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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
Occupation of the Baltic states 1940 - 1991
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
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 Hong Kong 1941-12-25 - 1945-08-30
Japanese occupation of Singapore 1942 - 1945
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
New Guinea campaign 1942-01-23 - 1945-08
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Alsos Mission 1943 - 1945-10-15
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Italian Civil War 1943-09-08 - 1945-05-02
Battle of Narva (1944) 1944 - 1944-08-10
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign 1944-06 - 1944-11
Normandy landings 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-29
Battle for Caen 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-06
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive 1944-06-10 - 1944-08-09
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02

People

Luis Carrero Blanco age 40
Harold Alexander age 52
Rodolfo Graziani age 62
Masayoshi Ōhira age 34
Sōsuke Uno age 21
Pierre Mendès France age 37
Oliver Tambo age 26
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 62
Heinrich Müller age 44
Roland Freisler age 50
Charles Evans Hughes age 82
Gennady Yanayev age 6
Chadli Bendjedid age 15
Franz Vranitzky age 6
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 4
Wilfried Martens age 8
Louis St. Laurent age 62
Aristides Pereira age 20
Pedro Pires age 10
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 33
Ephraim Katzir age 28
Giovanni Goria age 1
Moussa Traoré age 7
Eddie Fenech Adami age 10
Adolfo López Mateos age 34
U Nu age 37
Ibrahim Babangida age 2
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 14
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 14
Vladimír Mečiar age 2
Ronald Venetiaan age 8
Rafael Caldera age 28
Fernando Belaúnde age 31
Elpidio Quirino age 53
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 63
Takeo Miki age 37
William Westmoreland age 30
Venceslau Brás age 76
Georges Bidault age 44
Vasily Sokolovsky age 47
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 50
Marcel Lefebvre age 38
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 87
Hans Fritzsche age 44
Yang Shangkun age 37
Stephen Breyer age 5
Thurgood Marshall age 36
James F. Byrnes age 62
Hubert Maga age 28
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 22
Arthur Meighen age 70
Paavo Lipponen age 3
Léon M'ba age 42
Zalman Shazar age 54
Piet de Jong age 29
Guntis Ulmanis age 4
Philibert Tsiranana age 31
Abdul Razak Hussein age 22
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 43
Mircea Snegur age 4
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 20
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 21
Maxime Weygand age 77
Kijūrō Shidehara age 71
Nikolai Tikhonov age 39
Jânio Quadros age 27
Michel Aflaq age 34
Ferdinand Schörner age 52
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 58
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 62
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 81
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 31
Michael Dukakis age 10
Dobrica Ćosić age 22
Daniel Inouye age 19
Lawrence Eagleburger age 14
Anthony Kennedy age 8
Dean Rusk age 35
Cyrus Vance age 27
Arturo Umberto Illia age 44
Arturo Frondizi age 35
William McMahon age 36
Earle Page age 64
Joe Clark age 5
François Tombalbaye age 26
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 2
Tshombé Moïse age 24
Harri Holkeri age 7
Efraín Ríos Montt age 18
Kristján Eldjárn age 27
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 31
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 38
Yigal Allon age 25
Henri Konan Bédié age 10
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 18
Gaston Thorn age 15
Yakubu Gowon age 9
Shehu Shagari age 19
Rudolf Schuster age 10
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 1
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 19
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 24
Michael Somare age 8
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 67
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 61
Milka Planinc age 19
Günter Schabowski age 15
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 53
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 74
Kurt Student age 54
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 56
Carrie Chapman Catt age 85
Souphanouvong age 35
John Ashcroft age 2
S. M. Bruce age 61
John Gorton age 32
Richard Bedford Bennett age 74
José Figueres Ferrer age 37
Osvaldo Dorticós age 25
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 23
Péter Medgyessy age 1
Poul Schlüter age 15
Fouad Siniora age 1
Diori Hamani age 28
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 18
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 16
Julio María Sanguinetti age 8
Iolu Abil age 2
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 49
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 9
Tanzan Ishibashi age 59
Michel Debré age 32
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 29
Washington Luís age 74
Claude Auchinleck age 60
Maximilian von Weichs age 62
Wilhelm List age 64
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 2
Johannes Blaskowitz age 61
Frederica of Hanover age 27
Kim Jong-suk age 26
Louise Mountbatten age 55
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 8
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 7
Joseph Cook age 83
Karl Seitz age 74
Leo Tindemans age 22
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 36
Barthélemy Boganda age 34
Antoine Gizenga age 18
Eugenia Charles age 25
Nicholas Liverpool age 9
Mario Scelba age 42
Anker Jørgensen age 22
William Richard Tolbert age 31
Didier Ratsiraka age 7
Pedro Lascuráin age 88
Sushil Koirala age 4
Kåre Willoch age 15
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 50
Pascal Lissouba age 12
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 8 months
Michal Kováč age 14
Pascal Couchepin age 2
Wellington Koo age 56
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 26
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 34
Carlos P. Garcia age 47
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 45
Gaafar Nimeiry age 13
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 91
Nobuyuki Abe age 68
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 56
Tetsu Katayama age 57
Hitoshi Ashida age 56
Pierre Messmer age 28
Artur Bernardes age 69
Avery Brundage age 56
Sirhan Sirhan age 4 months
Biljana Plavšić age 14
Karl Rahner age 40
Paul Tibbets age 29
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 64
Felix Yusupov age 57
Maria of Yugoslavia age 44
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 23
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 28
Janet Reno age 6
Edmund Muskie age 30
Fan S. Noli age 62
Mohamed Boudiaf age 25
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 19
James Scullin age 67
Arthur Fadden age 50
Ben Chifley age 58
Quentin Bryce age 1
Adolf Schärf age 54
Theodor Körner age 71
Hugo Banzer age 18
Nuon Chea age 18