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Events

Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Malayan Emergency 1948-06-16 - 1960-07-12
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
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
First Sudanese Civil War 1955-08-18 - 1972-03-27
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
Escambray rebellion 1959 - 1965
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961

People

Luc Ayang age 12
Édouard Frank age 24
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé age 1
Timothée Malendoma age 24
Said Atthoumani age 9
Abbas Djoussouf age 16
Nourdine Bourhane age 9
Ramón Zaydín age 64
Rosie Douglas age 17
Makonnen Endelkachew age 68
Naji Shawkat age 66
Edward Zacca age 27
Kassim al-Rimawi age 41
Mohammad Daoud al-Abbasi age 46
Ata Teaotai age 6
Nazem Akkari age 57
Guy Razanamasy age 30
Younoussi Touré age 18
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 25
Mircea Druc age 17
Mamane Oumarou age 14
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki age 7
Ksente Bogoev age 39
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 70
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema age 5
Vaughan Lewis age 18
Michael Pilgrim age 12
Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV age 36
Johan Adolf Pengel age 43
Izzat al-Nuss age 47
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 78
Lutfi al-Haffar age 71
Weng Wenhao age 69
Yu Hung-chun age 61
Qadriddin Aslonov age 11
Samuelu Teo age 2
Arturo Lezama age 60
Faustino Harrison age 58
Mainza Chona age 29
John Guise age 44
Kingsford Dibela age 26
Sam Abal age 7 months
Antonio Carattoni age 13
Gabriele Gatti age 5
Glauco Sansovini age 20
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 5
Beriz Belkić age 12
Efraín Goldenberg age 29
Luis Alva Castro age 16
Pedro Beltrán age 61
Víctor Joy Way age 13
Wei Lihuang age 61
George David Woods age 57
Edward C. Meyer age 30
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 68
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 77
Daniel Bennett Smith age 2
Earle Wheeler age 51
David E. Jeremiah age 24
Hardan al-Tikriti age 34
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 30
Kenneth Rush age 49
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 26
Phoumi Nosavan age 39
Xu Shiyou age 53
James Bevel age 22
Ye Fei age 44
Zhang Zhen age 44
Tang Shengzhi age 69
Milutin Kukanjac age 24
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge age 62
Basilio Lami Dozo age 30
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse age 30
Ngo Quang Truong age 29
Sadae Inoue age 72
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. age 19
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 62
Nguyen Van Toan age 26
Avigdor Ben-Gal age 22
Amir Drori age 21
Julian Thompson age 24
Jeremy Moore age 30
Teymuraz Bagration age 46
Irina Yusupova age 43
Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia age 34
Mihrişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Izzeddin) age 42
Deng Hua age 49
Friedrich Wiese age 66
Joseph J. Clark age 65
Yi Geon age 49
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg age 59
Archduchess Mechthildis of Austria age 68
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm age 54
Princess Franziska of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst age 61
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg age 37
Archduke Carl Christian of Austria age 4
Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk age 65
Fernando Schwartz age 21
Channing H. Cox age 79
Francis Cherry age 50
C. William O'Neill age 42
Thomas J. Herbert age 64
Endicott Peabody age 38
Jim Rhodes age 49
John N. Dalton age 27
John William Brown age 45
Colgate Darden age 61
Ned McWherter age 28
Joe Purcell age 35
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 74
Theodore Olson age 18
Benderli Ali Pasha
Gordon Browning age 69
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 79
Adrien Sibomana age 5
Édouard Nzambimana age 13
Pho Proeung age 55
Sam Yun age 54
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 46
Charles Assalé age 47
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 11
Emilio Bello Codesido age 90
Ali Mroudjaé age 19
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 50
Jorge García Montes age 62
Raúl López del Castillo age 66
Oliver Seraphin age 15
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 35
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 36
Andreas Fakudze age 13
Sishayi Nxumalo age 23
Vincent Mhlanga age 9
Mikael Imru age 29
Charles Arden-Clarke age 60
François Lonseny Fall age 10
Mário Pires age 10
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 58
Nureddin Mahmud age 60
Arshad al-Umari age 70
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 2
Omar al-Hasi age 10
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 1
Dragan Kujović age 11
Vidoje Žarković age 31
Blažo Jovanović age 51
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 6
Ange Édouard Poungui age 17
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 23
Paul Southwell age 45
Lee Moore age 19
Pretaap Radhakishun age 24
Husni al-Barazi age 64
Hassan al-Hakim age 73
Bashir al-Azma age 48
Norberto Costa Alegre age 8
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 6
Wang Yun-wu age 70
Roland Theodore Symonette age 60
Paul Adderley age 30
Henry Milton Taylor age 55
Tekin Arıburun age 53
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 32
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 21
Hasan al-Lawzi age 7
Nalumino Mundia age 31
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 66
Tore Lokoloko age 28
Wiwa Korowi age 10
Jure Pelivan age 30
Dragan Mikerević age 3
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 2
Antonello Bacciocchi age 1
Ernesto Benedettini age 10
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 6
Jozo Križanović age 14
Armando Villanueva age 43
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 54
Federico Salas age 8
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 36
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 8
Pedro Richter Prada age 38
Sandro Mariátegui age 37
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 2
Kwassi Klutse age 13
Aurelius Marie age 54
Frank G. Wisner age 20
George Decker age 56
Carl E. Vuono age 24
Dennis Reimer age 19
Harold Keith Johnson age 46
John William Vessey Jr. age 36
Tomás Mac Giolla age 35
Munif Razzaz age 39
Jassem Alwan age 30
Melba Pattillo Beals age 17
Hakija Turajlić age 23
Lewis MacKenzie age 18
Takaji Wachi age 66
Kōtoku Satō age 65
Rupert Smith age 16