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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Shanghai 1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26

People

W. T. Cosgrave age 57
Jean Rey age 35
Lloyd Bentsen age 16
Iwane Matsui age 59
Wang Zhen (general) age 29
Frank Jack Fletcher age 52
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 50
Tajuddin Ahmad age 12
Luis García Meza Tejada age 8
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 23
Bogdan Filov age 54
Norodom Suramarit age 41
Hazem Al Beblawi age 10 months
José Napoleón Duarte age 11
Kaarel Eenpalu age 49
Rafael Paasio age 34
Johannes Virolainen age 23
Noe Zhordania age 69
Georgios Rallis age 18
Forbes Burnham age 14
István Dobi age 38
Ferenc Münnich age 50
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 52
Ċensu Tabone age 24
Hammer DeRoburt age 14
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 9
Jim Bolger age 2
Ernest Shonekan age 1
Muhammad Junejo age 5
Vasco Gonçalves age 16
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 16
Ong Teng Cheong age 1
Chen Cheng age 40
Thanin Kraiwichian age 10
Luis Herrera Campins age 12
Manuel Odría age 39
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 13
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 51
Marais Viljoen age 21
Sicco Mansholt age 28
François-Xavier Ortoli age 12
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 20
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 17
José María Guido age 27
Pierre Harmel age 26
Kimon Georgiev age 55
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 37
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 35
Kamal Ganzouri age 4
V. J. Sukselainen age 30
Edward Akufo-Addo age 31
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 24
Michael Stasinopoulos age 34
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 1
András Hegedüs age 14
László Bárdossy age 46
Géza Lakatos age 47
Ólafur Thors age 45
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 24
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 17
Viggo Kampmann age 27
Louis Beel age 35
Jelle Zijlstra age 19
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 43
Manea Mănescu age 21
Armand Călinescu age 44
Nils Edén age 66
Nureddin al-Atassi age 8
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 25
Miguel Trovoada age 7 months
Yen Chia-kan age 31
Hsu Shih-chang age 81
Cao Kun age 74
Khuang Aphaiwong age 35
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 5
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 50
Nguyen Huu Tho age 27
Mieczysław Rakowski age 10
Alejandro Lerroux age 73
John A. Costello age 46
Jack Lynch age 20
Rauf Orbay age 56
Nigel Lawson age 5
Harold Brown age 9
Seishirō Itagaki age 52
Friedrich Jeckeln age 42
Fred M. Vinson age 47
Melvin Laird age 14
Thomas Gage age 219
Juan José Arévalo age 32
Ali Kafi age 8
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 50
Hubert Pierlot age 53
Jean Duvieusart age 37
Camille Huysmans age 66
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 18
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 19
Guillermo León Valencia age 28
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 29
Akwasi Afrifa age 1
Fred Akuffo age 5 months
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 46
Phaedon Gizikis age 20
Béla Miklós age 47
Edward Seaga age 7
Hans Hedtoft age 34
Fouad Chehab age 35
René Moawad age 12
Hussein Onn age 15
Ibrahim Nasir age 10
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 4
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 43
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 13
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 48
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 32
Haruo Remeliik age 4
Ivan Stambolić age 9 months
Ernst Trygger age 79
Hashim al-Atassi age 61
Seni Pramoj age 32
Kukrit Pramoj age 26
Anand Panyarachun age 5
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 1
Mohamed Ennaceur age 3
Godfrey Binaisa age 17
Vitalii Masol age 8
Raúl Leoni age 32
Ramón José Velásquez age 20
Vo Van Kiet age 14
Mohammed Basindawa age 2
Władysław Grabski age 63
Arnulfo Arias age 36
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 43
Andrés Rodríguez age 14
Liu Bocheng age 44
Claire Lee Chennault age 43
Albert Reynolds age 4
Dušan Simović age 54
Anton Korošec age 65
Ramsey Clark age 9
Courtney Hodges age 50
Bainbridge Colby age 67
Carlos Lacoste age 8
Ramón Castillo age 63
Josef Klaus age 27
Juan José Torres age 17
Saye Zerbo age 4
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 13
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 13
Sufi Abu Taleb age 12
Ants Piip age 53
Tosiwo Nakayama age 5
Edwin Linkomies age 42
Theodoros Pangalos age 59
Nikolaos Plastiras age 53
Xenophon Zolotas age 33
Gérard Latortue age 3
Jenő Fock age 21
Miklós Kállay age 50
Sutan Sjahrir age 28
P. J. Patterson age 2
Erik Eriksen age 34
Dirk Jan de Geer age 66
Victor Marijnen age 20
Charles D. B. King age 62
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 54
Constantin Dăscălescu age 14
Frederick Ballantyne age 1
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 6 months
Adib Shishakli age 28
Qahhor Mahkamov age 5
Cleopa Msuya age 6
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 25
Aparicio Méndez age 33
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 27
Aleksander Zawadzki age 37
Maciej Rataj age 53
Guillermo Endara age 1
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 9
Kim Jong-pil age 11
William Gopallawa age 39
D. M. Jayaratne age 6
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 74
Georg Stumme age 51
Matthew Ridgway age 42
He Long age 41
Manlio Brosio age 40
Franco Maria Malfatti age 10
Denis Healey age 19
Amin al-Hafiz age 15
Dragiša Cvetković age 44
J. Lawton Collins age 41
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 19
Elliot Richardson age 17
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 53
Eduardo Lonardi age 40
Bill Hayden age 4
Alfons Gorbach age 38
Georges Theunis age 64
Colville Young age 4