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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Philippeville massacre 1955-08-20 - 1955-08-25

People

Carl Bildt age 6
Prayut Chanocha age 1
Semyon Budyonny age 72
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 118
Lloyd Austin age 2
Erich Raeder age 79
John Roberts age 6 months
Brian Mulroney age 16
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 3
R. Venkataraman age 44
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 17
Nicolae Timofti age 6
Evgeny Primakov age 25
Danilo Türk age 3
Mykola Azarov age 7
Siad Barre age 35
Yoshirō Mori age 18
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 32
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 59
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 11
Hjalmar Schacht age 78
Rodion Malinovsky age 56
Lázaro Cárdenas age 60
Bob Hawke age 25
Sandra Mason age 6
Jadranka Kosor age 2
Makarios III age 42
Gulzarilal Nanda age 57
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 15
Joaquim Chissano age 15
Sam Nujoma age 26
Sani Abacha age 11
Juvénal Habyarimana age 18
Abdoulaye Wade age 29
Chen Shui-bian age 4
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 37
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 28
P. W. Botha age 39
Lazar Kaganovich age 61
Jiang Qing age 41
Queen Sonja of Norway age 18
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 90
Semyon Timoshenko age 60
Lee Teng-hui age 32
Paul Keating age 11
Thomas Klestil age 22
Paul-Henri Spaak age 56
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 31
Konstantin Päts age 81
Jerry Rawlings age 8
Manuel Zelaya age 2
Pál Schmitt age 13
Zail Singh age 39
Amintore Fanfani age 47
Egils Levits age 1 month
Sushila Karki age 3
Mahamadou Issoufou age 3
Arif Alvi age 6
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 3
Viktor Zubkov age 13
Vojislav Koštunica age 11
Maithripala Sirisena age 3
Tomiichi Murayama age 31
João Goulart age 36
Jean Monnet age 66
Soong Mei-ling age 57
Li Peng age 26
Ferhat Abbas age 56
Brigitte Bierlein age 6
Tassos Papadopoulos age 21
Antonis Samaras age 4
João Bernardo Vieira age 16
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 37
Chaim Herzog age 36
Giuseppe Saragat age 56
Lamberto Dini age 24
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 18
Askar Akayev age 10
Algirdas Brazauskas age 22
Mohammed V of Morocco age 46
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 8 months
Prem Tinsulanonda age 35
Roh Tae-woo age 22
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 6
François Bayrou age 4
Egon Krenz age 18
Fernando Collor de Mello age 6
Paul of Greece age 53
Jacobo Árbenz age 41
Robert Mueller age 11
Ramiz Alia age 29
Leopoldo Galtieri age 29
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 10
Bruno Kreisky age 44
Festus Mogae age 16
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 2
Seretse Khama age 34
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 31
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 4
Lennart Meri age 26
Risto Ryti age 66
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 42
Wim Kok age 16
Charles Taylor age 7
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 17
Agatha Barbara age 32
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 50
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 55
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 4
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 19
Moncef Marzouki age 10
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 1
Bolesław Bierut age 63
Joseph Estrada age 18
Jean Casimir-Perier age 107
Alain Juppé age 10
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 31
Robert Gates age 11
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 60
Baldur von Schirach age 48
Sandra Day O'Connor age 25
Dean Acheson age 62
Andreas Papandreou age 36
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 4
Chandra Shekhar age 28
Fuad Masum age 17
Hage Geingob age 14
Mikhhail Fradkov age 4
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 15
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 10
Jerzy Buzek age 15
Shigeru Yoshida age 76
Kakuei Tanaka age 37
Bertie Ahern age 3
René Cassin age 68
Tariq Aziz age 19
Bob Geldof age 3
James Baker age 25
Chiang Ching-kuo age 45
Antonin Scalia age 19
Babrak Karmal age 26
Hafizullah Amin age 26
Alfred Moisiu age 25
Kurt Schuschnigg age 57
Zillur Rahman age 26
François Bozizé age 8
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 48
Inder Kumar Gujral age 35
V. P. Singh age 24
Masoud Barzani age 9
Thein Sein age 10
Than Shwe age 22
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 2
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 79
Albert Kesselring age 69
Joseph Wirth age 76
Hans Luther age 76
Édouard Herriot age 83
Javier Solana age 13
Jim Mattis age 4
Fernando de la Rúa age 17
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 30
Lansana Conté age 20
René Préval age 12
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 41
Talal I of Jordan age 46
Ruud Lubbers age 16
Bounnhang Vorachit age 18
Andris Bērziņš age 10
Hilda Heine age 4
Vladimir Voronin age 14
Kiro Gligorov age 38
Thorbjørn Jagland age 4
Jorge Sampaio age 15
George Tupou V of Tonga age 7
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 12
Franz Halder age 71
Nobusuke Kishi age 58
Toshiki Kaifu age 24
Kiichi Miyazawa age 35
Tsutomu Hata age 20
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 7
Édouard Balladur age 26
David Petraeus age 2
Konstantin von Neurath age 82
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 10
Rick Perry age 5
Eduardo Duhalde age 13
Malcolm Fraser age 25
Wolfgang Schüssel age 10
Artur Rasizade age 20
John Diefenbaker age 59
Ricardo Lagos age 17
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 29
Gyula Horn age 23
Fatmir Sejdiu age 3
Modibo Keïta age 40
Ernesto Zedillo age 3
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 29
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 2