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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

José Bordas Valdés age 83
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 37
Imru Haile Selassie age 65
Assaat age 53
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 72
Herbert Duffus age 49
Hussein ibn Nasser age 55
Almanbet Matubraimov age 5
Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev age 2
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 2
Angidi Chettiar age 29
Ba Swe age 42
Sebastián Uriza age 97
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 37
Souley Abdoulaye age 2
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 13
George Charles age 41
Miha Marinko age 57
Errol Alibux age 9
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 26
Daniel Daio age 11
Wang Zhengting age 76
John Warburton Paul age 41
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 59
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 23
Elijah Mudenda age 30
Božidar Matić age 20
Cesare Gasperoni age 14
Edda Ceccoli age 10
Maurizio Rattini age 8
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 51
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 41
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 40
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 38
Michel Roquejeoffre age 24
David D. Newsom age 40
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 77
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 80
Michael Armacost age 20
Fermín Palacios
Bob C. Riley age 33
Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree age 20
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 74
Frank O'Bannon age 28
William Preston Lane Jr. age 65
John Farmer Jr. age 8 months
Gus Macdonald age 17
Matthew E. Welsh age 45
Roger D. Branigin age 55
Geoffrey Rippon age 33
Charles Fried age 22
Albin Nyamoya age 33
Anatole Kanyenkiko age 6
Antoine Nduwayo age 16
Léopold Biha age 39
Joseph Cimpaye age 26
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 14
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 12
Simon Narcisse Bozanga age 15
Bernard Ayandho age 27
Halifa Humadi age 11
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 59
Bheki Dlamini age 6
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 49
Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari age 64
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 11
Raouf Bundhun age 21
Dendev Terbishdagva age 3
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 38
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 44
Rifat Rastoder age 7
Radivoje Brajović age 23
Marko Orlandić age 27
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 90
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 64
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 39
Štefan Sádovský age 29
Wim Udenhout age 20
Nur al-Din Kahala age 48
Sami al-Jundi age 36
Dennis Young age 22
John Giheno age 9
Gian Marco Marcucci age 3
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 59
Rodolfo Llopis age 63
Arleigh Winston Scott age 57
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 39
John L. Hines age 89
Livingston T. Merchant age 54
Francisco de Aguilar age 148
Vicente Gómez
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 20
Lin Junq-tzer age 14
Alfred E. Driscoll age 55
Henry F. Schricker age 74
Hill McAlister age 82
Myers Y. Cooper age 84
William T. Cahill age 45
George N. Craig age 48
Ralph F. Gates age 65
Douglas Jay age 50
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 51
John Davies age 42
Jo Ann Robinson age 45
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 10
Jean-Luc Mandaba age 14
Enoch Derant Lakoué age 13
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 24
Salim Ben Ali age 40
Paul Shabangu age 15
Tesfaye Dinka age 18
Francisco Bueso age 98
Medetbek Kerimkulov age 9
Boris Silayev age 11
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 19
Hugh Watt age 45
Archibald Currie age 70
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 48
Hsu Ching-chung age 50
Lee Hun-jai age 13
Gloriana Ranocchini age 1
Giuseppe Arzilli age 17
Luigi Lonfernini age 19
Giorgio Crescentini age 7
Giuseppe Amici age 19
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 17
Luis Pércovich Roca age 26
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 46
Luis Gallo Porras age 63
Roberto Dañino age 6
Luis Solari age 10
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 21
Gary E. Luck age 20
Richard N. Cooper age 23
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 38
Felipe Neri Medina age 160
Ramón Rodríguez
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham age 26
J. Millard Tawes age 63
Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter age 76
Clifford Ross Powell age 64
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 43
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 47
Larry Thompson age 12
Barbara Underwood age 13
Paul McNulty age 0 months
Laurence Silberman age 22
Philip Heymann age 25
Horacio Liendo age 33
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 46
Eddy Balancy age 4
Ariranga Pillay age 12
Branislav Šoškić age 35
Žarko Bulajić age 35
Đorđije Pajković age 40
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 77
Augustin Poignet age 29
Henry Neijhorst age 18
Jan Buiskool age 58
Paek Nak-chun age 62
Ubaldo Biordi age 20
Gian Luigi Berti age 27
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 41
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 35
Alfonso Bustamante age 16
Edgardo Seoane age 54
Guillermo Larco Cox age 26
Alberto Pandolfi age 17
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 68
H. Freeman Matthews age 58
David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere age 18
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 44
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 18
Clarence E. Case age 80
Morgan Foster Larson age 75
John O. Bennett age 9
John Hynd age 55
Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas age 44
David W. Ogden age 4
Donald B. Verrilli Jr. age 7 months
James M. Cole age 5
Vincent de Paul Ahanda age 39
Adem Salihaj age 7
Momčilo Cemović age 29
Jacques Drielsma age 71
Gwak Sanghun age 61
Peter Gatkuoth age 20
Giuseppe Maiani age 33
Romeo Morri age 5
Carlos Torres y Torres Lara age 15
Dante Córdova age 14
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 37
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes age 53
Luis A. Flores age 58
Walter E. Boomer age 19
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 54
Honduran military junta of 1956–1957
Temukisa Auina Penehuro Hauma age 3
Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby age 59
J. C. C. Davidson age 69