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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
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

Andris Bērziņš age 17
Hilda Heine age 11
Vladimir Voronin age 21
Kiro Gligorov age 45
Thorbjørn Jagland age 11
Jorge Sampaio age 22
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 64
George Tupou V of Tonga age 14
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 33
Zhu De age 75
Eduardo Duhalde age 20
Malcolm Fraser age 32
Wolfgang Schüssel age 16
Artur Rasizade age 27
José Maria Neves age 2
Ricardo Lagos age 24
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 35
Gyula Horn age 29
Fatmir Sejdiu age 10
Fayez al-Sarraj age 2
Luísa Diogo age 4
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 36
Mohamed Bazoum age 2
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 9
Goh Chok Tong age 21
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 32
Brian Cowen age 2
George Shultz age 41
Harold Holt age 53
Ziaur Rahman age 26
Juha Sipilä age 1
Kostas Karamanlis age 5
Haider Al-Abadi age 10
Catherine Connolly age 6
Emilio Colombo age 42
Choummaly Sayasone age 26
Michel Suleiman age 13
George Abela age 14
José López Portillo age 41
Milovan Đilas age 51
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 53
Abulfaz Elchibey age 23
Zhelyu Zhelev age 27
Hissène Habré age 19
Adly Mansour age 16
Georgios Papadopoulos age 43
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 8
Ferenc Mádl age 31
Árpád Göncz age 40
Laimdota Straujuma age 11
Min Aung Hlaing age 5
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 60
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 5
Ingvar Carlsson age 27
Rómulo Gallegos age 77
Frederick Chiluba age 19
Alejandro Toledo age 17
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 5
Noboru Takeshita age 38
Keizō Obuchi age 24
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 14
Jeff Sessions age 15
Hu Yaobang age 46
Clarence Thomas age 13
Iajuddin Ahmed age 31
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 12
Luis Guillermo Solís age 4
Jan Fischer age 11
Danilo Medina age 10
Costas Simitis age 25
Abdul Salam Arif age 41
Ezer Weizman age 37
Isaac Navon age 41
Dries van Agt age 31
Thongloun Sisoulith age 16
Émile Lahoud age 26
Samuel Doe age 11
Jacques Santer age 25
Marc Ravalomanana age 12
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 3
Lazarus Chakwera age 7
Luis Echeverría age 40
Ne Win age 51
Ram Chandra Poudel age 17
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 15
Ueli Maurer age 11
Benjamin Mkapa age 23
Ricardo Martinelli age 10
Haris Silajdžić age 16
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 1
C. Rajagopalachari age 83
Takeo Fukuda age 57
Morihiro Hosokawa age 24
João Figueiredo age 44
Warren Christopher age 36
Rexhep Meidani age 17
Reynaldo Bignone age 34
Ayaz Mutallibov age 24
Quett Masire age 36
John Turner age 33
Catherine Samba-Panza age 7
Leonel Fernández age 8
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 17
Abdul Rahman Arif age 46
Portia Simpson-Miller age 16
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 41
George William Vella age 20
Win Myint age 10
Baron Waqa age 2
Jenny Shipley age 10
Mamadou Tandja age 23
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 14
S. R. Nathan age 37
Didier Burkhalter age 2
Taur Matan Ruak age 5
Fouad Mebazaa age 28
Rupiah Banda age 25
Canaan Banana age 26
Han Duck-soo age 12
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 59
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 32
Raymond Barre age 38
Ernesto Geisel age 54
Jim Yong Kim age 2
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 27
John Lewis age 22
Tigran Sargsyan age 2
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 26
Lon Nol age 48
Azali Assoumani age 3
Alfredo Palacio age 23
Frank Bainimarama age 8
Rose Francine Rogombe age 19
Otto Pérez Molina age 11
Álvaro Colom age 10
Joseph Michel Martelly age 1
Mohammad Hatta age 59
Mariano Rumor age 46
Ciriaco De Mita age 34
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 18
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 16
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 9
Zdravko Krivokapić age 3
Boris Trajkovski age 5
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 47
Marcelo Caetano age 55
Mikhail Kasianov age 4
Srettha Thavisin age 3 months
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 10
Trần Đức Lương age 25
Choi Kyu-hah age 42
Zenkō Suzuki age 51
Paul Reynaud age 83
Leon Panetta age 23
Philip Hammond age 6
Li Xiannian age 52
George Wallace age 42
Alexander Haig age 37
Fatos Nano age 9
Franz Jonas age 62
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 47
Carlos Mesa age 8
Petar Stoyanov age 10
Patricio Aylwin age 43
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 45
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 7
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 43
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 2
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 14
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 14
Davíð Oddsson age 14
Giovanni Spadolini age 36
Arnaldo Forlani age 36
Raila A Odinga age 17