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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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

W. Lee O'Daniel age 71
Alan Milburn age 3
Malcolm Wilson age 47
Culbert Olson age 84
Harry Hughes age 34
Frank Lausche age 65
John Strachey (politician) age 59
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 46
Hans Brunhart age 16
Bantz J. Craddock age 11
Paul Legentilhomme age 77
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas age 71
Salvador Castaneda Castro age 73
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 13
Bill McKell age 69
Fuad Guliyev age 20
Firuz Mustafayev age 27
Grantley Herbert Adams age 63
Chérif Sy age 1
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 31
Oum Cheang Sun age 61
Hang Thun Hak age 36
Bello Bouba Maigari age 14
Célestin Gaombalet age 19
Henri Maïdou age 25
Mohamed Ahmed age 44
Ahmed Abdou age 25
Mahmoud Fawzi age 60
Aziz Sedki age 41
Cándido Muatetema Rivas age 1
Makhosini Dlamini age 47
Fikre Selassie Wogderess age 16
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 15
Ben Jones age 36
Luis Arturo González López age 60
Artur Silva age 5
Jean Marie Chérestal age 14
Wilopo age 51
Hikmat Sulayman age 72
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 61
Gilbert Aké age 5
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti age 11
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 22
Taher Masri age 19
Tursunbek Chyngyshev age 18
Andrei Iordan age 26
Shafik Wazzan age 36
Takieddin el-Solh age 53
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow age 30
Yoro Diakité age 28
Sghair Ould M'Bareck age 7
Dashiin Byambasüren age 19
David Beattie age 37
Aliou Mahamidou age 14
Hamid Algabid age 20
Mahamadou Danda age 9
Winston Cenac age 35
Monica Dacon age 27
Stanley John age 10
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 37
Dragan Maršićanin age 11
Vojislav Mihailović age 9
Janez Stanovnik age 38
Mahmoud Zuabi age 26
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 34
Tomé Vera Cruz age 8
Yahyo Azimov age 13
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 20
Gerald Cash age 44
Milo Butler age 54
Tulaga Manuella age 24
Barak Sopé age 6
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 64
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 73
Vincent Eri age 24
Osman Jama Ali age 20
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 20
Hyun Soong-jong age 42
Roberto Venturini age 6 months
Fabio Berardi age 2
Héctor Valer age 2
Eugene Koffi Adoboli age 26
Koffi Sama age 17
Shlomo Shamir age 46
Edward Almond age 68
Lewis Thompson Preston age 34
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 55
Dana Boente age 7
Gordon R. Sullivan age 23
George Scratchley Brown age 42
John Wesley Snyder age 66
Wu Po-hsiung age 22
Muhammad Umran age 39
James L. Farmer, Jr. age 41
Diane Nash age 23
Fred Shuttlesworth age 39
Izzat Darwaza age 73
Montagu Stopford age 68
Song Shilun age 53
Yeshayahu Gavish age 35
Yasuko Konoe age 17
Paul Ilyinsky age 33
Şehzade Mehmed Abid age 56
Müşfika Kadın age 93
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ziyaeddin) age 38
Mukarram Jah age 27
Azam Jah age 54
Prince Abbas Hilmi age 19
Fazile Hanımsultan age 19
Swaran Singh age 53
Alfred Schlemm age 66
David Shaltiel age 58
Empress Sunjeonghyo age 66
Ina Marie von Bassewitz-Levetzow age 73
Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington age 6
Archduchess Eleonora of Austria age 74
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 49
Gerald David Lascelles age 36
Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine age 24
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood age 10
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú age 10
Endelkachew Makonnen age 34
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 40
Hilary Armstrong age 15
Allan Shivers age 53
Roy Mason age 37
Gerald Baliles age 21
Leverett Saltonstall age 68
Thomas B. Stanley age 71
Foster Furcolo age 50
Dolph Briscoe age 38
Edgar Whitcomb age 43
Cecil Parkinson age 29
Lester Maddox age 45
James Florio age 23
John Okello age 24
Sakızlı Ahmed Esat Pasha
Joseph Ralston age 17
Tod D. Wolters age 9 months
Eusebio Rodolfo Cordón Cea age 61
Naoki Hoshino age 69
Mokdad Sifi age 21
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 64
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 52
Fazlul Haque age 23
Pascal-Firmin Ndimira age 5
Huy Kanthoul age 52
Leng Ngeth age 61
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé age 4
Combo Ayouba age 8
Gonzalo Güell age 66
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 60
Edison James age 17
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 40
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 65
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 42
Silvestre Siale Bileka age 22
Maphevu Dlamini age 39
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 44
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 67
Lamine Sidimé age 17
Caetano N'Tchama age 6
Constantino Teixeira age 27
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum age 34
Muzahim Pachachi age 70
Mohsen Abdel Hamid age 24
Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai age 20
Kenneth Blackburne age 53
Abdelmunim al-Rifai age 44
Ahmad Toukan age 57
Ahmad Lawzi age 36
Amangeldy Muraliyev age 13
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 9
Mamadou Dembelé age 27
Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan age 6
Puntsagiin Jasrai age 27
Radoje Kontić age 24
Ali Badjo Gamatié age 4
Amadou Cissé age 13
Charles David Ganao age 34
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 44
Charles Antrobus age 28
Peter Colotka age 36
Raul Bragança Neto age 22
Yu Kuo-hwa age 47
Tomu Sione age 19
Carlos Fischer age 58
Martín Echegoyen age 70
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 60
Alfred Maseng age 12
Philip Boedoro age 3
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 28
Daniel Lisulo age 30
Malimba Masheke age 20
Kebby Musokotwane age 15
Ignatius Kilage age 20
Silas Atopare age 10
Muhammad Hawadle Madar age 22
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh age 11
Yoon Jeung-hyun age 14