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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Eric Williams age 61
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 49
Prime Minister - Guinea
Edmond Leburton age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 60
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hedi Amara Nouira age 62
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 47
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 46
Prime Minister - Nepal
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Prime Minister - Barbados
Norman Kirk age 50
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rashidi Kawawa age 46
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 51
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ahmed Osman age 43
Prime Minister - Morocco
Naim Talu age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
In Tam age 50
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alfred Hilbe age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jules Sedney age 50
Prime Minister - Suriname
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 61
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Amin al-Hafez age 47
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Tu'i Pelehake age 51
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdessalam Jalloud age 28
Prime Minister - Libya
Makhosini Dlamini age 59
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 51
Prime Minister - Samoa
Ahmad Lawzi age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 48
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Ksente Bogoev age 53
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 49
Premier - Dominica
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Albin Nyamoya age 48
Prime Minister - Burundi
Žarko Bulajić age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Paul Hasluck age 68
Governor-General - Australia
Herbert Duffus age 64
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arleigh Winston Scott age 73
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 35
Prince - Spain
Barack Obama age 11
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Ilham Aliyev age 11
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Akihito age 39
Helmut Kohl age 43
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John Paul I age 60
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Joko Widodo age 11
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Ariel Sharon age 45
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Felipe VI of Spain age 5
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Sergio Mattarella age 31
Manmohan Singh age 40
Pervez Musharraf age 29
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Julia Gillard age 11
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Lech Kaczyński age 23
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 17
Jeff Bezos age 9
Buzz Aldrin age 43
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Yitzhak Rabin age 51
Tsai Ing-wen age 16
Mariano Rajoy age 18
Andrei Sakharov age 52
Dick Cheney age 32
Condoleezza Rice age 18
Raúl Castro age 41
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Giorgio Napolitano age 47
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Mark Rutte age 6
Yulia Tymoshenko age 12
Rodrigo Duterte age 28
Abdullah II of Jordan age 11
Helmut Schmidt age 54
Stephen Harper age 14
Donald Tusk age 16
Corazon Aquino age 40
John Kerry age 29
Madeleine Albright age 36
Hamid Karzai age 15
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 6
José Mujica age 37
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 48
Yoshihide Suga age 24
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 5
Rajiv Gandhi age 28
Andrzej Duda age 11 months
Thabo Mbeki age 30
Wernher von Braun age 61
Harald V of Norway age 36
Viktor Yushchenko age 19
John Major age 30
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 18
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 36
Jens Stoltenberg age 14
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Enver Hoxha age 64
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 9
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