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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
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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Chiang Ching-kuo age 51
Antonin Scalia age 25
Babrak Karmal age 32
Hafizullah Amin age 31
Alfred Moisiu age 31
Kurt Schuschnigg age 63
Zillur Rahman age 32
François Bozizé age 14
Mirek Topolánek age 5
Tamás Sulyok age 5
Inder Kumar Gujral age 41
V. P. Singh age 30
Masoud Barzani age 14
Abdulla Yameen age 2
Thein Sein age 16
Than Shwe age 28
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 8
Bakir Izetbegović age 5
Hans Luther age 82
Javier Solana age 18
Jim Mattis age 10
James Comey age 6 months
Alfred Gusenbauer age 1
Ali Asadov age 4
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 36
Lansana Conté age 26
René Préval age 18
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 47
Talal I of Jordan age 52
Ruud Lubbers age 22
Bounnhang Vorachit age 23
Andris Bērziņš age 16
Hilda Heine age 10
Vladimir Voronin age 20
Kiro Gligorov age 44
Thorbjørn Jagland age 10
Jorge Sampaio age 21
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 64
George Tupou V of Tonga age 13
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 18
Franz Halder age 77
Nobusuke Kishi age 64
Toshiki Kaifu age 30
Kiichi Miyazawa age 41
Tsutomu Hata age 25
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 12
Édouard Balladur age 32
Mike Huckabee age 5
Rick Perry age 11
Greg Abbott age 3
Eduardo Duhalde age 19
Malcolm Fraser age 31
Wolfgang Schüssel age 16
Artur Rasizade age 26
José Maria Neves age 1
Ricardo Lagos age 23
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 34
Gyula Horn age 29
Fatmir Sejdiu age 9
Fayez al-Sarraj age 1
Luísa Diogo age 3
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 35
Mohamed Bazoum age 1
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 8
Goh Chok Tong age 20
Chan Santokhi age 2
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 11
Tô Lâm age 3
Michael Sata age 24
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 22
Diosdado Macapagal age 50
Heinrich Brüning age 75
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 73
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 23
José Sarney age 31
Brian Cowen age 1
George Shultz age 40
Harold Holt age 52
Ziaur Rahman age 25
Juha Sipilä age 2 months
Kostas Karamanlis age 4
Haider Al-Abadi age 9
Catherine Connolly age 5
Emilio Colombo age 41
Choummaly Sayasone age 25
Michel Suleiman age 12
George Abela age 13
José López Portillo age 41
Milovan Đilas age 50
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 25
Girija Prasad Koirala age 37
Abdou Diouf age 25
Ernest Bai Koroma age 7
Milan Kučan age 20
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 19
Levy Mwanawasa age 12
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 12
Michel Rocard age 30
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 63
Paul Wolfowitz age 17
Alain Poher age 52
Abulfaz Elchibey age 23
Zhelyu Zhelev age 26
Hissène Habré age 18
Adly Mansour age 15
Georgios Papadopoulos age 42
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 7
Ferenc Mádl age 30
Árpád Göncz age 39
Laimdota Straujuma age 10
Min Aung Hlaing age 5
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 59
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 4
Ingvar Carlsson age 26
Rómulo Gallegos age 76
Frederick Chiluba age 18
Alejandro Toledo age 16
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 4
Noboru Takeshita age 37
Keizō Obuchi age 24
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 13
Jeff Sessions age 14
Oswald Mosley age 64
Tim Kaine age 3
Hu Yaobang age 45
Clarence Thomas age 13
Iajuddin Ahmed age 30
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 11
Luis Guillermo Solís age 3
Jan Fischer age 10
Danilo Medina age 9
Costas Simitis age 25
Abdul Salam Arif age 40
Ezer Weizman age 37
Isaac Navon age 40
Dries van Agt age 30
Thongloun Sisoulith age 15
Émile Lahoud age 25
Samuel Doe age 10
Jacques Santer age 24
Marc Ravalomanana age 11
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 2
Lazarus Chakwera age 6
Luis Echeverría age 39
Ne Win age 50
Ram Chandra Poudel age 16
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 15
Ueli Maurer age 10
Benjamin Mkapa age 22
Ricardo Martinelli age 9
Haris Silajdžić age 15
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 11 months
C. Rajagopalachari age 82
Takeo Fukuda age 56
Morihiro Hosokawa age 23
João Figueiredo age 43
Jerry Brown age 23
Warren Christopher age 35
Rexhep Meidani age 16
Reynaldo Bignone age 33
Ayaz Mutallibov age 23
Quett Masire age 35
John Turner age 32
Catherine Samba-Panza age 7
Leonel Fernández age 7
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 17
Abdul Rahman Arif age 45
Portia Simpson-Miller age 15
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 40
George William Vella age 19
Win Myint age 9
Baron Waqa age 1
Jenny Shipley age 9
Mamadou Tandja age 22
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 13
S. R. Nathan age 37
Didier Burkhalter age 1
Taur Matan Ruak age 4
Fouad Mebazaa age 28
Rupiah Banda age 24
Canaan Banana age 25
Han Duck-soo age 12
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 58
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 31
Raymond Barre age 37
Ernesto Geisel age 53
Jim Yong Kim age 1
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 26
John Lewis age 21
Tigran Sargsyan age 1
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 25
Lon Nol age 47
Azali Assoumani age 2
Alfredo Palacio age 22
Frank Bainimarama age 7
Rose Francine Rogombe age 18
Otto Pérez Molina age 10
Álvaro Colom age 10
Joseph Michel Martelly age 4 months
Mohammad Hatta age 58