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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

Theodore Olson age 20
Benderli Ali Pasha
Gordon Browning age 71
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 81
Adrien Sibomana age 7
Édouard Nzambimana age 15
Pho Proeung age 57
Sam Yun age 56
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 49
Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaido age 14
Emilio Bello Codesido age 93
Ali Mroudjaé age 21
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 52
Jorge García Montes age 64
Raúl López del Castillo age 68
Oliver Seraphin age 17
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 37
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 38
Andreas Fakudze age 16
Sishayi Nxumalo age 25
Vincent Mhlanga age 11
Mikael Imru age 31
Charles Arden-Clarke age 63
François Lonseny Fall age 12
Mário Pires age 12
Susanto Tirtoprodjo age 61
Nureddin Mahmud age 62
Arshad al-Umari age 73
Kubanychbek Jumaliyev age 5
Omar al-Hasi age 12
Janlavyn Narantsatsralt age 4
Dragan Kujović age 13
Vidoje Žarković age 34
Blažo Jovanović age 54
Mahn Win Khaing Than age 9
Ange Édouard Poungui age 19
Sylvestre Nsanzimana age 25
Lee Moore age 22
Pretaap Radhakishun age 26
Husni al-Barazi age 66
Hassan al-Hakim age 75
Bashir al-Azma age 50
Norberto Costa Alegre age 10
Armindo Vaz d'Almeida age 8
Wang Yun-wu age 73
Roland Theodore Symonette age 62
Paul Adderley age 32
Henry Milton Taylor age 57
Tekin Arıburun age 55
Muhammad Said al-Attar age 34
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem age 23
Hasan al-Lawzi age 9
Nalumino Mundia age 33
Tore Lokoloko age 30
Wiwa Korowi age 13
Jure Pelivan age 32
Dragan Mikerević age 6
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 5
Antonello Bacciocchi age 3
Ernesto Benedettini age 13
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 8
Jozo Križanović age 16
Armando Villanueva age 45
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 56
Federico Salas age 10
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 38
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde age 10
Pedro Richter Prada age 40
Sandro Mariátegui age 39
Luis Arroyo Sánchez age 4
Kwassi Klutse age 15
Aurelius Marie age 56
Frank G. Wisner age 23
Carl E. Vuono age 26
Dennis Reimer age 22
Harold Keith Johnson age 49
John William Vessey Jr. age 39
Tomás Mac Giolla age 37
Munif Razzaz age 41
Jassem Alwan age 33
Melba Pattillo Beals age 19
Hakija Turajlić age 25
Lewis MacKenzie age 21
Takaji Wachi age 68
Rupert Smith age 18
Philip Effiong age 35
Michael E. Ryan age 19
James Dutton age 7
Hossein Kharrazi age 4
Bahram Afzali age 23
Brian Burridge age 12
Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi age 19
Harbaksh Singh age 47
Ernesto Horacio Crespo age 31
Ayako Sano age 48
Toshimichi Takatsukasa age 37
Mukbile Sultan age 49
Nemika Sultan age 73
Senije Zogu age 57
Francisco Galán age 59
Abdullah Al-Tell age 43
Han Xianchu age 48
Keizō Komura age 65
Julia Mullock age 38
Chiang Hsiao-yen age 19
Oskar Prinz von Preussen age 2
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt age 18
Duke Carl Alexander of Württemberg age 65
Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein age 50
Archduchess Ilona of Austria age 34
Alexander Ramsay (Royal Navy officer) age 80
Richard Brandram age 49
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel age 33
Prince Karl of Leiningen age 33
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun age 30
Emmanuelle de Dampierre age 47
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi age 49
Edelmira, Countess of Covadonga age 55
Heinrich Prinz von Hannover age 2 months
Sonja Bernadotte age 17
Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia age 1
Alois-Konstantin, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg age 19
Daniel Chatto age 4
Chiang Pin-kung age 28
Homer Martin Adkins age 70
Benjamin T. Laney age 64
Francis Sargent age 45
Robert F. Bradford age 58
John S. Battle age 71
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill age 14
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman age 19
William M. Tuck age 64
Richard J. Hughes age 51
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 77
William Donald Schaefer age 39
Parris Glendening age 19
Albertis Harrison age 54
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon age 5
Robert D. Orr age 43
Ernest Brown age 79
William Ruckelshaus age 28
Lawrence Walsh age 49
Chuck Horner age 24
Alfred Gruenther age 62
John Galvin age 32
Frank G. Clement age 41
Prentice Cooper age 65
Gabriel Koyambounou age 14
Said Ali Kemal age 23
Mohamed Abdou Madi age 5
Abdallah Mohamed age 11
Bianrifi Tarmidi age 3
Ibrahim Halidi age 6
José Bordas Valdés age 87
Hailu Yimenu age 26
Imru Haile Selassie age 68
Assaat age 56
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 75
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 52
Herbert Duffus age 52
Hussein ibn Nasser age 58
Almanbet Matubraimov age 8
Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev age 5
Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig age 2
Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna age 5
Angidi Chettiar age 33
Ba Swe age 45
Sebastián Uriza age 100
Orlando Montenegro Medrano age 41
Souley Abdoulaye age 5
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 16
Miha Marinko age 60
Errol Alibux age 12
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 29
Daniel Daio age 14
John Warburton Paul age 45
İbrahim Şevki Atasagun age 62
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani age 26
Elijah Mudenda age 34
Božidar Matić age 23
Cesare Gasperoni age 17
Edda Ceccoli age 14
Maurizio Rattini age 11
Claudio Muccioli age 3
Ermenegildo Gasperoni age 54
Halid Genjac age 3
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 44
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 43
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 41
Michel Roquejeoffre age 27
David D. Newsom age 43
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 80
Michael Armacost age 24
Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha age 16
John Ernest Dahlquist age 65
Fred Gray age 30
Rolando Morán age 31
Mile Dedaković age 10
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin age 13
Geoffrey Scoones age 68