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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
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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Nadir al-Arbawi age 11
Edmond Leburton age 46
Jean Van Houtte age 54
Philip Dimitrov age 6
Andrey Lukanov age 22
Paul Kaba Thieba age 10 months
Son Sann age 49
Eduardo Santos age 72
Said Mohamed Djohar age 42
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 69
Luis Alberto Monge age 35
Vlatko Pavletić age 30
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 57
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 43
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 12
Tafari Benti age 39
Leo Falcam age 25
Laisenia Qarase age 20
Jean-Max Bellerive age 3
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 17
José Azcona del Hoyo age 34
György Lázár age 36
Ferenc Nagy age 57
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 48
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 8
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 13
Wim Schermerhorn age 66
Suleiman Frangieh age 51
Amos Sawyer age 16
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 22
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 9
Alfred Sant age 13
Paul Xuereb age 37
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 19
Pascoal Mocumbi age 20
Aires Ali age 5
Soe Win age 14
Pak Song-chol age 47
Nurul Amin age 67
Shujaat Hussain age 21
Kuniwo Nakamura age 17
Tapley Seaton age 10
John Compton age 36
Henck Arron age 25
Adolf Ogi age 18
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 17
Frank Hsieh age 15
Cornelius A. Smith age 24
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 22
Patrick Manning age 14
Habib Essid age 12
Bülent Ulusu age 38
Kausea Natano age 3
Enele Sopoaga age 5
Yusuf Lule age 49
Ham Lini age 9
Kazimierz Sabbat age 48
Michael Ogio age 18
Nicolás Lindley López age 52
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 11 months
Richard O'Connor age 71
Douglas Hurd age 31
John Shalikashvili age 24
Michael Mukasey age 19
William Calley age 18
Rasim Delić age 12
Otto Braun age 60
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 74
Friedrich Hoßbach age 66
Valentin Varennikov age 37
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 7
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 55
Zakir Hasanov age 2
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 59
Kim Song-ae age 36
Sigvard Bernadotte age 54
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 44
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 55
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 26
George Deukmejian age 33
Christine Todd Whitman age 14
He Yingqin age 71
Abderrahmane Farès age 50
Marc Forné Molné age 14
Vazgen Manukyan age 15
John Kerr age 46
Isa Gambar age 4
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 43
Manuel Esquivel age 21
Sangay Ngedup age 7
Wálter Guevara age 49
David Padilla age 33
Enrique Peñaranda age 67
Enrique Hertzog age 63
Guido Vildoso age 24
Marin Raykov age 5 months
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 7
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla age 3
Ephraïm Inoni age 13
Lol Mahamat Choua age 22
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 45
Josip Manolić age 41
Fabián Alarcón age 14
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 82
Aman Andom age 36
John Haglelgam age 11
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 7
Tengiz Sigua age 26
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 41
Sofoklis Venizelos age 66
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 77
Mohamed Said Fofana age 9
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 7
Aristides Gomes age 6
Ansumane Mané age 21
Moses Nagamootoo age 13
Martial Célestin age 47
Carlos Roberto Flor age 11
Carlos Roberto Reina age 35
Mohammad Natsir age 52
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 36
Knud Kristensen age 80
Jo Cals age 46
Bujar Bukoshi age 14
Nexhat Daci age 16
Jakup Krasniqi age 10
Nikolai Tanayev age 15
Indulis Emsis age 9
Elias Sarkis age 36
Gediminas Vagnorius age 4
Irena Degutienė age 12
Jacques Sylla age 14
Moctar Ouane age 5
Norovyn Altankhuyag age 3
Bernard Dowiyogo age 15
Tulsi Giri age 34
Silvia Cartwright age 17
Catherine Tizard age 30
Amadou Cheiffou age 18
Kim Il age 51
Hari Kostov age 1
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 37
Henk Chin A Sen age 27
Kaspar Villiger age 20
Luai al-Atassi age 35
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 29
Basdeo Panday age 28
Maatia Toafa age 7
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 32
Paulo Muwanga age 37
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 14
Bob Loughman age 3 months
Octavio Lepage age 37
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 15
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 8
Federico Chávez age 80
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 8
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 23
Lee Ju-ho age 3 months
Dudley Senanayake age 50
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 25
Brock Chisholm age 65
Robert Bork age 34
Eric Chu age 0 months
Khalil al-Wazir age 25
A. Philip Randolph age 72
Janko Bobetko age 42
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 31
Dietrich von Saucken age 69
Charles Malik age 55
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 65
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa age 15
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia age 64
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan age 51
Jacob L. Devers age 73
Christian de Castries age 58
Pujie age 54
Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este age 46
Archduchess Adelheid of Austria age 47
Kim Yong-ju age 41
Kim Pyong Il age 6
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia age 31
George W. Casey Jr. age 12
Dale Bumpers age 35
Harry Blackmun age 52
Otto Hofmann age 65
Abdul Kabir age 3
Adil Çarçani age 39
Noureddine Bedoui age 1
Peter Hollingworth age 26
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 13
Joseph Pholien age 76
Elmira Minita Gordon age 30
Khandu Wangchuk age 10
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 35
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 15
Gilbert Diendéré age 1
Son Ngoc Thanh age 52
Nicolas Tiangaye age 4
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 11