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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

Kenos Aroi age 14
Ruben Kun age 14
Domingos Oliveira age 83
Milton Cato age 41
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 25
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 5
Predrag Marković age 1
Nathaniel Waena age 11
Roger Bonvin age 49
Ernst Brugger age 42
Markus Feldmann age 59
Rodolphe Rubattel age 60
Walther Stampfli age 72
Fawzi Selu age 52
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 16
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 3
Vincent Siew age 18
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 5
Kamuta Latasi age 20
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 17
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 1
Shaya al-Zindani age 3
Kazimierz Świtalski age 70
Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 82
Hassan Abshir Farah age 11
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 27
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 2
Mirko Šarović age 4 months
Ivo Miro Jović age 6
Yehude Simon age 9
Paik Sun-yup age 36
Xue Yue age 60
Halfdan T. Mahler age 33
Nam Il age 41
Nematollah Nassiri age 45
Renya Mutaguchi age 68
Daisy Bates age 42
Friedrich Schulz age 59
Blago Zadro age 12
Rudolf von Bünau age 66
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 40
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 12
Alfredo Astiz age 5
Trần Văn Trà age 39
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 26
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 27
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia age 57
Behice Hanım age 74
Nevzad Hanım age 54
Şehzade Ömer Faruk age 58
Gastone Gambara age 66
Antoni Chruściel age 61
Valerian Frolov age 61
Hiro Saga age 42
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980) age 41
Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria age 83
Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 60
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 53
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 70
Carol Lambrino age 37
Magda Lupescu age 61
Paul Philippe of Romania age 8
Hartley Shawcross age 55
Hugh Carey age 37
Preston Smith age 44
David Pryor age 22
Herman Talmadge age 43
Richard Codey age 10
Otis Bowen age 38
Bob Taft age 15
Hursid Pasha
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
Trần Văn Hương age 55
Hubert Gough age 86
Sun Yun-suan age 43
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 49
Archibald Cox age 44
Skënder Gjinushi age 7
Qasdi Mirbah age 18
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 19
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 10
Mulud Hamroush age 14
Zelman Cowen age 37
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 66
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 17
Joseph Conombo age 39
Pié Masumbuko age 25
Sisowath Monireth age 47
Sadou Hayatou age 14
Peter Mafany Musonge age 14
Alfredo González Flores age 79
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 9
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 27
Patrick John age 19
Pierre Charles age 2
Federico Páez age 80
Aly Maher Pasha age 75
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 16
Jona Senilagakali age 27
Tevita Momoedonu age 11
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 58
Faustino Imbali age 9 months
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 47
Franck Lavaud age 53
Franck Sylvain age 47
Yvon Neptune age 10
Smarck Michel age 19
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 26
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 45
Burhanuddin Harahap age 39
Naji Talib age 39
Ezzedine Salim age 14
Husayn al-Khalidi age 62
David D. Kpormakpor age 21
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 12
Mohieddin Fikini age 31
Walter Kieber age 25
Barlen Vyapoory age 12
Karl Offmann age 16
Veselin Đuranović age 31
Ahmed Balafrej age 48
Maung Maung age 32
Win Maung age 40
René Schick age 47
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 3
Henri Lopès age 19
Kennedy Simmonds age 20
Moustapha Niasse age 17
Thomas Holenstein age 61
Faris al-Khoury age 79
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 49
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 45
Ionatana Ionatana age 18
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 8 months
Mekere Morauta age 10
Cesar Virata age 26
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 54
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 8
Gianfranco Terenzi age 16
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 10
Oscar Valdés age 7
Carlos Ferrero age 15
Yawovi Agboyibo age 13
Du Yuming age 52
Su Yu age 49
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 56
William E. Simon age 29
Nathan F. Twining age 59
Richard Kleindienst age 33
J. Howard McGrath age 53
Liu Huaqing age 41
Vivian Malone Jones age 14
Tikka Khan age 41
Veselin Šljivančanin age 3
Jorge Anaya age 30
Zvonimir Červenko age 30
Života Panić age 23
Lucian Truscott age 62
Toshizō Nishio age 75
Ahmad Ismail Ali age 39
Moshe Carmel age 46
Sandy Woodward age 24
Halvard Lange age 54
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia age 55
Şadiye Sultan age 70
Ulviye Sultan age 64
Şehzade Mehmed Abdulaziz age 55
Hanzade Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 33
Ronald Scobie age 63
Prince Karl Franz of Prussia age 40
Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 63
Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis age 58
Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria age 61
Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 58
Lady May Abel Smith age 51
Archduke Anton of Austria age 55
Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani age 42
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein age 34
Princess Claude of Orléans age 13
Erling Lorentzen age 34
Christoph of Schleswig-Holstein age 7
Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington age 11
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 40
Thomas Kean age 21
Don Sundquist age 20
Charles Edison age 66
George Busbee age 29
Brendan Byrne age 32
Jagjit Singh Aurora age 40
Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha
Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasha
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Curtis Scaparrotti age 10 months
Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo age 35
Abe Fortas age 46
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 35
Paul Hasluck age 51
Shah Azizur Rahman age 31
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 3
Chan Sy age 25