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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

People

Jozef Moravčík age 10
Ezekiel Alebua age 8
Peter Kenilorea age 12
Willi Ritschard age 36
Karl Kobelt age 64
Willy Spühler age 53
Nello Celio age 41
Paul Chaudet age 50
Eduard von Steiger age 74
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 56
Hans Streuli age 63
Enrico Celio age 66
Khalid al-Azm age 60
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 1
Gabriel Costa age 9 months
Simon Chang age 1
Mao Chi-kuo age 6
Yu Shyi-kun age 7
Arthur Dion Hanna age 27
Estanislau da Silva age 3
Naim Talu age 36
Tomasi Puapua age 17
Willy Telavi age 1
Alberto Héber Usher age 37
Maxime Carlot Korman age 14
Joe Natuman age 2
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 73
Raimundo Rolón age 52
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 55
Abdullahi Issa age 32
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein age 44
Hasan Muratović age 15
Beatriz Merino age 7
Sebastiano Baggio age 42
Harry Hines Woodring age 68
Hiroshi Nakajima age 27
Griffin Bell age 36
Edwin Meese age 23
Frederick C. Weyand age 39
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 30
G. William Miller age 30
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 47
William B. Saxbe age 39
Gerhard von Schwerin age 56
Hugo Österman age 63
Keith Park age 63
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 63
Donald A. Henderson age 27
Robert L. Eichelberger age 69
José Moscardó Ituarte age 76
Annibale Bergonzoli age 70
Ali Sayyad Shirazi age 11
Adnan Khairallah age 13
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu age 46
Prince Dimitri Romanov age 29
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven age 36
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 68
Sabiha Sultan age 61
Ahmad Nami age 82
Necla Sultan age 29
Şehzade Ali Vasib age 51
Harun Osman age 23
Hoàng Văn Thái age 40
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1896) age 58
Archduchess Maria Henrietta of Austria age 72
Archduchess Isabella of Austria age 66
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 80
Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma age 46
Prince Konrad of Bavaria age 71
Princess Irina of Romania age 2
Angus Ogilvy age 27
Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern age 3
Francis Pym age 33
Hugh Dalton age 68
Maurice Strong age 26
Patrick Steptoe age 42
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Clifford Dupont age 49
Jan Černý age 81
Jan Šrámek age 85
Abdullah bin Khalifa age 45
Kingorō Hashimoto age 65
Lee Yuan-tsu age 31
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 50
Kastriot Islami age 3
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 35
Josep Pintat-Solans age 30
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 26
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 36
Tom Adams age 23
Pascal Koupaki age 4
Konstantin Muraviev age 62
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 2
Pen Sovan age 19
Long Boret age 22
Simon Achidi Achu age 20
André Nzapayeké age 4
Carlos Dávila age 68
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 21
Zlatko Tomčić age 10
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 29
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 76
Daniel Ona Ondo age 10
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 20
Léon Mébiame age 21
Bessarion Gugushvili age 10
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 63
Petros Voulgaris age 72
Ioannis Theotokis age 75
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 54
Nicholas Brathwaite age 30
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 40
Eugène Camara age 13
Mohamed Béavogui age 2
Victor Saúde Maria age 16
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 8
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 54
Stenio Vincent age 81
Rosny Smarth age 14
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 57
Tahir Yahya age 39
Taha al-Hashimi age 67
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 63
Rachid Solh age 29
Alfred Naqqache age 67
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush age 22
Gerard Batliner age 26
Django Sissoko age 7
Mandé Sidibé age 15
Yahya Ould Hademine age 1
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 9
Cassam Uteem age 14
Kenos Aroi age 13
Ruben Kun age 13
Domingos Oliveira age 82
Arthur Văitoianu age 91
Milton Cato age 40
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 24
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 3
Nathaniel Waena age 9
Roger Bonvin age 48
Ernst Brugger age 41
Markus Feldmann age 58
Rodolphe Rubattel age 59
Walther Stampfli age 70
Fawzi Selu age 50
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 14
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 2
Vincent Siew age 16
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 3
Kamuta Latasi age 19
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 16
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 1 month
Shaya al-Zindani age 1
Kazimierz Świtalski age 69
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 81
Hassan Abshir Farah age 10
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 25
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 1
Ivo Miro Jović age 5
Yehude Simon age 8
Paik Sun-yup age 34
Xue Yue age 58
Halfdan T. Mahler age 32
Nam Il age 40
Nematollah Nassiri age 44
Renya Mutaguchi age 66
Daisy Bates age 40
Friedrich Schulz age 57
Blago Zadro age 11
Rudolf von Bünau age 65
P. C. Chang age 63
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 39
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 10
Alfredo Astiz age 3
Trần Văn Trà age 37
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 25
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 25
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia age 55
Behice Hanım age 72
Nevzad Hanım age 53
Şehzade Ömer Faruk age 57
Gastone Gambara age 64
Antoni Chruściel age 60
Valerian Frolov age 60
Hiro Saga age 41
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980) age 40
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria age 81
Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 58
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 52
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 68
Carol Lambrino age 35
Magda Lupescu age 60
Paul Philippe of Romania age 7
Hartley Shawcross age 53
Hugh Carey age 36
Preston Smith age 43
David Pryor age 21
Herman Talmadge age 42
Richard Codey age 8