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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Ivo Sanader age 2
Mohamed Naguib age 54
Loukas Papademos age 8
Mátyás Rákosi age 63
László Sólyom age 14
Charan Singh age 53
Valdis Zatlers age 10 months
Bingu wa Mutharika age 21
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 3
Violeta Chamorro age 26
Bola Tinubu age 3
Göran Persson age 7
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 1
Brian Mulroney age 16
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 3
Matti Vanhanen age 3 months
R. Venkataraman age 45
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 18
Mohamed Agha age 2 months
Nicolae Timofti age 7
Evgeny Primakov age 26
Danilo Türk age 3
Mykola Azarov age 8
Siad Barre age 36
Yoshirō Mori age 18
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 32
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 60
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 12
Hjalmar Schacht age 79
Rodion Malinovsky age 57
Lázaro Cárdenas age 60
Bob Hawke age 26
Sandra Mason age 7
Jadranka Kosor age 2
Makarios III age 42
Gulzarilal Nanda age 57
Moshe Sharett age 61
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 16
Joaquim Chissano age 16
Sam Nujoma age 26
Sani Abacha age 12
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 3 months
Juvénal Habyarimana age 18
Abdoulaye Wade age 29
Chen Shui-bian age 5
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 37
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 28
P. W. Botha age 40
Lazar Kaganovich age 62
Jiang Qing age 41
Queen Sonja of Norway age 18
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 91
Semyon Timoshenko age 61
Lee Teng-hui age 33
Paul Keating age 12
Thomas Klestil age 23
Paul-Henri Spaak age 57
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 32
Jerry Rawlings age 8
Manuel Zelaya age 3
Pál Schmitt age 13
Zail Singh age 39
Amintore Fanfani age 48
Egils Levits age 7 months
Sushila Karki age 3
Mahamadou Issoufou age 4
Arif Alvi age 6
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 3
Viktor Zubkov age 14
Vojislav Koštunica age 11
Maithripala Sirisena age 4
Tomiichi Murayama age 31
João Goulart age 36
Jean Monnet age 67
Soong Mei-ling age 57
Li Peng age 27
Ferhat Abbas age 56
Brigitte Bierlein age 6
Tassos Papadopoulos age 22
Antonis Samaras age 4
João Bernardo Vieira age 16
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 37
Chaim Herzog age 37
Giuseppe Saragat age 57
Lamberto Dini age 24
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 18
Askar Akayev age 11
Algirdas Brazauskas age 23
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 1
Prem Tinsulanonda age 35
Roh Tae-woo age 23
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 6
François Bayrou age 4
Egon Krenz age 18
Fernando Collor de Mello age 6
Paul of Greece age 54
Jacobo Árbenz age 42
Robert Mueller age 11
Ramiz Alia age 30
Leopoldo Galtieri age 29
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 11
Bruno Kreisky age 45
Festus Mogae age 16
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 2
Seretse Khama age 34
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 31
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 5
Lennart Meri age 26
Risto Ryti age 67
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 42
Wim Kok age 17
Charles Taylor age 8
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 18
Agatha Barbara age 32
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 51
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 56
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 5
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 20
Moncef Marzouki age 10
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 1
Bolesław Bierut age 63
Joseph Estrada age 18
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 2 months
Jean Casimir-Perier age 108
Alain Juppé age 10
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 32
Robert Gates age 12
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 61
Baldur von Schirach age 48
Sandra Day O'Connor age 25
Dean Acheson age 62
Andreas Papandreou age 37
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 4
Chandra Shekhar age 28
Fuad Masum age 18
Hage Geingob age 14
Mikhhail Fradkov age 5
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 16
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 10
Jerzy Buzek age 15
Shigeru Yoshida age 77
Kakuei Tanaka age 37
Bertie Ahern age 4
René Cassin age 69
Tariq Aziz age 19
Bob Geldof age 4
James Baker age 25
Chiang Ching-kuo age 45
Antonin Scalia age 19
Babrak Karmal age 27
Hafizullah Amin age 26
Alfred Moisiu age 26
Kurt Schuschnigg age 58
Zillur Rahman age 26
François Bozizé age 9
Inder Kumar Gujral age 36
V. P. Singh age 24
Masoud Barzani age 9
Thein Sein age 10
Than Shwe age 23
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 3
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 79
Albert Kesselring age 70
Hans Luther age 76
Édouard Herriot age 83
Javier Solana age 13
Jim Mattis age 5
Fernando de la Rúa age 18
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 31
Lansana Conté age 21
René Préval age 13
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 41
Talal I of Jordan age 46
Ruud Lubbers age 16
Bounnhang Vorachit age 18
Andris Bērziņš age 11
Hilda Heine age 4
Vladimir Voronin age 14
Kiro Gligorov age 38
Thorbjørn Jagland age 5
Jorge Sampaio age 16
George Tupou V of Tonga age 7
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 13
Franz Halder age 71
Nobusuke Kishi age 59
Toshiki Kaifu age 25
Kiichi Miyazawa age 36
Tsutomu Hata age 20
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 7
Édouard Balladur age 26
David Petraeus age 3
Konstantin von Neurath age 83
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 10
Mike Huckabee age 5 months