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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27

People

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Jimmy Carter age 23
Benedict XVI age 21
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Hillary Clinton age 7 months
George H. W. Bush age 24
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 57
Alan Turing age 36
Simone de Beauvoir age 40
Niels Bohr age 62
Muammar Gaddafi age 6
John Lennon age 7
Muhammad Ali age 6
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Lech Wałęsa age 4
Gerald Ford age 34
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Saddam Hussein age 11
Aung San Suu Kyi age 2
Enrico Fermi age 46
Nikita Khrushchev age 54
14th Dalai Lama age 12
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Boris Yeltsin age 17
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Kwame Nkrumah age 38
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Ban Ki-moon age 4
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Konrad Adenauer age 72
Henry Kissinger age 25
Václav Havel age 11
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Leonid Brezhnev age 41
Robert Mugabe age 24
Hosni Mubarak age 20
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Dilma Rousseff age 6 months
Ferdinand Marcos age 30
Al Gore age 2 months
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François Mitterrand age 31
Alexander Fleming age 66
Milton Friedman age 35
Ruhollah Khomeini age 45
Valentina Tereshkova age 11
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 9
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Helmut Kohl age 18
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 44
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 30
Rosa Parks age 35
Shimon Peres age 24
John Paul I age 35
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Juan Carlos I of Spain age 10
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Willy Brandt age 34
Gerhard Schröder age 4
Dag Hammarskjöld age 42
Salvador Allende age 40
Hu Jintao age 5
John von Neumann age 44
Augusto Pinochet age 32
Lee Kuan Yew age 24
Suharto age 27
Ariel Sharon age 20
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 30
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Manmohan Singh age 15
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Raúl Castro age 17
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Margrethe II of Denmark age 8
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Corazon Aquino age 15
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Madeleine Albright age 11
José Mujica age 13
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 23
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 71
Rajiv Gandhi age 3
Thabo Mbeki age 6
Wernher von Braun age 36
Eva Perón age 29
Harald V of Norway age 11
John Major age 5
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 11
Slobodan Milošević age 6
Jacob Zuma age 6
Martti Ahtisaari age 10
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 2
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 12
Konstantin Chernenko age 36
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 16
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 10
Jiang Zemin age 21
Zhou Enlai age 50
Eduard Shevardnadze age 20
Romano Prodi age 8
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Pranab Mukherjee age 12
Park Chung-hee age 30
Vyacheslav Molotov age 58
Joachim Gauck age 8
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 1
Menachem Begin age 34
Philippe Pétain age 92
Erich Honecker age 35
Hafez al-Assad age 17
Muhammadu Buhari age 5
Horst Köhler age 5
Tarja Halonen age 4
Daniel Ortega age 2
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 9
Islam Karimov age 10
Dan Quayle age 1
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 28
Omar al-Bashir age 4
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 283
Naoto Kan age 1
Pratibha Patil age 13
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 20
Heydar Aliyev age 25
Hassanal Bolkiah age 1
Mario Draghi age 9 months
Kim Dae-jung age 24
Radovan Karadžić age 2
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 25
Aldo Moro age 31
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 7
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 41
F. W. de Klerk age 12
Ludwig Erhard age 51
Kurt Waldheim age 29
Alexander Van der Bellen age 4
Miloš Zeman age 3
Mobutu Sese Seko age 17
Jomo Kenyatta age 54
Julius Nyerere age 26
Saparmurat Niyazov age 8
Yoweri Museveni age 3
Leonid Kuchma age 9
Donald Rumsfeld age 15
Olof Palme age 21
Süleyman Demirel age 23
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 32
Queen Camilla age 11 months
Jonas Salk age 33
Karl Dönitz age 56
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 15
Pierre Trudeau age 28
Fulgencio Batista age 47
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 81
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 59
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 24
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 1
Syngman Rhee age 73
Junichiro Koizumi age 6