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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

Enver Hoxha age 52
Jacob Zuma age 19
Park Geun-hye age 9
Martti Ahtisaari age 24
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 15
Moon Jae-in age 8
Juan Manuel Santos age 10
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 25
Konstantin Chernenko age 50
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 29
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 23
Jiang Zemin age 35
Friedrich Merz age 5
Sauli Niinistö age 13
Eduard Shevardnadze age 33
Romano Prodi age 22
Ebrahim Raisi age 9 months
Cyril Ramaphosa age 8
Serzh Sargsyan age 7
Pranab Mukherjee age 25
Park Chung-hee age 43
Vyacheslav Molotov age 71
Joachim Gauck age 21
Anthony Eden age 64
Thomas Sankara age 11
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 14
Menachem Begin age 48
Jean-Claude Juncker age 6
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 4
Erich Honecker age 49
Hafez al-Assad age 30
Li Keqiang age 6
Muhammadu Buhari age 18
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 1
Horst Köhler age 18
Fumio Kishida age 4
Sanae Takaichi age 6 months
Kevin Rudd age 3
Sebastián Piñera age 11
Tarja Halonen age 17
Daniel Ortega age 15
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 22
Islam Karimov age 23
Dan Quayle age 14
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 41
Paul Kagame age 3
Omar al-Bashir age 17
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 296
Naoto Kan age 14
Philippe of Belgium age 1
Pratibha Patil age 26
Droupadi Murmu age 3
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 12
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 33
Juan Perón age 65
Heydar Aliyev age 38
Hassanal Bolkiah age 15
Norodom Sihanouk age 38
Mario Draghi age 14
Kim Dae-jung age 37
Christian Wulff age 2
Radovan Karadžić age 16
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 38
Aldo Moro age 45
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 20
Asif Ali Zardari age 6
Yoon Suk Yeol age 9 months
F. W. de Klerk age 25
Ludwig Erhard age 64
Ashraf Ghani age 12
Kurt Waldheim age 42
Alexander Van der Bellen age 17
Miloš Zeman age 16
Mobutu Sese Seko age 30
Salome Zourabichvili age 9
Jomo Kenyatta age 67
Emomali Rahmon age 8
Julius Nyerere age 39
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 4
Saparmurat Niyazov age 21
Yoweri Museveni age 17
Leonid Kuchma age 23
Donald Rumsfeld age 29
Masoud Pezeshkian age 6
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 8
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 3
Klaus Iohannis age 2
Olof Palme age 34
Süleyman Demirel age 36
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 2
Queen Camilla age 14
Jonas Salk age 46
Karl Dönitz age 70
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 28
Pierre Trudeau age 41
Fulgencio Batista age 60
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 73
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 38
Bronisław Komorowski age 9
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 14
Syngman Rhee age 86
Junichiro Koizumi age 19
Tarō Asō age 21
U Thant age 52
Rudolf Hess age 67
Colin Powell age 24
Norodom Sihamoni age 8
Giulio Andreotti age 42
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 8
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 25
Alexander Dubček age 39
Wen Jiabao age 19
Václav Klaus age 20
Ehud Olmert age 15
Francesco Cossiga age 33
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 5
İsmet İnönü age 77
Leonid Kravchuk age 27
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 14
Puyi age 55
Ahmed Ben Bella age 44
Tony Abbott age 3
Heinz Fischer age 22
Michael D. Higgins age 20
Paolo Gentiloni age 6
Mario Monti age 18
Alberto Fujimori age 23
Roh Moo-hyun age 15
Bernard Montgomery age 73
Richard von Weizsäcker age 41
Albert Speer age 56
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 1
Ram Nath Kovind age 15
Nawaz Sharif age 11
François Fillon age 7
Albert II of Belgium age 27
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 27
José Eduardo dos Santos age 19
Néstor Kirchner age 11
John Howard age 22
Idriss Déby age 9
Alexander Kerensky age 80
Turgut Özal age 33
Eisaku Satō age 60
Yukio Hatoyama age 14
Georgy Malenkov age 59
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 40
Sahle-Work Zewde age 11
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 3 months
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 41
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 55
Michel Temer age 21
Sergei Korolev age 54
Mauricio Macri age 2
Erna Solberg age 6 months
Traian Băsescu age 9
Walter Mondale age 33
Paul Biya age 28
Lester B. Pearson age 64
Tansu Çiller age 15
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 13
Ratko Mladić age 19
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 15
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 30
Teodoro Obiang age 19
B. J. Habibie age 25
Mary Robinson age 17
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 40
Hastings Banda age 71
Thaksin Shinawatra age 12
Jarosław Kaczyński age 12
Moshe Dayan age 46
Yoshihiko Noda age 4
Trygve Lie age 65
Alberto Fernández age 2
Hamad II of Bahrain age 11
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 2
John Mahama age 2
János Áder age 2
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 31
Abdurrahman Wahid age 21
Alassane Ouattara age 19
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 81
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 17
Stefan Löfven age 4
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 6
Johannes Rau age 30
Yasuo Fukuda age 25
Dominique de Villepin age 7
Franz von Papen age 81
Malcolm Turnbull age 6
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 20
Omar Bongo age 25
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 5
Najib Razak age 8
Helen Clark age 11
Lee Hsien Loong age 9
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 1
Celâl Bayar age 78
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 19