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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Stephen Harper age 3
Margrethe II of Denmark age 22
Donald Tusk age 5
Rachel Carson age 55
Corazon Aquino age 29
Edward VIII age 68
John Kerry age 18
Madeleine Albright age 25
Hamid Karzai age 4
José Mujica age 27
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 38
Yoshihide Suga age 13
Rajiv Gandhi age 18
Thabo Mbeki age 20
Wernher von Braun age 50
Clement Attlee age 79
Harald V of Norway age 25
Viktor Yushchenko age 8
John Major age 19
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 7
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 25
Jens Stoltenberg age 3
Slobodan Milošević age 21
Enver Hoxha age 53
Jacob Zuma age 20
Park Geun-hye age 10
Martti Ahtisaari age 25
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 16
Moon Jae-in age 9
Mitt Romney age 15
Juan Manuel Santos age 11
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 26
Konstantin Chernenko age 50
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 30
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 24
Jiang Zemin age 36
Friedrich Merz age 6
Sauli Niinistö age 14
Eduard Shevardnadze age 34
Romano Prodi age 23
Ebrahim Raisi age 1
Cyril Ramaphosa age 9
Serzh Sargsyan age 8
Pranab Mukherjee age 26
Vyacheslav Molotov age 72
Joachim Gauck age 22
Anthony Eden age 65
Thomas Sankara age 12
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 15
Menachem Begin age 49
Jean-Claude Juncker age 7
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 5
Erich Honecker age 50
Hafez al-Assad age 31
Li Keqiang age 7
Muhammadu Buhari age 19
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 2
Horst Köhler age 19
Fumio Kishida age 5
Sanae Takaichi age 1
Kevin Rudd age 4
Sebastián Piñera age 12
Tarja Halonen age 18
Daniel Ortega age 16
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 23
Islam Karimov age 24
Dan Quayle age 15
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 42
Paul Kagame age 4
Omar al-Bashir age 18
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 297
Naoto Kan age 15
Philippe of Belgium age 2
Pratibha Patil age 27
Droupadi Murmu age 4
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 12
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 34
Juan Perón age 66
Heydar Aliyev age 39
Hassanal Bolkiah age 16
Norodom Sihanouk age 39
Mario Draghi age 14
Kim Dae-jung age 38
Christian Wulff age 3
Radovan Karadžić age 17
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 39
Aldo Moro age 45
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 21
Asif Ali Zardari age 7
Yoon Suk Yeol age 1
F. W. de Klerk age 26
Ludwig Erhard age 65
Ashraf Ghani age 13
Kurt Waldheim age 43
Alexander Van der Bellen age 18
Miloš Zeman age 17
Mobutu Sese Seko age 31
Salome Zourabichvili age 10
Jomo Kenyatta age 68
Emomali Rahmon age 9
Julius Nyerere age 40
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 5
Saparmurat Niyazov age 22
Yoweri Museveni age 17
Leonid Kuchma age 24
Donald Rumsfeld age 30
Masoud Pezeshkian age 7
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 9
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 4
Klaus Iohannis age 3
Olof Palme age 35
Süleyman Demirel age 37
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 3
Queen Camilla age 15
Jonas Salk age 47
Karl Dönitz age 70
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 29
Pierre Trudeau age 42
Fulgencio Batista age 61
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 39
Bronisław Komorowski age 10
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 15
Syngman Rhee age 87
Junichiro Koizumi age 20
Tarō Asō age 21
Rudolf Hess age 68
Colin Powell age 25
Norodom Sihamoni age 9
Giulio Andreotti age 43
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 9
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 25
Alexander Dubček age 40
Wen Jiabao age 19
Václav Klaus age 21
Ehud Olmert age 16
Francesco Cossiga age 34
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 6
Leonid Kravchuk age 28
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 15
Puyi age 56
Antony Blinken age 4 months
Ahmed Ben Bella age 45
Tony Abbott age 4
Heinz Fischer age 23
Michael D. Higgins age 21
Paolo Gentiloni age 7
Mario Monti age 19
Alberto Fujimori age 24
Roh Moo-hyun age 15
Bernard Montgomery age 74
Richard von Weizsäcker age 42
Albert Speer age 57
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 2
Ram Nath Kovind age 16
Nawaz Sharif age 12
François Fillon age 8
Albert II of Belgium age 28
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 28
José Eduardo dos Santos age 20
Néstor Kirchner age 12
John Howard age 23
Idriss Déby age 10
Rajendra Prasad age 77
Alexander Kerensky age 81
Turgut Özal age 34
Eisaku Satō age 61
Yukio Hatoyama age 15
Georgy Malenkov age 60
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 41
Sahle-Work Zewde age 12
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 1
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 42
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 56
Michel Temer age 21
Sergei Korolev age 55
Mauricio Macri age 3
Erna Solberg age 1
Traian Băsescu age 10
Walter Mondale age 34
Paul Biya age 29
Lester B. Pearson age 65
Tansu Çiller age 16
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 13
Ratko Mladić age 20
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 16
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 31
Teodoro Obiang age 20
B. J. Habibie age 26
Mary Robinson age 18
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 41
Hastings Banda age 72
Thaksin Shinawatra age 13
Jarosław Kaczyński age 13
Moshe Dayan age 47
Yoshihiko Noda age 5
Trygve Lie age 66
Alberto Fernández age 3
Hamad II of Bahrain age 12
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 3
John Mahama age 3