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Events

Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Occupation of the Baltic states 1940 - 1991
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
White Terror (Taiwan) 1949-05-19 - 1992-11-06
Mexican Dirty War 1954 - 2000
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Communist insurgency in Sarawak 1962-06-22 - 1990-11-03
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Operation Banner 1969-08-14 - 2007-07-31
Basic Treaty, 1972 1972-12-21 - 1990-10-03
Ethiopian Civil War 1974-09-12 - 1991-06-04
Cuban intervention in Angola 1975 - 1991
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Third Indochina War 1975-05-01 - 1991-10-23
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Indonesian occupation of East Timor 1975-12-07 - 1999-10-31
Insurgency in Aceh 1976 - 2005
Syrian occupation of Lebanon 1976-05-31 - 2005-04-30
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Siege of Khost 1980-01 - 1991-04-11
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Casamance conflict 1982 - 2014-05-01
Second Sudanese Civil War 1983-06-05 - 2005-01-09
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) 1985-02-16 - 2000-05-25
Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon 1985-02-16 - 2000-05-25
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) 1989-02-15 - 1992-04-27
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06

People

Pol Pot age 64
Ilham Aliyev age 27
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 50
António Guterres age 40
Rosa Parks age 76
Shimon Peres age 66
Wangari Maathai age 49
Giorgia Meloni age 12
Prince Philip age 68
Olaf Scholz age 31
Keir Starmer age 26
Willy Brandt age 75
Gerhard Schröder age 45
Hassan Rouhani age 40
Hu Jintao age 46
Evo Morales age 29
Joko Widodo age 28
Petro Poroshenko age 23
Mikheil Saakashvili age 21
Liz Truss age 14
Ursula von der Leyen age 30
Mike Pence age 30
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 36
Michelle Bachelet age 37
Ariel Sharon age 61
Felipe VI of Spain age 21
Desmond Tutu age 57
Viktor Yanukovych age 39
Mohamed Morsi age 38
Viktor Orbán age 26
Sergio Mattarella age 48
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 63
Manmohan Singh age 56
Pervez Musharraf age 46
Julia Gillard age 27
Abdullah Gül age 38
Lech Kaczyński age 40
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 33
Jeff Bezos age 25
Buzz Aldrin age 59
Mohammad Khatami age 45
Yitzhak Rabin age 67
Tsai Ing-wen age 32
Mariano Rajoy age 34
Andrei Sakharov age 68
Larry Sanger age 21
Condoleezza Rice age 34
Raúl Castro age 58
Sheikh Hasina age 41
Giorgio Napolitano age 64
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 49
Mark Rutte age 22
Idi Amin age 64
Yulia Tymoshenko age 28
Rodrigo Duterte age 44
JD Vance age 5
Abdullah II of Jordan age 27
William, Prince of Wales age 7
Helmut Schmidt age 70
Stephen Harper age 30
Donald Tusk age 32
James Watson age 61
Madeleine Albright age 52
Hamid Karzai age 31
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 22
Jacinda Ardern age 9
José Mujica age 54
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 65
Yoshihide Suga age 40
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 21
Andrzej Duda age 17
Thabo Mbeki age 47
Harald V of Norway age 52
Viktor Yushchenko age 35
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 34
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 52
Jens Stoltenberg age 30
Vajiralongkorn age 37
Kaja Kallas age 12
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 25
Jacob Zuma age 47
Park Geun-hye age 37
Martti Ahtisaari age 52
Zuzana Čaputová age 16
Moon Jae-in age 36
Mitt Romney age 42
Juan Manuel Santos age 38
Matteo Renzi age 14
Pedro Sánchez age 17
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 53
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 57
Friedrich Merz age 33
Sauli Niinistö age 40
Eduard Shevardnadze age 61
Romano Prodi age 50
Giuseppe Conte age 25
Claudia Sheinbaum age 27
Imran Khan age 36
Ebrahim Raisi age 28
Cyril Ramaphosa age 36
Serzh Sargsyan age 35
Sanna Marin age 3
Pranab Mukherjee age 53
Maia Sandu age 17
Joachim Gauck age 49
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 42
Menachem Begin age 76
Jean-Claude Juncker age 34
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 32
Francis Crick age 73
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi age 18
Li Keqiang age 34
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 9
Kersti Kaljulaid age 19
Muhammadu Buhari age 46
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 29
Horst Köhler age 46
Fumio Kishida age 32
Sanae Takaichi age 28
Peter Higgs age 60
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex age 4
Kevin Rudd age 31
Sebastián Piñera age 39
Tarja Halonen age 45
Alexis Tsipras age 15
Islam Karimov age 51
Harold Wilson age 73
Scott Morrison age 21
George Weah age 22
Paul Kagame age 31
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 324
Naoto Kan age 42
Philippe of Belgium age 29
James Callaghan age 77
Pratibha Patil age 54
Droupadi Murmu age 31
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 39
Heydar Aliyev age 66
Herman Van Rompuy age 41
Norodom Sihanouk age 66
Abiy Ahmed age 12
Mario Draghi age 41
Kim Dae-jung age 65
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 89
Christian Wulff age 30
Radovan Karadžić age 44
Mohammed bin Salman age 3
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 66
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 64
Asif Ali Zardari age 34
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 82
Yoon Suk Yeol age 28
F. W. de Klerk age 53
Ashraf Ghani age 40
Javier Milei age 18
Alexander Van der Bellen age 45
Mark Carney age 24
Miloš Zeman age 44
Salome Zourabichvili age 37
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 35
Emomali Rahmon age 36
Julius Nyerere age 67
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 32
Saparmurat Niyazov age 49
Leonid Kuchma age 51
Donald Rumsfeld age 57
Masoud Pezeshkian age 34
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 36
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 31
Klaus Iohannis age 30
Aleksandar Vučić age 19
Robert Fico age 24
Süleyman Demirel age 64
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 30
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 73
Queen Camilla age 42
Jonas Salk age 74
Pierre Trudeau age 69
Mikhail Mishustin age 23
Bronisław Komorowski age 37
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 42
Junichiro Koizumi age 47
Tarō Asō age 48
Colin Powell age 52
Marco Rubio age 18
Sebastian Kurz age 2
Norodom Sihamoni age 36
Gabriel Boric age 3
Naftali Bennett age 17
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 36
Alexander Dubček age 67
Wen Jiabao age 46
Andy Burnham age 19
Anthony Albanese age 26
Václav Klaus age 48
Ehud Olmert age 43
Mette Frederiksen age 11
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 33
José Manuel Barroso age 33
Leonid Kravchuk age 55