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Events

Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Air raids on Japan 1939-08-15 - 1945-08-15
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Siege of Malta (World War II) 1940-06-11 - 1942-11-20
Tripartite Pact 1940-09-27 - 1945
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Axis occupation of Greece 1941-04 - 1944-10
Eastern Front (World War II) 1941-06-22 - 1955-01-21
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
South-East Asian theatre of World War II 1941-12-08 - 1945-09-09
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Japanese occupation of Singapore 1942 - 1945
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battles of Rzhev 1942-01-05 - 1943-03-21
Aleutian Islands campaign 1942-06-03 - 1943-08-15
Battle of the Caucasus 1942-07 - 1943-10
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01

People

Vladimír Mečiar age 2 months
Ronald Venetiaan age 6
Rafael Caldera age 26
Fernando Belaúnde age 29
Elpidio Quirino age 51
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 61
Takeo Miki age 35
William Westmoreland age 28
Venceslau Brás age 74
Georges Bidault age 43
Ludwig Beck age 62
Vasily Sokolovsky age 45
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 48
Marcel Lefebvre age 36
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 85
Hans Fritzsche age 42
Yang Shangkun age 35
Stephen Breyer age 4
Thurgood Marshall age 34
Hubert Maga age 26
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 21
Arthur Meighen age 68
Paavo Lipponen age 1
Léon M'ba age 40
Georgios Papandreou age 54
Zalman Shazar age 52
Piet de Jong age 27
Guntis Ulmanis age 3
Philibert Tsiranana age 29
Abdul Razak Hussein age 20
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 42
Mircea Snegur age 2
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 18
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 19
Maxime Weygand age 75
Kuniaki Koiso age 62
Kijūrō Shidehara age 70
Nikolai Tikhonov age 37
Jânio Quadros age 25
François Darlan age 61
Michel Aflaq age 32
Ferdinand Schörner age 50
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 56
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 60
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 79
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 29
Michael Dukakis age 8
Dobrica Ćosić age 20
Emilio De Bono age 76
Daniel Inouye age 18
Lawrence Eagleburger age 12
Anthony Kennedy age 6
Dean Rusk age 33
Cyrus Vance age 25
Arturo Umberto Illia age 42
Arturo Frondizi age 33
William McMahon age 34
Earle Page age 62
Joe Clark age 3
François Tombalbaye age 24
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 3 months
Tshombé Moïse age 22
Harri Holkeri age 5
Efraín Ríos Montt age 16
Kristján Eldjárn age 25
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 30
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 36
Yigal Allon age 23
Henri Konan Bédié age 8
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 16
Gaston Thorn age 14
Yakubu Gowon age 7
Shehu Shagari age 17
Rudolf Schuster age 8
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 17
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 22
Michael Somare age 6
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 65
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 59
Milka Planinc age 17
Günter Schabowski age 13
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 51
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 72
Kurt Student age 52
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 54
Carrie Chapman Catt age 83
Souphanouvong age 33
John Ashcroft age 4 months
S. M. Bruce age 59
John Gorton age 31
Richard Bedford Bennett age 72
José Figueres Ferrer age 36
Osvaldo Dorticós age 23
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 21
Poul Schlüter age 13
Diori Hamani age 26
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 16
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 14
Julio María Sanguinetti age 6
Iolu Abil age 7 months
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 47
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 7
Tanzan Ishibashi age 58
Michel Debré age 30
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 27
Washington Luís age 72
Claude Auchinleck age 58
Maximilian von Weichs age 60
Wilhelm List age 62
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 10 months
Johannes Blaskowitz age 59
Frederica of Hanover age 25
Kim Jong-suk age 24
Louise Mountbatten age 53
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 6
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 5
Joseph Cook age 81
Karl Seitz age 73
Leo Tindemans age 20
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 35
Barthélemy Boganda age 32
Antoine Gizenga age 16
Eugenia Charles age 23
Nicholas Liverpool age 8
Mario Scelba age 41
Anker Jørgensen age 20
William Tubman age 46
William Richard Tolbert age 29
Didier Ratsiraka age 5
Pedro Lascuráin age 86
Sushil Koirala age 3
Kåre Willoch age 13
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 48
Pascal Lissouba age 10
Michal Kováč age 12
Pascal Couchepin age 5 months
Wellington Koo age 54
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 24
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 32
Carlos P. Garcia age 45
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 43
Gaafar Nimeiry age 11
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 89
Nobuyuki Abe age 66
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 54
Tetsu Katayama age 55
Hitoshi Ashida age 54
Pierre Messmer age 26
Artur Bernardes age 67
Avery Brundage age 55
Biljana Plavšić age 12
Karl Rahner age 38
Paul Tibbets age 27
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 62
Felix Yusupov age 55
Maria of Yugoslavia age 42
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 21
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 27
Janet Reno age 4
Edmund Muskie age 28
Fan S. Noli age 60
Mohamed Boudiaf age 23
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 17
James Scullin age 66
Arthur Fadden age 48
Ben Chifley age 57
Adolf Schärf age 52
Theodor Körner age 69
Hugo Banzer age 16
Nuon Chea age 16
Ange-Félix Patassé age 5
Glafcos Clerides age 23
Joaquín Balaguer age 36
Josefa Iloilo age 21
Luís Cabral age 11
Janet Jagan age 21
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 9 months
Giuseppe Pella age 40
Fernando Tambroni age 40
Joop den Uyl age 23
Kazys Grinius age 75
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 26
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 3 months
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 30
António Ramalho Eanes age 7
António de Spínola age 32
France-Albert René age 6
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 10
Yusof bin Ishak age 32
Ruth Dreifuss age 2
Fradique de Menezes age 6 months
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 5
Samak Sundaravej age 7
George Maxwell Richards age 10
Juan María Bordaberry age 14
Juan Negrín age 50
Hugo Sperrle age 57
Kantarō Suzuki age 74
Maurice Couve de Murville age 35
Pierre Bérégovoy age 16