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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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02

People

Idriss Déby age 15
Alexander Kerensky age 86
Turgut Özal age 40
Yukio Hatoyama age 20
Georgy Malenkov age 66
Edi Rama age 3
Sahle-Work Zewde age 17
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 6
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 48
Michel Temer age 27
Mauricio Macri age 8
Erna Solberg age 6
Traian Băsescu age 16
Yingluck Shinawatra age 7 months
Mike Pompeo age 4
Rumen Radev age 4
Paul Biya age 35
António Costa age 6
Borut Pahor age 4
Tansu Çiller age 21
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 19
Ratko Mladić age 25
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 23
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 22
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 37
Teodoro Obiang age 25
B. J. Habibie age 31
Mary Robinson age 23
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 47
Enrico Letta age 1
Thaksin Shinawatra age 18
Jarosław Kaczyński age 18
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 46
Moshe Dayan age 52
Yoshihiko Noda age 10
Trygve Lie age 71
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 14
Alberto Fernández age 8
Hamad II of Bahrain age 18
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 8
John Mahama age 9
János Áder age 8
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 37
Abdurrahman Wahid age 27
Alassane Ouattara age 26
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 24
Stefan Löfven age 10
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 13
Johannes Rau age 37
Yasuo Fukuda age 31
Dominique de Villepin age 14
Manuel Valls age 5
Jeremy Corbyn age 18
Franz von Papen age 88
Malcolm Turnbull age 13
Pierre Nkurunziza age 3
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 26
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 11
Najib Razak age 14
Helen Clark age 17
Lee Hsien Loong age 15
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 8
Celâl Bayar age 84
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 25
Lee Myung-bak age 26
Alija Izetbegović age 42
Franjo Tuđman age 45
Jorge Rafael Videla age 42
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 28
Nana Akufo-Addo age 23
Prabowo Subianto age 16
Isaac Herzog age 7
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 12
Tomislav Nikolić age 15
Boris Tadić age 10
José Ramos-Horta age 18
Adolfo Suárez age 35
François Englert age 35
Gustavo Petro age 7
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 14
John Evans Atta Mills age 23
Reuven Rivlin age 28
Almazbek Atambaev age 11
Roza Otunbayeva age 17
Magdalena Andersson age 1
Trương Tấn Sang age 19
Alan García age 18
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 16
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 2
Janet Yellen age 21
Anne, Princess Royal age 17
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 7
Armen Sarkissian age 14
Boyko Borissov age 8
Yair Lapid age 4
Joyce Banda age 17
Felipe Calderón age 5
John Key age 6
Goodluck Jonathan age 10
Victor Chernomyrdin age 29
Halimah Yacob age 13
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 26
Binali Yıldırım age 12
José María Aznar age 14
Andrei Gromyko age 58
Constantine II of Greece age 27
Robert G. Edwards age 42
Kliment Voroshilov age 87
Carlos Menem age 37
Robert Kocharyan age 13
Laura Chinchilla age 8
Zoran Milanović age 1
Nikos Anastasiades age 21
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 25
Laurent Gbagbo age 22
Shehbaz Sharif age 16
Macky Sall age 6
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 2
Kenan Evren age 50
Benigno Aquino III age 7
Roman Herzog age 33
Jean Castex age 2
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 3 months
Sali Berisha age 23
Stjepan Mesić age 33
Isaac Shamir age 52
Michel Aoun age 34
Letsie III of Lesotho age 4
Gitanas Nausėda age 3
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 43
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 28
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 18
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 22
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 49
Umberto II of Italy age 63
Katalin Karikó age 13
Ivo Josipović age 10
Petr Pavel age 6
Isaias Afwerki age 22
Meles Zenawi age 12
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 30
Jan Peter Balkenende age 11
Filip Vujanović age 13
Milo Đukanović age 5
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 16
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 19
Ion Iliescu age 37
Janez Janša age 9
Bülent Ecevit age 42
Beata Szydło age 4
Kim Young-sam age 40
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 18
Leopold III of Belgium age 66
Erich von Manstein age 80
Sandro Pertini age 71
Anwar Ibrahim age 20
Gjorge Ivanov age 7
Tabaré Vázquez age 28
Walter Scheel age 48
Mohammed Omar age 8
Félix Tshisekedi age 4
Jalal Talabani age 34
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 38
Vicente Fox age 25
Olusegun Obasanjo age 30
Yahya Jammeh age 2
Beji Caid Essebsi age 41
Trần Đại Quang age 11
Fidel Ramos age 39
Wallis Simpson age 71
Juscelino Kubitschek age 65
Aslan Maskhadov age 16
Hua Guofeng age 47
Agostinho Neto age 45
Yves Leterme age 7
Alpha Condé age 29
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 24
Morarji Desai age 71
Mary McAleese age 16
Ehud Barak age 25
Giuliano Amato age 29
Uhuru Kenyatta age 6
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 1
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 3
Ma Ying-jeou age 17
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 1
Dina Boluarte age 5
Bongbong Marcos age 10
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 66
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 47
Anastas Mikoyan age 72
Otto von Habsburg age 55
Bujar Nishani age 1
Abdul Hamid age 24
Hun Sen age 15
Kim Campbell age 20
Andrej Babiš age 13
Lenín Moreno age 14
Mauno Koivisto age 44
Giorgos Papandreou age 15