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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06

People

Ephraïm Inoni age 11
Lol Mahamat Choua age 19
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 72
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 42
Josip Manolić age 38
Fabián Alarcón age 11
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 79
Aman Andom age 34
John Haglelgam age 9
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 4
Tengiz Sigua age 23
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 39
Sofoklis Venizelos age 63
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 74
Mohamed Said Fofana age 6
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 4
Aristides Gomes age 3
Ansumane Mané age 18
Moses Nagamootoo age 10
Martial Célestin age 45
Carlos Roberto Flor age 8
Carlos Roberto Reina age 32
Móric Esterházy age 77
Mohammad Natsir age 50
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 33
Knud Kristensen age 78
Jo Cals age 44
Bujar Bukoshi age 11
Nexhat Daci age 14
Jakup Krasniqi age 7
Nikolai Tanayev age 12
Indulis Emsis age 6
Elias Sarkis age 34
Gediminas Vagnorius age 1
Irena Degutienė age 9
Jacques Sylla age 12
Moctar Ouane age 3
Norovyn Altankhuyag age 9 months
Bernard Dowiyogo age 12
Tulsi Giri age 32
Silvia Cartwright age 14
Catherine Tizard age 27
Amadou Cheiffou age 15
Kim Il age 48
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 35
Henk Chin A Sen age 24
Kaspar Villiger age 17
Luai al-Atassi age 32
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 26
Basdeo Panday age 25
Maatia Toafa age 4
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 29
Paulo Muwanga age 34
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 11
Octavio Lepage age 34
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 12
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 5
Federico Chávez age 77
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 6
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 21
Dudley Senanayake age 47
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 22
Brock Chisholm age 62
Robert Bork age 31
Khalil al-Wazir age 23
A. Philip Randolph age 69
Janko Bobetko age 39
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 28
Dietrich von Saucken age 66
Charles Malik age 52
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 62
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 12
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia age 62
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 49
Jacob L. Devers age 71
Christian de Castries age 56
Pujie age 51
Archduchess Maria Annunziata of Austria age 82
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 43
Archduchess Adelheid of Austria age 44
Kim Yong-ju age 38
Kim Pyong Il age 4
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 29
Pat Brown age 53
George W. Casey Jr. age 10
Dale Bumpers age 33
Harry Blackmun age 49
Otto Hofmann age 62
Abdul Kabir age 9 months
Adil Çarçani age 36
Peter Hollingworth age 23
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 10
Joseph Pholien age 73
Elmira Minita Gordon age 27
Khandu Wangchuk age 7
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 33
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 12
Son Ngoc Thanh age 49
Nicolas Tiangaye age 2
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 8
Ali Soilih age 21
Zlatko Mateša age 9
Cyrille Adoula age 37
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 28
Ignacio Milam Tang age 18
Otto Tief age 69
Themba Dlamini age 7
Rainer von Fieandt age 67
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 60
Stylianos Gonatas age 82
Spiridon Markezinis age 49
Carlos Correia age 24
Francisco Mendes age 19
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 31
Jóhann Hafstein age 43
Wasfi Tal age 39
Nader al-Dahabi age 12
Teburoro Tito age 5
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 45
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 3
Boun Oum age 46
Charles Helou age 45
Abdullah al-Thani age 4
Shukri Ghanem age 16
Justas Paleckis age 59
Charles Rabemananjara age 11
Albert Camille Vital age 6
Imata Kabua age 15
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 18
Saw Maung age 29
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 58
Robert Muldoon age 37
Hama Amadou age 8
Nikola Kljusev age 31
Christopher Hornsrud age 98
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 41
Gavril Dejeu age 26
Anastase Murekezi age 6
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 30
Susan Dougan age 3
Otto Stich age 31
Arnold Koller age 25
Max Petitpierre age 59
Liu Chao-shiuan age 15
Lin Chuan age 6
Zhang Qun age 69
Hedi Amara Nouira age 47
Şemsettin Günaltay age 75
Ferit Melen age 51
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 8
Amama Mbabazi age 9
Óscar Diego Gestido age 56
Serge Vohor age 3
Pham Hung age 46
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 73
Paulias Matane age 27
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 17
Borislav Paravac age 15
Jorge del Castillo age 8
Yasuji Okamura age 74
John J. McCloy age 63
Leon Brittan age 19
Joseph Grew age 78
W. Michael Blumenthal age 32
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 78
Peter Pace age 12
Norman Lamont age 16
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 11
Harry Crerar age 70
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 34
Zhang Guotao age 60
Józef Haller age 85
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 17
Norihito, Prince Takamado age 3
Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven age 62
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia age 61
Raoul Salan age 59
Prince George William of Hanover age 43
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg age 56
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke age 71
Infanta María Cristina of Spain age 46
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia age 30
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden age 25
James L. Jones age 14
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 42
John N. Mitchell age 45
Òscar Ribas Reig age 21
Paulo Kassoma age 7
França Van-Dúnem age 24
James Carlisle age 21
Vere Bird age 47
Ninian Stephen age 35
Abdus Sattar age 52
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 15
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 31
Georgi Bliznashki age 2
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 33
Tertius Zongo age 1
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 44
Abel Goumba age 32