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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Massimo D'Alema age 12
Daniel arap Moi age 36
Dick Schoof age 4
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 11
Peter Mutharika age 20
Mário Soares age 36
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 9
Zoran Đinđić age 8
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 3 months
Fernando Lugo age 10
Kgalema Motlanthe age 11
Zhu Rongji age 32
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 28
Houari Boumédiène age 28
Gough Whitlam age 45
Mathieu Kérékou age 27
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 13
Arnold Rüütel age 33
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 56
Nouri al-Maliki age 11
Moshe Katsav age 15
Luigi Einaudi age 87
Ibrahim Rugova age 16
Amadou Toumani Touré age 12
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 1
Ram Baran Yadav age 13
Desi Bouterse age 15
Xanana Gusmão age 15
Armand Fallières age 119
Pierre Mauroy age 33
Laurent Fabius age 14
Édith Cresson age 27
Michel Barnier age 10
Enda Kenny age 10
Omar Bradley age 68
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 20
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 5
Ivo Sanader age 8
Mohamed Naguib age 60
Andrus Ansip age 4
Loukas Papademos age 13
Mátyás Rákosi age 69
László Sólyom age 19
Charan Singh age 58
Valdis Zatlers age 6
Bingu wa Mutharika age 27
Violeta Chamorro age 31
Bola Tinubu age 9
Egor Gajdar age 5
Göran Persson age 12
Carl Bildt age 11
Prayut Chanocha age 7
Semyon Budyonny age 78
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 123
Lloyd Austin age 7
John Roberts age 6
René Coty age 79
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 4
Brian Mulroney age 22
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 9
Matti Vanhanen age 5
R. Venkataraman age 50
Antonio Segni age 70
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 23
Mohamed Agha age 5
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 2
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 4
Nicolae Timofti age 12
Evgeny Primakov age 31
Danilo Türk age 9
Tupou VI of Tonga age 1
Mykola Azarov age 13
Edgar Lungu age 4
Siad Barre age 41
Yoshirō Mori age 23
Hjalmar Schacht age 84
Rodion Malinovsky age 62
Lázaro Cárdenas age 66
Vahagn Khachatryan age 2
Bob Hawke age 31
Sandra Mason age 12
Jadranka Kosor age 8
Gulzarilal Nanda age 63
Moshe Sharett age 66
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 21
Joaquim Chissano age 21
Sam Nujoma age 32
Sani Abacha age 17
Jonas Gahr Støre age 10 months
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 5
Juvénal Habyarimana age 24
Abdoulaye Wade age 35
Iveta Radičová age 4
Chen Shui-bian age 10
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 43
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 34
P. W. Botha age 45
Semyon Timoshenko age 66
Lee Teng-hui age 38
Paul Keating age 17
Thomas Klestil age 28
Paul-Henri Spaak age 62
Mauricio Funes age 1
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 37
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 5
Jerry Rawlings age 14
Manuel Zelaya age 8
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 0 months
Pál Schmitt age 19
Zail Singh age 45
Willem Drees age 75
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 2
Egils Levits age 6
Filipe Nyusi age 2
Sushila Karki age 9
Mahamadou Issoufou age 9
Arif Alvi age 11
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 9
Viktor Zubkov age 19
Vojislav Koštunica age 17
Ewa Kopacz age 4
Li Qiang age 1
Maithripala Sirisena age 9
Milorad Dodik age 2
Tomiichi Murayama age 37
Nikolai Bulganin age 66
João Goulart age 42
Micheál Martin age 10 months
Jean Monnet age 72
Li Peng age 32
Ferhat Abbas age 61
Brigitte Bierlein age 12
Tassos Papadopoulos age 27
Antonis Samaras age 10
João Bernardo Vieira age 22
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 42
Chaim Herzog age 42
Giuseppe Saragat age 62
Lamberto Dini age 30
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 24
Askar Akayev age 16
Algirdas Brazauskas age 28
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 6
José Sócrates age 3
Prem Tinsulanonda age 40
Roh Tae-woo age 28
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 12
François Bayrou age 10
Egon Krenz age 24
Fernando Collor de Mello age 11
Jacobo Árbenz age 47
Robert Mueller age 16
Ramiz Alia age 35
Leopoldo Galtieri age 34
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 16
Bruno Kreisky age 50
Festus Mogae age 21
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 8
Seretse Khama age 40
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 10
Lennart Meri age 32
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 48
Barham Salih age 9 months
Wim Kok age 22
Charles Taylor age 13
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 23
Agatha Barbara age 38
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 56
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 61
Simonetta Sommaruga age 1
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 10
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 25
Moncef Marzouki age 15
Kais Saied age 3
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 6
Joseph Estrada age 24
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 5
Jean Casimir-Perier age 113
Alain Juppé age 15
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 37
Robert Gates age 17
Baldur von Schirach age 54
Dean Acheson age 68
Mulatu Teshome age 4
Andreas Papandreou age 42
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 10
Xiomara Castro age 1
Chandra Shekhar age 34
Fuad Masum age 23
Andrius Kubilius age 4
Hage Geingob age 19
Mikhhail Fradkov age 10
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 21
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 15
Jerzy Buzek age 21
Shigeru Yoshida age 82
Kakuei Tanaka age 43
Bertie Ahern age 9
Andrew Cuomo age 3
James Baker age 31