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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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Gevheri Sultan age 51
Leslie Morshead age 66
Charles Noguès age 79
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 64
Wang Jiaxiang age 49
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 43
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 62
Yuk Young-soo age 30
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 46
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 21
Marion Stein age 29
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 4
John J. Gilligan age 35
W. Lee O'Daniel age 66
Malcolm Wilson age 42
Culbert Olson age 79
Harry Hughes age 29
John Strachey (politician) age 54
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 41
Hans Brunhart age 11
Lauris Norstad age 49
Bantz J. Craddock age 6
Paul Legentilhomme age 72
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas age 66
Salvador Castaneda Castro age 68
Phan Khắc Sửu age 51
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 8
Bill McKell age 64
Fuad Guliyev age 15
Firuz Mustafayev age 22
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 26
Oum Cheang Sun age 56
Hang Thun Hak age 31
Bello Bouba Maigari age 9
Célestin Gaombalet age 14
Henri Maïdou age 20
Mohamed Ahmed age 39
Ahmed Abdou age 20
Mahmoud Fawzi age 55
Aziz Sedki age 36
Makhosini Dlamini age 42
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 11
Abebe Aregai age 52
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 10
Ben Jones age 31
Luis Arturo González López age 55
Artur Silva age 6 months
Jean Marie Chérestal age 9
Wilopo age 46
Hikmat Sulayman age 67
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 56
Gilbert Aké age 9 months
Hazza' al-Majali age 37
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 6
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 17
Taher Masri age 14
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 13
Andrei Iordan age 21
Shafik Wazzan age 31
Takieddin el-Solh age 48
Gustav Schädler age 72
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 25
Yoro Diakité age 23
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 2
Dashiin Byambasüren age 14
David Beattie age 32
Aliou Mahamidou age 9
Hamid Algabid age 15
Mahamadou Danda age 4
Vitorino Guimarães age 79
Winston Cenac age 30
Monica Dacon age 22
Stanley John age 5
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 32
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 34
Dragan Maršićanin age 6
Vojislav Mihailović age 4
Janez Stanovnik age 33
Mahmoud Zuabi age 21
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 29
Tomé Vera Cruz age 3
Yahyo Azimov age 8
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 15
Gerald Cash age 39
Milo Butler age 49
Tulaga Manuella age 19
Barak Sopé age 1
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 59
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 68
Vincent Eri age 19
Osman Jama Ali age 15
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 15
Hyun Soong-jong age 37
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 21
Koffi Sama age 12
Shlomo Shamir age 41
Edward Almond age 63
Lewis Thompson Preston age 29
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 50
Dana Boente age 2
Gordon R. Sullivan age 18
George Scratchley Brown age 37
John Wesley Snyder age 61
Wu Po-hsiung age 17
Muhammad Umran age 34
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 36
Diane Nash age 18
Fred Shuttlesworth age 34
Izzat Darwaza age 68
Montagu Stopford age 63
Song Shilun age 48
Yeshayahu Gavish age 30
Yasuko Konoe age 12
Paul Ilyinsky age 28
Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 72
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 51
Müşfika Kadın age 88
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 33
Mukarram Jah age 22
Azam Jah age 49
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 14
Fazile Hanımsultan age 14
Swaran Singh age 48
Alfred Schlemm age 61
David Shaltiel age 53
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 61
Wilhelm Graf von Hohenau age 71
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 68
Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington age 1
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 69
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 44
Gerald David Lascelles age 31
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 19
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 5
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 5
Endelkachew Makonnen age 29
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 35
Hilary Armstrong age 10
James Michael Curley age 81
Roy Mason age 32
Gerald Baliles age 16
Leverett Saltonstall age 63
Foster Furcolo age 44
Dolph Briscoe age 33
Edgar Whitcomb age 38
Cecil Parkinson age 24
Walter E. Edge age 82
Lester Maddox age 40
James Florio age 18
John Okello age 19
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 12
Eusebio Rodolfo Cordón Cea age 56
John Wrathall age 42
Naoki Hoshino age 64
Mokdad Sifi age 16
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 59
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 47
Fazlul Haque age 18
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 3 months
Huy Kanthoul age 47
Combo Ayouba age 3
Gonzalo Güell age 61
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 55
Edison James age 12
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 35
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 60
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 37
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 17
Maphevu Dlamini age 34
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 39
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 62
Lamine Sidimé age 12
Caetano N'Tchama age 1
Constantino Teixeira age 22
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 29
Muzahim Pachachi age 65
Sayyid Salih Jabr age 60
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 19
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 15
Kenneth Blackburne age 48
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 39
Ahmad Toukan age 52
Ahmad Lawzi age 31
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 8
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 4
Mamadou Dembelé age 22
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 1
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 22
Radoje Kontić age 19
Amadou Cissé age 8
José Domingues dos Santos age 69
Charles David Ganao age 29
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 39
Charles Antrobus age 23
Peter Colotka age 31
Raul Bragança Neto age 17
Yu Kuo-hwa age 42
Tomu Sione age 14
Carlos Fischer age 53