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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22

People

Flora MacDonald age 22
Ebrahim Hakimi age 77
Oliver P. Smith age 55
Harold MacMichael age 66
James T. Conway age 9 months
Vu Van Mau age 34
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 57
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen age 85
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 6
Abane Ramdane age 28
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 58
Toshiko Higashikuni age 52
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 39
Morihiro Higashikuni age 31
Anastasia de Torby age 56
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 45
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 25
Dilfirib Kadın age 58
Zekiye Sultan age 77
Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin (son of Abdul Hamid II) age 62
Gevheri Sultan age 43
Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf age 84
Heinrich Schnee age 77
Ma Zhanshan age 62
Leslie Morshead age 59
Charles Noguès age 72
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 56
Wang Jiaxiang age 42
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 35
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 54
Yuk Young-soo age 22
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 38
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 13
Marion Stein age 22
John J. Gilligan age 27
W. Lee O'Daniel age 58
Frank Merriam age 82
Malcolm Wilson age 34
Culbert Olson age 71
Harry Hughes age 21
Frank Lausche age 52
John Strachey (politician) age 47
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 34
Hans Brunhart age 3
Lauris Norstad age 41
Paul Legentilhomme age 64
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 4 months
Fuad Guliyev age 7
Firuz Mustafayev age 15
Grantley Herbert Adams age 50
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 18
Oum Cheang Sun age 48
Hang Thun Hak age 24
Bello Bouba Maigari age 1
Célestin Gaombalet age 6
Henri Maïdou age 12
Mohamed Ahmed age 31
Ahmed Abdou age 12
Mahmoud Fawzi age 48
Aziz Sedki age 28
Makhosini Dlamini age 34
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 3
Abebe Aregai age 45
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 2
Ben Jones age 24
Luis Arturo González López age 47
Jean Marie Chérestal age 1
Wilopo age 39
Hikmat Sulayman age 59
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 48
Hazza' al-Majali age 29
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 9
Taher Masri age 6
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 6
Andrei Iordan age 13
Shafik Wazzan age 23
Takieddin el-Solh age 40
Gustav Schädler age 64
Léon Kauffman age 79
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 17
Yoro Diakité age 16
Dashiin Byambasüren age 6
Mitar Martinović age 78
David Beattie age 24
Aliou Mahamidou age 1
Hamid Algabid age 7
Vitorino Guimarães age 71
Winston Cenac age 23
Monica Dacon age 14
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 24
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 27
Janez Stanovnik age 26
Jamil al-Elshi age 65
Mahmoud Zuabi age 13
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 21
Yahyo Azimov age 10 months
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 8
Gerald Cash age 31
Milo Butler age 42
Tulaga Manuella age 12
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 51
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 60
Vincent Eri age 12
Osman Jama Ali age 7
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 7
Hyun Soong-jong age 29
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 14
Koffi Sama age 4
Shlomo Shamir age 33
Edward Almond age 55
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 37
Lewis Thompson Preston age 22
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 42
Christopher Soames age 28
Gordon R. Sullivan age 11
George Scratchley Brown age 30
J. R. Clynes age 79
Robert Carr age 31
Peyton C. March age 83
Wu Po-hsiung age 9
Muhammad Umran age 26
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 28
Diane Nash age 10
Fred Shuttlesworth age 26
Izzat Darwaza age 60
Montagu Stopford age 55
Philip Chetwode age 79
Dezső László age 55
Song Shilun age 41
Juan Vigón age 68
Yeshayahu Gavish age 23
Yasuko Konoe age 4
Paul Ilyinsky age 20
Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 64
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 44
Müşfika Kadın age 80
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 25
Mukarram Jah age 15
Azam Jah age 41
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 7
Fazile Hanımsultan age 7
Swaran Singh age 41
Alfred Schlemm age 53
David Shaltiel age 45
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 54
Yang Hucheng age 54
Wilhelm Graf von Hohenau age 63
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 60
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 61
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 36
Gerald David Lascelles age 24
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 11
Endelkachew Makonnen age 21
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 27
Hilary Armstrong age 2
James Michael Curley age 73
Allan Shivers age 41
Roy Mason age 24
Gerald Baliles age 8
Leverett Saltonstall age 56
Thomas B. Stanley age 58
Foster Furcolo age 37
Dolph Briscoe age 25
Edgar Whitcomb age 30
Cecil Parkinson age 17
Walter E. Edge age 74
Lester Maddox age 33
James Florio age 11
John Okello age 11
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 4
Naoki Hoshino age 56
Mokdad Sifi age 8
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 52
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 39
Fazlul Haque age 10
Ieu Koeus age 43
Huy Kanthoul age 39
Leng Ngeth age 48
Gonzalo Güell age 53
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 47
Edison James age 5
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 27
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 52
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 29
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 9
Maphevu Dlamini age 26
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 31
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 54
Lamine Sidimé age 4
Constantino Teixeira age 15
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 21
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 52
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 11
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 7
Kenneth Blackburne age 40
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 31
Ahmad Toukan age 45
Ahmad Lawzi age 23
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 1