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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20

People

Jean Casimir-Perier age 112
Alain Juppé age 14
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 36
Robert Gates age 16
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 64
Baldur von Schirach age 52
Sandra Day O'Connor age 29
Dean Acheson age 66
Mulatu Teshome age 2
Andreas Papandreou age 40
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 8
Xiomara Castro age 1 month
Chandra Shekhar age 32
Fuad Masum age 21
Andrius Kubilius age 2
Hage Geingob age 18
Mikhhail Fradkov age 9
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 19
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 14
Jerzy Buzek age 19
Shigeru Yoshida age 81
Kakuei Tanaka age 41
Bertie Ahern age 8
René Cassin age 72
Tariq Aziz age 23
Andrew Cuomo age 1
Bob Geldof age 8
James Baker age 29
Chiang Ching-kuo age 49
Antonin Scalia age 23
Babrak Karmal age 30
Hafizullah Amin age 30
Alfred Moisiu age 30
Kurt Schuschnigg age 61
Zillur Rahman age 30
François Bozizé age 13
Mirek Topolánek age 3
Tamás Sulyok age 3
Inder Kumar Gujral age 40
V. P. Singh age 28
Masoud Barzani age 13
Abdulla Yameen age 6 months
Thein Sein age 14
Than Shwe age 26
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 7
Bakir Izetbegović age 3
Albert Kesselring age 74
Hans Luther age 80
Javier Solana age 17
Jim Mattis age 9
Fernando de la Rúa age 22
Ali Asadov age 2
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 34
Lansana Conté age 25
René Préval age 16
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 45
Talal I of Jordan age 50
Ruud Lubbers age 20
Bounnhang Vorachit age 22
Andris Bērziņš age 14
Hilda Heine age 8
Vladimir Voronin age 18
Kiro Gligorov age 42
Thorbjørn Jagland age 9
Jorge Sampaio age 20
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 62
George Tupou V of Tonga age 11
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 17
Franz Halder age 75
Toshiki Kaifu age 28
Kiichi Miyazawa age 40
Tsutomu Hata age 24
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 11
Édouard Balladur age 30
David Petraeus age 7
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 14
Mike Huckabee age 4
Rick Perry age 9
Greg Abbott age 2
Eduardo Duhalde age 18
Malcolm Fraser age 29
Wolfgang Schüssel age 14
Artur Rasizade age 24
Ricardo Lagos age 21
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 33
Gyula Horn age 27
Fatmir Sejdiu age 8
Modibo Keïta age 44
Ernesto Zedillo age 7
Luísa Diogo age 1
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 33
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 6
Goh Chok Tong age 18
Chan Santokhi age 9 months
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 10
Tô Lâm age 2
Michael Sata age 22
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 21
Diosdado Macapagal age 49
Heinrich Brüning age 74
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 72
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 22
José Sarney age 29
Stanislav Shushkevich age 24
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 74
Walther Funk age 69
George Shultz age 38
Harold Holt age 51
Ziaur Rahman age 23
Kostas Karamanlis age 3
Haider Al-Abadi age 7
Catherine Connolly age 4
Emilio Colombo age 39
Choummaly Sayasone age 23
Michel Suleiman age 11
George Abela age 11
José López Portillo age 39
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 11
Milovan Đilas age 48
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 24
Girija Prasad Koirala age 35
Abdou Diouf age 24
Ernest Bai Koroma age 6
Milan Kučan age 18
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 18
Levy Mwanawasa age 11
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 10
Michel Rocard age 29
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 62
Paul Wolfowitz age 15
Alain Poher age 50
Empress Michiko age 25
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 25
Abulfaz Elchibey age 21
Zhelyu Zhelev age 24
Hissène Habré age 17
Adly Mansour age 13
Georgios Papadopoulos age 40
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 6
Ferenc Mádl age 28
Árpád Göncz age 37
Laimdota Straujuma age 8
Min Aung Hlaing age 3
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 58
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 2
Ingvar Carlsson age 25
Francisco Guterres age 5
Rómulo Gallegos age 75
Frederick Chiluba age 16
Alejandro Toledo age 14
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 2
Hayato Ikeda age 60
Noboru Takeshita age 35
Keizō Obuchi age 22
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 11
Jeff Sessions age 12
Gerry Adams age 11
Kirill Meretskov age 62
Oswald Mosley age 63
Tim Kaine age 1
Hu Yaobang age 44
Clarence Thomas age 11
Iajuddin Ahmed age 28
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 9
Luis Guillermo Solís age 1
Jan Fischer age 8
Danilo Medina age 8
Costas Simitis age 23
Abdul Salam Arif age 38
Ezer Weizman age 35
Isaac Navon age 38
Dries van Agt age 28
Thongloun Sisoulith age 14
Émile Lahoud age 23
Samuel Doe age 8
Jacques Santer age 22
Marc Ravalomanana age 9
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 1
Lazarus Chakwera age 4
Luis Echeverría age 37
Miguel de la Madrid age 24
Ram Chandra Poudel age 15
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 13
Ueli Maurer age 8
Benjamin Mkapa age 21
Ricardo Martinelli age 7
Haris Silajdžić age 14
C. Rajagopalachari age 81
Takeo Fukuda age 54
Morihiro Hosokawa age 21
João Figueiredo age 41
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 67
Jerry Brown age 21
Alice Paul age 74
Warren Christopher age 34
Rexhep Meidani age 15
Reynaldo Bignone age 31
Ayaz Mutallibov age 21
Quett Masire age 34
John Turner age 30