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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967

People

Lionel Jospin age 28
Abolhassan Banisadr age 33
Patrice Talon age 8
Blaise Compaoré age 15
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 15
János Kádár age 53
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 47
Bettino Craxi age 32
Valdas Adamkus age 39
Samora Moisés Machel age 32
Mamnoon Hussain age 25
Andrej Kiska age 3
Fahri Korutürk age 62
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 20
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 20
Michael I of Romania age 44
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 53
Élisabeth Borne age 5
Édouard Daladier age 81
Thomas Bach age 12
Manuel Noriega age 32
Raúl Alfonsín age 39
Khaleda Zia age 19
Thomas Boni Yayi age 13
Georgi Parvanov age 8
Paul Martin age 27
Mwai Kibaki age 34
Oleksandr Turchynov age 2
Ollanta Humala age 3
Chang Myon age 66
Chun Doo-hwan age 35
Lord Mountbatten age 65
Zhao Ziyang age 46
Rex Tillerson age 14
Mia Mottley age 7 months
Elio Di Rupo age 14
Jean Chrétien age 32
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 9
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 26
John Kufuor age 27
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 44
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 21
Janez Drnovšek age 15
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 22
Ivan Konev age 68
Karl Carstens age 51
Jacques Delors age 40
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 35
John Nance Garner age 97
Mohammad Najibullah age 18
João Lourenço age 12
Werner Faymann age 6
Guy Verhofstadt age 13
Dimitris Christofias age 19
Alar Karis age 8
V. V. Giri age 71
Giovanni Leone age 57
Yahya Khan age 49
Ivan Gašparovič age 25
Necmettin Erbakan age 39
Morgan Tsvangirai age 14
Felipe González age 24
George F. Kennan age 62
Itamar Franco age 35
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 34
Jacques Rogge age 24
Bamir Topi age 9
Luis Arce age 2
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 28
K. R. Narayanan age 45
Massimo D'Alema age 17
Daniel arap Moi age 41
Dick Schoof age 9
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 16
Peter Mutharika age 25
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 3
Mário Soares age 41
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 14
Zoran Đinđić age 13
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 1
Adama Barrow age 1
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 5
Fernando Lugo age 14
Kgalema Motlanthe age 16
Shamil Basayev age 1
Zhu Rongji age 37
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 32
Gough Whitlam age 49
Mathieu Kérékou age 32
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 18
Arnold Rüütel age 38
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 61
Nouri al-Maliki age 15
Moshe Katsav age 20
Ibrahim Rugova age 21
Amadou Toumani Touré age 17
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 6
Ram Baran Yadav age 18
Stevo Pendarovski age 3
Desi Bouterse age 20
Xanana Gusmão age 19
Armand Fallières age 124
Pierre Mauroy age 37
Laurent Fabius age 19
Édith Cresson age 32
Michel Barnier age 15
Lê Đức Thọ age 54
Enda Kenny age 15
Queen Sofía of Spain age 27
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 2
Omar Bradley age 73
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 25
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 10
Ivo Sanader age 12
Mohamed Naguib age 65
Andrus Ansip age 9
Loukas Papademos age 18
Mátyás Rákosi age 74
László Sólyom age 24
Charan Singh age 63
Valdis Zatlers age 11
Bingu wa Mutharika age 32
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 14
Violeta Chamorro age 36
Bola Tinubu age 14
Egor Gajdar age 10
Göran Persson age 17
Carl Bildt age 16
Prayut Chanocha age 12
Semyon Budyonny age 83
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 128
Lloyd Austin age 12
John Roberts age 11
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 9
Brian Mulroney age 27
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 13
Matti Vanhanen age 10
R. Venkataraman age 55
Antonio Segni age 75
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 28
Mohamed Agha age 10
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 7
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 9
Nicolae Timofti age 17
Evgeny Primakov age 36
Danilo Türk age 14
Tupou VI of Tonga age 6
Mykola Azarov age 18
Edgar Lungu age 9
Siad Barre age 46
Lee Jae Myung age 2
Yoshirō Mori age 28
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 43
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 70
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 22
Hjalmar Schacht age 89
Rodion Malinovsky age 67
Lázaro Cárdenas age 71
Vahagn Khachatryan age 7
Bob Hawke age 36
Sandra Mason age 17
Jadranka Kosor age 12
Gulzarilal Nanda age 67
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 26
Joaquim Chissano age 26
Sam Nujoma age 37
Sani Abacha age 22
Jonas Gahr Støre age 5
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 10
Juvénal Habyarimana age 29
Abdoulaye Wade age 39
Iveta Radičová age 9
Chen Shui-bian age 15
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 48
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 39
Bernard Cazeneuve age 2
P. W. Botha age 50
Lazar Kaganovich age 72
Jiang Qing age 52
Queen Sonja of Norway age 28
Semyon Timoshenko age 71
Lee Teng-hui age 43
Paul Keating age 22
Thomas Klestil age 33
Paul-Henri Spaak age 67
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 4
Petr Fiala age 1
Mauricio Funes age 6
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 42
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 10
Jerry Rawlings age 18
Manuel Zelaya age 13
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 4
Pál Schmitt age 24
Zail Singh age 50
Amintore Fanfani age 58
Willem Drees age 79
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 7
Egils Levits age 10
Filipe Nyusi age 7