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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

Victor Chernomyrdin age 17
Halimah Yacob age 1
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 14
José María Aznar age 2
Andrei Gromyko age 46
Constantine II of Greece age 15
Robert G. Edwards age 30
Kliment Voroshilov age 74
Spiro Agnew age 37
Carlos Menem age 25
Robert Kocharyan age 1
Nikos Anastasiades age 9
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 13
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 51
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
Katalin Karikó age 10 months
Henry A. Wallace age 67
Isaias Afwerki age 9
Meles Zenawi age 7 months
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 18
Filip Vujanović age 1
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 4
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 6
Ion Iliescu age 25
Bülent Ecevit age 30
Kim Young-sam age 27
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 5
Leopold III of Belgium age 54
Erich von Manstein age 68
Sandro Pertini age 59
Anwar Ibrahim age 8
Tabaré Vázquez age 15
Walter Scheel age 36
Jalal Talabani age 22
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 26
Vicente Fox age 13
Olusegun Obasanjo age 18
Olav V of Norway age 52
Beji Caid Essebsi age 29
Fidel Ramos age 27
Wallis Simpson age 59
Juscelino Kubitschek age 53
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 73
Aslan Maskhadov age 4
Hua Guofeng age 34
Agostinho Neto age 33
Alpha Condé age 17
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 33
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 12
Morarji Desai age 59
Mary McAleese age 4
Ehud Barak age 13
Giuliano Amato age 17
Ayub Khan age 48
Ma Ying-jeou age 5
Emilio Aguinaldo age 86
Pietro Badoglio age 84
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 35
Anastas Mikoyan age 60
Otto von Habsburg age 43
Chester W. Nimitz age 70
Abdul Hamid age 11
Hun Sen age 3
Kim Campbell age 8
Andrej Babiš age 1
Lenín Moreno age 2
Mauno Koivisto age 32
Giorgos Papandreou age 3
Karolos Papoulias age 26
Zakir Husain age 58
Rafiq Hariri age 11
Pridi Banomyong age 55
Milton Obote age 29
Yun Po-sun age 58
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 59
Gustav Heinemann age 56
Lionel Jospin age 18
Abolhassan Banisadr age 22
Blaise Compaoré age 4
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 5
János Kádár age 43
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 37
Bettino Craxi age 21
Valdas Adamkus age 29
Samora Moisés Machel age 22
Mamnoon Hussain age 14
Fahri Korutürk age 52
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 10
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 10
Michael I of Romania age 34
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 42
Édouard Daladier age 71
Thomas Bach age 1
Manuel Noriega age 21
Raúl Alfonsín age 28
Khaleda Zia age 9
Thomas Boni Yayi age 3
Paul Martin age 17
Mwai Kibaki age 24
Chang Myon age 56
Chun Doo-hwan age 24
Lord Mountbatten age 55
Zhao Ziyang age 36
Rex Tillerson age 3
Elio Di Rupo age 4
Jean Chrétien age 21
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 16
John Kufuor age 17
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 34
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 10
Janez Drnovšek age 5
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 11
Ivan Konev age 57
Karl Carstens age 41
Jacques Delors age 30
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 25
John Nance Garner age 87
Vincent Auriol age 71
Mohammad Najibullah age 8
Zog I of Albania age 60
João Lourenço age 1
Guy Verhofstadt age 2
Dimitris Christofias age 9
Rafael Trujillo age 64
V. V. Giri age 61
Giovanni Leone age 47
Yahya Khan age 38
Ivan Gašparovič age 14
Cevdet Sunay age 56
Necmettin Erbakan age 29
Morgan Tsvangirai age 3
Felipe González age 13
Alexei Kosygin age 51
George F. Kennan age 51
Itamar Franco age 25
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 24
Farouk of Egypt age 35
Jacques Rogge age 13
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 18
K. R. Narayanan age 35
Levi Eshkol age 60
Massimo D'Alema age 6
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 50
Daniel arap Moi age 31
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 6
Peter Mutharika age 15
Mário Soares age 31
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 3
Zoran Đinđić age 3
Fernando Lugo age 4
Kgalema Motlanthe age 6
Heinrich Lübke age 61
Liu Shaoqi age 57
Zhu Rongji age 27
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 22
Houari Boumédiène age 23
Gough Whitlam age 39
Mathieu Kérékou age 22
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 8
Arnold Rüütel age 27
François Duvalier age 48
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 50
Nouri al-Maliki age 5
Moshe Katsav age 10
Luigi Einaudi age 81
Enrico de Nicola age 78
Ibrahim Rugova age 11
Amadou Toumani Touré age 7
Ram Baran Yadav age 7
Desi Bouterse age 10
Xanana Gusmão age 9
Armand Fallières age 114
Pierre Mauroy age 27
Laurent Fabius age 9
Édith Cresson age 21
Michel Barnier age 4
Lê Đức Thọ age 44
Enda Kenny age 4
Queen Sofía of Spain age 17
Robert McNamara age 39
Omar Bradley age 62
Soong Ching-ling age 62
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 15
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 0 months
Ivo Sanader age 2
Mohamed Naguib age 54