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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23
May 68 1968-05-02 - 1968-06-23
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24

People

Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse age 1
Angus Ogilvy age 39
George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven age 6
Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern age 16
Francis Pym age 46
Jane Swift age 3
Rod Rosenstein age 3
Maurice Strong age 39
Patrick Steptoe age 55
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Lee Yuan-tsu age 44
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 62
Kastriot Islami age 15
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 48
Sabri Boukadoum age 9
Josep Pintat-Solans age 43
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury age 39
Muhammad Mansur Ali age 49
Tom Adams age 36
Pascal Koupaki age 17
Youssouf Ouédraogo age 15
Pen Sovan age 32
Long Boret age 35
Simon Achidi Achu age 33
André Nzapayeké age 16
Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde age 34
Zlatko Tomčić age 22
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 42
Daniel Ona Ondo age 22
Paulin Obame-Nguema age 33
Léon Mébiame age 33
Bessarion Gugushvili age 23
Dimitrios Kiousopoulos age 76
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 67
Nicholas Brathwaite age 42
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 53
Eugène Camara age 26
Mohamed Béavogui age 14
Victor Saúde Maria age 29
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 21
Enex Jean-Charles age 7
Rosny Smarth age 27
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo age 70
Rachid Solh age 41
Alfred Naqqache age 80
Monja Roindefo age 3
Django Sissoko age 20
Mandé Sidibé age 28
Yahya Ould Hademine age 14
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 22
Cassam Uteem age 27
Kenos Aroi age 26
Ruben Kun age 26
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 76
Pierre Habumuremyi age 7
Milton Cato age 53
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 37
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye age 9
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré age 16
Predrag Marković age 12
Nathaniel Waena age 22
Rick Hou age 9
Roger Bonvin age 60
Ernst Brugger age 54
Fawzi Selu age 63
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 27
Joaquim Rafael Branco age 14
Vincent Siew age 29
ʻAisake Eke age 7
Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō age 16
Kamuta Latasi age 31
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas age 29
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour age 12
Shaya al-Zindani age 14
Hassan Abshir Farah age 22
Umar Arteh Ghalib age 38
Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed age 9
Hussein Farrah Aidid age 5
Mimma Zavoli age 5
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini age 13
Mirko Šarović age 11
Ivo Miro Jović age 17
Yehude Simon age 20
Walter Martos age 11
Paik Sun-yup age 47
Xue Yue age 71
Halfdan T. Mahler age 45
Thomas A. Shannon Jr. age 10
Nam Il age 53
Nematollah Nassiri age 56
Daisy Bates age 53
Friedrich Schulz age 70
Blago Zadro age 24
Marcel Maurice Bigeard age 52
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai age 23
Alfredo Astiz age 16
Trần Văn Trà age 50
Mario Benjamín Menéndez age 38
Kazuko Takatsukasa age 38
Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia age 68
Behice Hanım age 85
Nevzad Hanım age 66
Şehzade Ömer Faruk age 70
Hiro Saga age 54
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980) age 53
Archduchess Hedwig of Austria age 71
Princess Anna of Saxony (1903–1976) age 65
Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera age 81
Carol Lambrino age 48
Magda Lupescu age 72
Paul Philippe of Romania age 19
Hartley Shawcross age 66
Hugh Carey age 49
Preston Smith age 56
David Pryor age 33
Herman Talmadge age 54
Richard Codey age 21
Otis Bowen age 50
Bob Taft age 26
Kit Malthouse age 1
Hursid Pasha
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
Sun Yun-suan age 54
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 60
Archibald Cox age 56
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 64
Skënder Gjinushi age 18
Qasdi Mirbah age 30
Sayyid Ahmed Ghazali age 31
Ahmed ibn Bitour age 21
Mulud Hamroush age 25
Zelman Cowen age 48
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad age 28
Joseph Conombo age 51
Pié Masumbuko age 36
Sisowath Monireth age 58
Sadou Hayatou age 26
Peter Mafany Musonge age 25
Martin Ziguélé age 11
Hamada Madi age 3
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse age 21
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 38
Patrick John age 30
Pierre Charles age 13
Federico Páez age 92
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 27
Jona Senilagakali age 38
Tevita Momoedonu age 22
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 69
Faustino Imbali age 12
Franck Lavaud age 65
Franck Sylvain age 58
Yvon Neptune age 21
Smarck Michel age 31
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 37
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 57
Burhanuddin Harahap age 51
Naji Talib age 50
Ezzedine Salim age 25
David D. Kpormakpor age 32
Abuzed Omar Dorda age 24
Khalifa al-Ghawi age 5
Mohieddin Fikini age 43
Walter Kieber age 37
Eugenijus Gentvilas age 8
Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya age 7
Barlen Vyapoory age 23
Karl Offmann age 27
Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa age 10
Veselin Đuranović age 43
Ahmed Balafrej age 60
Maung Maung age 43
Win Maung age 52
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 74
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 15
Henri Lopès age 30
Kennedy Simmonds age 32
Moustapha Niasse age 28
Fernando Pereira age 5
Sēmisi Sika age 4 months
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil age 60
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 56
Ionatana Ionatana age 29
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 12
Mekere Morauta age 21
Cesar Virata age 37
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 65
Bakri Hassan Saleh age 19
Gianfranco Terenzi age 27
Juan Jiménez Mayor age 3
José Antonio Chang age 10
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 22
Oscar Valdés age 19
Carlos Ferrero age 27
Yawovi Agboyibo age 24
Du Yuming age 63
Su Yu age 60
William E. Simon age 40
Nathan F. Twining age 70
Richard Kleindienst age 44