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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
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

Raul Bragança Neto age 22
Yu Kuo-hwa age 47
Tomu Sione age 19
Carlos Fischer age 58
Martín Echegoyen age 70
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 60
Philip Boedoro age 3
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 28
Daniel Lisulo age 30
Malimba Masheke age 20
Kebby Musokotwane age 15
Ignatius Kilage age 20
Silas Atopare age 10
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 22
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 11
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 14
Ro Jai-bong age 25
Pak Choong-hoon age 42
Rosa Zafferani age 11 months
Assunta Meloni age 10
Javier Valle Riestra age 29
Ernesto Álvarez Miranda age 2 months
Alden W. Clausen age 38
Peter de la Billière age 27
Edward H. Levi age 50
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 61
Gwilym Lloyd George age 66
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 48
Anthony Barber age 41
Bernard W. Rogers age 40
David C. Jones age 40
Peter Thorneycroft age 52
William J. Crowe age 36
Roj Shaweis age 13
James P. McGranery age 66
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 26
Merlyn Rees age 40
Clarence M. Kelley age 49
Mohammad Yusuf age 44
Fazal khaliq age 27
John Montague Stow age 49
Lhendup Dorji age 25
André Muhirwa age 41
Joseph Bamina age 36
Khim Tit age 65
Ek Yi Oun age 51
Sak Sutsakhan age 33
Luc Ayang age 14
Édouard Frank age 27
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 3
Timothée Malendoma age 26
Said Atthoumani age 11
Abbas Djoussouf age 19
Nourdine Bourhane age 11
Ramón Zaydín age 66
Rosie Douglas age 19
Makonnen Endelkachew age 71
Naji Shawkat age 68
Edward Zacca age 30
Kassim al-Rimawi age 43
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 48
Nazem Akkari age 59
Guy Razanamasy age 32
Younoussi Touré age 20
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 27
Mircea Druc age 20
Mamane Oumarou age 16
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 9
Ksente Bogoev age 41
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 72
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 8
Vaughan Lewis age 21
Michael Pilgrim age 14
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 39
Johan Adolf Pengel age 45
Izzat al-Nuss age 49
Lutfi al-Haffar age 73
Weng Wenhao age 72
Qadriddin Aslonov age 14
Arturo Lezama age 62
Faustino Harrison age 61
Mainza Chona age 31
John Guise age 46
Kingsford Dibela age 29
Sam Abal age 3
Antonio Carattoni age 15
Gabriele Gatti age 8
Glauco Sansovini age 23
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 8
Beriz Belkić age 14
Efraín Goldenberg age 31
Luis Alva Castro age 19
Víctor Joy Way age 16
George David Woods age 60
Edward C. Meyer age 32
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 70
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 79
Daniel Bennett Smith age 5
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 55
Earle Wheeler age 53
David E. Jeremiah age 27
Hardan al-Tikriti age 36
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 33
Kenneth Rush age 51
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 81
Adrien Sibomana age 7
Édouard Nzambimana age 15
Pho Proeung age 58
Sam Yun age 56
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 49
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 14
Emilio Bello Codesido age 93
Ali Mroudjaé age 22
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 52
Jorge García Montes age 64
Raúl López del Castillo age 68
Oliver Seraphin age 18
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 37
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 38
Sishayi Nxumalo age 25
Vincent Mhlanga age 11
Mikael Imru age 31
Charles Arden-Clarke age 63
François Lonseny Fall age 12
Mário Pires age 12
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 61
Nureddin Mahmud age 62
Arshad al-Umari age 73
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 5
Omar al-Hasi age 12
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 4
Dragan Kujović age 13
Vidoje Žarković age 34
Blažo Jovanović age 54
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 9
Ange Édouard Poungui age 19
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 25
Lee Moore age 22
Pretaap Radhakishun age 26
Husni al-Barazi age 66
Hassan al-Hakim age 75
Bashir al-Azma age 50
Norberto Costa Alegre age 10
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 8
Wang Yun-wu age 73
Roland Theodore Symonette age 62
Paul Adderley age 33
Henry Milton Taylor age 57
Tekin Arıburun age 55
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 34
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 23
Hasan al-Lawzi age 9
Nalumino Mundia age 33
Tore Lokoloko age 30
Wiwa Korowi age 13
Jure Pelivan age 32
Dragan Mikerević age 6
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 5
Antonello Bacciocchi age 3
Ernesto Benedettini age 13
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 8
Jozo Križanović age 17
Armando Villanueva age 45
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 56
Federico Salas age 10
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 38
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 10
Pedro Richter Prada age 40
Sandro Mariátegui age 39
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 4
Kwassi Klutse age 16
Aurelius Marie age 56
Frank G. Wisner age 23
Carl E. Vuono age 26
Dennis Reimer age 22
Harold Keith Johnson age 49
John William Vessey Jr. age 39
Gabriel Koyambounou age 14
Said Ali Kemal age 23
Mohamed Abdou Madi age 5
Abdallah Mohamed age 11
Bianrifi Tarmidi age 3
Ibrahim Halidi age 6
José Bordas Valdés age 87
Imru Haile Selassie age 68
Assaat age 56
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 75
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 52
Herbert Duffus age 52
Hussein ibn Nasser age 58
Almanbet Matubraimov age 8
Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev age 5
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig age 2
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 5
Angidi Chettiar age 33
Ba Swe age 45
Sebastián Uriza age 100
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 41
Souley Abdoulaye age 5
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 16