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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Bob Hawke age 27
Sandra Mason age 8
Jadranka Kosor age 4
Makarios III age 44
Gulzarilal Nanda age 59
Moshe Sharett age 62
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 17
Joaquim Chissano age 17
Sam Nujoma age 28
Sani Abacha age 13
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 1
Juvénal Habyarimana age 20
Abdoulaye Wade age 31
Iveta Radičová age 8 months
Chen Shui-bian age 6
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 39
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 30
P. W. Botha age 41
Semyon Timoshenko age 62
Lee Teng-hui age 34
Paul Keating age 13
Thomas Klestil age 24
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 33
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 1
Jerry Rawlings age 10
Manuel Zelaya age 4
Pál Schmitt age 15
Zail Singh age 41
Amintore Fanfani age 49
Egils Levits age 2
Sushila Karki age 5
Mahamadou Issoufou age 5
Arif Alvi age 8
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 5
Viktor Zubkov age 15
Vojislav Koštunica age 13
Ewa Kopacz age 8 months
Maithripala Sirisena age 5
Tomiichi Murayama age 33
João Goulart age 38
Jean Monnet age 68
Li Peng age 28
Ferhat Abbas age 57
Brigitte Bierlein age 8
Tassos Papadopoulos age 23
Antonis Samaras age 6
João Bernardo Vieira age 18
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 39
Chaim Herzog age 38
Giuseppe Saragat age 58
Lamberto Dini age 26
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 20
Askar Akayev age 12
Algirdas Brazauskas age 24
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 2
Prem Tinsulanonda age 36
Roh Tae-woo age 24
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 8
François Bayrou age 6
Egon Krenz age 20
Fernando Collor de Mello age 7
Jacobo Árbenz age 43
Robert Mueller age 13
Ramiz Alia age 31
Leopoldo Galtieri age 31
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 12
Bruno Kreisky age 46
Festus Mogae age 17
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 4
Seretse Khama age 36
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 32
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 6
Lennart Meri age 28
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 44
Wim Kok age 18
Charles Taylor age 9
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 19
Agatha Barbara age 34
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 52
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 6
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 21
Moncef Marzouki age 12
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 3
Joseph Estrada age 20
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 1
Jean Casimir-Perier age 109
Alain Juppé age 11
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 33
Robert Gates age 13
Baldur von Schirach age 50
Dean Acheson age 64
Mulatu Teshome age 6 months
Andreas Papandreou age 38
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 6
Chandra Shekhar age 30
Fuad Masum age 19
Andrius Kubilius age 8 months
Hage Geingob age 16
Mikhhail Fradkov age 6
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 17
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 12
Jerzy Buzek age 17
Shigeru Yoshida age 78
Kakuei Tanaka age 39
Bertie Ahern age 5
James Baker age 27
Chiang Ching-kuo age 47
Antonin Scalia age 21
Babrak Karmal age 28
Hafizullah Amin age 28
Alfred Moisiu age 27
Kurt Schuschnigg age 59
Zillur Rahman age 28
François Bozizé age 10
Mirek Topolánek age 1
Tamás Sulyok age 1
Inder Kumar Gujral age 37
V. P. Singh age 26
Masoud Barzani age 10
Thein Sein age 12
Than Shwe age 24
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 4
Bakir Izetbegović age 1
Albert Kesselring age 71
Hans Luther age 78
Javier Solana age 15
Jim Mattis age 6
Ali Asadov age 8 months
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 32
Lansana Conté age 22
René Préval age 14
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 43
Talal I of Jordan age 48
Ruud Lubbers age 18
Bounnhang Vorachit age 19
Andris Bērziņš age 12
Hilda Heine age 6
Vladimir Voronin age 16
Kiro Gligorov age 40
Thorbjørn Jagland age 6
Jorge Sampaio age 17
George Tupou V of Tonga age 9
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 14
Franz Halder age 73
Toshiki Kaifu age 26
Kiichi Miyazawa age 37
Tsutomu Hata age 21
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 9
Édouard Balladur age 28
Eduardo Duhalde age 15
Malcolm Fraser age 27
Wolfgang Schüssel age 12
Artur Rasizade age 22
Ricardo Lagos age 19
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 31
Gyula Horn age 25
Fatmir Sejdiu age 5
Modibo Keïta age 42
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 31
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 4
Goh Chok Tong age 16
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 7
Tô Lâm age 1 month
Michael Sata age 20
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 18
Diosdado Macapagal age 46
Heinrich Brüning age 71
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 70
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 20
José Sarney age 27
Walther Funk age 67
George Shultz age 36
Harold Holt age 49
Ziaur Rahman age 21
Kostas Karamanlis age 10 months
Haider Al-Abadi age 5
Catherine Connolly age 1
Emilio Colombo age 37
Choummaly Sayasone age 21
Michel Suleiman age 8
George Abela age 9
José López Portillo age 37
Milovan Đilas age 46
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 21
Girija Prasad Koirala age 33
Abdou Diouf age 21
Ernest Bai Koroma age 3
Milan Kučan age 16
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 15
Levy Mwanawasa age 8
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 8
Michel Rocard age 26
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 59
Paul Wolfowitz age 13
Alain Poher age 48
Abulfaz Elchibey age 19
Zhelyu Zhelev age 22
Hissène Habré age 15
Adly Mansour age 11
Georgios Papadopoulos age 38