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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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20

People

Erich Honecker age 43
Hafez al-Assad age 25
Li Keqiang age 5 months
Muhammadu Buhari age 12
Horst Köhler age 12
Sebastián Piñera age 6
Tarja Halonen age 11
Daniel Ortega age 10
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 16
Islam Karimov age 17
Dan Quayle age 8
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 35
Omar al-Bashir age 11
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 291
Naoto Kan age 9
Pratibha Patil age 20
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 6
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 27
Juan Perón age 60
Heydar Aliyev age 32
Hassanal Bolkiah age 9
Mario Draghi age 8
Kim Dae-jung age 31
Radovan Karadžić age 10
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 33
Aldo Moro age 39
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 15
Asif Ali Zardari age 4 months
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 49
F. W. de Klerk age 19
Ludwig Erhard age 58
Ashraf Ghani age 6
Kurt Waldheim age 36
Alexander Van der Bellen age 11
Miloš Zeman age 11
Mobutu Sese Seko age 25
Salome Zourabichvili age 3
Jomo Kenyatta age 62
Emomali Rahmon age 3
Julius Nyerere age 33
Saparmurat Niyazov age 15
Yoweri Museveni age 11
Leonid Kuchma age 17
Donald Rumsfeld age 23
Masoud Pezeshkian age 1
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 2
Olof Palme age 28
Süleyman Demirel age 31
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 39
Queen Camilla age 8
Jonas Salk age 41
Karl Dönitz age 64
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 22
Pierre Trudeau age 36
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 67
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 32
Bronisław Komorowski age 3
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 8
Junichiro Koizumi age 13
Tarō Asō age 15
U Thant age 46
Rudolf Hess age 61
Colin Powell age 18
Norodom Sihamoni age 2
Giulio Andreotti age 36
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 2
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 19
Alexander Dubček age 34
Wen Jiabao age 13
Václav Klaus age 14
Ehud Olmert age 10
Francesco Cossiga age 27
İsmet İnönü age 71
Leonid Kravchuk age 21
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 8
Puyi age 49
Ahmed Ben Bella age 38
Heinz Fischer age 17
Michael D. Higgins age 14
Paolo Gentiloni age 1
Mario Monti age 12
Alberto Fujimori age 17
Roh Moo-hyun age 9
Bernard Montgomery age 68
Richard von Weizsäcker age 35
Albert Speer age 50
Ram Nath Kovind age 10
Nawaz Sharif age 5
François Fillon age 1
Albert II of Belgium age 21
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 21
José Eduardo dos Santos age 13
Néstor Kirchner age 5
John Howard age 16
Idriss Déby age 3
Alexander Kerensky age 74
Turgut Özal age 28
Eisaku Satō age 54
Yukio Hatoyama age 8
Georgy Malenkov age 53
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 34
Sahle-Work Zewde age 5
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 35
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 49
Michel Temer age 15
Sergei Korolev age 48
Traian Băsescu age 4
Walter Mondale age 27
Paul Biya age 22
Lester B. Pearson age 58
Habib Bourguiba age 52
Tansu Çiller age 9
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 7
Ratko Mladić age 13
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 10
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 24
Teodoro Obiang age 13
B. J. Habibie age 19
Mary Robinson age 11
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 35
Hastings Banda age 65
Thaksin Shinawatra age 6
Jarosław Kaczyński age 6
Moshe Dayan age 40
Trygve Lie age 59
Hamad II of Bahrain age 5
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 25
Abdurrahman Wahid age 15
Alassane Ouattara age 13
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 75
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 12
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 1
Johannes Rau age 24
Yasuo Fukuda age 19
Dominique de Villepin age 2
Franz von Papen age 76
Malcolm Turnbull age 1
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 14
Omar Bongo age 19
Najib Razak age 2
Helen Clark age 5
Lee Hsien Loong age 3
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 13
Lee Myung-bak age 13
Alija Izetbegović age 30
Franjo Tuđman age 33
Jorge Rafael Videla age 30
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 16
Nana Akufo-Addo age 11
Prabowo Subianto age 4
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 7 months
Tomislav Nikolić age 3
José Ramos-Horta age 5
Nelson Rockefeller age 47
Alec Douglas-Home age 52
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 1
John Evans Atta Mills age 11
Éamon de Valera age 73
Reuven Rivlin age 16
Roza Otunbayeva age 5
Hassan II age 26
Cemal Gürsel age 60
Trương Tấn Sang age 6
Kenneth Kaunda age 31
Alan García age 6
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 4
Robert Schuman age 69
Janet Yellen age 9
Armen Sarkissian age 2
Imre Nagy age 59
Joyce Banda age 5
Victor Chernomyrdin age 17
Halimah Yacob age 1
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 14
José María Aznar age 2
Andrei Gromyko age 46
Kliment Voroshilov age 74
Spiro Agnew age 37
Carlos Menem age 25
Robert Kocharyan age 1
Nikos Anastasiades age 9
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 13
Laurent Gbagbo age 10
Shehbaz Sharif age 4
Kenan Evren age 38
Roman Herzog age 21
Sali Berisha age 11
Stjepan Mesić age 20
Isaac Shamir age 40
Michel Aoun age 22
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 31
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 16
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 6
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 10
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 37
Umberto II of Italy age 51
Ngo Dinh Diem age 54
Henry A. Wallace age 67
Isaias Afwerki age 9
Meles Zenawi age 7 months