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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Hu Zongnan age 61
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 72
Charles Clarke age 6
Henry H. Fowler age 48
Hugh Shelton age 15
William French Smith age 39
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 45
Peter Schoomaker age 11
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 74
William S. Sessions age 26
Louis Freeh age 7
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 5
Salman II of Bahrain age 63
Nita Barrow age 40
Yem Sambaur age 44
Ung Huot age 12
Chhean Vam age 41
Sim Var age 51
Sisowath Watchayavong age 65
Norodom Kantol age 36
Nhiek Tioulong age 48
Nagoum Yamassoum age 3
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 29
Évariste Kimba age 30
Léonard Mulamba age 29
Osborne Riviere age 25
Andrés F. Córdova age 65
Antonio Pons age 59
Mamdouh Salem age 39
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 11
Obed Dlamini age 20
Mabandla Dlamini age 26
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 45
George Brizan age 14
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 45
Daniel Fignolé age 43
Jean-Michel Lapin age 7
Robert Malval age 13
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 36
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 54
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 4
Clifford Campbell age 64
Florizel Glasspole age 47
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 49
Jumabek Ibraimov age 13
Nasirdin Isanov age 13
Adolph Bowler age 67
Amin al-Hafez age 31
Hae Phoofolo age 10
Josef Hoop age 61
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 18
Ruben Zackhras age 9
Serafim Urechean age 7
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 71
Jack Marshall age 45
Francisco Urcuyo age 41
Lorenzo Guerrero age 56
Boukary Adji age 18
Francisco Cunha Leal age 68
Bernard Kolélas age 23
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 16
Arnhim Eustace age 12
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 5
Žarko Korać age 10
Milan Čič age 25
Viktor Avbelj age 43
John Lapli age 1
Francis Billy Hilly age 8
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 17
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 6
Manuel Quintas de Almeida age 4 months
Lee Huan age 39
Tang Fei age 25
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 5
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 2
Tu'i Pelehake age 35
Baron Vaea age 36
Tahar Ben Ammar age 67
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 55
Washington Beltrán age 43
Benito Nardone age 50
Josias Moli age 2
Jean-Marie Léyé age 25
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 7
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 15
Kamil Idris age 2
Živko Radišić age 19
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 56
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 2
Abdessalam Jalloud age 12
Fu Zuoyi age 61
Henri Navarre age 58
David Waddington age 27
Benjamin Civiletti age 21
Neil H. McElroy age 52
John A. Wickham Jr. age 28
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 8
Bill McKell age 65
Fuad Guliyev age 15
Firuz Mustafayev age 23
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 27
Oum Cheang Sun age 56
Hang Thun Hak age 32
Bello Bouba Maigari age 10
Célestin Gaombalet age 15
Henri Maïdou age 21
Mohamed Ahmed age 39
Ahmed Abdou age 21
Mahmoud Fawzi age 56
Aziz Sedki age 36
Makhosini Dlamini age 43
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 11
Abebe Aregai age 53
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 11
Ben Jones age 32
Luis Arturo González López age 56
Artur Silva age 1
Jean Marie Chérestal age 9
Wilopo age 47
Hikmat Sulayman age 68
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 57
Gilbert Aké age 1
Hazza' al-Majali age 38
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 7
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 17
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 14
Andrei Iordan age 22
Shafik Wazzan age 32
Takieddin el-Solh age 49
Gustav Schädler age 73
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 26
Yoro Diakité age 24
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 3
Dashiin Byambasüren age 14
David Beattie age 33
Aliou Mahamidou age 9
Hamid Algabid age 16
Mahamadou Danda age 5
Vitorino Guimarães age 80
Winston Cenac age 31
Monica Dacon age 22
Stanley John age 5
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 32
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 35
Dragan Maršićanin age 7
Vojislav Mihailović age 5
Janez Stanovnik age 34
Mahmoud Zuabi age 22
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 30
Tomé Vera Cruz age 4
Yahyo Azimov age 9
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 16
Gerald Cash age 39
Milo Butler age 50
Tulaga Manuella age 20
Barak Sopé age 2
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 60
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 69
Vincent Eri age 20
Osman Jama Ali age 16
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 16
Hyun Soong-jong age 38
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 22
Koffi Sama age 13
Shlomo Shamir age 41
Edward Almond age 64
Lewis Thompson Preston age 30
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 51
Dana Boente age 3
Gordon R. Sullivan age 19
George Scratchley Brown age 38
John Wesley Snyder age 61
Endelkachew Makonnen age 30
Naoki Hoshino age 65
Mokdad Sifi age 17
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 60
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 48
Fazlul Haque age 18
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 1
Huy Kanthoul age 48
Leng Ngeth age 57
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 0 months
Combo Ayouba age 4
Gonzalo Güell age 62
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 56
Edison James age 13
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 36
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 61
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 38
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 18
Maphevu Dlamini age 35
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 39
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 62
Lamine Sidimé age 13
Caetano N'Tchama age 2
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 30
Muzahim Pachachi age 66
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 61
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 20
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 15