✦ History

Explore August 20, 1970

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

People

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 52
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 43
Bernard Cazeneuve age 7
P. W. Botha age 54
Ed Miliband age 7 months
Lazar Kaganovich age 76
Jiang Qing age 56
Queen Sonja of Norway age 33
Gavin Newsom age 2
Lee Teng-hui age 47
Paul Keating age 26
Thomas Klestil age 37
Paul-Henri Spaak age 71
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 9
Petr Fiala age 5
Mauricio Funes age 10
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 14
Jerry Rawlings age 23
Manuel Zelaya age 17
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 9
Pál Schmitt age 28
Zail Singh age 54
Amintore Fanfani age 62
Willem Drees age 84
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 11
Egils Levits age 15
Filipe Nyusi age 11
Saara Kuugongelwa age 2
Sushila Karki age 18
Mahamadou Issoufou age 18
Arif Alvi age 21
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 18
Nicușor Dan age 8 months
Viktor Zubkov age 28
Vojislav Koštunica age 26
Robert Golob age 3
Ewa Kopacz age 13
Li Qiang age 11
Maithripala Sirisena age 18
Milorad Dodik age 11
Tomiichi Murayama age 46
Nikolai Bulganin age 75
João Goulart age 51
Micheál Martin age 10
Jean Monnet age 81
Soong Mei-ling age 72
Sarah Ferguson age 10
Li Peng age 41
Ferhat Abbas age 71
Brigitte Bierlein age 21
Rosen Plevneliev age 6
José Antonio Kast age 4
Tassos Papadopoulos age 36
Petteri Orpo age 9 months
Antonis Samaras age 19
João Bernardo Vieira age 31
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 52
Chaim Herzog age 51
Lamberto Dini age 39
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 33
Askar Akayev age 25
Algirdas Brazauskas age 37
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 15
José Sócrates age 12
Prem Tinsulanonda age 50
Roh Tae-woo age 37
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 21
François Bayrou age 19
Egon Krenz age 33
Fernando Collor de Mello age 21
Jacobo Árbenz age 56
Robert Mueller age 26
Ramiz Alia age 44
Leopoldo Galtieri age 44
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 25
Festus Mogae age 31
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 17
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 19
Lennart Meri age 41
Juan Orlando Hernández age 1
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 57
Barham Salih age 9
Giovanni Gronchi age 82
Karim Massimov age 5
Wim Kok age 31
Charles Taylor age 22
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 32
Agatha Barbara age 47
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 65
Branko Crvenkovski age 7
Emil Boc age 3
Nataša Pirc Musar age 2
Simonetta Sommaruga age 10
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 19
Moncef Marzouki age 25
Kais Saied age 12
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 16
Joseph Estrada age 33
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 14
Jean Casimir-Perier age 122
Alain Juppé age 25
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 46
Robert Gates age 26
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 75
Baldur von Schirach age 63
Sandra Day O'Connor age 40
Dean Acheson age 77
Bajram Begaj age 3
Mulatu Teshome age 13
Andreas Papandreou age 51
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 19
Xiomara Castro age 10
Chandra Shekhar age 43
Fuad Masum age 32
Andrius Kubilius age 13
Hage Geingob age 29
Mikhhail Fradkov age 19
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 30
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 25
Jerzy Buzek age 30
Kakuei Tanaka age 52
Bertie Ahern age 18
René Cassin age 83
Tariq Aziz age 34
Andrew Cuomo age 12
Bob Geldof age 18
James Baker age 40
Chiang Ching-kuo age 60
Antonin Scalia age 34
Babrak Karmal age 41
Hafizullah Amin age 41
Alfred Moisiu age 40
Kurt Schuschnigg age 72
Zillur Rahman age 41
Iliana Iotova age 5
François Bozizé age 23
Mirek Topolánek age 14
Petr Nečas age 5
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 63
Tamás Sulyok age 14
Inder Kumar Gujral age 50
V. P. Singh age 39
Masoud Barzani age 24
Abdulla Yameen age 11
Mohamed Nasheed age 3
Thein Sein age 25
Than Shwe age 37
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 17
Bill English age 8
Alenka Bratušek age 4 months
Doris Leuthard age 7
Hakainde Hichilema age 8
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 8
Bakir Izetbegović age 14
Javier Solana age 28
Jim Mattis age 19
James Comey age 9
Fernando de la Rúa age 32
Alfred Gusenbauer age 10
Ali Asadov age 13
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 45
Lansana Conté age 35
René Préval age 27
Gordon Bajnai age 2
Talal I of Jordan age 61
Ruud Lubbers age 31
Bounnhang Vorachit age 33
Andris Bērziņš age 25
Hilda Heine age 19
Vladimir Voronin age 29
Kiro Gligorov age 53
Thorbjørn Jagland age 19
Jorge Sampaio age 30
George Tupou V of Tonga age 22
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 27
Franz Halder age 86
Nobusuke Kishi age 73
Toshiki Kaifu age 39
Kiichi Miyazawa age 50
Tsutomu Hata age 35
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 22
Édouard Balladur age 41
David Petraeus age 17
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 25
Mike Huckabee age 15
Rick Perry age 20
Greg Abbott age 12
Zhu De age 83
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 61
Eduardo Duhalde age 28
Malcolm Fraser age 40
Wolfgang Schüssel age 25
Artur Rasizade age 35
John Diefenbaker age 74
José Maria Neves age 10
Ricardo Lagos age 32
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 44
Gyula Horn age 38
Fatmir Sejdiu age 18
Fayez al-Sarraj age 10