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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12

People

Jioji Konrote age 7 months
Paavo Lipponen age 7
Léon M'ba age 46
Georgios Papandreou age 60
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 1
Zalman Shazar age 58
Piet de Jong age 33
Guntis Ulmanis age 8
Philibert Tsiranana age 35
Abdul Razak Hussein age 26
Mircea Snegur age 8
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 24
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 25
Maxime Weygand age 81
Kuniaki Koiso age 68
Kijūrō Shidehara age 75
Nikolai Tikhonov age 43
Jânio Quadros age 31
Michael Dukakis age 14
Daniel Inouye age 23
Lawrence Eagleburger age 18
Anthony Kennedy age 12
Dean Rusk age 39
Cyrus Vance age 31
Arturo Umberto Illia age 48
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 1
Arturo Frondizi age 39
William McMahon age 40
Earle Page age 68
Joe Clark age 9
François Tombalbaye age 30
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 6
Tshombé Moïse age 28
Harri Holkeri age 11
Efraín Ríos Montt age 22
Kristján Eldjárn age 31
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 35
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 42
Yigal Allon age 29
Henri Konan Bédié age 14
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 22
Gaston Thorn age 19
Htin Kyaw age 2
Yakubu Gowon age 13
Shehu Shagari age 23
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 3
Rudolf Schuster age 14
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 5
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 23
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 28
Michael Somare age 12
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 71
Chuck Hagel age 1
Milka Planinc age 23
Souphanouvong age 39
John Ashcroft age 6
S. M. Bruce age 65
John Gorton age 36
César Gaviria age 1
Osvaldo Dorticós age 29
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 27
Péter Medgyessy age 5
Poul Schlüter age 19
Fouad Siniora age 5
Anastasio Somoza García age 52
Diori Hamani age 32
James Michel age 3
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 22
Mesut Yılmaz age 8 months
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 20
Julio María Sanguinetti age 12
Iolu Abil age 6
Mireya Moscoso age 2
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 13
Tanzan Ishibashi age 63
Michel Debré age 36
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 33
Washington Luís age 78
Margaret Chan age 11 months
Karl Seitz age 78
Leo Tindemans age 26
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 40
Barthélemy Boganda age 38
Antoine Gizenga age 22
Eugenia Charles age 29
Nicholas Liverpool age 13
Mario Scelba age 46
Anker Jørgensen age 26
William Richard Tolbert age 35
Didier Ratsiraka age 11
Pedro Lascuráin age 92
Sushil Koirala age 8
Kåre Willoch age 19
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 54
Pascal Lissouba age 16
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 4
Michal Kováč age 18
Pascal Couchepin age 6
Wellington Koo age 60
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 30
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 38
Carlos P. Garcia age 51
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 49
Gaafar Nimeiry age 17
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 95
Nobuyuki Abe age 72
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 60
Tetsu Katayama age 61
Pierre Messmer age 32
Artur Bernardes age 73
Avery Brundage age 60
Janet Reno age 10
Edmund Muskie age 34
Fan S. Noli age 66
Mohamed Boudiaf age 29
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 23
James Scullin age 71
Arthur Fadden age 54
Quentin Bryce age 5
Adolf Schärf age 58
Theodor Körner age 75
Hugo Banzer age 22
Nuon Chea age 22
Ange-Félix Patassé age 11
Glafcos Clerides age 29
Joaquín Balaguer age 41
Josefa Iloilo age 27
Luís Cabral age 17
Sam Hinds age 4
Janet Jagan age 27
Abdul Latif Rashid age 3
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 6
Giuseppe Pella age 46
Fernando Tambroni age 46
Joop den Uyl age 29
Kazys Grinius age 81
Bakili Muluzi age 5
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 31
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 6
António Ramalho Eanes age 13
António de Spínola age 38
Milan Milutinović age 5
France-Albert René age 12
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 16
Yusof bin Ishak age 37
Ruth Dreifuss age 8
Fradique de Menezes age 6
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 10
Samak Sundaravej age 13
George Maxwell Richards age 16
Juan María Bordaberry age 20
Juan Negrín age 56
Hugo Sperrle age 63
Maurice Couve de Murville age 41
Pierre Bérégovoy age 22
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 80
Mark W. Clark age 52
B. J. Vorster age 32
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 42
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 2
Walter Hallstein age 46
William Rehnquist age 23
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 48
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 18
Jorge Alessandri age 52
Arturo Alessandri age 79
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 22
Väinö Tanner age 67
David A. Granger age 3
Mihály Károlyi age 73
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 42
Patrick Hillery age 25
Tammam Salam age 3
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 63
Kazimira Prunskienė age 5
Dom Mintoff age 32
Guido de Marco age 17
Moktar Ould Daddah age 23
Adolfo de la Huerta age 67
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 57
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 38
Ralph Gonsalves age 1
Ola Ullsten age 17
Moritz Leuenberger age 1
Oqil Oqilov age 4
Sarit Thanarat age 40
Somchai Wongsawat age 11 months
Café Filho age 49
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 61
Félix Gouin age 63
Ante Marković age 23
Kōki Hirota age 70
John Connally age 31
Mehmet Shehu age 35
Peter Cosgrove age 1
Nicéphore Soglo age 13
Petar Mladenov age 11
Michel Micombero age 7
Belisario Betancur age 25
Kalevi Sorsa age 17