Honegger age 39
Ludwig von Moos age 46
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 21
Sun Fo age 64
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 54
Ivy Dumont age 25
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 53
Faimalaga Luka age 16
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 34
Vasyl Durdynets age 18
Ati George Sokomanu age 20
John Bani age 15
Donald Kalpokas age 12
Phelekezela Mphoko age 16
Arístides Royo age 15
Juan Manuel Frutos age 77
Félix Paiva age 79
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 14
Chung Won-shik age 27
John Kotelawala age 59
Osman Hussein age 5
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 5
Fausta Morganti age 11
James Van Fleet age 64
Eugene Meyer age 80
Dick Thornburgh age 24
Iain Macleod age 42
Richard Myers age 14
Robert B. Anderson age 46
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 20
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 29
Marcolino Moco age 2
Hasan Hasanov age 15
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 19
Hugo Ballivián age 55
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 50
Élie Doté age 8
Haroun Kabadi age 7
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 3
Gabriel París Gordillo age 46
Justin Marie Bomboko age 27
Vernon Shaw age 26
Zakaria Mohieddin age 38
Mustafa Khalil age 35
Kamal Hassan Ali age 23
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 78
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 63
Konstantinos Dovas age 57
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 65
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 66
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 9
Lansana Kouyaté age 6
Hérard Abraham age 15
Élie Lescot age 72
Policarpo Paz García age 23
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 18
Zaid al-Rifai age 19
Ahmad Obeidat age 17
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 10
Abdul Majid Kubar age 47
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 34
Muhammad Osman Said age 31
Adolfas Šleževičius age 8
Roger Kolo age 12
Jurelang Zedkaia age 6
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 35
Dharam Gokhool age 6
Mohamed Benhima age 32
Lagumot Harris age 17
Kinza Clodumar age 11
Derog Gioura age 23
Kennan Adeang age 13
Michael Hardie Boys age 24
Walter Nash age 74
Seyni Oumarou age 5
Alfonso Oiterong age 31
Alfred Raoul age 17
Jozef Moravčík age 11
Ezekiel Alebua age 9
Peter Kenilorea age 13
Willi Ritschard age 37
Karl Kobelt age 65
Willy Spühler age 54
Nello Celio age 42
Paul Chaudet age 51
Eduard von Steiger age 75
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 57
Hans Streuli age 64
Enrico Celio age 67
Khalid al-Azm age 61
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 2
Gabriel Costa age 1
Simon Chang age 2
Mao Chi-kuo age 7
Yu Shyi-kun age 8
Arthur Dion Hanna age 28
Estanislau da Silva age 3
Naim Talu age 37
Tomasi Puapua age 17
Willy Telavi age 2
Alberto Héber Usher age 38
Maxime Carlot Korman age 15
Joe Natuman age 3
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 73
Raimundo Rolón age 53
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 56
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 45
Hasan Muratović age 16
Beatriz Merino age 8
Sebastiano Baggio age 43
Harry Hines Woodring age 69
Hiroshi Nakajima age 28
Griffin Bell age 37
Edwin Meese age 24
Frederick C. Weyand age 39
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 30
G. William Miller age 31
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 48
Reginald Maudling age 39
William B. Saxbe age 40
Kingorō Hashimoto age 66
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 51
Kastriot Islami age 3
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 36
Josep Pintat-Solans age 31
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 27
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 37
Tom Adams age 24
Pascal Koupaki age 5
Konstantin Muraviev age 63
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 3
Pen Sovan age 20
Long Boret age 23
Simon Achidi Achu age 21
André Nzapayeké age 4
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 22
Zlatko Tomčić age 11
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 30
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 77
Daniel Ona Ondo age 11
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 21
Léon Mébiame age 21
Bessarion Gugushvili age 11
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 64
Petros Voulgaris age 72
Ioannis Theotokis age 75
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 55
Nicholas Brathwaite age 31
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 41
Eugène Camara age 14
Mohamed Béavogui age 2
Victor Saúde Maria age 17
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 9
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 55
Stenio Vincent age 82
Rosny Smarth age 15
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 58
Tahir Yahya age 40
Taha al-Hashimi age 68
Rachid Solh age 30
Alfred Naqqache age 68
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 22
Gerard Batliner age 27
Django Sissoko age 8
Mandé Sidibé age 16
Yahya Ould Hademine age 2
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 10
Cassam Uteem age 15
Kenos Aroi age 14
Ruben Kun age 14
Domingos Oliveira age 83
Milton Cato age 41
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 25
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 4
Predrag Marković age 7 months
Nathaniel Waena age 10
Roger Bonvin age 49
Ernst Brugger age 42
Rodolphe Rubattel age 59
Walther Stampfli age 71
Fawzi Selu age 51
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 15
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 2
Vincent Siew age 17
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 4
Kamuta Latasi age 19
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 17
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 11 months
Kazimierz Świtalski age 70
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 82
Hassan Abshir Farah age 11
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 26
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 2
Ivo Miro Jović age 6
Yehude Simon age 9
Paik Sun-yup age 35
Xue Yue age 59
Halfdan T. Mahler age 33