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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
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Edward J. King age 29
John A. Volpe age 46
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 77
Marvin Mandel age 34
Winfield Dunn age 27
Charles Poletti age 51
Anthony Crosland age 36
Roy Barnes age 6
William S. Sessions age 24
Louis Freeh age 5
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 3
Salman II of Bahrain age 61
Nita Barrow age 38
Yem Sambaur age 42
Ung Huot age 10
Chhean Vam age 38
Sim Var age 49
Sisowath Watchayavong age 63
Norodom Kantol age 34
Nhiek Tioulong age 46
Nagoum Yamassoum age 1
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 27
Pedro Opaso age 78
Évariste Kimba age 28
Léonard Mulamba age 27
Osborne Riviere age 22
Andrés F. Córdova age 62
Antonio Pons age 57
Mamdouh Salem age 37
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 9
Obed Dlamini age 17
Mabandla Dlamini age 24
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 42
George Brizan age 12
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 42
Daniel Fignolé age 41
Jean-Michel Lapin age 5
Robert Malval age 11
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 34
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 51
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 2
Clifford Campbell age 62
Florizel Glasspole age 45
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 47
Jumabek Ibraimov age 11
Nasirdin Isanov age 11
Adolph Bowler age 65
Abdallah El-Yafi age 53
Amin al-Hafez age 29
Hae Phoofolo age 8
Josef Hoop age 59
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 16
Ruben Zackhras age 7
Serafim Urechean age 4
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 68
Jack Marshall age 42
Francisco Urcuyo age 39
Lorenzo Guerrero age 54
Boukary Adji age 16
Francisco Cunha Leal age 66
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho age 83
Bernard Kolélas age 21
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 13
Arnhim Eustace age 10
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 2
Žarko Korać age 7
Milan Čič age 23
Viktor Avbelj age 40
Francis Billy Hilly age 6
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 15
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 3
Lee Huan age 37
Tang Fei age 22
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 3
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 1 month
Tu'i Pelehake age 33
Baron Vaea age 33
Tahar Ben Ammar age 65
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 53
Washington Beltrán age 40
Benito Nardone age 48
Josias Moli age 5 months
Jean-Marie Léyé age 23
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 5
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 13
Kamil Idris age 5 months
Živko Radišić age 17
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 54
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 3 months
Abdessalam Jalloud age 10
Fu Zuoyi age 59
Henri Navarre age 56
David Waddington age 25
Benjamin Civiletti age 19
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 61
Neil H. McElroy age 50
John A. Wickham Jr. age 26
John J. Gilligan age 33
W. Lee O'Daniel age 64
Frank Merriam age 89
Malcolm Wilson age 40
Culbert Olson age 78
Harry Hughes age 28
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 6
Bill McKell age 63
Fuad Guliyev age 13
Firuz Mustafayev age 21
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 25
Oum Cheang Sun age 54
Hang Thun Hak age 30
Bello Bouba Maigari age 8
Célestin Gaombalet age 13
Henri Maïdou age 18
Mohamed Ahmed age 37
Ahmed Abdou age 19
Mahmoud Fawzi age 54
Aziz Sedki age 34
Makhosini Dlamini age 41
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 9
Abebe Aregai age 51
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 8
Ben Jones age 30
Luis Arturo González López age 54
Jean Marie Chérestal age 7
Wilopo age 45
Hikmat Sulayman age 66
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 55
Hazza' al-Majali age 36
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 5
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 15
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 12
Andrei Iordan age 20
Shafik Wazzan age 30
Takieddin el-Solh age 47
Gustav Schädler age 71
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 24
Yoro Diakité age 22
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 1
Dashiin Byambasüren age 12
David Beattie age 30
Aliou Mahamidou age 7
Hamid Algabid age 14
Mahamadou Danda age 3
Vitorino Guimarães age 78
Winston Cenac age 29
Monica Dacon age 20
Stanley John age 3
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 30
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 33
Dragan Maršićanin age 4
Vojislav Mihailović age 3
Janez Stanovnik age 32
Mahmoud Zuabi age 20
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 28
Tomé Vera Cruz age 2
Yahyo Azimov age 7
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 14
Gerald Cash age 37
Milo Butler age 48
Tulaga Manuella age 18
Barak Sopé age 0 months
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 67
Vincent Eri age 18
Osman Jama Ali age 14
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 14
Hyun Soong-jong age 36
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 20
Koffi Sama age 11
Shlomo Shamir age 39
Edward Almond age 62
Lewis Thompson Preston age 28
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 49
Dana Boente age 11 months
Gordon R. Sullivan age 17
George Scratchley Brown age 36
John Wesley Snyder age 59
Peyton C. March age 90
Endelkachew Makonnen age 28
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 34
Hilary Armstrong age 9
James Michael Curley age 80
Roy Mason age 30
Gerald Baliles age 14
Leverett Saltonstall age 62
Foster Furcolo age 43
Dolph Briscoe age 31
Edgar Whitcomb age 37
Cecil Parkinson age 23
Walter E. Edge age 81
Lester Maddox age 39
James Florio age 17
Naoki Hoshino age 62
Mokdad Sifi age 14
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 58
Fazlul Haque age 16
Huy Kanthoul age 46
Leng Ngeth age 55
Combo Ayouba age 2
Gonzalo Güell age 59
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 54