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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Carlos Andrés Pérez age 36
Nicanor Duarte age 2
Maxime Weygand age 92
Nikolai Tikhonov age 53
Jânio Quadros age 42
Ash Carter age 4
Daniel Inouye age 34
Ronald McNair age 8
Lawrence Eagleburger age 28
Anthony Kennedy age 22
Dean Rusk age 50
Cyrus Vance age 41
Arturo Umberto Illia age 58
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 39
Harri Holkeri age 22
Efraín Ríos Montt age 32
Kristján Eldjárn age 42
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 46
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 53
Yigal Allon age 40
Henri Konan Bédié age 24
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 32
Gaston Thorn age 30
Duško Marković age 7 months
Saadeddine Othmani age 3
Htin Kyaw age 12
Yakubu Gowon age 24
Shehu Shagari age 33
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 13
Mirko Cvetković age 8
Rudolf Schuster age 25
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 16
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 33
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 39
Michael Somare age 22
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 75
Fuad II of Egypt age 7
Chuck Hagel age 12
Milka Planinc age 34
Souphanouvong age 49
John Ashcroft age 16
S. M. Bruce age 75
John Gorton age 47
César Gaviria age 11
José Figueres Ferrer age 52
Osvaldo Dorticós age 39
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 37
Péter Medgyessy age 16
Poul Schlüter age 29
Fouad Siniora age 15
Diori Hamani age 42
James Michel age 14
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 4
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 32
Mesut Yılmaz age 11
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 31
Julio María Sanguinetti age 23
Iolu Abil age 16
Phạm Minh Chính age 1 month
Marek Belka age 7
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 63
Mireya Moscoso age 12
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 24
Tanzan Ishibashi age 74
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 43
Margaret Chan age 11
Ahmad Uyahya age 6
Leo Tindemans age 36
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 51
Melchior Ndadaye age 6
Vladimír Špidla age 7
Antoine Gizenga age 33
Eugenia Charles age 39
Nicholas Liverpool age 24
Mario Scelba age 57
Anker Jørgensen age 36
William Richard Tolbert age 45
Didier Ratsiraka age 22
Abdelilah Benkirane age 4
Sushil Koirala age 19
Kåre Willoch age 30
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 64
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 1 month
Pascal Lissouba age 27
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 15
Adrian Năstase age 8
Michal Kováč age 28
Pascal Couchepin age 16
Wellington Koo age 71
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 48
Gaafar Nimeiry age 28
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 106
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 71
Tetsu Katayama age 71
Hitoshi Ashida age 71
Pierre Messmer age 42
Janet Reno age 20
Edmund Muskie age 44
Fan S. Noli age 77
Mohamed Boudiaf age 39
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 34
Arthur Fadden age 64
Quentin Bryce age 16
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 8
Hugo Banzer age 32
Nuon Chea age 32
Ange-Félix Patassé age 22
Glafcos Clerides age 39
Joaquín Balaguer age 52
Josefa Iloilo age 38
Esko Aho age 4
Luís Cabral age 27
Sam Hinds age 15
Janet Jagan age 38
Abdul Latif Rashid age 14
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 17
Giuseppe Pella age 56
Fernando Tambroni age 57
Joop den Uyl age 39
Behgjet Pacolli age 7
Bakili Muluzi age 15
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 16
António Ramalho Eanes age 24
António de Spínola age 48
Milan Milutinović age 16
France-Albert René age 23
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 26
Yusof bin Ishak age 48
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 5
Ruth Dreifuss age 19
Fradique de Menezes age 16
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 21
Samak Sundaravej age 23
George Maxwell Richards age 27
Yurii Yekhanurov age 10
Juan María Bordaberry age 30
Baldwin Lonsdale age 10
Laurentino Cortizo age 6
Maurice Couve de Murville age 52
Pierre Bérégovoy age 33
Mark W. Clark age 62
B. J. Vorster age 43
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 53
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 12
William Rehnquist age 34
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 4
Andranik Margaryan age 7
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 58
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 29
Jigme Thinley age 6
Pierre Buyoya age 9
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 4
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 32
Essam Sharaf age 7
Ahmed Nazif age 6
Väinö Tanner age 77
José Mário Vaz age 1
David A. Granger age 13
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 53
Patrick Hillery age 35
Serik Akhmetov age 7 months
Tammam Salam age 13
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 73
Kazimira Prunskienė age 15
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 6
Dom Mintoff age 42
Guido de Marco age 27
Moktar Ould Daddah age 34
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 68
Myint Swe age 7
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 49
Pedro Santana Lopes age 2
Ralph Gonsalves age 12
Ola Ullsten age 27
Moritz Leuenberger age 12
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 6
Oqil Oqilov age 15
Sarit Thanarat age 50
Somchai Wongsawat age 11
Café Filho age 60
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 71
Félix Gouin age 74
Ante Marković age 34
John Connally age 41
Merrick Garland age 6
Nandó dos Santos age 8
Baldwin Spencer age 10
Peter Cosgrove age 11
Freundel Stuart age 7
Syarhiey Sidorski age 4
Nicéphore Soglo age 24
Eduardo Rodríguez age 2
Petar Mladenov age 22
Michel Micombero age 18