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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
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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Adolph Bowler age 66
Amin al-Hafez age 30
Hae Phoofolo age 9
Josef Hoop age 60
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 17
Ruben Zackhras age 8
Serafim Urechean age 6
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 70
Jack Marshall age 44
Francisco Urcuyo age 40
Lorenzo Guerrero age 55
Boukary Adji age 17
Francisco Cunha Leal age 67
Bernard Kolélas age 23
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 15
Arnhim Eustace age 11
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 4
Žarko Korać age 9
Milan Čič age 24
Viktor Avbelj age 42
John Lapli age 1
Francis Billy Hilly age 7
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 16
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 5
Lee Huan age 38
Tang Fei age 24
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 4
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 1
Tu'i Pelehake age 34
Baron Vaea age 35
Tahar Ben Ammar age 66
Washington Beltrán age 42
Benito Nardone age 49
Josias Moli age 1
Jean-Marie Léyé age 24
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 6
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 15
Kamil Idris age 1
Živko Radišić age 18
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 55
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 1
Abdessalam Jalloud age 11
Fu Zuoyi age 61
Henri Navarre age 57
David Waddington age 26
Benjamin Civiletti age 21
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 62
Joseph W. Barr age 38
Neil H. McElroy age 51
Manny Shinwell age 71
John A. Wickham Jr. age 28
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 8
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 62
Bill McKell age 64
Fuad Guliyev age 15
Firuz Mustafayev age 22
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 26
Oum Cheang Sun age 56
Hang Thun Hak age 31
Bello Bouba Maigari age 9
Célestin Gaombalet age 14
Henri Maïdou age 20
Mohamed Ahmed age 39
Ahmed Abdou age 20
Mahmoud Fawzi age 55
Aziz Sedki age 36
Makhosini Dlamini age 42
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 11
Abebe Aregai age 52
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 10
Ben Jones age 31
Luis Arturo González López age 55
Artur Silva age 6 months
Jean Marie Chérestal age 9
Wilopo age 46
Hikmat Sulayman age 67
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 56
Gilbert Aké age 9 months
Hazza' al-Majali age 37
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 6
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 17
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 13
Andrei Iordan age 21
Shafik Wazzan age 31
Takieddin el-Solh age 48
Gustav Schädler age 72
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 25
Yoro Diakité age 23
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 2
Dashiin Byambasüren age 14
David Beattie age 32
Aliou Mahamidou age 9
Hamid Algabid age 15
Mahamadou Danda age 4
Vitorino Guimarães age 79
Winston Cenac age 30
Monica Dacon age 22
Stanley John age 5
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 32
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 34
Dragan Maršićanin age 6
Vojislav Mihailović age 4
Janez Stanovnik age 33
Mahmoud Zuabi age 21
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 29
Tomé Vera Cruz age 3
Yahyo Azimov age 8
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 15
Gerald Cash age 39
Milo Butler age 49
Tulaga Manuella age 19
Barak Sopé age 1
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 59
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 68
Vincent Eri age 19
Osman Jama Ali age 15
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 15
Hyun Soong-jong age 37
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 21
Koffi Sama age 12
Shlomo Shamir age 41
Edward Almond age 63
Barber Conable age 33
Lewis Thompson Preston age 29
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 50
Dana Boente age 2
Christopher Soames age 35
Gordon R. Sullivan age 18
George Scratchley Brown age 37
John Wesley Snyder age 61
Robert Carr age 39
Naoki Hoshino age 64
Mokdad Sifi age 16
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 59
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 47
Fazlul Haque age 18
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 3 months
Huy Kanthoul age 47
Combo Ayouba age 3
Gonzalo Güell age 61
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 55
Edison James age 12
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 35
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 60
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 37
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 17
Maphevu Dlamini age 34
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 39
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 62
Lamine Sidimé age 12
Caetano N'Tchama age 1
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 29
Muzahim Pachachi age 65
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 60
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 19
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 15
Kenneth Blackburne age 48
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 39
Ahmad Toukan age 52
Ahmad Lawzi age 31
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 8
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 4
Mamadou Dembelé age 22
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 22
Radoje Kontić age 19
Amadou Cissé age 8
José Domingues dos Santos age 69
Charles David Ganao age 29
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 39
Charles Antrobus age 23
Peter Colotka age 31
Raul Bragança Neto age 17
Yu Kuo-hwa age 42
Tomu Sione age 14
Carlos Fischer age 53
Martín Echegoyen age 65
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 55
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 55
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 23
Daniel Lisulo age 25
Malimba Masheke age 15
Kebby Musokotwane age 10
Ignatius Kilage age 15
Silas Atopare age 5
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 17
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 6
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 9
Ro Jai-bong age 20
Pak Choong-hoon age 37
Assunta Meloni age 5
Javier Valle Riestra age 24
Alden W. Clausen age 33
Peter de la Billière age 22
Edward H. Levi age 45
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 56
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 43
Brendan Bracken age 55
Anthony Barber age 36
Bernard W. Rogers age 35
David C. Jones age 35