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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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Muhammad Ali Samatar age 25
Yoo Il-ho age 11 months
Krešimir Zubak age 9
Antero Flores Aráoz age 14
Patrick J. Hurley age 73
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 61
Hu Zongnan age 59
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 70
Charles Clarke age 5
Homer Stille Cummings age 85
Henry H. Fowler age 47
Hugh Shelton age 14
William French Smith age 38
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 44
Peter Schoomaker age 10
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 73
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 23
Masakazu Kawabe age 69
Robert L. Ghormley age 72
Chang Fa-kwei age 60
Clarence R. Huebner age 67
Yury Drozdov age 30
Petar Stipetić age 18
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 4
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach age 0 months
Antonio Aranda age 67
Paul Aussaresses age 37
Irina Paley age 52
Nevvare Hanım age 54
Mehisti Hanım age 64
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 57
Dov Joseph age 56
Yi Bangja age 54
Yi Hae-won age 36
Yi Ku age 24
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 44
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 15
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 52
Edward J. King age 30
John A. Volpe age 47
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 78
Marvin Mandel age 35
Winfield Dunn age 28
Charles Poletti age 52
Anthony Crosland age 37
Roy Barnes age 7
William S. Sessions age 25
Louis Freeh age 6
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 4
Salman II of Bahrain age 62
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 17
Nita Barrow age 39
Yem Sambaur age 43
Ung Huot age 11
Chhean Vam age 39
Sim Var age 50
Sisowath Watchayavong age 64
Norodom Kantol age 35
Nhiek Tioulong age 47
Nagoum Yamassoum age 2
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 28
Pedro Opaso age 79
Évariste Kimba age 29
Léonard Mulamba age 28
Osborne Riviere age 24
Andrés F. Córdova age 63
Antonio Pons age 58
Mamdouh Salem age 38
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 10
Obed Dlamini age 18
Mabandla Dlamini age 25
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 44
George Brizan age 13
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 43
Sidya Touré age 11
Daniel Fignolé age 42
Jean-Michel Lapin age 6
Robert Malval age 12
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 35
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 52
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 3
Clifford Campbell age 63
Florizel Glasspole age 46
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 48
Jumabek Ibraimov age 12
Nasirdin Isanov age 12
Adolph Bowler age 66
Abdallah El-Yafi age 54
Amin al-Hafez age 30
Hae Phoofolo age 9
Josef Hoop age 60
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 17
Ruben Zackhras age 8
Serafim Urechean age 6
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 70
Jack Marshall age 44
Francisco Urcuyo age 40
Lorenzo Guerrero age 55
Boukary Adji age 17
Francisco Cunha Leal age 67
Bernard Kolélas age 22
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 14
Arnhim Eustace age 11
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 4
Žarko Korać age 9
Milan Čič age 24
Viktor Avbelj age 42
John Lapli age 8 months
Francis Billy Hilly age 7
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 16
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 42
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 4
Lee Huan age 38
Tang Fei age 23
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 4
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 1
Tu'i Pelehake age 34
Baron Vaea age 34
Tahar Ben Ammar age 66
Washington Beltrán age 41
Benito Nardone age 49
Josias Moli age 1
Jean-Marie Léyé age 24
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 6
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 14
Kamil Idris age 1
Živko Radišić age 18
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 55
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 1
Abdessalam Jalloud age 11
Fu Zuoyi age 60
Henri Navarre age 57
David Waddington age 26
Benjamin Civiletti age 20
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 62
Neil H. McElroy age 51
John A. Wickham Jr. age 27
Hung Hsiu-chu age 7
Flora MacDonald age 29
Ebrahim Hakimi age 84
Oliver P. Smith age 62
Harold MacMichael age 74
James T. Conway age 8
Vu Van Mau age 41
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 65
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 13
Abane Ramdane age 35
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 66
Toshiko Higashikuni age 59
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 47
Morihiro Higashikuni age 38
Anastasia de Torby age 63
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 53
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 5
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 33
Gevheri Sultan age 51
Leslie Morshead age 66
Charles Noguès age 79
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 64
Wang Jiaxiang age 49
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 43
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 61
Yuk Young-soo age 30
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 45
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 20
Marion Stein age 29
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 3
John J. Gilligan age 34
W. Lee O'Daniel age 66
Malcolm Wilson age 42
Culbert Olson age 79
Harry Hughes age 29
John Strachey (politician) age 54
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 41
Hans Brunhart age 10
Lauris Norstad age 48
Bantz J. Craddock age 6
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 7
Bill McKell age 64
Fuad Guliyev age 14
Firuz Mustafayev age 22
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 26
Oum Cheang Sun age 55
Hang Thun Hak age 31
Bello Bouba Maigari age 9
Célestin Gaombalet age 14
Henri Maïdou age 20
Mohamed Ahmed age 38
Ahmed Abdou age 20
Mahmoud Fawzi age 55
Aziz Sedki age 35
Makhosini Dlamini age 42
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 10
Abebe Aregai age 52
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 9
Ben Jones age 31
Luis Arturo González López age 55
Artur Silva age 2 months
Jean Marie Chérestal age 8
Wilopo age 46