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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Philippeville massacre 1955-08-20 - 1955-08-25

People

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 2
Goh Chok Tong age 14
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 5
Michael Sata age 18
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 16
Diosdado Macapagal age 44
Heinrich Brüning age 69
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 68
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 18
José Sarney age 25
Stanislav Shushkevich age 20
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 70
Walther Funk age 65
George Shultz age 34
Harold Holt age 47
Ziaur Rahman age 19
Haider Al-Abadi age 3
Emilio Colombo age 35
Choummaly Sayasone age 19
Michel Suleiman age 6
George Abela age 7
José López Portillo age 35
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 7
Milovan Đilas age 44
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 20
Girija Prasad Koirala age 31
Abdou Diouf age 19
Ernest Bai Koroma age 1
Milan Kučan age 14
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 14
Levy Mwanawasa age 6
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 6
Michel Rocard age 25
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 57
Paul Wolfowitz age 11
Alain Poher age 46
Empress Michiko age 20
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 21
Abulfaz Elchibey age 17
Zhelyu Zhelev age 20
Hissène Habré age 13
Adly Mansour age 9
Georgios Papadopoulos age 36
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 2
Ferenc Mádl age 24
Árpád Göncz age 33
Laimdota Straujuma age 4
Ingvar Carlsson age 20
Francisco Guterres age 11 months
Rómulo Gallegos age 71
Frederick Chiluba age 12
Alejandro Toledo age 10
Maurice Gamelin age 82
Hayato Ikeda age 55
Noboru Takeshita age 31
Keizō Obuchi age 18
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 7
Jeff Sessions age 8
Gerry Adams age 6
Kirill Meretskov age 58
Oswald Mosley age 58
Hu Yaobang age 39
Clarence Thomas age 7
Iajuddin Ahmed age 24
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 5
Jan Fischer age 4
Danilo Medina age 3
Costas Simitis age 19
Abdul Salam Arif age 34
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 40
Ezer Weizman age 31
Isaac Navon age 34
Dries van Agt age 24
Thongloun Sisoulith age 9
Émile Lahoud age 19
Samuel Doe age 4
Jacques Santer age 18
Marc Ravalomanana age 5
Lazarus Chakwera age 4 months
Luis Echeverría age 33
Miguel de la Madrid age 20
Ne Win age 44
Ram Chandra Poudel age 10
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 9
Ueli Maurer age 4
Benjamin Mkapa age 16
Ricardo Martinelli age 3
Haris Silajdžić age 9
C. Rajagopalachari age 76
Takeo Fukuda age 50
Morihiro Hosokawa age 17
Hendrik Verwoerd age 53
João Figueiredo age 37
Allen Dulles age 62
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 63
Jerry Brown age 17
Alice Paul age 70
Warren Christopher age 29
Rexhep Meidani age 11
Reynaldo Bignone age 27
Ayaz Mutallibov age 17
Quett Masire age 30
John Turner age 26
David Dacko age 25
Catherine Samba-Panza age 1
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 45
Leonel Fernández age 1
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 11
H. D. Deve Gowda age 22
Abdul Rahman Arif age 39
Portia Simpson-Miller age 9
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 34
George William Vella age 13
Win Myint age 3
Jenny Shipley age 3
Mamadou Tandja age 17
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 7
S. R. Nathan age 31
Fouad Mebazaa age 22
Rupiah Banda age 18
Canaan Banana age 19
Han Duck-soo age 6
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 52
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 25
Raymond Barre age 31
Ernesto Geisel age 48
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 21
Ingrid of Sweden age 45
John Lewis age 15
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 58
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 19
Lon Nol age 41
Alfredo Palacio age 16
Siim Kallas age 6
Frank Bainimarama age 1
Rose Francine Rogombe age 12
Otto Pérez Molina age 4
Álvaro Colom age 4
Mohammad Hatta age 53
Mariano Rumor age 40
Ciriaco De Mita age 27
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 12
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 9
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 2
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 40
Marcelo Caetano age 49
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 3
Trần Đức Lương age 18
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 46
Choi Kyu-hah age 36
Zenkō Suzuki age 44
Paul Reynaud age 76
Leon Panetta age 17
Mario Cuomo age 23
Lê Duẩn age 48
George Wallace age 36
Alexander Haig age 30
Fatos Nano age 2
Franz Jonas age 55
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 40
Carlos Mesa age 2
Petar Stoyanov age 3
Patricio Aylwin age 36
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 38
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 6 months
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 36
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 7
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 7
Davíð Oddsson age 7
Giovanni Spadolini age 30
Arnaldo Forlani age 29
Raila A Odinga age 10
Anote Tong age 3
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 14
Anerood Jugnauth age 25
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 44
Armando Guebuza age 12
Farooq Leghari age 15
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 3
Emil Constantinescu age 15
Evaristo Carvalho age 13
Rómulo Betancourt age 47
José Paciano Laurel age 64
Sergio Osmeña age 76
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 29
Luis Carrero Blanco age 51
Harold Alexander age 63
Masayoshi Ōhira age 45
Sōsuke Uno age 33
Pierre Mendès France age 48
Oliver Tambo age 37
Gennady Yanayev age 17
Chadli Bendjedid age 26
Franz Vranitzky age 17
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 15
Wilfried Martens age 19
Dean Barrow age 4
Aristides Pereira age 31
Pedro Pires age 21
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 44