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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

Askar Akayev age 16
Algirdas Brazauskas age 28
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 6
José Sócrates age 3
Prem Tinsulanonda age 41
Roh Tae-woo age 28
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 12
François Bayrou age 10
Egon Krenz age 24
Fernando Collor de Mello age 12
Paul of Greece age 59
Jacobo Árbenz age 47
Robert Mueller age 17
Ramiz Alia age 35
Leopoldo Galtieri age 35
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 16
Bruno Kreisky age 50
Festus Mogae age 22
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 8
Seretse Khama age 40
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 10
Lennart Meri age 32
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 48
Barham Salih age 11 months
Wim Kok age 22
Charles Taylor age 13
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 23
Agatha Barbara age 38
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 56
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 61
Simonetta Sommaruga age 1
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 10
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 25
Moncef Marzouki age 16
Kais Saied age 3
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 7
Joseph Estrada age 24
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 5
Jean Casimir-Perier age 113
Alain Juppé age 16
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 37
Robert Gates age 17
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 66
Baldur von Schirach age 54
Sandra Day O'Connor age 31
Dean Acheson age 68
Mulatu Teshome age 4
Andreas Papandreou age 42
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 10
Xiomara Castro age 1
Chandra Shekhar age 34
Fuad Masum age 23
Andrius Kubilius age 4
Hage Geingob age 20
Mikhhail Fradkov age 10
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 21
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 16
Jerzy Buzek age 21
Shigeru Yoshida age 82
Kakuei Tanaka age 43
Bertie Ahern age 9
René Cassin age 74
Tariq Aziz age 25
Andrew Cuomo age 3
Bob Geldof age 9
James Baker age 31
Chiang Ching-kuo age 51
Antonin Scalia age 25
Babrak Karmal age 32
Hafizullah Amin age 32
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 15
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 19
Jim Mattis age 10
James Comey age 8 months
Fernando de la Rúa age 23
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 24
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 26
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 13
Édouard Balladur age 32
David Petraeus age 8
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 16
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 35
Gyula Horn age 29
Fatmir Sejdiu age 9
Fayez al-Sarraj age 1
Ernesto Zedillo age 9
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 4
Michael Sata age 24
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 22
Diosdado Macapagal age 50
Heinrich Brüning age 75
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 74
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 24
José Sarney age 31
Brian Cowen age 1
Stanislav Shushkevich age 26
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 76
George Shultz age 40
Harold Holt age 53
Ziaur Rahman age 25
Juha Sipilä age 3 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
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 13
Milovan Đilas age 50
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 26
Girija Prasad Koirala age 37
Abdou Diouf age 25
Ernest Bai Koroma age 7
Milan Kučan age 20
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 20
Levy Mwanawasa age 12
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 12
Michel Rocard age 31
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 63
Paul Wolfowitz age 17
Alain Poher age 52
Empress Michiko age 26
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 27
Abulfaz Elchibey age 23
Zhelyu Zhelev age 26
Hissène Habré age 19
Adly Mansour age 15
Georgios Papadopoulos age 42
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 8
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
Francisco Guterres age 6
Rómulo Gallegos age 77
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
Gerry Adams age 12
Kirill Meretskov age 64