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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12

People

Lionel Jospin age 11
Albert Lebrun age 76
Abolhassan Banisadr age 15
János Kádár age 36
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 29
Bettino Craxi age 14
Valdas Adamkus age 21
Samora Moisés Machel age 14
Mamnoon Hussain age 7
Fahri Korutürk age 45
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 2
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 3
Michael I of Romania age 26
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 35
Édouard Daladier age 64
Manuel Noriega age 14
Cordell Hull age 76
Raúl Alfonsín age 21
Khaleda Zia age 1
Paul Martin age 9
Mwai Kibaki age 16
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 45
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 65
Chang Myon age 48
Chun Doo-hwan age 17
Lord Mountbatten age 48
Zhao Ziyang age 28
Gerd von Rundstedt age 72
Jean Chrétien age 14
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 8
John Kufuor age 9
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 27
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 3
Adnan Menderes age 49
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 4
Ivan Konev age 50
Karl Carstens age 33
Jacques Delors age 23
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 17
John Nance Garner age 79
Mohammad Najibullah age 12 months
Zog I of Albania age 52
Dimitris Christofias age 1
V. V. Giri age 54
Giovanni Leone age 39
Yahya Khan age 31
Ivan Gašparovič age 7
Cevdet Sunay age 49
Necmettin Erbakan age 21
Felipe González age 6
Alexei Kosygin age 44
George F. Kennan age 44
Itamar Franco age 18
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 17
Jacques Rogge age 6
Albert Luthuli age 50
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 11
K. R. Narayanan age 27
Levi Eshkol age 52
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 42
Daniel arap Moi age 23
Peter Mutharika age 8
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 25
Mário Soares age 23
Heinrich Lübke age 53
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria age 87
Liu Shaoqi age 49
Zhu Rongji age 19
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 15
Houari Boumédiène age 15
Gough Whitlam age 32
Mathieu Kérékou age 14
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 8 months
Arnold Rüütel age 20
François Duvalier age 41
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 43
Moshe Katsav age 2
Enrico de Nicola age 70
Ibrahim Rugova age 3
Ram Baran Yadav age 6 months
Desi Bouterse age 2
Xanana Gusmão age 2
Armand Fallières age 106
Pierre Mauroy age 20
Laurent Fabius age 1
Édith Cresson age 14
Lê Đức Thọ age 36
Queen Sofía of Spain age 9
Robert McNamara age 32
Soong Ching-ling age 55
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 7
Mohamed Naguib age 47
Loukas Papademos age 9 months
Mátyás Rákosi age 56
László Sólyom age 6
Charan Singh age 45
Bingu wa Mutharika age 14
Violeta Chamorro age 18
Semyon Budyonny age 65
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 111
Erich Raeder age 72
René Coty age 66
Brian Mulroney age 9
R. Venkataraman age 37
Antonio Segni age 57
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 10
Evgeny Primakov age 18
Mykola Azarov age 7 months
Siad Barre age 28
Mary of Teck age 81
Yoshirō Mori age 11
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 25
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 52
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 4
Hjalmar Schacht age 71
Rodion Malinovsky age 49
Lázaro Cárdenas age 53
Bob Hawke age 18
Makarios III age 35
Gulzarilal Nanda age 50
Moshe Sharett age 53
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 8
Joaquim Chissano age 8
Sam Nujoma age 19
Sani Abacha age 4
Juvénal Habyarimana age 11
Abdoulaye Wade age 22
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 30
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 21
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 88
P. W. Botha age 32
Lazar Kaganovich age 54
Jiang Qing age 34
Queen Sonja of Norway age 11
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 83
Semyon Timoshenko age 53
Lee Teng-hui age 25
Paul Keating age 4
Thomas Klestil age 15
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 24
Konstantin Päts age 74
Jerry Rawlings age 1
Pál Schmitt age 6
Zail Singh age 32
Amintore Fanfani age 40
Willem Drees age 62
Viktor Zubkov age 6
Vojislav Koštunica age 4
Tomiichi Murayama age 24
Nikolai Bulganin age 53
João Goulart age 29
Jean Monnet age 59
Soong Mei-ling age 50
Li Peng age 19
John Foster Dulles age 60
Ferhat Abbas age 48
Tassos Papadopoulos age 14
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 83
João Bernardo Vieira age 9
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 29
Chaim Herzog age 29
Giuseppe Saragat age 49
Lamberto Dini age 17
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 11
Askar Akayev age 3
Algirdas Brazauskas age 15
Prem Tinsulanonda age 27
Roh Tae-woo age 15
Lin Biao age 40
Egon Krenz age 11
Paul of Greece age 46
Jacobo Árbenz age 34
Robert Mueller age 3
Ramiz Alia age 22
Leopoldo Galtieri age 22
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 3
Bruno Kreisky age 37
Festus Mogae age 8
Seretse Khama age 27
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 23
Lennart Meri age 19
Risto Ryti age 59
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 35
Giovanni Gronchi age 60
Wim Kok age 9
Charles Taylor age 6 months
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 10
Agatha Barbara age 25
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 43
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 48
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 12
Moncef Marzouki age 3
Joseph Estrada age 11
Jean Casimir-Perier age 100
Alain Juppé age 2
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 24
Robert Gates age 4
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 53
Baldur von Schirach age 41
Sandra Day O'Connor age 18