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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09

People

Jack Guy Lafontant age 7
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 80
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 64
Sa'dun Hammadi age 37
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio age 17
Howard Cooke age 52
Zeid bin Shaker age 33
Jafar Hassan age 3 months
Ieremia Tabai age 18
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 18
Daniar Usenov age 8
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 39
Valdis Birkavs age 25
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi age 28
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar age 10
Ahmed Bahnini age 59
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 48
Maati Bouabid age 40
Ahmed Osman age 38
Khin Nyunt age 28
San Yu age 50
Geoffrey Palmer age 26
Ngiratkel Etpison age 42
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 63
Edmund Lawrence age 36
Nikola Šainović age 19
Dragan Tomić age 32
Östen Undén age 81
Rudolf Gnägi age 50
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 54
Pierre Aubert age 41
Georges-André Chevallaz age 53
Pierre Graber age 59
Ahmad al-Khatib age 35
Sean Chen age 18
Jiang Yi-huah age 7
Chang Chun-hsiung age 30
Cynthia A. Pratt age 22
Ellis Clarke age 50
Noor Hassanali age 49
Bahi Ladgham age 55
Hamed Karoui age 40
Ali Bozer age 42
Toaripi Lauti age 39
Saufatu Sopoanga age 16
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 21
Pedro Carmona age 26
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 15
Tomás Romero Pereira age 81
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 62
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 22
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 12
Lee Wan-koo age 17
Lee Hong-koo age 33
Han Seong-sook age 10 months
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 57
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 12
Valeria Ciavatta age 9
Mariella Mularoni age 5
Pedro Cateriano age 9
Aníbal Torres age 25
Javier Velásquez age 8
Gilbert Houngbo age 7
Rosalio Lara age 45
Fawzi al-Qawuqji age 78
C. Douglas Dillon age 58
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 62
Pjetër Arbnori age 33
Belaid Abdesselam age 39
Ismail Hamdani age 38
Lopo do Nascimento age 27
Yaqub Mammadov age 27
Surat Huseynov age 9
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 52
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 36
Adrien Houngbédji age 26
Lionel Zinsou age 13
Yeshey Zimba age 17
Lassina Zerbo age 4
François Ngeze age 15
Mahamat Kamoun age 6
Simplice Sarandji age 13
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 14
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 11
Allamaye Halina former Prime Minister of Chad age 1
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 50
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 32
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 61
Ali Sabri age 47
Miguel Abia Biteo age 7
Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze age 7 months
Ilias Tsirimokos age 61
Alexandros Othonaios age 89
Jean-Marie Doré age 29
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 17
Domingos Simoes Pereira age 4
Prosper Avril age 30
Marc Bazin age 36
Florence Duperval Guillaume age 3
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 65
Kenneth O. Hall age 27
Norman Manley age 74
Teatao Teannaki age 32
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 15
Vilis Krištopans age 13
Andris Šķēle age 10
Laurynas Stankevičius age 32
Émile Reuter age 93
Gilles Andriamahazo age 48
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 22
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 10
Paul Bérenger age 23
Ion Sturza age 7
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 12
Abdallah Ibrahim age 49
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 56
Bill Rowling age 40
Lazarus Salii age 31
Faustin Twagiramungu age 22
Stephenson King age 9
Amadou Ba age 6
Sergej Kraigher age 53
Danny Philip age 14
Snyder Rini age 19
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 32
Hans Schaffner age 59
Hans Hürlimann age 50
Fritz Honegger age 50
Ludwig von Moos age 58
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 32
Sun Fo age 76
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 66
Ivy Dumont age 37
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 64
Faimalaga Luka age 28
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 45
Vasyl Durdynets age 30
Ati George Sokomanu age 32
John Bani age 26
Donald Kalpokas age 24
Phelekezela Mphoko age 27
Arístides Royo age 27
Abdi Farah Shirdon age 9
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 26
Chung Won-shik age 39
John Kotelawala age 71
Osman Hussein age 17
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 17
Fausta Morganti age 23
Antonella Mularoni age 6
Stefano Palmieri age 3
Alberto Otárola age 1
Gustavo Adrianzén age 1
Vicente Zeballos age 4
James Van Fleet age 76
Dick Thornburgh age 35
Richard Myers age 26
Robert B. Anderson age 57
Tom C. Clark age 68
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 32
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abd al-Ghani age 41
Marcolino Moco age 14
Armen Darbinyan age 3
Hasan Hasanov age 27
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 31
Hugo Ballivián age 66
Honoré Traoré age 10
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 62
Élie Doté age 19
Haroun Kabadi age 18
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 15
Gabriel París Gordillo age 58
Samy Badibanga age 5
Justin Marie Bomboko age 39
Vernon Shaw age 37
Zakaria Mohieddin age 49
Mustafa Khalil age 47
Kamal Hassan Ali age 35
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 75
Konstantinos Dovas age 69
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 77
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 21
Lansana Kouyaté age 17
Mamady Youla age 6
Adiato Djaló Nandigna age 9
Martinho Ndafa Kabi age 10
Horta Inta-A Na Man age 8
Hérard Abraham age 27
Élie Lescot age 84
Jean-Henry Céant age 11
Policarpo Paz García age 35
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi age 30
Zaid al-Rifai age 31
Ahmad Obeidat age 29
Ali Abu al-Ragheb age 22
Bajram Kosumi age 8
Abdul Majid Kubar age 58
Abdul Qadir al-Badri age 46
Muhammad Osman Said age 43
Fathi Bashagha age 5