✦ History

Explore January 31, 1972

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

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
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Dina Boluarte age 9
Bongbong Marcos age 14
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 51
Anastas Mikoyan age 76
Otto von Habsburg age 59
Bujar Nishani age 5
Abdul Hamid age 28
Hun Sen age 19
Kim Campbell age 24
Andrej Babiš age 17
Lenín Moreno age 18
Mauno Koivisto age 48
Mari Kiviniemi age 3
Giorgos Papandreou age 19
Karolos Papoulias age 42
Rafiq Hariri age 27
Ulf Kristersson age 8
Lai Ching-te age 12
John Magufuli age 12
Pridi Banomyong age 71
Milton Obote age 46
Horacio Cartes age 15
Yun Po-sun age 74
Shigeru Ishiba age 14
Lionel Jospin age 34
Abolhassan Banisadr age 38
Patrice Talon age 13
Blaise Compaoré age 21
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 21
János Kádár age 59
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 53
Bettino Craxi age 37
Valdas Adamkus age 45
Samora Moisés Machel age 38
Mamnoon Hussain age 31
Andrej Kiska age 9
Fahri Korutürk age 68
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 26
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 26
Michael I of Romania age 50
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 59
Élisabeth Borne age 10
Thomas Bach age 18
Manuel Noriega age 37
Raúl Alfonsín age 44
Khaleda Zia age 25
Thomas Boni Yayi age 19
Georgi Parvanov age 14
Paul Martin age 33
Mwai Kibaki age 40
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 69
Oleksandr Turchynov age 7
Ollanta Humala age 9
Chun Doo-hwan age 41
Lord Mountbatten age 71
Zhao Ziyang age 52
Rex Tillerson age 19
Alexander Schallenberg age 2
Mia Mottley age 6
Elio Di Rupo age 20
Jean Chrétien age 38
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 14
Andrej Plenković age 1
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 32
John Kufuor age 33
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 50
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 27
Janez Drnovšek age 21
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 27
Ivan Konev age 74
Karl Carstens age 57
Jacques Delors age 46
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 41
Mohammad Najibullah age 24
João Lourenço age 17
Werner Faymann age 11
Guy Verhofstadt age 18
Dimitris Christofias age 25
Alar Karis age 13
Yahya Khan age 55
Ivan Gašparovič age 30
Necmettin Erbakan age 45
Morgan Tsvangirai age 19
Felipe González age 29
George F. Kennan age 68
Itamar Franco age 41
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 40
Jacques Rogge age 29
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 5
Bamir Topi age 14
Ilir Meta age 2
Luis Arce age 8
Jeanine Áñez age 4
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 34
K. R. Narayanan age 51
Massimo D'Alema age 22
Daniel arap Moi age 47
Dick Schoof age 14
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 22
Saad Harirị age 1
Peter Mutharika age 31
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 8
Mário Soares age 47
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 20
Zoran Đinđić age 19
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 7
Adama Barrow age 6
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 10
Fernando Lugo age 20
Kgalema Motlanthe age 22
Heinrich Lübke age 77
Shamil Basayev age 7
Zhu Rongji age 43
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 38
Gough Whitlam age 55
Mathieu Kérékou age 38
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 24
Arnold Rüütel age 43
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 66
Nouri al-Maliki age 21
Moshe Katsav age 26
Ibrahim Rugova age 27
Sadyr Japarov age 3
Amadou Toumani Touré age 23
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 12
Ram Baran Yadav age 24
Stevo Pendarovski age 8
Desi Bouterse age 26
Xanana Gusmão age 25
Armand Fallières age 130
Pierre Mauroy age 43
Laurent Fabius age 25
Édith Cresson age 38
Michel Barnier age 21
Lê Đức Thọ age 60
Enda Kenny age 20
Queen Sofía of Spain age 33
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 7
Omar Bradley age 79
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 31
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 16
Ivo Sanader age 18
Mohamed Naguib age 70
Andrus Ansip age 15
Loukas Papademos age 24
László Sólyom age 30
Charan Singh age 69
Valdis Zatlers age 16
Bingu wa Mutharika age 37
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 19
Violeta Chamorro age 42
Bola Tinubu age 19
Nikola Gruevski age 1
Egor Gajdar age 15
Göran Persson age 23
Carl Bildt age 22
Prayut Chanocha age 17
Delcy Rodriguez age 2
Semyon Budyonny age 88
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 134
Lloyd Austin age 18
John Roberts age 17
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 14
Brian Mulroney age 32
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 19
Matti Vanhanen age 16
R. Venkataraman age 61
Antonio Segni age 81
William Ruto age 5
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 34
Mohamed Agha age 16
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 13
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 15
Nicolae Timofti age 23
Evgeny Primakov age 42
Danilo Türk age 19
Tupou VI of Tonga age 12
Mykola Azarov age 24
Edgar Lungu age 15
Pedro Castillo age 2
Lee Jae Myung age 8
Yoshirō Mori age 34
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 48
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 76
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 28
Vahagn Khachatryan age 12
Bob Hawke age 42
Sandra Mason age 23
Jadranka Kosor age 18
Guðni Jóhannesson age 3
Gulzarilal Nanda age 73
Raimonds Vējonis age 5
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 32
Joaquim Chissano age 32
Sam Nujoma age 42
Sani Abacha age 28
Jonas Gahr Støre age 11
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 16
Juvénal Habyarimana age 34
Abdoulaye Wade age 45