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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Baltic Way 1989-08-23

People

Georgi Parvanov age 32
Ibrahim Traoré age 1
Paul Martin age 51
Mwai Kibaki age 57
Xavier Bettel age 16
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 86
Oleksandr Turchynov age 25
Ollanta Humala age 27
Chun Doo-hwan age 58
Zhao Ziyang age 69
Rex Tillerson age 37
Alexander Schallenberg age 20
Mia Mottley age 23
Elio Di Rupo age 38
Jean Chrétien age 55
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 32
Andrej Plenković age 19
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 49
John Kufuor age 50
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 68
Vjosa Osmani age 7
Atifete Jahjaga age 14
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 44
Janez Drnovšek age 39
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 45
Keiko Fujimori age 14
Karl Carstens age 74
Gabriel Attal age 5 months
João Lourenço age 35
Werner Faymann age 29
Guy Verhofstadt age 36
Dimitris Christofias age 43
Alar Karis age 31
Giovanni Leone age 80
Igor Dodon age 14
Peter Pellegrini age 13
Ivan Gašparovič age 48
Paetongtarn Shinawatra age 3
Necmettin Erbakan age 62
Morgan Tsvangirai age 37
George F. Kennan age 85
Itamar Franco age 59
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 58
Jacques Rogge age 47
Kirsty Coventry age 5
Bamir Topi age 32
Ilir Meta age 20
Alexander De Croo age 13
Sophie Wilmès age 14
Luis Arce age 25
Jeanine Áñez age 22
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 52
Jüri Ratas age 11
K. R. Narayanan age 68
Massimo D'Alema age 40
Dick Schoof age 32
Rob Jetten age 2
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 40
Saad Harirị age 19
Andry Rajoelina age 15
Peter Mutharika age 49
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 26
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 37
Zoran Đinđić age 37
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 25
Adama Barrow age 24
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 28
Fernando Lugo age 38
Kgalema Motlanthe age 40
Zhu Rongji age 60
Gough Whitlam age 73
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 41
Arnold Rüütel age 61
Nouri al-Maliki age 39
Moshe Katsav age 43
Ibrahim Rugova age 44
Sadyr Japarov age 20
Amadou Toumani Touré age 40
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 29
Ram Baran Yadav age 41
Stevo Pendarovski age 26
Desi Bouterse age 43
Xanana Gusmão age 43
Serdar Berdimuhamedow age 7
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 15
Armand Fallières age 147
Pierre Mauroy age 61
Laurent Fabius age 43
Édith Cresson age 55
Michel Barnier age 38
Enda Kenny age 38
Robert McNamara age 73
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 48
Ivo Sanader age 36
Andrus Ansip age 32
Loukas Papademos age 41
László Sólyom age 47
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 15
Valdis Zatlers age 34
Bingu wa Mutharika age 55
Violeta Chamorro age 59
Bola Tinubu age 37
Nikola Gruevski age 18
Egor Gajdar age 33
Göran Persson age 40
Carl Bildt age 40
Prayut Chanocha age 35
Delcy Rodriguez age 20
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 152
Lloyd Austin age 36
John Roberts age 34
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 32
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 37
Matti Vanhanen age 33
William Ruto age 22
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 51
Mohamed Agha age 33
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 30
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 32
Nicolae Timofti age 40
Chris Hipkins age 10
Evgeny Primakov age 59
Danilo Türk age 37
Tupou VI of Tonga age 30
Mykola Azarov age 41
Edgar Lungu age 32
Pedro Castillo age 19
Lee Jae Myung age 25
Yoshirō Mori age 52
Vahagn Khachatryan age 30
Sandra Mason age 40
Iván Duque age 13
Jadranka Kosor age 36
Daniel Noboa age 1
Irakli Garibashvili age 7
Guðni Jóhannesson age 21
Gulzarilal Nanda age 91
Raimonds Vējonis age 23
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 49
Sam Nujoma age 60
Sani Abacha age 45
Jonas Gahr Støre age 29
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 33
Abdoulaye Wade age 63
Iveta Radičová age 32
Chen Shui-bian age 38
Yulia Svyrydenko age 3
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 62
Bernard Cazeneuve age 26
P. W. Botha age 73
Gavin Newsom age 21
Paul Keating age 45
Thomas Klestil age 56
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 28
Petr Fiala age 24
Mauricio Funes age 29
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 33
Manuel Zelaya age 36
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 28
Pál Schmitt age 47
Zail Singh age 73
Amintore Fanfani age 81
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 30
Egils Levits age 34
Filipe Nyusi age 30
Saara Kuugongelwa age 21
Sushila Karki age 37
Mahamadou Issoufou age 37
Arif Alvi age 40
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 37
Nicușor Dan age 19
Viktor Zubkov age 47
Vojislav Koštunica age 45
Robert Golob age 22
Ewa Kopacz age 32
Li Qiang age 30
Maithripala Sirisena age 37
Milorad Dodik age 30
Tomiichi Murayama age 65
Micheál Martin age 29
Pete Hegseth age 9
Brigitte Bierlein age 40
Bart De Wever age 18
Rosen Plevneliev age 25
José Antonio Kast age 23
Tassos Papadopoulos age 55
Petteri Orpo age 19
Antonis Samaras age 38
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 71
Lamberto Dini age 58
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 52
Askar Akayev age 44
Valdis Dombrovskis age 18
Algirdas Brazauskas age 56
Guillaume V, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 7
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 34
José Sócrates age 31
Victor Ponta age 16
Prem Tinsulanonda age 69
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 40