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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Rick Perry age 5
Eduardo Duhalde age 14
Malcolm Fraser age 25
Wolfgang Schüssel age 10
Artur Rasizade age 20
John Diefenbaker age 60
Ricardo Lagos age 17
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 29
Gyula Horn age 23
Fatmir Sejdiu age 4
Modibo Keïta age 40
Ernesto Zedillo age 4
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 30
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 2
Goh Chok Tong age 14
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 6
Michael Sata age 18
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 17
Diosdado Macapagal age 45
Heinrich Brüning age 70
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 68
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 18
José Sarney age 25
Stanislav Shushkevich age 21
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 70
Walther Funk age 65
George Shultz age 35
Harold Holt age 47
Ziaur Rahman age 20
Haider Al-Abadi age 3
Catherine Connolly age 3 months
Emilio Colombo age 35
Choummaly Sayasone age 19
Michel Suleiman age 7
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 20
Ernest Bai Koroma age 2
Milan Kučan age 15
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 14
Levy Mwanawasa age 7
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 6
Michel Rocard age 25
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 58
Paul Wolfowitz age 12
Alain Poher age 46
Empress Michiko age 21
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 21
Abulfaz Elchibey age 17
Zhelyu Zhelev age 20
Hissène Habré age 13
Adly Mansour age 10
Georgios Papadopoulos age 36
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 2
Ferenc Mádl age 25
Árpád Göncz age 34
Laimdota Straujuma age 4
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 54
Ingvar Carlsson age 21
Francisco Guterres age 1
Rómulo Gallegos age 71
Frederick Chiluba age 12
Alejandro Toledo age 10
Maurice Gamelin age 83
Hayato Ikeda age 56
Noboru Takeshita age 31
Keizō Obuchi age 18
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 7
Jeff Sessions age 9
Gerry Adams age 7
Kirill Meretskov age 58
Oswald Mosley age 59
Hu Yaobang age 40
Clarence Thomas age 7
Iajuddin Ahmed age 25
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 6
Jan Fischer age 5
Danilo Medina age 4
Costas Simitis age 19
Abdul Salam Arif age 35
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 41
Ezer Weizman age 31
Isaac Navon age 34
Dries van Agt age 25
Thongloun Sisoulith age 10
Émile Lahoud age 20
Samuel Doe age 4
Jacques Santer age 18
Marc Ravalomanana age 6
Lazarus Chakwera age 10 months
Luis Echeverría age 34
Miguel de la Madrid age 21
Ne Win age 44
Ram Chandra Poudel age 11
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 9
Ueli Maurer age 5
Benjamin Mkapa age 17
Ricardo Martinelli age 3
Haris Silajdžić age 10
C. Rajagopalachari age 77
Takeo Fukuda age 51
Morihiro Hosokawa age 18
Hendrik Verwoerd age 54
João Figueiredo age 38
Allen Dulles age 62
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 63
Jerry Brown age 17
Alice Paul age 71
Warren Christopher age 30
Rexhep Meidani age 11
Reynaldo Bignone age 28
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 46
Leonel Fernández age 2
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 11
H. D. Deve Gowda age 22
Abdul Rahman Arif age 39
Portia Simpson-Miller age 10
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 35
George William Vella age 13
Win Myint age 4
Jenny Shipley age 4
Mamadou Tandja age 17
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 8
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 53
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 26
Raymond Barre age 31
Ernesto Geisel age 48
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 21
Ingrid of Sweden age 45
John Lewis age 15
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 20
Lon Nol age 42
Alfredo Palacio age 17
Siim Kallas age 7
Frank Bainimarama age 1
Rose Francine Rogombe age 13
Otto Pérez Molina age 5
Álvaro Colom age 4
Mohammad Hatta age 53
Mariano Rumor age 40
Ciriaco De Mita age 28
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 12
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 10
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 3
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 41
Marcelo Caetano age 49
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 3
Trần Đức Lương age 18
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 47
Choi Kyu-hah age 36
Zenkō Suzuki age 45
Paul Reynaud age 77
Leon Panetta age 17
Philip Hammond age 2 months
Mario Cuomo age 23
Lê Duẩn age 48
George Wallace age 36
Alexander Haig age 31
Fatos Nano age 3
Franz Jonas age 56
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 40
Carlos Mesa age 2
Petar Stoyanov age 3
Patricio Aylwin age 37
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 39
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 11 months
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 37
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 8
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 8
Davíð Oddsson age 8
Giovanni Spadolini age 30
Arnaldo Forlani age 30
Raila A Odinga age 11
Anote Tong age 3
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 15
Anerood Jugnauth age 25
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 44
Armando Guebuza age 13
Farooq Leghari age 15
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 4
Emil Constantinescu age 16
Evaristo Carvalho age 14
Rómulo Betancourt age 47
José Paciano Laurel age 64
Sergio Osmeña age 77
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 29