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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 11
William McMahon age 50
Earle Page age 78
Joe Clark age 19
François Tombalbaye age 40
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 16
Tshombé Moïse age 38
Harri Holkeri age 21
Efraín Ríos Montt age 32
Kristján Eldjárn age 41
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 45
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 52
Yigal Allon age 39
Henri Konan Bédié age 24
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 32
Gaston Thorn age 29
Duško Marković age 0 months
Saadeddine Othmani age 2
Htin Kyaw age 12
Yakubu Gowon age 23
Shehu Shagari age 33
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 13
Mirko Cvetković age 7
Rudolf Schuster age 24
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 15
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 33
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 38
Michael Somare age 22
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 75
Fuad II of Egypt age 6
Chuck Hagel age 11
Milka Planinc age 33
Souphanouvong age 49
John Ashcroft age 16
S. M. Bruce age 75
John Gorton age 46
César Gaviria age 11
José Figueres Ferrer age 51
Osvaldo Dorticós age 39
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 37
Péter Medgyessy age 15
Poul Schlüter age 29
Fouad Siniora age 15
Diori Hamani age 42
James Michel age 13
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 3
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 32
Mesut Yılmaz age 10
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 30
Julio María Sanguinetti age 22
Iolu Abil age 16
Marek Belka age 6
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 63
Mireya Moscoso age 12
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 23
Tanzan Ishibashi age 73
Michel Debré age 46
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 43
Margaret Chan age 10
Ahmad Uyahya age 6
Leo Tindemans age 36
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 50
Melchior Ndadaye age 5
Barthélemy Boganda age 48
Vladimír Špidla age 7
Antoine Gizenga age 32
Eugenia Charles age 39
Nicholas Liverpool age 23
Mario Scelba age 56
Anker Jørgensen age 36
William Richard Tolbert age 45
Didier Ratsiraka age 21
Abdelilah Benkirane age 4
Sushil Koirala age 18
Kåre Willoch age 29
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 64
Pascal Lissouba age 26
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 14
Adrian Năstase age 8
Michal Kováč age 28
Pascal Couchepin age 16
Wellington Koo age 70
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 48
Gaafar Nimeiry age 27
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 105
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 70
Tetsu Katayama age 71
Hitoshi Ashida age 70
Pierre Messmer age 42
Janet Reno age 20
Edmund Muskie age 44
Fan S. Noli age 76
Mohamed Boudiaf age 39
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 33
Arthur Fadden age 64
Quentin Bryce age 15
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 8
Hugo Banzer age 32
Nuon Chea age 32
Ange-Félix Patassé age 21
Glafcos Clerides age 39
Joaquín Balaguer age 51
Josefa Iloilo age 37
Esko Aho age 4
Luís Cabral age 27
Sam Hinds age 14
Janet Jagan age 37
Abdul Latif Rashid age 13
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 16
Giuseppe Pella age 56
Fernando Tambroni age 56
Joop den Uyl age 39
Behgjet Pacolli age 6
Bakili Muluzi age 15
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 16
António Ramalho Eanes age 23
António de Spínola age 48
Milan Milutinović age 15
France-Albert René age 22
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 26
Yusof bin Ishak age 48
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 4
Ruth Dreifuss age 18
Fradique de Menezes age 16
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 21
Samak Sundaravej age 23
George Maxwell Richards age 26
Yurii Yekhanurov age 9
Juan María Bordaberry age 30
Baldwin Lonsdale age 9
Laurentino Cortizo age 5
Maurice Couve de Murville age 51
Pierre Bérégovoy age 32
Mark W. Clark age 62
B. J. Vorster age 42
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 52
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 12
William Rehnquist age 33
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 4
Andranik Margaryan age 7
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 58
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 28
Jigme Thinley age 5
Pierre Buyoya age 8
Jorge Alessandri age 62
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 3
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 32
Essam Sharaf age 6
Ahmed Nazif age 6
Väinö Tanner age 77
José Mário Vaz age 7 months
David A. Granger age 13
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 52
Patrick Hillery age 35
Serik Akhmetov age 1 month
Tammam Salam age 13
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 73
Kazimira Prunskienė age 15
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 5
Dom Mintoff age 42
Guido de Marco age 27
Moktar Ould Daddah age 33
Myint Swe age 7
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 48
Pedro Santana Lopes age 2
Ralph Gonsalves age 11
Ola Ullsten age 27
Moritz Leuenberger age 11
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 6
Oqil Oqilov age 14
Sarit Thanarat age 50
Somchai Wongsawat age 10
Café Filho age 59
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 71
Félix Gouin age 73
Ante Marković age 33
John Connally age 41
Merrick Garland age 5
Nandó dos Santos age 8
Baldwin Spencer age 9
Peter Cosgrove age 11
Freundel Stuart age 7
Syarhiey Sidorski age 4
Nicéphore Soglo age 23
Eduardo Rodríguez age 2
Petar Mladenov age 21
Michel Micombero age 17
Belisario Betancur age 35
Sitiveni Rabuka age 9
Kalevi Sorsa age 27
Óscar Berger age 11
Kumba Ialá age 5
Kaysone Phomvihane age 37
Ivars Godmanis age 6
Amine Gemayel age 16
Joseph Boakai age 13
Christopher Loeak age 5
Mihai Ghimpu age 6
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 3
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 7