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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
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
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Ahmed Osman age 29
Khin Nyunt age 19
San Yu age 41
Sao Shwe Thaik age 62
Geoffrey Palmer age 17
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 88
Ngiratkel Etpison age 34
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 54
Ion Gigurtu age 72
Edmund Lawrence age 27
Nikola Šainović age 10
Dragan Tomić age 23
Östen Undén age 72
Rudolf Gnägi age 41
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 45
Pierre Aubert age 32
Georges-André Chevallaz age 44
Pierre Graber age 50
Ahmad al-Khatib age 26
Jamil Mardam Bey age 66
Sean Chen age 9
Chang Chun-hsiung age 21
Cynthia A. Pratt age 13
Ellis Clarke age 41
Noor Hassanali age 40
Bahi Ladgham age 46
Hamed Karoui age 31
Ali Bozer age 33
Hasan Saka age 74
Toaripi Lauti age 30
Saufatu Sopoanga age 7
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 12
Pedro Carmona age 17
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 6
Tomás Romero Pereira age 72
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 53
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 13
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 3
Lee Wan-koo age 8
Lee Hong-koo age 25
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 48
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 3
Valeria Ciavatta age 4 months
Pedro Cateriano age 10 months
Aníbal Torres age 16
Rosalio Lara age 36
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 69
C. Douglas Dillon age 49
Louis A. Johnson age 68
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 53
Byron White age 41
Pjetër Arbnori age 24
Rexhep Mitrovica age 71
Belaid Abdesselam age 30
Ismail Hamdani age 29
Lopo do Nascimento age 18
Yaqub Mammadov age 18
Surat Huseynov age 3 months
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 43
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 27
Aloys Van de Vyvere age 88
Adrien Houngbédji age 17
Lionel Zinsou age 4
Yeshey Zimba age 8
Néstor Guillén age 69
Carlos Quintanilla age 71
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 75
François Ngeze age 6
Simplice Sarandji age 4
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 5
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 2
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 41
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 23
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 52
Ali Sabri age 38
Ilias Tsirimokos age 52
Panagiotis Poulitsas age 77
Alexandros Othonaios age 80
Jean-Marie Doré age 20
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 8
Prosper Avril age 21
Marc Bazin age 27
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 56
Donald Sangster age 47
Kenneth O. Hall age 18
Norman Manley age 65
Teatao Teannaki age 23
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 6
Vilis Krištopans age 4
Andris Šķēle age 1
Ernestas Galvanauskas age 76
Laurynas Stankevičius age 23
Émile Reuter age 84
Gilles Andriamahazo age 40
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 13
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 1
Paul Bérenger age 14
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 3
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 47
Bill Rowling age 31
Lazarus Salii age 22
Faustin Twagiramungu age 13
Stephenson King age 6 months
Sergej Kraigher age 45
Danny Philip age 5
Snyder Rini age 10
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 23
Ernst Wetter age 81
Hans Schaffner age 50
Hans Hürlimann age 41
Fritz Honegger age 41
Ludwig von Moos age 49
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 23
Sun Fo age 67
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 57
Ivy Dumont age 28
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 55
Faimalaga Luka age 19
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 37
Vasyl Durdynets age 21
Ati George Sokomanu age 23
John Bani age 17
Donald Kalpokas age 15
Phelekezela Mphoko age 18
Arístides Royo age 18
Juan Manuel Frutos age 79
Félix Paiva age 82
Abdi Farah Shirdon age 7 months
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 17
Chung Won-shik age 30
John Kotelawala age 62
Osman Hussein age 8
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 8
Fausta Morganti age 14
James Van Fleet age 67
Eugene Meyer age 83
Charles Erwin Wilson age 68
Dick Thornburgh age 26
Iain Macleod age 45
Richard Myers age 17
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 23
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 32
Marcolino Moco age 5
Hasan Hasanov age 18
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 22
Hugo Ballivián age 57
Honoré Traoré age 1
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 53
Élie Doté age 10
Haroun Kabadi age 10
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 6
Gabriel París Gordillo age 49
Justin Marie Bomboko age 30
Vernon Shaw age 29
Zakaria Mohieddin age 40
Mustafa Khalil age 38
Kamal Hassan Ali age 26
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 80
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 66
Konstantinos Dovas age 60
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 68
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 12
Lansana Kouyaté age 8
Adiato Djaló Nandigna age 6 months
Martinho Ndafa Kabi age 1
Hérard Abraham age 18
Élie Lescot age 75
Jean-Henry Céant age 2
Policarpo Paz García age 26
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 21
Zaid al-Rifai age 22
Ahmad Obeidat age 20
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 13
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 37
Muhammad Osman Said age 34
Adolfas Šleževičius age 11
Roger Kolo age 15
Jurelang Zedkaia age 8
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 38
Dharam Gokhool age 9
Dumitru Braghiș age 1
Mbarek Bekkay age 52
Mohamed Benhima age 34
Ba U age 72
Lagumot Harris age 20
Kinza Clodumar age 14
Derog Gioura age 26
Kennan Adeang age 16
Michael Hardie Boys age 27
Seyni Oumarou age 8
Alfonso Oiterong age 34
Alfred Raoul age 20
Jozef Moravčík age 14
Ezekiel Alebua age 12
Peter Kenilorea age 16
Willi Ritschard age 40
Karl Kobelt age 67
Willy Spühler age 57
Nello Celio age 45
Eduard von Steiger age 77