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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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Giuseppe Saragat age 63
Lamberto Dini age 30
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 24
Askar Akayev age 17
Algirdas Brazauskas age 29
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 7
José Sócrates age 4
Prem Tinsulanonda age 41
Roh Tae-woo age 29
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 12
François Bayrou age 10
Egon Krenz age 24
Fernando Collor de Mello age 12
Paul of Greece age 60
Jacobo Árbenz age 48
Robert Mueller age 17
Ramiz Alia age 36
Leopoldo Galtieri age 35
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 17
Bruno Kreisky age 51
Festus Mogae age 22
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 8
Seretse Khama age 40
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 11
Lennart Meri age 32
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 48
Barham Salih age 1
Wim Kok age 23
Charles Taylor age 14
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 24
Agatha Barbara age 38
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 57
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 62
Simonetta Sommaruga age 1
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 11
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 26
Moncef Marzouki age 16
Kais Saied age 3
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 7
Joseph Estrada age 24
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 6
Jean Casimir-Perier age 114
Alain Juppé age 16
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 38
Robert Gates age 18
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 67
Baldur von Schirach age 54
Sandra Day O'Connor age 31
Dean Acheson age 68
Mulatu Teshome age 5
Andreas Papandreou age 43
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 10
Xiomara Castro age 2
Chandra Shekhar age 34
Fuad Masum age 24
Andrius Kubilius age 5
Hage Geingob age 20
Mikhhail Fradkov age 11
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 22
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 16
Jerzy Buzek age 21
Shigeru Yoshida age 83
Kakuei Tanaka age 43
Bertie Ahern age 10
René Cassin age 75
Tariq Aziz age 25
Andrew Cuomo age 4
Bob Geldof age 10
James Baker age 31
Chiang Ching-kuo age 51
Antonin Scalia age 25
Babrak Karmal age 33
Hafizullah Amin age 32
Alfred Moisiu age 32
Kurt Schuschnigg age 64
Zillur Rahman age 32
François Bozizé age 15
Mirek Topolánek age 5
Tamás Sulyok age 5
Inder Kumar Gujral age 42
V. P. Singh age 30
Masoud Barzani age 15
Abdulla Yameen age 2
Thein Sein age 16
Than Shwe age 29
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 9
Bill English age 1 month
Bakir Izetbegović age 5
Hans Luther age 82
Javier Solana age 19
Jim Mattis age 11
James Comey age 1
Fernando de la Rúa age 24
Alfred Gusenbauer age 1
Ali Asadov age 5
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 37
Lansana Conté age 27
René Préval age 19
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 47
Talal I of Jordan age 52
Ruud Lubbers age 22
Bounnhang Vorachit age 24
Andris Bērziņš age 17
Hilda Heine age 10
Vladimir Voronin age 20
Kiro Gligorov age 44
Thorbjørn Jagland age 11
Jorge Sampaio age 22
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 64
George Tupou V of Tonga age 13
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 19
Franz Halder age 77
Nobusuke Kishi age 65
Toshiki Kaifu age 31
Kiichi Miyazawa age 42
Tsutomu Hata age 26
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 13
Édouard Balladur age 32
David Petraeus age 9
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 16
Mike Huckabee age 6
Rick Perry age 11
Greg Abbott age 4
Eduardo Duhalde age 20
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 10
Fayez al-Sarraj age 1
Ernesto Zedillo age 10
Luísa Diogo age 3
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 36
Mohamed Bazoum age 2
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 8
Goh Chok Tong age 20
Chan Santokhi age 3
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 12
Tô Lâm age 4
Michael Sata age 24
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 23
Heinrich Brüning age 76
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 74
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 24
José Sarney age 31
Brian Cowen age 2
Stanislav Shushkevich age 27
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 76
George Shultz age 41
Harold Holt age 53
Ziaur Rahman age 26
Juha Sipilä age 9 months
Kostas Karamanlis age 5
Haider Al-Abadi age 9
Catherine Connolly age 6
Emilio Colombo age 41
Choummaly Sayasone age 25
Michel Suleiman age 13
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 26
Ernest Bai Koroma age 8
Milan Kučan age 21
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 20
Levy Mwanawasa age 13
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 12
Michel Rocard age 31
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 64
Paul Wolfowitz age 18
Alain Poher age 52
Empress Michiko age 27
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 27
Abulfaz Elchibey age 23
Zhelyu Zhelev age 26
Hissène Habré age 19
Adly Mansour age 16
Georgios Papadopoulos age 42
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 8
Ferenc Mádl age 31
Árpád Göncz age 40
Laimdota Straujuma age 10
Min Aung Hlaing age 5
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 60
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 5
Ingvar Carlsson age 27
Francisco Guterres age 7
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