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Events

Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Petsamo 1939 - 1940-03-12
Air raids on Japan 1939-08-15 - 1945-08-15
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
1939–1940 Winter Offensive 1939-11 - 1940-03
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30

People

Choummaly Sayasone age 3
Plutarco Elías Calles age 62
José López Portillo age 19
Milovan Đilas age 28
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 4
Girija Prasad Koirala age 15
Abdou Diouf age 4
Archibald Wavell age 56
Fumimaro Konoe age 48
Michel Rocard age 9
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 42
Alain Poher age 30
August von Mackensen age 90
Empress Michiko age 5
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 5
Abulfaz Elchibey age 1
Zhelyu Zhelev age 4
Georgios Papadopoulos age 20
Ferenc Mádl age 8
Árpád Göncz age 17
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 38
Nicolae Iorga age 68
Ingvar Carlsson age 5
Rómulo Gallegos age 55
Maurice Gamelin age 67
Hayato Ikeda age 39
Noboru Takeshita age 15
Keizō Obuchi age 2
Kirill Meretskov age 42
Italo Balbo age 43
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 53
Oswald Mosley age 43
Antonín Novotný age 34
Hu Yaobang age 24
Chris Watson age 72
Iajuddin Ahmed age 8
Lauri Kristian Relander age 56
Costas Simitis age 3
Abdul Salam Arif age 18
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 25
Ezer Weizman age 15
Isaac Navon age 18
Dries van Agt age 8
Émile Lahoud age 3
Jacques Santer age 2
Luis Echeverría age 17
Miguel de la Madrid age 4
Ne Win age 28
Benjamin Mkapa age 1
Francisco Largo Caballero age 70
C. Rajagopalachari age 60
Günther von Kluge age 57
Ichirō Hatoyama age 56
Takeo Fukuda age 34
Morihiro Hosokawa age 1
Ivanoe Bonomi age 66
Hendrik Verwoerd age 38
João Figueiredo age 21
Allen Dulles age 46
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 57
Andrey Vyshinsky age 55
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 47
Princess Märtha of Sweden age 38
Jerry Brown age 1
Alice Paul age 54
Emil Hácha age 67
Fritz Todt age 48
Warren Christopher age 14
Reynaldo Bignone age 11
Ayaz Mutallibov age 1
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 10
Quett Masire age 14
John Turner age 10
David Dacko age 9
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 29
H. D. Deve Gowda age 6
Abdul Rahman Arif age 23
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 55
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 18
Mamadou Tandja age 1
S. R. Nathan age 15
Fouad Mebazaa age 6
Rupiah Banda age 2
Canaan Banana age 3
Manuel Roxas age 47
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 37
Nikolai Vatutin age 37
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 10
Raymond Barre age 15
Ernesto Geisel age 32
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 5
Ingrid of Sweden age 29
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 42
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 3
Lon Nol age 26
Alfredo Palacio age 10 months
Mohammad Hatta age 37
Mariano Rumor age 24
Ciriaco De Mita age 11
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 24
Marcelo Caetano age 33
Wang Jingwei age 56
Trần Đức Lương age 2
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 30
Choi Kyu-hah age 20
Zenkō Suzuki age 28
Paul Reynaud age 61
Leon Panetta age 1
Mario Cuomo age 7
Antonín Zápotocký age 54
Lê Duẩn age 32
Li Xiannian age 30
George Wallace age 20
Henry L. Stimson age 72
Alexander Haig age 14
John Curtin age 54
Franz Jonas age 40
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 24
Patricio Aylwin age 21
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 23
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 21
Ferenc Szálasi age 42
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 45
Giovanni Spadolini age 14
Arnaldo Forlani age 13
Anerood Jugnauth age 9
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 28
Einar Gerhardsen age 42
Emil Constantinescu age 0 months
Tage Erlander age 38
Rómulo Betancourt age 31
Ignacy Mościcki age 72
José Paciano Laurel age 48
Sergio Osmeña age 61
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 13
Luis Carrero Blanco age 35
Harold Alexander age 47
Rodolfo Graziani age 57
Masayoshi Ōhira age 29
Sōsuke Uno age 17
Pierre Mendès France age 32
Oliver Tambo age 22
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 57
Heinrich Müller age 39
Roland Freisler age 46
Spyridon Louis age 66
Earl Warren age 48
Gennady Yanayev age 2
Chadli Bendjedid age 10
Franz Vranitzky age 2
Wilfried Martens age 3
Louis St. Laurent age 57
Aristides Pereira age 16
Pedro Pires age 5
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 28
Ephraim Katzir age 23
Moussa Traoré age 3
Eddie Fenech Adami age 5
Adolfo López Mateos age 29
U Nu age 32
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 10
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 9
Ronald Venetiaan age 3
Rafael Caldera age 23
Fernando Belaúnde age 27
Elpidio Quirino age 49
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 58
Takeo Miki age 32
William Westmoreland age 25
Venceslau Brás age 71
Georges Bidault age 40
Ludwig Beck age 59
Vasily Sokolovsky age 42
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 45
Marcel Lefebvre age 34
Ernest Bevin age 58
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 82
Hans Fritzsche age 39
Yang Shangkun age 32
Stephen Breyer age 1
Thurgood Marshall age 31
Hubert Maga age 23
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 18
Arthur Meighen age 65
Léon M'ba age 37
Georgios Papandreou age 51
Zalman Shazar age 49
Piet de Jong age 24
Guntis Ulmanis age 2 months
Philibert Tsiranana age 27
Abdul Razak Hussein age 17
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 39
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 15
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 17
Maxime Weygand age 72
Kuniaki Koiso age 59
Kijūrō Shidehara age 67
Nikolai Tikhonov age 34
Jânio Quadros age 22
François Darlan age 58