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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
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10

People

Paul Biya age 30
António Costa age 1
Tansu Çiller age 16
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 14
Ratko Mladić age 21
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 19
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 17
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 32
Teodoro Obiang age 20
B. J. Habibie age 26
Mary Robinson age 18
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 42
Hastings Banda age 73
Thaksin Shinawatra age 13
Jarosław Kaczyński age 13
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 42
Moshe Dayan age 48
Yoshihiko Noda age 5
Trygve Lie age 66
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 9
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 59
Alberto Fernández age 4
Hamad II of Bahrain age 13
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 4
John Mahama age 4
János Áder age 4
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 33
Abdurrahman Wahid age 22
Alassane Ouattara age 21
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 19
Stefan Löfven age 5
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 8
Johannes Rau age 32
Yasuo Fukuda age 26
Dominique de Villepin age 9
Manuel Valls age 8 months
Jeremy Corbyn age 13
Franz von Papen age 83
Malcolm Turnbull age 8
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 21
Omar Bongo age 27
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 6
Najib Razak age 9
Helen Clark age 13
Lee Hsien Loong age 11
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 3
Celâl Bayar age 80
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 20
Lee Myung-bak age 21
Alija Izetbegović age 37
Franjo Tuđman age 41
Jorge Rafael Videla age 37
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 24
Nana Akufo-Addo age 19
Prabowo Subianto age 11
Isaac Herzog age 2
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 8
Tomislav Nikolić age 11
Boris Tadić age 5
José Ramos-Horta age 13
Adolfo Suárez age 30
François Englert age 30
Alec Douglas-Home age 59
Gustavo Petro age 3
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 9
John Evans Atta Mills age 18
Reuven Rivlin age 23
Almazbek Atambaev age 6
Roza Otunbayeva age 12
Trương Tấn Sang age 14
Kenneth Kaunda age 39
Alan García age 13
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 11
Robert Schuman age 76
Janet Yellen age 16
Lee Harvey Oswald age 23
Anne, Princess Royal age 12
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 3
Armen Sarkissian age 9
Boyko Borissov age 3
Joyce Banda age 13
Felipe Calderón age 8 months
John Key age 1
Goodluck Jonathan age 5
Victor Chernomyrdin age 25
Halimah Yacob age 8
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 21
Binali Yıldırım age 7
José María Aznar age 10
Andrei Gromyko age 53
Constantine II of Greece age 22
Robert G. Edwards age 37
Kliment Voroshilov age 82
Spiro Agnew age 44
Carlos Menem age 32
Robert Kocharyan age 8
Laura Chinchilla age 4
Nikos Anastasiades age 16
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 20
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 58
Laurent Gbagbo age 17
Shehbaz Sharif age 11
Macky Sall age 1
Kenan Evren age 45
Benigno Aquino III age 3
Roman Herzog age 29
Sali Berisha age 18
Stjepan Mesić age 28
Isaac Shamir age 47
Michel Aoun age 29
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 38
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 23
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 13
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 17
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 44
Umberto II of Italy age 58
Ngo Dinh Diem age 62
Katalin Karikó age 8
Henry A. Wallace age 74
Ivo Josipović age 5
Petr Pavel age 1
Isaias Afwerki age 17
Meles Zenawi age 8
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 25
Jan Peter Balkenende age 7
Filip Vujanović age 8
Milo Đukanović age 1
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 11
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 14
Ion Iliescu age 33
Janez Janša age 4
Bülent Ecevit age 37
Beata Szydło age 0 months
Kim Young-sam age 35
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 13
Leopold III of Belgium age 61
Erich von Manstein age 75
Sandro Pertini age 66
Anwar Ibrahim age 15
Gjorge Ivanov age 3
Tabaré Vázquez age 23
Theodor Heuss age 79
Walter Scheel age 43
Mohammed Omar age 3
Jalal Talabani age 29
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 33
Vicente Fox age 20
Olusegun Obasanjo age 26
Beji Caid Essebsi age 36
Trần Đại Quang age 6
Fidel Ramos age 35
Wallis Simpson age 66
Juscelino Kubitschek age 60
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 81
Aslan Maskhadov age 11
Hua Guofeng age 42
Agostinho Neto age 40
Yves Leterme age 2
Alpha Condé age 25
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 19
Morarji Desai age 67
Mary McAleese age 11
Ehud Barak age 21
Giuliano Amato age 25
Uhuru Kenyatta age 1
Ma Ying-jeou age 12
Dina Boluarte age 11 months
Emilio Aguinaldo age 94
Bongbong Marcos age 5
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 42
Anastas Mikoyan age 67
Otto von Habsburg age 50
Chester W. Nimitz age 78
Abdul Hamid age 19
Hun Sen age 10
Kim Campbell age 16
Andrej Babiš age 8
Lenín Moreno age 10
Mauno Koivisto age 39
Giorgos Papandreou age 10
Karolos Papoulias age 33
Zakir Husain age 66
Rafiq Hariri age 18
Lai Ching-te age 3
John Magufuli age 3
Pridi Banomyong age 63
Horacio Cartes age 6
Yun Po-sun age 65
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 66
Gustav Heinemann age 63
Shigeru Ishiba age 6
Lionel Jospin age 25
Abolhassan Banisadr age 30
Patrice Talon age 5
Blaise Compaoré age 12
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 12
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 44
Bettino Craxi age 29
Valdas Adamkus age 36
Samora Moisés Machel age 29