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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
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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Abdoulaye Wade age 46
Iveta Radičová age 15
Chen Shui-bian age 22
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 45
Bernard Cazeneuve age 9
P. W. Botha age 56
Ed Miliband age 2
Lazar Kaganovich age 79
Jiang Qing age 58
Queen Sonja of Norway age 35
Gavin Newsom age 5
Lee Teng-hui age 49
Paul Keating age 28
Thomas Klestil age 40
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 11
Petr Fiala age 8
Mauricio Funes age 13
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 16
Jerry Rawlings age 25
Manuel Zelaya age 20
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 11
Pál Schmitt age 30
Zail Singh age 56
Amintore Fanfani age 64
Willem Drees age 86
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 14
Egils Levits age 17
Filipe Nyusi age 13
Saara Kuugongelwa age 5
Sushila Karki age 20
Mahamadou Issoufou age 20
Arif Alvi age 23
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 20
Nicușor Dan age 2
Viktor Zubkov age 31
Vojislav Koštunica age 28
Robert Golob age 5
Ewa Kopacz age 15
Li Qiang age 13
Maithripala Sirisena age 21
Milorad Dodik age 13
Tomiichi Murayama age 48
Nikolai Bulganin age 77
João Goulart age 53
Micheál Martin age 12
Jean Monnet age 84
Soong Mei-ling age 74
Sarah Ferguson age 13
Li Peng age 44
Ferhat Abbas age 73
Brigitte Bierlein age 23
Bart De Wever age 1
Rosen Plevneliev age 8
José Antonio Kast age 6
Tassos Papadopoulos age 38
Petteri Orpo age 3
Antonis Samaras age 21
João Bernardo Vieira age 33
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 54
Chaim Herzog age 54
Giuseppe Saragat age 74
Lamberto Dini age 41
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 35
Askar Akayev age 28
Valdis Dombrovskis age 1
Algirdas Brazauskas age 40
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 17
José Sócrates age 15
Victor Ponta age 1 month
Prem Tinsulanonda age 52
Roh Tae-woo age 39
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 23
François Bayrou age 21
Egon Krenz age 35
Fernando Collor de Mello age 23
Kim Jong-nam age 1
Robert Mueller age 28
Ramiz Alia age 47
Leopoldo Galtieri age 46
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 27
Festus Mogae age 33
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 19
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 22
Lennart Meri age 43
Jyrki Katainen age 1
Juan Orlando Hernández age 4
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 59
Barham Salih age 12
Giovanni Gronchi age 85
Karim Massimov age 7
Wim Kok age 34
Charles Taylor age 24
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 34
Agatha Barbara age 49
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 68
Branko Crvenkovski age 10
Emil Boc age 6
Nataša Pirc Musar age 4
Simonetta Sommaruga age 12
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 22
Moncef Marzouki age 27
Kais Saied age 14
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 18
Joseph Estrada age 35
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 16
Jean Casimir-Perier age 125
Alain Juppé age 27
Robert Gates age 29
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 77
Baldur von Schirach age 65
Sandra Day O'Connor age 42
Bajram Begaj age 5
Mulatu Teshome age 15
Andreas Papandreou age 53
Xiomara Castro age 13
Chandra Shekhar age 45
Fuad Masum age 34
Andrius Kubilius age 15
Hage Geingob age 31
Mikhhail Fradkov age 22
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 32
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 27
Jerzy Buzek age 32
Bertie Ahern age 21
René Cassin age 85
Tariq Aziz age 36
Andrew Cuomo age 14
Bob Geldof age 21
James Baker age 42
Antonin Scalia age 36
Babrak Karmal age 43
Hafizullah Amin age 43
Alfred Moisiu age 42
Kurt Schuschnigg age 74
Zillur Rahman age 43
Iliana Iotova age 8
François Bozizé age 26
Mirek Topolánek age 16
Petr Nečas age 8
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 65
Tamás Sulyok age 16
Inder Kumar Gujral age 52
V. P. Singh age 41
Masoud Barzani age 26
Abdulla Yameen age 13
Mohamed Nasheed age 5
Thein Sein age 27
Than Shwe age 39
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 20
Bill English age 10
Alenka Bratušek age 2
Doris Leuthard age 9
Hakainde Hichilema age 10
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 10
Bakir Izetbegović age 16
Javier Solana age 30
Jim Mattis age 22
James Comey age 11
Fernando de la Rúa age 35
Alfred Gusenbauer age 12
Ali Asadov age 15
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 47
Lansana Conté age 37
René Préval age 29
Gordon Bajnai age 4
Ruud Lubbers age 33
Bounnhang Vorachit age 35
Andris Bērziņš age 27
Hilda Heine age 21
Vladimir Voronin age 31
Kiro Gligorov age 55
Thorbjørn Jagland age 22
Jorge Sampaio age 33
George Tupou V of Tonga age 24
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 30
Nobusuke Kishi age 76
Toshiki Kaifu age 41
Kiichi Miyazawa age 53
Tsutomu Hata age 37
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 24
Édouard Balladur age 43
David Petraeus age 20
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 27
Igor Girkin age 1
Queen Mary of Denmark age 9 months
Mike Huckabee age 17
Rick Perry age 22
Greg Abbott age 15
Zhu De age 86
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 63
Eduardo Duhalde age 31
Malcolm Fraser age 42
Wolfgang Schüssel age 27
Artur Rasizade age 37
John Diefenbaker age 77
José Maria Neves age 12
Ricardo Lagos age 34
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 46
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 1 month
Gyula Horn age 40