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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
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Khaleda Zia age 15
Thomas Boni Yayi age 9
Georgi Parvanov age 4
Paul Martin age 23
Mwai Kibaki age 30
Chang Myon age 62
Chun Doo-hwan age 30
Lord Mountbatten age 61
Zhao Ziyang age 42
Rex Tillerson age 9
Elio Di Rupo age 10
Jean Chrétien age 27
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 4
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 22
John Kufuor age 22
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 40
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 16
Janez Drnovšek age 11
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 17
Ivan Konev age 63
Karl Carstens age 46
Jacques Delors age 36
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 31
John Nance Garner age 93
Vincent Auriol age 77
Mohammad Najibullah age 14
João Lourenço age 7
Werner Faymann age 1
Guy Verhofstadt age 8
Dimitris Christofias age 15
Alar Karis age 3
V. V. Giri age 67
Giovanni Leone age 53
Yahya Khan age 44
Ivan Gašparovič age 20
Cevdet Sunay age 62
Necmettin Erbakan age 35
Morgan Tsvangirai age 9
Felipe González age 19
Alexei Kosygin age 57
George F. Kennan age 57
Itamar Franco age 31
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 30
Farouk of Egypt age 41
Jacques Rogge age 19
Bamir Topi age 4
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 24
K. R. Narayanan age 41
Levi Eshkol age 66
Massimo D'Alema age 12
Daniel arap Moi age 37
Dick Schoof age 4
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 12
Peter Mutharika age 21
Mário Soares age 37
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 9
Zoran Đinđić age 9
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 8 months
Fernando Lugo age 10
Kgalema Motlanthe age 12
Zhu Rongji age 33
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 28
Houari Boumédiène age 29
Gough Whitlam age 45
Mathieu Kérékou age 28
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 14
Arnold Rüütel age 33
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 56
Nouri al-Maliki age 11
Moshe Katsav age 16
Ibrahim Rugova age 17
Amadou Toumani Touré age 13
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 2
Ram Baran Yadav age 13
Desi Bouterse age 16
Xanana Gusmão age 15
Armand Fallières age 120
Pierre Mauroy age 33
Laurent Fabius age 15
Édith Cresson age 27
Michel Barnier age 10
Lê Đức Thọ age 50
Enda Kenny age 10
Queen Sofía of Spain age 23
Omar Bradley age 68
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 21
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 6
Ivo Sanader age 8
Mohamed Naguib age 60
Andrus Ansip age 5
Loukas Papademos age 14
Mátyás Rákosi age 69
László Sólyom age 19
Charan Singh age 58
Valdis Zatlers age 6
Bingu wa Mutharika age 27
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 9
Violeta Chamorro age 32
Bola Tinubu age 9
Egor Gajdar age 5
Göran Persson age 12
Carl Bildt age 12
Prayut Chanocha age 7
Semyon Budyonny age 78
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 124
Lloyd Austin age 8
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 6
R. Venkataraman age 51
Antonio Segni age 70
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 24
Mohamed Agha age 6
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 2
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 4
Nicolae Timofti age 12
Evgeny Primakov age 32
Danilo Türk age 9
Tupou VI of Tonga age 2
Mykola Azarov age 13
Edgar Lungu age 5
Siad Barre age 42
Yoshirō Mori age 24
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 38
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 66
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 17
Hjalmar Schacht age 84
Rodion Malinovsky age 63
Lázaro Cárdenas age 66
Vahagn Khachatryan age 2
Bob Hawke age 32
Sandra Mason age 12
Jadranka Kosor age 8
Gulzarilal Nanda age 63
Moshe Sharett age 67
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 22
Joaquim Chissano age 22
Sam Nujoma age 32
Sani Abacha age 18
Jonas Gahr Støre age 1
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 6
Juvénal Habyarimana age 24
Abdoulaye Wade age 35
Iveta Radičová age 4
Chen Shui-bian age 11
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 43
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 34
P. W. Botha age 45
Lazar Kaganovich age 68
Jiang Qing age 47
Queen Sonja of Norway age 24
Semyon Timoshenko age 66
Lee Teng-hui age 38
Paul Keating age 17
Thomas Klestil age 29
Paul-Henri Spaak age 62
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 4 months
Mauricio Funes age 2
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 37
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 5
Jerry Rawlings age 14
Manuel Zelaya age 9
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 6 months
Pál Schmitt age 19
Zail Singh age 45
Willem Drees age 75
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 3
Egils Levits age 6
Filipe Nyusi age 2
Sushila Karki age 9
Mahamadou Issoufou age 9
Arif Alvi age 12
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 9
Viktor Zubkov age 20
Vojislav Koštunica age 17
Ewa Kopacz age 4
Li Qiang age 2
Maithripala Sirisena age 10
Milorad Dodik age 2
Tomiichi Murayama age 37
Nikolai Bulganin age 66
Micheál Martin age 1
Jean Monnet age 73
Soong Mei-ling age 63
Sarah Ferguson age 2
Li Peng age 33
Ferhat Abbas age 62
Brigitte Bierlein age 12
Tassos Papadopoulos age 27
Antonis Samaras age 10
João Bernardo Vieira age 22
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 43
Chaim Herzog age 43
Giuseppe Saragat age 63
Lamberto Dini age 30
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 24
Askar Akayev age 17