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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

Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 46
Leonel Fernández age 2
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 11
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 19
Canaan Banana age 20
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
John Lewis age 16
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 20
Lon Nol age 42
Alfredo Palacio age 17
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 3 months
Lê Duẩn age 48
Li Xiannian age 46
George Wallace age 36
Alexander Haig age 31
Fatos Nano age 3
Franz Jonas age 56
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 41
Carlos Mesa age 2
Petar Stoyanov age 3
Patricio Aylwin age 37
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 39
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 1
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 45
Zinaida Greceanîi age 1 month
Armando Guebuza age 13
Farooq Leghari age 15
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 4
Emil Constantinescu age 16
Evaristo Carvalho age 14
Rómulo Betancourt age 48
José Paciano Laurel age 65
Sergio Osmeña age 77
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 29
Luis Carrero Blanco age 52
Masayoshi Ōhira age 46
Sōsuke Uno age 33
Pierre Mendès France age 49
Peng Dehuai age 57
Gennady Yanayev age 18
Chadli Bendjedid age 26
Franz Vranitzky age 18
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 15
Wilfried Martens age 19
Dean Barrow age 5
Aristides Pereira age 32
Pedro Pires age 21
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 45
Sherif Ismail age 8 months
Geir Haarde age 4
Ephraim Katzir age 39
Giovanni Goria age 12
Gediminas Kirkilas age 4
Muhyiddin Yassin age 8
Moussa Traoré age 19
Eddie Fenech Adami age 22
Adolfo López Mateos age 45
Ibrahim Babangida age 14
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 26
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 26
Vladimír Mečiar age 13
Ronald Venetiaan age 19
Rafael Caldera age 40
Hanna Suchocka age 9
Fernando Belaúnde age 43
Abdalla Hamdok age 2 months
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 74
Takeo Miki age 49
William Westmoreland age 42
Venceslau Brás age 88
Georges Bidault age 56
Yang Shangkun age 48
Stephen Breyer age 17
Thurgood Marshall age 47
James F. Byrnes age 73
Hubert Maga age 39
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 34
Sylvie Kinigi age 3
Arthur Meighen age 81
Jioji Konrote age 8
Paavo Lipponen age 14
Léon M'ba age 54
Georgios Papandreou age 68
Alejandro Giammattei age 0 months
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 8
Zalman Shazar age 66
Piet de Jong age 40
Guntis Ulmanis age 16
Philibert Tsiranana age 43
Abdul Razak Hussein age 34
Lawrence Gonzi age 2
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 55
Mircea Snegur age 16
Shaukat Aziz age 7
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 0 months
Sergei Stepashin age 4
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 31
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 33
Maxime Weygand age 89
Nikolai Tikhonov age 50
Jânio Quadros age 39
Ash Carter age 1
Daniel Inouye age 31
Ronald McNair age 5
Lawrence Eagleburger age 25
Anthony Kennedy age 19
Dean Rusk age 47
Cyrus Vance age 38
Arturo Umberto Illia age 55
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 8
Arturo Frondizi age 47
William McMahon age 48
Earle Page age 75
Joe Clark age 16
François Tombalbaye age 37
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 13
Tshombé Moïse age 36
Harri Holkeri age 19
Efraín Ríos Montt age 29
Kristján Eldjárn age 39
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 43
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 50
Yigal Allon age 37
Henri Konan Bédié age 21
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 29
Gaston Thorn age 27
Saadeddine Othmani age 1 month
Htin Kyaw age 9
Yakubu Gowon age 21
Shehu Shagari age 31
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 10
Mirko Cvetković age 5
Rudolf Schuster age 22
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 13
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 30
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 36
Michael Somare age 19
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 72
Fuad II of Egypt age 4
Chuck Hagel age 9
Milka Planinc age 31
Souphanouvong age 46
John Ashcroft age 13
S. M. Bruce age 72
John Gorton age 44
César Gaviria age 8
Osvaldo Dorticós age 36
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 34
Péter Medgyessy age 13
Poul Schlüter age 26
Fouad Siniora age 12
Diori Hamani age 39
James Michel age 11
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 1
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 29
Mesut Yılmaz age 8