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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Jules Sedney age 38
Bahij al-Khatib age 66
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 29
Yusuf Zuayyin age 29
Sabri al-Asali age 58
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 8
Frederick Sumaye age 11
Edward Sokoine age 22
John Malecela age 27
Orville Turnquest age 32
Clifford Darling age 39
Kléber Dadjo age 46
Tupua Leupena age 38
Koloa Talake age 27
Luis Giannattasio age 66
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 25
Esmon Saimon age 5
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 22
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 49
Bill Skate age 7
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 30
Hong Nam-ki age 11 months
Yoo Il-ho age 6
Gian Nicola Berti age 11 months
Oscar Mina age 2
Krešimir Zubak age 14
Antero Flores Aráoz age 19
Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu age 2
Patrick J. Hurley age 78
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 67
Hu Zongnan age 65
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 76
George M. Humphrey age 71
Charles Clarke age 10
Henry H. Fowler age 52
Hugh Shelton age 19
William French Smith age 43
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 49
Peter Schoomaker age 15
James C. McConville age 2
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez age 29
Masakazu Kawabe age 74
Chang Fa-kwei age 65
Clarence R. Huebner age 72
Yury Drozdov age 35
Petar Stipetić age 23
Ra'ad al-Hamdani age 10
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach age 5
Antonio Aranda age 72
Paul Aussaresses age 42
Irina Paley age 57
Nevvare Hanım age 60
Mehisti Hanım age 69
Muhammad Abdel Moneim age 62
Dov Joseph age 62
Yi Bangja age 59
Yi Hae-won age 42
Yi Ku age 29
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966) age 49
Michael Prinz von Preussen age 21
Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis age 57
Sylvana Tomaselli age 4
Edward J. King age 36
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 84
Marvin Mandel age 41
Winfield Dunn age 34
Charles Poletti age 58
Anthony Crosland age 42
Roy Barnes age 13
William S. Sessions age 31
Louis Freeh age 11
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 9
Salman II of Bahrain age 67
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 22
Nita Barrow age 44
Yem Sambaur age 48
Ung Huot age 16
Chhean Vam age 45
Sim Var age 55
Sisowath Watchayavong age 69
Norodom Kantol age 40
Nhiek Tioulong age 52
Nagoum Yamassoum age 7
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 33
Évariste Kimba age 35
Léonard Mulamba age 33
Osborne Riviere age 29
Andrés F. Córdova age 69
Antonio Pons age 63
Mamdouh Salem age 43
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 15
Obed Dlamini age 24
Mabandla Dlamini age 30
George Brizan age 18
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 49
Sidya Touré age 16
Daniel Fignolé age 47
Jean-Michel Lapin age 11
Robert Malval age 18
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 40
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 58
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 8
Clifford Campbell age 69
Florizel Glasspole age 51
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 53
Jumabek Ibraimov age 17
Nasirdin Isanov age 17
Adolph Bowler age 71
Abdallah El-Yafi age 59
Amin al-Hafez age 35
Hae Phoofolo age 14
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 22
Ruben Zackhras age 13
Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef age 1
Serafim Urechean age 11
Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal age 5 months
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 75
Jack Marshall age 49
Francisco Urcuyo age 45
Lorenzo Guerrero age 60
Boukary Adji age 22
Francisco Cunha Leal age 72
Bernard Kolélas age 28
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 20
Arnhim Eustace age 16
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 9
Žarko Korać age 14
Milan Čič age 29
Viktor Avbelj age 47
John Lapli age 6
Francis Billy Hilly age 12
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 21
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 47
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 10
Manuel Quintas de Almeida age 4
Lee Huan age 43
Tang Fei age 29
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 9
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 6
Tu'i Pelehake age 39
Baron Vaea age 40
Tahar Ben Ammar age 71
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 59
Washington Beltrán age 47
Benito Nardone age 54
Josias Moli age 6
Jean-Marie Léyé age 29
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 11
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 20
Choo Kyung-ho age 11 months
Kamil Idris age 6
Italo Righi age 2
Živko Radišić age 23
Pedro Angulo age 1
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 60
Komlan Mally age 7 months
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 6
Abdessalam Jalloud age 16
Fu Zuoyi age 66
Henri Navarre age 63
David Waddington age 31
Benjamin Civiletti age 26
Arthur W. Radford age 65
Jeffrey A. Rosen age 3
Neil H. McElroy age 56
John A. Wickham Jr. age 33
Hung Hsiu-chu age 13
Flora MacDonald age 35
Oliver P. Smith age 67
Harold MacMichael age 79
James T. Conway age 13
Vu Van Mau age 47
Tadeusz Kasprzycki age 70
Maher Abd al-Rashid age 18
Fusako Kitashirakawa age 71
Toshiko Higashikuni age 65
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda age 52
Morihiro Higashikuni age 44
Anastasia de Torby age 68
Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia age 58
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff age 11
Prince Andrew Romanoff age 38
Gevheri Sultan age 56
Karim Valiyev age 5 months
Charles Noguès age 84
Tadeusz Pełczyński age 69
Wang Jiaxiang age 54
Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia age 48
Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria age 67
Yuk Young-soo age 35
Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera age 51
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg age 26
Marion Stein age 34
David Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife age 4 months
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen age 9
Prince Radu of Romania age 1
John J. Gilligan age 40
W. Lee O'Daniel age 71
Alan Milburn age 3
Malcolm Wilson age 47