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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Choe Yong-gon age 56
John Ernest Dahlquist age 61
Bachir Gemayel age 9
William Hawi age 48
Kamal Jumblatt age 39
Walid Jumblatt age 7
Emmanuel Erskine age 20
William O'Callaghan age 35
Said al-Muragha age 30
Ahmed Jibril age 19
Khalil al-Wazir age 21
Clarence R. Huebner age 68
Friedrich Köchling age 63
Gerhard von Schwerin age 57
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 71
Jisaburō Ozawa age 70
Takeo Kurita age 68
Fred Gray age 26
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 37
Gordon Carey age 25
Diane Nash age 19
A. Philip Randolph age 68
Fred Shuttlesworth age 35
Charles Sherrod age 20
Cordell Reagon age 14
Vivian Malone Jones age 14
James Hood age 14
Albert Raby age 24
Bernard Lafayette age 16
Ralph Abernathy age 31
Alfred Daniel King age 26
Daisy Bates age 42
Melba Pattillo Beals age 15
Allen Dulles age 64
Gotthard Heinrici age 70
Ferdinand Schörner age 65
Sefer Halilović age 5
Rasim Delić age 8
Gojko Šušak age 12
Janko Bobetko age 38
Biljana Plavšić age 26
Hakija Turajlić age 21
Bernard Janvier age 17
Lewis MacKenzie age 17
Milutin Kukanjac age 22
Milan Gvero age 19
Li Zhen age 49
Otto Braun age 56
Harold MacMichael age 75
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 62
Izzat Darwaza age 68
Claude Auchinleck age 72
James Watson age 29
Francis Crick age 41
Harry Crerar age 69
Paul Hausser age 76
Friedrich Schulz age 59
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García age 27
Fernando Romeo Lucas García age 32
Rolando Morán age 27
Rodrigo Asturias age 17
Maxwell R. Thurman age 26
Jack B. Farris age 21
Manuel Noriega age 23
Marcos Justines age 23
Vasily Sokolovsky age 59
Lucius D. Clay age 60
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 60
Edward P. King age 72
Takaji Wachi age 64
Oscar Griswold age 70
Robert S. Beightler age 65
Shizuo Yokoyama age 66
Tikka Khan age 41
Nguyễn Văn Huyền age 46
Bai Chongxi age 64
Zhang Guotao age 59
Veselin Šljivančanin age 3
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 3
Blago Zadro age 13
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 7
Mile Dedaković age 5
David Elazar age 31
Montagu Stopford age 64
Wilhelm List age 77
Kōtoku Satō age 64
Hugo Österman age 64
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 70
Milorad Petrović age 75
Jorge Anaya age 30
Friedrich Hoßbach age 62
Basilio Lami Dozo age 28
Henry Leach age 33
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 29
Husband E. Kimmel age 75
James T. Conway age 9
Vu Van Mau age 42
John A. Toolan age 3
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 66
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 69
Keith Park age 65
Lothar Rendulic age 69
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 84
Józef Haller age 83
Ngo Quang Truong age 27
Stanley S. Hughes age 38
Foster LaHue age 39
Trần Văn Quang age 40
Vũ Nam Long age 35
Walter Weiß age 66
Josef Harpe age 69
Milan Martić age 2
Milan Babić age 1
Dietrich von Saucken age 65
Nguyễn Hữu An age 30
Johannes Frießner age 65
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 65
Issa Pliyev age 53
Yury Drozdov age 31
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin age 9
Sadae Inoue age 70
Rudolf von Bünau age 66
Vladimir Stoychev age 65
Zvonimir Červenko age 30
Petar Stipetić age 19
Eleanor Roosevelt age 72
Rathvon M. Tompkins age 44
David E. Lownds age 36
René Cassin age 70
John Peters Humphrey age 52
Trần Quý Hai age 44
Le Quang Dao age 35
Charles Malik age 51
Geoffrey Scoones age 64
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 5
Tariq Aziz age 21
Donald A. Henderson age 28
Peter Higgs age 28
François Englert age 24
José Miaja age 79
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 62
Života Panić age 23
Mile Mrkšić age 9
Wesley Clark age 12
Rupert Smith age 14
Dragoljub Ojdanić age 16
Nebojša Pavković age 11
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 61
Brij Mohan Kaul age 45
Ved Prakash Malik age 17
Anil Tipnis age 16
Vittorio Ambrosio age 77
Borisav Jović age 28
Veljko Kadijević age 31
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu age 23
Philip Effiong age 31
Alexander Madiebo age 25
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 67
Chūichi Hara age 68
William Halsey Jr. age 74
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 69
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 17
Michael E. Ryan age 15
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach age 1
Radislav Krstić age 9
Arthur Percival age 69
Paul J. Mueller age 64
Richard T. Knowles age 41
Hal Moore age 35
Melvin Zais age 41
Lucian Truscott age 62
Aslan Maskhadov age 5
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 13
Milan Čeleketić age 10
Pavel Grachev age 9
Antonio Aranda age 68
Bui Dinh Dam age 31
Huynh Van Cao age 29
John Paul Vann age 32
Walter Krueger age 76
Robert L. Eichelberger age 71
Mario Roatta age 70
Annibale Bergonzoli age 72
Song Shilun age 49
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 14
Salah Aboud Mahmoud age 15
Masami Kobayashi age 66
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 79
Shunroku Hata age 77
Toshizō Nishio age 75
Jalaluddin Haqqani age 18
Rex Hunt age 30
Kim Ung age 45
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 60
Ahmad Ismail Ali age 39
Saad el-Shazly age 35
Saad Mamoun age 35
James Dutton age 3
Kamel Sajid age 18
Wafiq al-Samarrai age 9