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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12

People

Eduardo Duhalde age 6
Malcolm Fraser age 18
Wolfgang Schüssel age 3
Artur Rasizade age 13
John Diefenbaker age 52
Ricardo Lagos age 10
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 21
Gyula Horn age 16
Modibo Keïta age 33
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 22
Goh Chok Tong age 7
Michael Sata age 11
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 9
Diosdado Macapagal age 37
Ramon Magsaysay age 40
Heinrich Brüning age 62
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 60
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 11
José Sarney age 18
Walther Funk age 57
George Shultz age 27
Billy Hughes age 85
Harold Holt age 40
Ziaur Rahman age 12
Emilio Colombo age 28
Choummaly Sayasone age 12
George Abela age 3 months
José López Portillo age 28
Milovan Đilas age 37
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 12
Girija Prasad Koirala age 24
Abdou Diouf age 12
Milan Kučan age 7
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 6
Carol II of Romania age 54
Michel Rocard age 17
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 50
Paul Wolfowitz age 4
Alain Poher age 39
Abulfaz Elchibey age 10
Zhelyu Zhelev age 13
Hissène Habré age 5
Adly Mansour age 2
Georgios Papadopoulos age 29
Ferenc Mádl age 17
Árpád Göncz age 26
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 46
Ingvar Carlsson age 13
Frederick Chiluba age 5
Alejandro Toledo age 3
Maurice Gamelin age 75
Hayato Ikeda age 48
Noboru Takeshita age 24
Keizō Obuchi age 11
Jan Smuts age 78
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 4 months
Jeff Sessions age 1
Oswald Mosley age 51
Hu Yaobang age 32
Clarence Thomas age 1 month
Robert Menzies age 53
Iajuddin Ahmed age 17
Costas Simitis age 12
Abdul Salam Arif age 27
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 33
Ezer Weizman age 24
Isaac Navon age 27
Dries van Agt age 17
Thongloun Sisoulith age 2
Émile Lahoud age 12
Jacques Santer age 11
Luis Echeverría age 26
Ne Win age 37
Ram Chandra Poudel age 3
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 2
Benjamin Mkapa age 9
Haris Silajdžić age 2
C. Rajagopalachari age 69
Ichirō Hatoyama age 65
Takeo Fukuda age 43
Morihiro Hosokawa age 10
Ivanoe Bonomi age 74
Hendrik Verwoerd age 46
João Figueiredo age 30
Jerry Brown age 10
Warren Christopher age 22
Rexhep Meidani age 3
Reynaldo Bignone age 20
Ayaz Mutallibov age 10
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 19
Quett Masire age 23
John Turner age 19
David Dacko age 18
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 38
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 4
Abdul Rahman Arif age 32
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 63
Portia Simpson-Miller age 2
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 27
George William Vella age 6
Mamadou Tandja age 10
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 11 months
S. R. Nathan age 24
Fouad Mebazaa age 15
Rupiah Banda age 11
Canaan Banana age 12
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 45
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 18
Raymond Barre age 24
Ernesto Geisel age 41
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 13
John Lewis age 8
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 51
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 12
Lon Nol age 34
Alfredo Palacio age 9
Rose Francine Rogombe age 5
Mariano Rumor age 33
Ciriaco De Mita age 20
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 5
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 2
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 33
Marcelo Caetano age 41
Trần Đức Lương age 11
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 39
Choi Kyu-hah age 29
Zenkō Suzuki age 37
Paul Reynaud age 69
Leon Panetta age 10
Mario Cuomo age 16
Lê Duẩn age 41
Li Xiannian age 39
George Wallace age 28
Henry L. Stimson age 80
Alexander Haig age 23
Franz Jonas age 48
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 33
Patricio Aylwin age 29
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 31
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 29
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 7 months
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 54
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 10 months
Davíð Oddsson age 6 months
Giovanni Spadolini age 23
Arnaldo Forlani age 22
Raila A Odinga age 3
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 7
Anerood Jugnauth age 18
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 37
Armando Guebuza age 5
Farooq Leghari age 8
Emil Constantinescu age 8
Evaristo Carvalho age 6
Rómulo Betancourt age 40
José Paciano Laurel age 57
Sergio Osmeña age 69
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 22
Luis Carrero Blanco age 44
Rodolfo Graziani age 66
Masayoshi Ōhira age 38
Sōsuke Uno age 25
Pierre Mendès France age 41
Charles Evans Hughes age 86
Gennady Yanayev age 10
Chadli Bendjedid age 19
Franz Vranitzky age 10
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 7
Wilfried Martens age 12
Louis St. Laurent age 66
Aristides Pereira age 24
Pedro Pires age 14
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 37
Ephraim Katzir age 32
Giovanni Goria age 5
Muhyiddin Yassin age 1
Moussa Traoré age 11
Eddie Fenech Adami age 14
Adolfo López Mateos age 38
Ibrahim Babangida age 6
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 18
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 18
Vladimír Mečiar age 6
Ronald Venetiaan age 12
Rafael Caldera age 32
Hanna Suchocka age 2
Fernando Belaúnde age 35
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 67
Takeo Miki age 41
William Westmoreland age 34
Venceslau Brás age 80
Georges Bidault age 48
Hans Fritzsche age 48
Yang Shangkun age 41
Stephen Breyer age 9
Thurgood Marshall age 40
James F. Byrnes age 66
Hubert Maga age 31
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 26
Arthur Meighen age 74