✦ History

Explore August 24, 1981

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

People

Rudolf Gnägi age 64
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 67
Pierre Aubert age 54
Georges-André Chevallaz age 66
Pierre Graber age 72
Ahmad al-Khatib age 48
Sean Chen age 31
Jiang Yi-huah age 20
Chang Chun-hsiung age 43
Cynthia A. Pratt age 35
Noor Hassanali age 63
Bahi Ladgham age 68
Hamed Karoui age 53
Ali Bozer age 56
Saufatu Sopoanga age 29
Abdulhashim Mutalov age 34
Pedro Carmona age 40
Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher age 28
Tomás Romero Pereira age 94
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 76
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 35
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 25
Lee Wan-koo age 31
Lee Hong-koo age 47
Han Seong-sook age 14
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz age 71
Zlatko Lagumdžija age 25
Valeria Ciavatta age 22
Maria Luisa Berti age 9
Mariella Mularoni age 18
Grazia Zafferani age 8
Pedro Cateriano age 23
Aníbal Torres age 38
Javier Velásquez age 21
Salvador del Solar age 11
Gilbert Houngbo age 20
Rosalio Lara age 59
C. Douglas Dillon age 72
Todd Blanche age 7
Mustafa Tlass age 49
Sefer Halilović age 29
Gojko Šušak age 36
Mile Mrkšić age 34
Jacques Massu age 73
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu age 69
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa age 26
Bayezid Osman age 57
Nilufer Hanımsultan age 65
Chiang Fang-liang age 65
Prince Wolfgang of Hesse age 84
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010) age 62
Kim Sol-song age 6
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma age 57
Princess Margarita of Baden age 49
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern age 49
Katherine Karađorđević age 37
David Lidington age 25
Mark White age 41
John W. Bricker age 88
Bob Ehrlich age 23
Anne-Marie Trevelyan age 12
Zoran Lilić age 28
James G. Stavridis age 26
Philip M. Breedlove age 25
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 75
Pjetër Arbnori age 46
Belaid Abdesselam age 53
Ismail Hamdani age 51
Lopo do Nascimento age 41
Yaqub Mammadov age 40
Surat Huseynov age 22
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury age 66
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 49
Adrien Houngbédji age 39
Lionel Zinsou age 26
Yeshey Zimba age 30
Lassina Zerbo age 17
François Ngeze age 28
Mahamat Kamoun age 19
Simplice Sarandji age 26
Djimrangar Dadnadji age 27
Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet age 24
Allamaye Halina age 14
Said Mohamed Jaffar age 63
Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim age 45
Ali Sabri age 61
Miguel Abia Biteo age 20
Manuela Roka age 8
Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze age 13
Jean-Marie Doré age 43
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 30
Bernard Goumou age 11 months
Domingos Simoes Pereira age 17
Baciro Djá age 8
Prosper Avril age 43
Marc Bazin age 49
Florence Duperval Guillaume age 16
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 78
Kenneth O. Hall age 40
Teatao Teannaki age 45
Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah age 28
Vilis Krištopans age 27
Andris Šķēle age 23
Laurynas Stankevičius age 46
Gilles Andriamahazo age 62
Ousmane Issoufi Maïga age 35
Moussa Mara age 6
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf age 23
Paul Bérenger age 36
Ion Sturza age 21
Sanjaagiin Bayar age 25
Abdallah Ibrahim age 63
Matrika Prasad Koirala age 69
Bill Rowling age 53
Lazarus Salii age 44
Sorin Cîmpeanu age 13
Faustin Twagiramungu age 36
Stephenson King age 22
Amadou Ba age 20
Sergej Kraigher age 67
Danny Philip age 28
Snyder Rini age 33
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 45
Hans Schaffner age 72
Hans Hürlimann age 63
Fritz Honegger age 64
Ludwig von Moos age 71
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 46
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat age 79
Ivy Dumont age 50
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 78
Faimalaga Luka age 41
Vasyl Durdynets age 43
John Bani age 40
Donald Kalpokas age 38
Phelekezela Mphoko age 41
Abdi Farah Shirdon age 22
Ali Khalif Galaydh age 39
Chung Won-shik age 53
Osman Hussein age 30
Mohamed Tahir Ayala age 30
Luca Beccari age 6
Fausta Morganti age 37
Denise Bronzetti age 8
Antonella Mularoni age 19
Stefano Palmieri age 16
Alberto Otárola age 14
Gustavo Adrianzén age 14
Vicente Zeballos age 18
Văn Tiến Dũng age 64
James Van Fleet age 89
Dick Thornburgh age 49
Richard Myers age 39
Robert B. Anderson age 71
Ahmed Jibril age 43
Vladimir Stoychev age 89
Radislav Krstić age 33
Avraham Adan age 54
Atsuko Ikeda age 50
Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia age 75
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia age 83
Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia age 74
Prince Nicholas Romanov age 58
Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg age 68
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007) age 63
Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1922–1993) age 59
Archduchess Charlotte of Austria age 60
Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 62
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife age 51
Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha age 38
Lady Davina Windsor age 3
Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Hohenzollern age 57
Gustav, 7th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 12
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness age 26
Paul Cellucci age 33
Jim McGreevey age 24
Greg Clark age 14
Nancy Hollister age 32
Bill Clements age 64
Douglas Wilder age 50
Chuck Robb age 42
Markus Büchel age 22
Mario Frick age 16
A. A. K. Niazi age 66
Keith Campbell (biologist) age 27
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Ladislav Adamec age 54
Abd al-Hamid Ibrahimi age 45
Marcolino Moco age 28
Armen Darbinyan age 16
Hasan Hasanov age 40
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 44
Hugo Ballivián age 80
Honoré Traoré age 23
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 76
Élie Doté age 33
Haroun Kabadi age 32
Youssouf Saleh Abbas age 28
Gabriel París Gordillo age 71
Samy Badibanga age 18