✦ History

Explore May 8, 1979

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Lien Chan age 42
Rabah Bitat age 53
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 52
William Deane age 48
Clifford Husbands age 52
Jeffrey Bostic age 18
Reneta Indzhova age 25
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 30
Nikica Valentić age 28
Hipólito Mejía age 38
Atef Ebeid age 47
Jacob Nena age 37
Raymond Ndong Sima age 24
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 76
Dickon Mitchell age 7 months
Ramiro de León Carpio age 37
Jorge Serrano Elías age 34
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 32
Gyula Kállai age 68
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 54
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 68
Hamed Bakayoko age 14
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 29
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 30
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 22
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 15
Jan Eduard de Quay age 77
Djoomart Otorbaev age 23
Rashid Karami age 57
Sam Matekane age 21
Zigmantas Balčytis age 25
Modibo Sidibé age 26
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 15
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 26
Aureliu Ciocoi age 10
Abdellatif Filali age 51
René Harris age 31
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 39
Jerry Mateparae age 24
Ali Lamine Zeine age 14
Mohammad Mustafa age 24
Clément Mouamba age 35
Cătălin Predoiu age 10
Ousmane Sonko age 4
David Vunagi age 28
Cho Jung-tai age 20
Pote Sarasin age 74
Prawit Wongsuwon age 33
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 41
Feleti Sevele age 34
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 27
Ali Laarayedh age 23
Mohamed Mzali age 53
Ruhakana Rugunda age 31
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 46
Serhii Arbuzov age 3
Diosdado Cabello age 16
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 40
Choi Sang-mok age 19
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 63
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 45
Alan Johnson age 28
John J. Sullivan age 19
Robert Rubin age 40
Bayard Rustin age 67
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi age 20
Mostafa Chamran age 46
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 82
Regina von Habsburg age 54
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 69
Princess Elena of Romania age 28
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 37
Bill Haslam age 20
Petar Stambolić age 66
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 53
Nadir al-Arbawi age 29
Hartwig Löger age 13
Edmond Leburton age 64
Jean Van Houtte age 72
Philip Dimitrov age 24
Andrey Lukanov age 40
Dimitar Glavchev age 15
Paul Kaba Thieba age 18
Son Sann age 67
Said Mohamed Djohar age 60
Luis Alberto Monge age 53
Vlatko Pavletić age 48
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 61
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 30
Leo Falcam age 43
Wesley Simina age 17
Laisenia Qarase age 38
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 83
Jean-Max Bellerive age 21
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 35
José Azcona del Hoyo age 52
Ferenc Nagy age 75
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 26
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 31
Akylbek Japarov age 14
Suleiman Frangieh age 68
Amos Sawyer age 33
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 40
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 27
Alfred Sant age 31
Paul Xuereb age 55
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 37
Sükhbaataryn Batbold age 15
Pascoal Mocumbi age 38
Aires Ali age 23
Soe Win age 32
Pak Song-chol age 65
Shujaat Hussain age 39
Kuniwo Nakamura age 35
Tapley Seaton age 28
Adolf Ogi age 36
Nazim al-Kudsi age 73
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 35
Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali age 10
Frank Hsieh age 32
Cornelius A. Smith age 42
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 40
Patrick Manning age 32
Habib Essid age 29
Bülent Ulusu age 56
Feleti Teo age 16
Kausea Natano age 21
Enele Sopoaga age 23
Ham Lini age 27
Kazimierz Sabbat age 66
Michael Ogio age 36
Nicolás Lindley López age 70
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke age 18
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali age 13
Mohamed Hussein Roble age 15
Denis Bećirović age 3
Richard O'Connor age 89
Charles Q. Brown Jr. age 17
John Shalikashvili age 42
Michael Mukasey age 37
William Calley age 35
Rasim Delić age 30
Friedrich Hoßbach age 84
Valentin Varennikov age 55
Hisako, Princess Takamado age 25
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 73
Zakir Hasanov age 19
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 77
Kim Song-ae age 54
Sigvard Bernadotte age 71
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 62
Lady Sarah Chatto age 15
Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 4
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 44
George Deukmejian age 50
Christine Todd Whitman age 32
He Yingqin age 89
Abderrahmane Farès age 68
Marc Forné Molné age 32
Vazgen Manukyan age 33
John Kerr age 64
Isa Gambar age 22
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 61
Alexander Turchyn age 3
Manuel Esquivel age 39
Sangay Ngedup age 25
Wálter Guevara age 67
Enrique Hertzog age 81
Guido Vildoso age 42
Andrey Gyurov age 3
Marin Raykov age 18
Luc-Adolphe Tiao age 24
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla age 20
Ephraïm Inoni age 31
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 63
Josip Manolić age 59
Fabián Alarcón age 32
John Haglelgam age 29
Naiqama Lalabalavu age 25
Tengiz Sigua age 44
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 59
Mohamed Said Fofana age 27
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 25
Aristides Gomes age 24
Ansumane Mané age 39
Moses Nagamootoo age 31
Martial Célestin age 65
Carlos Roberto Flor age 29
Carlos Roberto Reina age 53
Mohammad Natsir age 70
Nizar Amidi age 11
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 54
Bujar Bukoshi age 32
Nexhat Daci age 34
Jakup Krasniqi age 28
Nikolai Tanayev age 33
Sapar Isakov age 1
Igor Chudinov age 17
Indulis Emsis age 27
Gediminas Vagnorius age 21