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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29

People

Ahmed Ben Bella age 72
Tony Abbott age 32
Heinz Fischer age 51
Michael D. Higgins age 48
Paolo Gentiloni age 35
Mario Monti age 46
Alberto Fujimori age 51
Roh Moo-hyun age 43
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 29
Ram Nath Kovind age 44
Enrique Peña Nieto age 23
Nawaz Sharif age 39
François Fillon age 35
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 78
Albert II of Belgium age 55
Néstor Kirchner age 39
Nikol Pashinyan age 14
John Howard age 50
Idriss Déby age 37
Yukio Hatoyama age 42
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 7
Edi Rama age 25
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 68
Joseph Kabila age 18
Sahle-Work Zewde age 39
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 21
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 28
Michel Temer age 49
Mauricio Macri age 30
Erna Solberg age 28
Traian Băsescu age 38
Yingluck Shinawatra age 22
Walter Mondale age 61
Mike Pompeo age 25
Rumen Radev age 26
Nayib Bukele age 8
António Costa age 28
Borut Pahor age 26
Habib Bourguiba age 86
Tansu Çiller age 43
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 41
Ratko Mladić age 47
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 45
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 44
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 58
B. J. Habibie age 53
Mary Robinson age 45
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 69
Enrico Letta age 23
Thaksin Shinawatra age 40
Jarosław Kaczyński age 40
Yoshihiko Noda age 32
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 36
Alberto Fernández age 30
Hamad II of Bahrain age 39
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 30
John Mahama age 31
János Áder age 30
Abdurrahman Wahid age 49
Alassane Ouattara age 47
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 46
Stefan Löfven age 32
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 35
Johannes Rau age 58
Yasuo Fukuda age 53
Dominique de Villepin age 36
Manuel Valls age 27
Malcolm Turnbull age 35
Charles Michel age 13
Pierre Nkurunziza age 24
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 20
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 33
Frederik X of Denmark age 21
Najib Razak age 36
Helen Clark age 39
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 9
Lee Hsien Loong age 37
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 29
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 47
Lee Myung-bak age 47
Alija Izetbegović age 64
Franjo Tuđman age 67
Jorge Rafael Videla age 64
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 50
Nana Akufo-Addo age 45
Prabowo Subianto age 38
Isaac Herzog age 29
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 34
Tomislav Nikolić age 37
Boris Tadić age 31
José Ramos-Horta age 39
Juan Guaidó age 6
Adolfo Suárez age 57
François Englert age 57
Alec Douglas-Home age 86
Gustavo Petro age 29
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 35
John Evans Atta Mills age 45
Reuven Rivlin age 50
Hashim Thaçi age 21
Almazbek Atambaev age 33
Roza Otunbayeva age 39
Haakon VIII of Norway age 16
Magdalena Andersson age 22
Denys Shmyhal age 14
Trương Tấn Sang age 40
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 38
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 24
Janet Yellen age 43
Anne, Princess Royal age 39
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor age 29
Armen Sarkissian age 36
Boyko Borissov age 30
Jovenel Moïse age 21
Katrín Jakobsdóttir age 13
Yair Lapid age 26
Joyce Banda age 39
Felipe Calderón age 27
John Key age 28
Goodluck Jonathan age 32
Victor Chernomyrdin age 51
Ana Brnabić age 14
Halimah Yacob age 35
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 48
Binali Yıldırım age 33
Karol Nawrocki age 6
José María Aznar age 36
Constantine II of Greece age 49
Robert G. Edwards age 64
Spiro Agnew age 71
Robert Kocharyan age 35
Laura Chinchilla age 30
Zoran Milanović age 23
Nikos Anastasiades age 43
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 47
Laurent Gbagbo age 44
Ingrida Šimonytė age 15
Shehbaz Sharif age 38
Macky Sall age 28
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 24
Kenan Evren age 72
Benigno Aquino III age 29
Roman Herzog age 55
Jean Castex age 24
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 22
Sali Berisha age 45
Stjepan Mesić age 54
Alexander Stubb age 21
Katalin Novák age 12
Letsie III of Lesotho age 26
Gitanas Nausėda age 25
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 40
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 44
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 71
Leo Varadkar age 10
Sam Altman age 4
Katalin Karikó age 34
Ivo Josipović age 32
Petr Pavel age 28
Isaias Afwerki age 43
Meles Zenawi age 34
Jan Peter Balkenende age 33
Filip Vujanović age 35
Milo Đukanović age 27
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 38
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 41
Ion Iliescu age 59
Janez Janša age 31
Bülent Ecevit age 64
Beata Szydło age 26
Kim Young-sam age 62
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 39
Péter Magyar age 8
Sandro Pertini age 93
Evika Siliņa age 14
Anwar Ibrahim age 42
Gjorge Ivanov age 29
Tabaré Vázquez age 49
Walter Scheel age 70
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden age 12
Mohammed Omar age 29
Félix Tshisekedi age 26
Jalal Talabani age 56
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 60
Vicente Fox age 47
Olusegun Obasanjo age 52
Yahya Jammeh age 24
Beji Caid Essebsi age 63
Trần Đại Quang age 33
Mateusz Morawiecki age 21
Alfredo Stroessner age 77
Fidel Ramos age 61
Édouard Philippe age 19
Aslan Maskhadov age 38
Hua Guofeng age 68
Karl Nehammer age 17
Yves Leterme age 29
Alpha Condé age 51
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 46
Morarji Desai age 93