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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 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

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
Miha Marinko age 60
Errol Alibux age 12
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 29
Daniel Daio age 14
John Warburton Paul age 45
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 62
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 26
Elijah Mudenda age 34
Božidar Matić age 23
Cesare Gasperoni age 17
Edda Ceccoli age 14
Maurizio Rattini age 11
Claudio Muccioli age 3
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 55
Halid Genjac age 3
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 44
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 44
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 41
Michel Roquejeoffre age 27
David D. Newsom age 43
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 80
Michael Armacost age 24
Fermín Palacios
Albin Nyamoya age 37
Anatole Kanyenkiko age 9
Antoine Nduwayo age 19
Léopold Biha age 42
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 17
Michel Gbezera-Bria age 15
Simon Narcisse Bozanga age 18
Bernard Ayandho age 30
Halifa Humadi age 14
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 62
Bheki Dlamini age 9
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 53
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 14
Raouf Bundhun age 24
Dendev Terbishdagva age 6
Nyamyn Jagvaral age 42
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 47
Rifat Rastoder age 11
Radivoje Brajović age 26
Marko Orlandić age 30
Yeoh Ghim Seng age 43
Štefan Sádovský age 32
Wim Udenhout age 23
Nur al-Din Kahala age 51
Sami al-Jundi age 39
Dennis Young age 25
John Giheno age 12
Martin Raguž age 3
Gian Marco Marcucci age 7
Paolo Bollini age 1
Patrizia Busignani age 2
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 62
Rodolfo Llopis age 66
Arleigh Winston Scott age 61
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 43
John L. Hines age 93
Livingston T. Merchant age 57
Francisco de Aguilar age 151
Vicente Gómez
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 24
Lin Junq-tzer age 17
Jo Ann Robinson age 49
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 13
Jean-Luc Mandaba age 18
Enoch Derant Lakoué age 16
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 27
Salim Ben Ali age 43
Paul Shabangu age 18
Tesfaye Dinka age 21
Francisco Bueso age 101
Medetbek Kerimkulov age 12
Boris Silayev age 15
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 22
Hugh Watt age 49
Jacques Opangault age 53
Archibald Currie age 73
Hsu Ching-chung age 54
Lee Hun-jai age 17
Gloriana Ranocchini age 4
Giuseppe Arzilli age 20
Enzo Colombini age 3
Luigi Lonfernini age 22
Giorgio Crescentini age 11
Giuseppe Amici age 22
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 20
Luis Pércovich Roca age 30
Raúl Ferrero Rebagliati age 49
Luis Gallo Porras age 66
Roberto Dañino age 10
Luis Solari age 13
Frederick M. Franks Jr. age 24
Gary E. Luck age 24
Richard N. Cooper age 27
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 41
Felipe Neri Medina age 164
Ramón Rodríguez
Huang Min-hui age 2
Horacio Liendo age 36
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 50
Eddy Balancy age 8
Ariranga Pillay age 16
Branislav Šoškić age 38
Žarko Bulajić age 39
Đorđije Pajković age 44
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 80
Augustin Poignet age 33
Henry Neijhorst age 21
Paek Nak-chun age 66
Ubaldo Biordi age 23
Gian Luigi Berti age 31
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 45
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 39
Alfonso Bustamante age 19
Edgardo Seoane age 58
Guillermo Larco Cox age 29
Alberto Pandolfi age 21
H. Freeman Matthews age 62
Peter Keisler age 10 months
Vincent de Paul Ahanda age 43
Adem Salihaj age 10
Momčilo Cemović age 33
Jacques Drielsma age 74
Gwak Sanghun age 64
Peter Gatkuoth age 23
Giuseppe Maiani age 36
Romeo Morri age 9
Carlos Torres y Torres Lara age 18
Dante Córdova age 18
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 40
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes age 57
Luis A. Flores age 61
Walter E. Boomer age 22
Honduran military junta of 1956–1957
Temukisa Auina Penehuro Hauma age 6
Vuko Vukadinović age 24
Arthur May age 58
Joseph James Tombura age 31
Marino Venturini age 17
Carlo Franciosi age 26
Roque A. Saldías age 69
Óscar de la Puente Raygada age 22
Stuart M. Gerson age 17
Mariano Garrigó age 151
Eddy Kapend age 1
Punch Coomaraswamy age 36
Renzo Renzi age 5
Umberto Barulli age 40
Marcelino Mejía
Pedro Carve
Lin Rong-te age 1
Lee Yuan-tsu age 37
Sandra Day O'Connor age 31
Kim Jong-il age 20
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 57
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 35
Fernando de la Rúa age 23
Khaleda Zia age 14
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 22
Herman Van Rompuy age 13
Waldo Bernal Pereira age 30
Óscar Pammo Rodríguez age 27
Saïd Ali Mohamed age 15
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 45
Siim Kallas age 12
Andreas Fakudze age 16
Hailu Yimenu age 26
Mekonnen Endalkachew age 32
Sidya Touré age 16
Constantino Teixeira age 28
Fritz Jean age 5
András Baka age 8
Morarji Desai age 65
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 36
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 56
H. D. Deve Gowda age 28
Taher Masri age 19
Ata Teaotai age 8
Phankham Viphavanh age 10
David Nimley age 16
Gediminas Vagnorius age 4
Jean-Jacques Rasolondraibe age 14
Léon Cayla age 79