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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 11
Mirko Cvetković age 6
Rudolf Schuster age 23
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 14
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 31
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 37
Michael Somare age 20
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 73
Fuad II of Egypt age 5
Chuck Hagel age 10
Milka Planinc age 32
Souphanouvong age 47
John Ashcroft age 14
S. M. Bruce age 73
John Gorton age 45
César Gaviria age 9
Osvaldo Dorticós age 37
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 35
Péter Medgyessy age 14
Poul Schlüter age 27
Fouad Siniora age 13
Diori Hamani age 40
James Michel age 12
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 1
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 30
Mesut Yılmaz age 9
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 29
Julio María Sanguinetti age 21
Iolu Abil age 14
Marek Belka age 5
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 61
Mireya Moscoso age 10
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 22
Michel Debré age 45
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 41
Washington Luís age 87
Margaret Chan age 9
Ahmad Uyahya age 4
Leo Tindemans age 34
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 49
Melchior Ndadaye age 4
Barthélemy Boganda age 46
Vladimír Špidla age 5
Antoine Gizenga age 31
Eugenia Charles age 37
Nicholas Liverpool age 22
Mario Scelba age 55
Anker Jørgensen age 34
William Richard Tolbert age 43
Didier Ratsiraka age 20
Abdelilah Benkirane age 2
Sushil Koirala age 17
Kåre Willoch age 28
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 62
Pascal Lissouba age 25
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 13
Adrian Năstase age 6
Michal Kováč age 26
Pascal Couchepin age 14
Wellington Koo age 69
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 46
Carlos P. Garcia age 60
Gaafar Nimeiry age 26
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 104
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 69
Tetsu Katayama age 69
Hitoshi Ashida age 69
Pierre Messmer age 40
Janet Reno age 18
Edmund Muskie age 42
Fan S. Noli age 75
Mohamed Boudiaf age 37
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 32
Arthur Fadden age 62
Quentin Bryce age 14
Adolf Schärf age 66
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 6
Hugo Banzer age 30
Nuon Chea age 30
Ange-Félix Patassé age 20
Glafcos Clerides age 37
Joaquín Balaguer age 50
Josefa Iloilo age 36
Esko Aho age 2
Luís Cabral age 25
Sam Hinds age 13
Janet Jagan age 36
Abdul Latif Rashid age 12
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 15
Giuseppe Pella age 54
Fernando Tambroni age 55
Joop den Uyl age 37
Behgjet Pacolli age 5
Bakili Muluzi age 13
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 14
António Ramalho Eanes age 22
António de Spínola age 46
Milan Milutinović age 14
France-Albert René age 21
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 24
Yusof bin Ishak age 46
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 3
Ruth Dreifuss age 17
Fradique de Menezes age 14
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 19
Samak Sundaravej age 21
George Maxwell Richards age 25
Yurii Yekhanurov age 8
Juan María Bordaberry age 28
Baldwin Lonsdale age 8
Laurentino Cortizo age 3
Maurice Couve de Murville age 50
Pierre Bérégovoy age 31
Mark W. Clark age 60
B. J. Vorster age 41
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 51
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 10
Walter Hallstein age 55
William Rehnquist age 32
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 2
Andranik Margaryan age 5
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 56
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 27
Jigme Thinley age 4
Pierre Buyoya age 7
Jorge Alessandri age 60
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 2
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 30
Essam Sharaf age 5
Ahmed Nazif age 4
Väinö Tanner age 75
David A. Granger age 11
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 51
Patrick Hillery age 33
Tammam Salam age 11
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 71
Kazimira Prunskienė age 13
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 4
Guido de Marco age 25
Moktar Ould Daddah age 32
Myint Swe age 5
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 47
Pedro Santana Lopes age 7 months
Ralph Gonsalves age 10
Ola Ullsten age 25
Moritz Leuenberger age 10
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 4
Oqil Oqilov age 12
Sarit Thanarat age 48
Somchai Wongsawat age 9
Café Filho age 58
Félix Gouin age 72
Ante Marković age 32
John Connally age 39
Merrick Garland age 4
Nandó dos Santos age 6
Baldwin Spencer age 8
Peter Cosgrove age 9
Freundel Stuart age 5
Syarhiey Sidorski age 2
Nicéphore Soglo age 22
Eduardo Rodríguez age 11 months
Petar Mladenov age 20
Michel Micombero age 16
Belisario Betancur age 34
Sitiveni Rabuka age 8
Kalevi Sorsa age 26
Óscar Berger age 10
Kumba Ialá age 3
Kaysone Phomvihane age 36
Ivars Godmanis age 5
Amine Gemayel age 15
Joseph Boakai age 12
Christopher Loeak age 4
Mihai Ghimpu age 5
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 2
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 6
Salam Fayyad age 4
Marien Ngouabi age 18
Petru Groza age 72
Devan Nair age 33
Surayud Chulanont age 13
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 13
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 15
Guy Scott age 12
Valentín Paniagua age 20
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 50
Ye Jianying age 59
Artur da Costa e Silva age 57
Roy Jenkins age 36
J. Sigfrid Edström age 86
Robert Zoellick age 3
Jack Straw age 10
Ellison Onizuka age 10
Eric Holder age 6
Abd al-Malek Selal age 8
Liamine Zéroual age 15
Isa II of Bahrain age 23
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 37
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 10