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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Fernando de la Rúa age 19
Ali Asadov age 8 months
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 32
Lansana Conté age 22
René Préval age 14
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 43
Talal I of Jordan age 48
Ruud Lubbers age 18
Bounnhang Vorachit age 20
Andris Bērziņš age 12
Hilda Heine age 6
Vladimir Voronin age 16
Kiro Gligorov age 40
Thorbjørn Jagland age 6
Jorge Sampaio age 17
George Tupou V of Tonga age 9
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 14
Franz Halder age 73
Toshiki Kaifu age 26
Kiichi Miyazawa age 37
Tsutomu Hata age 22
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 9
Édouard Balladur age 28
David Petraeus age 4
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 12
Mike Huckabee age 2
Rick Perry age 7
Eduardo Duhalde age 15
Malcolm Fraser age 27
Wolfgang Schüssel age 12
Artur Rasizade age 22
Ricardo Lagos age 19
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 31
Gyula Horn age 25
Fatmir Sejdiu age 5
Modibo Keïta age 42
Ernesto Zedillo age 5
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 31
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 4
Goh Chok Tong age 16
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 7
Tô Lâm age 1 month
Michael Sata age 20
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 18
Diosdado Macapagal age 46
Heinrich Brüning age 71
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 70
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 20
José Sarney age 27
Stanislav Shushkevich age 22
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 72
Walther Funk age 67
George Shultz age 36
Harold Holt age 49
Ziaur Rahman age 21
Kostas Karamanlis age 11 months
Haider Al-Abadi age 5
Catherine Connolly age 1
Emilio Colombo age 37
Choummaly Sayasone age 21
Michel Suleiman age 8
George Abela age 9
José López Portillo age 37
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 9
Milovan Đilas age 46
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 22
Girija Prasad Koirala age 33
Abdou Diouf age 21
Ernest Bai Koroma age 3
Milan Kučan age 16
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 16
Levy Mwanawasa age 8
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 8
Michel Rocard age 27
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 59
Paul Wolfowitz age 13
Alain Poher age 48
Empress Michiko age 22
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 23
Abulfaz Elchibey age 19
Zhelyu Zhelev age 22
Hissène Habré age 15
Adly Mansour age 11
Georgios Papadopoulos age 38
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 4
Ferenc Mádl age 26
Árpád Göncz age 35
Laimdota Straujuma age 6
Min Aung Hlaing age 1
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 55
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 7 months
Ingvar Carlsson age 22
Francisco Guterres age 2
Rómulo Gallegos age 73
Frederick Chiluba age 14
Alejandro Toledo age 12
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 4 months
Maurice Gamelin age 84
Hayato Ikeda age 57
Noboru Takeshita age 33
Keizō Obuchi age 20
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 9
Jeff Sessions age 10
Gerry Adams age 8
Kirill Meretskov age 60
Oswald Mosley age 60
Hu Yaobang age 41
Clarence Thomas age 9
Iajuddin Ahmed age 26
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 7
Jan Fischer age 6
Danilo Medina age 5
Costas Simitis age 21
Abdul Salam Arif age 36
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 42
Ezer Weizman age 33
Isaac Navon age 36
Dries van Agt age 26
Thongloun Sisoulith age 11
Émile Lahoud age 21
Samuel Doe age 6
Jacques Santer age 20
Marc Ravalomanana age 7
Lazarus Chakwera age 2
Luis Echeverría age 35
Miguel de la Madrid age 22
Ne Win age 46
Ram Chandra Poudel age 12
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 11
Ueli Maurer age 6
Benjamin Mkapa age 18
Ricardo Martinelli age 5
Haris Silajdžić age 11
C. Rajagopalachari age 78
Ichirō Hatoyama age 74
Takeo Fukuda age 52
Morihiro Hosokawa age 19
Hendrik Verwoerd age 56
João Figueiredo age 39
Allen Dulles age 64
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 65
Jerry Brown age 19
Alice Paul age 72
Warren Christopher age 31
Rexhep Meidani age 13
Reynaldo Bignone age 29
Ayaz Mutallibov age 19
Quett Masire age 32
John Turner age 28
David Dacko age 27
Catherine Samba-Panza age 3
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 47
Leonel Fernández age 3
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 13
H. D. Deve Gowda age 24
Abdul Rahman Arif age 41
Portia Simpson-Miller age 11
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 36
George William Vella age 15
Win Myint age 5
Jenny Shipley age 5
Mamadou Tandja age 19
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 9
S. R. Nathan age 33
Taur Matan Ruak age 10 months
Fouad Mebazaa age 24
Rupiah Banda age 20
Canaan Banana age 21
Han Duck-soo age 8
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 55
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 27
Raymond Barre age 33
Ernesto Geisel age 50
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 23
Ingrid of Sweden age 47
John Lewis age 17
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 21
Lon Nol age 43
Alfredo Palacio age 18
Siim Kallas age 8
Frank Bainimarama age 3
Rose Francine Rogombe age 14
Otto Pérez Molina age 6
Álvaro Colom age 6
Mohammad Hatta age 55
Mariano Rumor age 42
Ciriaco De Mita age 29
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 14
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 11
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 4
Boris Trajkovski age 1
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 42
Marcelo Caetano age 51
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 5
Trần Đức Lương age 20
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 48
Choi Kyu-hah age 38
Zenkō Suzuki age 46
Paul Reynaud age 78
Leon Panetta age 19