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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
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

Askar Akayev age 28
Valdis Dombrovskis age 1
Algirdas Brazauskas age 40
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 18
José Sócrates age 15
Victor Ponta age 7 months
Prem Tinsulanonda age 52
Roh Tae-woo age 40
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 24
François Bayrou age 21
Egon Krenz age 36
Fernando Collor de Mello age 23
Robert Mueller age 28
Ramiz Alia age 47
Leopoldo Galtieri age 46
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 28
Festus Mogae age 33
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 20
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 22
Lennart Meri age 44
Jyrki Katainen age 1
Juan Orlando Hernández age 4
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 60
Barham Salih age 12
Giovanni Gronchi age 85
Karim Massimov age 7
Wim Kok age 34
Charles Taylor age 25
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 35
Agatha Barbara age 50
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 68
Branko Crvenkovski age 10
Emil Boc age 6
Nataša Pirc Musar age 5
Simonetta Sommaruga age 12
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 22
Moncef Marzouki age 27
Kais Saied age 15
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 18
Joseph Estrada age 36
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 17
Jean Casimir-Perier age 125
Alain Juppé age 27
Robert Gates age 29
Baldur von Schirach age 66
Bajram Begaj age 6
Mulatu Teshome age 16
Andreas Papandreou age 54
Xiomara Castro age 13
Chandra Shekhar age 46
Fuad Masum age 35
Andrius Kubilius age 16
Hage Geingob age 31
Mikhhail Fradkov age 22
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 33
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 27
Jerzy Buzek age 32
Bertie Ahern age 21
Andrew Cuomo age 15
James Baker age 43
Antonin Scalia age 37
Babrak Karmal age 44
Hafizullah Amin age 43
Alfred Moisiu age 43
Kurt Schuschnigg age 75
Zillur Rahman age 44
Iliana Iotova age 8
François Bozizé age 26
Mirek Topolánek age 16
Petr Nečas age 8
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 66
Tamás Sulyok age 17
Inder Kumar Gujral age 53
V. P. Singh age 41
Masoud Barzani age 26
Abdulla Yameen age 13
Mohamed Nasheed age 5
Thein Sein age 28
Than Shwe age 40
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 20
Bill English age 11
Alenka Bratušek age 3
Doris Leuthard age 10
Hakainde Hichilema age 10
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 11
Bakir Izetbegović age 16
Javier Solana age 30
Jim Mattis age 22
James Comey age 12
Alfred Gusenbauer age 13
Ali Asadov age 16
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 48
Lansana Conté age 38
René Préval age 30
Gordon Bajnai age 5
Ruud Lubbers age 34
Bounnhang Vorachit age 35
Andris Bērziņš age 28
Hilda Heine age 22
Vladimir Voronin age 31
Kiro Gligorov age 56
Thorbjørn Jagland age 22
Jorge Sampaio age 33
George Tupou V of Tonga age 25
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 30
Nobusuke Kishi age 76
Toshiki Kaifu age 42
Kiichi Miyazawa age 53
Tsutomu Hata age 37
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 24
Édouard Balladur age 44
Mike Huckabee age 17
Rick Perry age 23
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 38
John Diefenbaker age 77
José Maria Neves age 13
Ricardo Lagos age 35
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 46
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 7 months
Gyula Horn age 40
Fatmir Sejdiu age 21
Fayez al-Sarraj age 13
Modibo Keïta age 57
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 4
Luísa Diogo age 15
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 47
Mohamed Bazoum age 13
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 20
Viorica Dăncilă age 9
Goh Chok Tong age 31
Chan Santokhi age 14
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 23
Tô Lâm age 15
Michael Sata age 35
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 34
Martín Vizcarra age 10
Diosdado Macapagal age 62
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 85
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 35
José Sarney age 43
Brian Cowen age 13
Christian Kern age 7
Ziaur Rahman age 37
Juha Sipilä age 12
Kostas Karamanlis age 16
Jimmy Morales age 4
Haider Al-Abadi age 21
Catherine Connolly age 17
Emilio Colombo age 53
Choummaly Sayasone age 37
Michel Suleiman age 24
George Abela age 25
José López Portillo age 52
Milovan Đilas age 61
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 37
Girija Prasad Koirala age 48
Pedro Passos Coelho age 8
Ernest Bai Koroma age 19
Milan Kučan age 32
Viola Amherd age 10
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 31
Levy Mwanawasa age 24
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 23
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 4
Michel Rocard age 42
Paul Wolfowitz age 29
Alain Poher age 64
Abulfaz Elchibey age 34
Zhelyu Zhelev age 38
Hissène Habré age 30
Adly Mansour age 27
Nino Burjanadze age 8
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 19
Ferenc Mádl age 42
Árpád Göncz age 51
Laimdota Straujuma age 22
Joseph Aoun age 9
Min Aung Hlaing age 16
Ivica Dačić age 7
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 16
Lawrence Wong age 4 months
Ingvar Carlsson age 38
Frederick Chiluba age 30
Juan Carlos Varela age 9
Alejandro Toledo age 28
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 16
Željko Komšić age 9
Noboru Takeshita age 49
Keizō Obuchi age 35
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 25
Jeff Sessions age 26
Oswald Mosley age 76
Tim Kaine age 15
Hu Yaobang age 57