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Events

Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Occupation of the Baltic states 1940 - 1991
Eastern Front (World War II) 1941-06-22 - 1955-01-21
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Malayan Emergency 1948-06-16 - 1960-07-12
White Terror (Taiwan) 1949-05-19 - 1992-11-06
La Violencia 1949-12-06 - 1958
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12

People

Arthur Meighen age 78
Jioji Konrote age 5
Paavo Lipponen age 11
Léon M'ba age 51
Georgios Papandreou age 65
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 5
Zalman Shazar age 63
Piet de Jong age 38
Guntis Ulmanis age 13
Philibert Tsiranana age 40
Abdul Razak Hussein age 31
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 52
Mircea Snegur age 13
Shaukat Aziz age 4
Sergei Stepashin age 1
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 28
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 30
Maxime Weygand age 86
Nikolai Tikhonov age 47
Jânio Quadros age 36
Michel Aflaq age 43
Ferdinand Schörner age 60
Marsha P. Johnson age 7
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 70
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 39
Michael Dukakis age 19
Dobrica Ćosić age 31
Daniel Inouye age 28
Ronald McNair age 2
Lawrence Eagleburger age 22
Anthony Kennedy age 16
Dean Rusk age 44
Cyrus Vance age 36
Arturo Umberto Illia age 52
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 5
Arturo Frondizi age 44
William McMahon age 45
Earle Page age 72
Joe Clark age 13
François Tombalbaye age 34
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 10
Tshombé Moïse age 33
Harri Holkeri age 16
Efraín Ríos Montt age 26
Kristján Eldjárn age 36
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 40
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 47
Yigal Allon age 34
Henri Konan Bédié age 18
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 26
Gaston Thorn age 24
Htin Kyaw age 6
Yakubu Gowon age 18
Shehu Shagari age 28
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 8
Mirko Cvetković age 2
Rudolf Schuster age 19
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 10
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 27
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 33
Michael Somare age 17
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 69
Chuck Hagel age 6
Milka Planinc age 28
Günter Schabowski age 24
Wesley Clark age 8
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 83
Kurt Student age 62
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 65
John Kasich age 11 months
Souphanouvong age 43
John Ashcroft age 10
S. M. Bruce age 70
John Gorton age 41
César Gaviria age 6
José Figueres Ferrer age 46
Osvaldo Dorticós age 34
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 31
Péter Medgyessy age 10
Poul Schlüter age 24
Fouad Siniora age 9
Diori Hamani age 36
James Michel age 8
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 26
Mesut Yılmaz age 5
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 25
Julio María Sanguinetti age 17
Iolu Abil age 11
Marek Belka age 1
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 57
Mireya Moscoso age 6
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 18
Tanzan Ishibashi age 68
Michel Debré age 41
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 38
Washington Luís age 83
Margaret Chan age 5
Claude Auchinleck age 68
Maximilian von Weichs age 71
Wilhelm List age 72
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 11
Frederica of Hanover age 36
Louise Mountbatten age 63
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 17
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 16
Ahmad Uyahya age 9 months
Leo Tindemans age 31
Melchior Ndadaye age 3 months
Barthélemy Boganda age 43
Vladimír Špidla age 1
Antoine Gizenga age 27
Eugenia Charles age 33
Nicholas Liverpool age 18
Mario Scelba age 51
Anker Jørgensen age 30
William Richard Tolbert age 39
Didier Ratsiraka age 16
Sushil Koirala age 13
Kåre Willoch age 24
Pascal Lissouba age 21
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 9
Adrian Năstase age 2
Michal Kováč age 22
Pascal Couchepin age 11
Wellington Koo age 65
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 42
Carlos P. Garcia age 56
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 54
Gaafar Nimeiry age 22
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 100
Nobuyuki Abe age 77
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 65
Tetsu Katayama age 65
Hitoshi Ashida age 65
Pierre Messmer age 37
Artur Bernardes age 77
Sirhan Sirhan age 9
Biljana Plavšić age 22
Karl Rahner age 49
Paul Tibbets age 38
Felix Yusupov age 66
Maria of Yugoslavia age 53
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 32
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 37
Janet Reno age 14
Edmund Muskie age 39
Fan S. Noli age 71
Mohamed Boudiaf age 33
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 28
Arthur Fadden age 59
Quentin Bryce age 10
Adolf Schärf age 63
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 2
Hugo Banzer age 26
Nuon Chea age 26
Ange-Félix Patassé age 16
Glafcos Clerides age 34
Joaquín Balaguer age 46
Josefa Iloilo age 32
Luís Cabral age 22
Sam Hinds age 9
Janet Jagan age 32
Abdul Latif Rashid age 8
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 11
Giuseppe Pella age 51
Fernando Tambroni age 51
Joop den Uyl age 33
Behgjet Pacolli age 1
Bakili Muluzi age 10
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 10
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 41
António Ramalho Eanes age 18
António de Spínola age 43
Milan Milutinović age 10
France-Albert René age 17
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 21
Yusof bin Ishak age 42
Ruth Dreifuss age 13
Fradique de Menezes age 11
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 15
Samak Sundaravej age 17
George Maxwell Richards age 21
Yurii Yekhanurov age 4
Juan María Bordaberry age 24
Baldwin Lonsdale age 4
Laurentino Cortizo age 2 months
Juan Negrín age 61
Maurice Couve de Murville age 46
Pierre Bérégovoy age 27
Mark W. Clark age 56
B. J. Vorster age 37
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 47
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 7
Walter Hallstein age 51
Margaret Beckett age 10
Paul Hausser age 72
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 78
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 56
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 46
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 56