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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12

People

Combo Ayouba age 3 months
Gonzalo Güell age 58
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 52
Edison James age 9
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 32
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 57
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 34
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 14
Maphevu Dlamini age 31
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 35
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 58
Lamine Sidimé age 9
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 26
Muzahim Pachachi age 62
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 57
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 16
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 11
Kenneth Blackburne age 45
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 36
Ahmad Toukan age 49
Ahmad Lawzi age 28
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 5
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 1
Mamadou Dembelé age 19
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 19
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 57
Radoje Kontić age 15
Amadou Cissé age 4
José Domingues dos Santos age 65
Charles David Ganao age 25
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 36
Charles Antrobus age 19
Peter Colotka age 28
Raul Bragança Neto age 13
Yu Kuo-hwa age 39
Tomu Sione age 11
Carlos Fischer age 50
Martín Echegoyen age 62
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 52
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 51
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 20
Daniel Lisulo age 22
Malimba Masheke age 11
Kebby Musokotwane age 6
Ignatius Kilage age 11
Silas Atopare age 2
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 14
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 3
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 6
Ro Jai-bong age 17
Pak Choong-hoon age 34
Assunta Meloni age 1
Javier Valle Riestra age 21
Alden W. Clausen age 30
Peter de la Billière age 18
Edward H. Levi age 41
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 40
Brendan Bracken age 52
Bernard W. Rogers age 31
David C. Jones age 31
William D. Mitchell age 78
William J. Crowe age 28
Roj Shaweis age 5
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 18
Merlyn Rees age 32
Clarence M. Kelley age 41
Mohammad Yusuf age 36
Fazal khaliq age 19
John Montague Stow age 41
Lhendup Dorji age 17
André Muhirwa age 33
Joseph Bamina age 28
Khim Tit age 56
Ek Yi Oun age 43
Chan Nak age 60
Sak Sutsakhan age 25
Luc Ayang age 6
Édouard Frank age 19
Timothée Malendoma age 18
Said Atthoumani age 3
Abbas Djoussouf age 11
Nourdine Bourhane age 3
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 52
Ramón Zaydín age 58
Rosie Douglas age 11
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 61
Naji Shawkat age 60
Edward Zacca age 21
Kassim al-Rimawi age 35
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 40
Nazem Akkari age 51
Guy Razanamasy age 24
Younoussi Touré age 12
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 19
Mircea Druc age 11
Mamane Oumarou age 8
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 1
Ksente Bogoev age 33
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 64
Vaughan Lewis age 12
Michael Pilgrim age 6
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 30
Johan Adolf Pengel age 37
Izzat al-Nuss age 41
Haqqi al-Azm age 88
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 72
Lutfi al-Haffar age 65
Weng Wenhao age 63
Yu Hung-chun age 55
Qadriddin Aslonov age 5
Arturo Lezama age 54
Faustino Harrison age 52
Mainza Chona age 23
John Guise age 38
Kingsford Dibela age 21
Antonio Carattoni age 7
Gabriele Gatti age 0 months
Glauco Sansovini age 14
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 1 month
Beriz Belkić age 6
Efraín Goldenberg age 23
Luis Alva Castro age 11
Pedro Beltrán age 56
Víctor Joy Way age 8
Wei Lihuang age 56
George David Woods age 51
Charles Pelot Summerall age 86
Edward C. Meyer age 24
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 62
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 71
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 47
Earle Wheeler age 45
David E. Jeremiah age 19
Hardan al-Tikriti age 28
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 24
Kenneth Rush age 43
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 73
Édouard Nzambimana age 7
Pho Proeung age 49
Sam Yun age 48
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 41
Charles Assalé age 41
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 6
Emilio Bello Codesido age 84
Ali Mroudjaé age 13
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 44
Jorge García Montes age 56
Raúl López del Castillo age 60
Oliver Seraphin age 9
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 29
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 30
Sishayi Nxumalo age 17
Vincent Mhlanga age 3
Mikael Imru age 23
Charles Arden-Clarke age 54
François Lonseny Fall age 4
Mário Pires age 4
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 53
Mohammed al-Sadr age 71
Nureddin Mahmud age 54
Arshad al-Umari age 65
Omar al-Hasi age 4
Dragan Kujović age 5
Vidoje Žarković age 25
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 11 months
Ange Édouard Poungui age 11
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 17
Paul Southwell age 39
Lee Moore age 14
Pretaap Radhakishun age 18
Husni al-Barazi age 58
Hassan al-Hakim age 67
Bashir al-Azma age 42
Norberto Costa Alegre age 2
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 3 months
Wang Yun-wu age 64
Roland Theodore Symonette age 54
Paul Adderley age 24
Henry Milton Taylor age 49
Tekin Arıburun age 47
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 26
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 15
Hasan al-Lawzi age 1
Nalumino Mundia age 25
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 60
Tore Lokoloko age 22
Wiwa Korowi age 4
Jure Pelivan age 24
Ernesto Benedettini age 5
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 6 months
Jozo Križanović age 8
Armando Villanueva age 37
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 48
Federico Salas age 2
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 30
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 2
Pedro Richter Prada age 32
Sandro Mariátegui age 31
Kwassi Klutse age 7
Aurelius Marie age 48