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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
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23
May 68 1968-05-02 - 1968-06-23
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24

People

Bujar Nishani age 1
Abdul Hamid age 24
Hun Sen age 15
Kim Campbell age 21
Andrej Babiš age 13
Lenín Moreno age 15
Giorgos Papandreou age 16
Karolos Papoulias age 39
Rafiq Hariri age 23
Ulf Kristersson age 4
Lai Ching-te age 8
John Magufuli age 8
Pridi Banomyong age 68
Horacio Cartes age 11
Yun Po-sun age 70
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 71
Gustav Heinemann age 68
Shigeru Ishiba age 11
Lionel Jospin age 30
Abolhassan Banisadr age 35
Patrice Talon age 10
Blaise Compaoré age 17
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 17
János Kádár age 56
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 49
Bettino Craxi age 34
Valdas Adamkus age 41
Samora Moisés Machel age 34
Mamnoon Hussain age 27
Andrej Kiska age 5
Fahri Korutürk age 64
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 22
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 22
Michael I of Romania age 46
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 55
Élisabeth Borne age 7
Édouard Daladier age 84
Thomas Bach age 14
Manuel Noriega age 34
Raúl Alfonsín age 41
Khaleda Zia age 21
Thomas Boni Yayi age 15
Georgi Parvanov age 10
Paul Martin age 29
Mwai Kibaki age 36
Oleksandr Turchynov age 4
Ollanta Humala age 5
Chun Doo-hwan age 37
Lord Mountbatten age 68
Zhao Ziyang age 48
Rex Tillerson age 16
Mia Mottley age 2
Elio Di Rupo age 16
Jean Chrétien age 34
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 11
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 28
John Kufuor age 29
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 47
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 23
Janez Drnovšek age 18
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 24
Ivan Konev age 70
Karl Carstens age 53
Jacques Delors age 42
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 37
Mohammad Najibullah age 20
João Lourenço age 14
Werner Faymann age 8
Guy Verhofstadt age 15
Dimitris Christofias age 21
Alar Karis age 10
V. V. Giri age 73
Giovanni Leone age 59
Yahya Khan age 51
Ivan Gašparovič age 27
Necmettin Erbakan age 41
Morgan Tsvangirai age 16
Felipe González age 26
George F. Kennan age 64
Itamar Franco age 37
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 37
Jacques Rogge age 26
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 1
Bamir Topi age 11
Luis Arce age 4
Jeanine Áñez age 1
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 31
K. R. Narayanan age 47
Massimo D'Alema age 19
Daniel arap Moi age 43
Dick Schoof age 11
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 18
Peter Mutharika age 27
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 5
Mário Soares age 43
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 16
Zoran Đinđić age 15
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 3
Adama Barrow age 3
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 7
Fernando Lugo age 17
Kgalema Motlanthe age 18
Shamil Basayev age 3
Zhu Rongji age 39
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 35
Gough Whitlam age 51
Mathieu Kérékou age 34
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 20
Arnold Rüütel age 40
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 63
Nouri al-Maliki age 18
Moshe Katsav age 22
Ibrahim Rugova age 23
Amadou Toumani Touré age 19
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 8
Ram Baran Yadav age 20
Stevo Pendarovski age 5
Desi Bouterse age 22
Xanana Gusmão age 22
Armand Fallières age 126
Pierre Mauroy age 39
Laurent Fabius age 21
Édith Cresson age 34
Michel Barnier age 17
Lê Đức Thọ age 56
Enda Kenny age 17
Queen Sofía of Spain age 29
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 4
Omar Bradley age 75
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 27
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 12
Ivo Sanader age 15
Mohamed Naguib age 67
Andrus Ansip age 11
Loukas Papademos age 20
Mátyás Rákosi age 76
László Sólyom age 26
Charan Singh age 65
Valdis Zatlers age 13
Bingu wa Mutharika age 34
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 16
Violeta Chamorro age 38
Bola Tinubu age 16
Egor Gajdar age 12
Göran Persson age 19
Carl Bildt age 18
Prayut Chanocha age 14
Semyon Budyonny age 85
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 130
Lloyd Austin age 14
John Roberts age 13
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 11
Brian Mulroney age 29
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 15
Matti Vanhanen age 12
R. Venkataraman age 57
Antonio Segni age 77
William Ruto age 1
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 30
Mohamed Agha age 12
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 9
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 11
Nicolae Timofti age 19
Evgeny Primakov age 38
Danilo Türk age 16
Tupou VI of Tonga age 8
Mykola Azarov age 20
Edgar Lungu age 11
Siad Barre age 48
Lee Jae Myung age 4
Yoshirō Mori age 30
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 45
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 72
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 24
Hjalmar Schacht age 91
Lázaro Cárdenas age 73
Vahagn Khachatryan age 9
Bob Hawke age 38
Sandra Mason age 19
Jadranka Kosor age 14
Gulzarilal Nanda age 69
Raimonds Vējonis age 2
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 28
Joaquim Chissano age 28
Sam Nujoma age 39
Sani Abacha age 24
Jonas Gahr Støre age 7
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 12
Juvénal Habyarimana age 31
Abdoulaye Wade age 42
Iveta Radičová age 11
Chen Shui-bian age 17
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 50
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 41
Bernard Cazeneuve age 5
P. W. Botha age 52
Lazar Kaganovich age 74
Jiang Qing age 54
Queen Sonja of Norway age 30
Gavin Newsom age 8 months