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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed age 2
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 7
Mirko Šarović age 4
Ivo Miro Jović age 11
Yehude Simon age 14
Walter Martos age 4
Paik Sun-yup age 40
Xue Yue age 64
Halfdan T. Mahler age 38
Thomas A. Shannon Jr. age 3
Hubert Gough age 90
Sun Yun-suan age 47
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 53
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 57
Skënder Gjinushi age 11
Qasdi Mirbah age 23
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 24
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 15
Mulud Hamroush age 18
Zelman Cowen age 41
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 70
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 21
Joseph Conombo age 44
Pié Masumbuko age 29
Sisowath Monireth age 51
Sadou Hayatou age 19
Peter Mafany Musonge age 18
Martin Ziguélé age 4
Alfredo González Flores age 84
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 14
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 31
Patrick John age 23
Pierre Charles age 7
Federico Páez age 85
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 21
Jona Senilagakali age 31
Tevita Momoedonu age 15
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 62
Faustino Imbali age 5
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 51
Franck Lavaud age 58
Franck Sylvain age 51
Yvon Neptune age 14
Smarck Michel age 24
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 31
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 50
Burhanuddin Harahap age 44
Naji Talib age 44
Ezzedine Salim age 18
Husayn al-Khalidi age 66
David D. Kpormakpor age 25
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 17
Mohieddin Fikini age 36
Walter Kieber age 30
Eugenijus Gentvilas age 1
Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya age 4 months
Barlen Vyapoory age 16
Karl Offmann age 20
Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa age 3
Veselin Đuranović age 36
Ahmed Balafrej age 53
Maung Maung age 36
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 67
René Schick age 51
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 8
Henri Lopès age 23
Kennedy Simmonds age 25
Moustapha Niasse age 21
Thomas Holenstein age 65
Faris al-Khoury age 83
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 53
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 50
Ionatana Ionatana age 22
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 5
Mekere Morauta age 15
Cesar Virata age 30
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 58
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 12
Gianfranco Terenzi age 20
José Antonio Chang age 3
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 15
Oscar Valdés age 12
Carlos Ferrero age 20
Yawovi Agboyibo age 17
Du Yuming age 56
Su Yu age 53
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 61
William E. Simon age 33
Nathan F. Twining age 63
Richard Kleindienst age 37
J. Howard McGrath age 57
Abe Fortas age 51
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 40
Paul Hasluck age 56
Shah Azizur Rahman age 35
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 7
Chan Sy age 29
In Tam age 38
Bartolomé Blanche age 82
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 11
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 25
Arturo Araujo age 83
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 48
Herbert Blaize age 43
Diarra Traoré age 26
Alamara Nhassé age 4
Francisco Fadul age 7
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 18
Edward Luckhoo age 49
Émile Jonassaint age 48
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 83
Adnan Pachachi age 38
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 28
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 69
Faisal al-Fayez age 8
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 22
Apas Jumagulov age 26
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 23
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 36
Hussein Maziq age 43
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 22
Imbarek Shamekh age 9
Alfred Hilbe age 33
Tantely Andrianarivo age 7
Eugène Mangalaza age 11
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 60
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 19
Soumana Sacko age 10
Kunio Lemari age 18
Andrei Sangheli age 17
Gheorghe Brega age 9
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 28
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 75
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 50
Yon Hyong-muk age 29
Allan Louisy age 44
Idrissa Seck age 1
Allan Kemakeza age 12
Solomon Mamaloni age 18
Jules Sedney age 38
Bahij al-Khatib age 66
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 29
Yusuf Zuayyin age 29
Sabri al-Asali age 58
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 8
Frederick Sumaye age 11
Edward Sokoine age 22
John Malecela age 27
Orville Turnquest age 32
Clifford Darling age 39
Kléber Dadjo age 46
Tupua Leupena age 38
Koloa Talake age 27
Luis Giannattasio age 66
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 25
Esmon Saimon age 5
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 22
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 49
Bill Skate age 7
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 30
Hong Nam-ki age 11 months
Yoo Il-ho age 6
Gian Nicola Berti age 11 months
Oscar Mina age 2
Krešimir Zubak age 14
Antero Flores Aráoz age 19
Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu age 2
Patrick J. Hurley age 78
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 67
Hu Zongnan age 65
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 76
George M. Humphrey age 71
Charles Clarke age 10
Duncan Sandys age 53
Henry H. Fowler age 52
Hugh Shelton age 19
William French Smith age 43
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 49
Peter Schoomaker age 15
James C. McConville age 2
William S. Sessions age 31
Louis Freeh age 11
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 9
Salman II of Bahrain age 67
Nita Barrow age 44
Yem Sambaur age 48
Ung Huot age 16
Chhean Vam age 45
Sim Var age 55
Sisowath Watchayavong age 69
Norodom Kantol age 40
Nhiek Tioulong age 52
Nagoum Yamassoum age 7
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 33
Évariste Kimba age 35
Léonard Mulamba age 33
Osborne Riviere age 29
Andrés F. Córdova age 69
Antonio Pons age 63
Mamdouh Salem age 43