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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
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 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Tim Kaine age 3
Hu Yaobang age 45
Clarence Thomas age 13
Iajuddin Ahmed age 30
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 11
Luis Guillermo Solís age 3
Jan Fischer age 10
Danilo Medina age 9
Costas Simitis age 25
Abdul Salam Arif age 40
Ezer Weizman age 37
Isaac Navon age 40
Dries van Agt age 30
Thongloun Sisoulith age 15
Émile Lahoud age 25
Samuel Doe age 10
Jacques Santer age 24
Marc Ravalomanana age 11
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 2
Lazarus Chakwera age 6
Luis Echeverría age 39
Miguel de la Madrid age 26
Ne Win age 50
Ram Chandra Poudel age 16
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 15
Ueli Maurer age 10
Benjamin Mkapa age 22
Ricardo Martinelli age 9
Haris Silajdžić age 15
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 1
C. Rajagopalachari age 82
Takeo Fukuda age 56
Morihiro Hosokawa age 23
João Figueiredo age 43
Allen Dulles age 68
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 69
Jerry Brown age 23
Alice Paul age 76
Warren Christopher age 35
Rexhep Meidani age 17
Reynaldo Bignone age 33
Ayaz Mutallibov age 23
Quett Masire age 36
John Turner age 32
Catherine Samba-Panza age 7
Leonel Fernández age 7
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 17
H. D. Deve Gowda age 28
Abdul Rahman Arif age 45
Portia Simpson-Miller age 15
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 40
George William Vella age 19
Win Myint age 9
Baron Waqa age 1
Jenny Shipley age 9
Mamadou Tandja age 23
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 13
S. R. Nathan age 37
Didier Burkhalter age 1
Taur Matan Ruak age 4
Fouad Mebazaa age 28
Rupiah Banda age 24
Canaan Banana age 25
Han Duck-soo age 12
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 58
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 31
Raymond Barre age 37
Ernesto Geisel age 54
Jim Yong Kim age 1
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 27
Ingrid of Sweden age 51
John Lewis age 21
Tigran Sargsyan age 1
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 25
Lon Nol age 47
Azali Assoumani age 2
Alfredo Palacio age 22
Siim Kallas age 12
Frank Bainimarama age 7
Rose Francine Rogombe age 18
Otto Pérez Molina age 10
Álvaro Colom age 10
Joseph Michel Martelly age 6 months
Mohammad Hatta age 59
Mariano Rumor age 46
Ciriaco De Mita age 33
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 18
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 15
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 8
Zdravko Krivokapić age 2
Boris Trajkovski age 5
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 46
Marcelo Caetano age 55
Mikhail Kasianov age 3
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 9
Trần Đức Lương age 24
Choi Kyu-hah age 42
Zenkō Suzuki age 50
Paul Reynaud age 82
Leon Panetta age 23
Philip Hammond age 5
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 4
Mario Cuomo age 29
George Wallace age 42
Alexander Haig age 36
Fatos Nano age 8
Franz Jonas age 61
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 46
Carlos Mesa age 8
Petar Stoyanov age 9
Patricio Aylwin age 42
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 44
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 6
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 42
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 2
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 13
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 13
Davíð Oddsson age 13
Giovanni Spadolini age 36
Arnaldo Forlani age 35
Raila A Odinga age 16
Anote Tong age 9
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 20
Anerood Jugnauth age 31
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 50
Zinaida Greceanîi age 5
Aziz Akhannouch age 0 months
Armando Guebuza age 18
Farooq Leghari age 21
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 9
Emil Constantinescu age 21
Evaristo Carvalho age 19
Abdulla Aripov age 2 months
Sergio Osmeña age 82
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 35
Luis Carrero Blanco age 57
Harold Alexander age 69
Masayoshi Ōhira age 51
Sōsuke Uno age 39
Pierre Mendès France age 54
Oliver Tambo age 43
Gennady Yanayev age 23
Chadli Bendjedid age 32
Franz Vranitzky age 23
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 21
Wilfried Martens age 25
Dean Barrow age 10
Louis St. Laurent age 79
Aristides Pereira age 37
Pedro Pires age 27
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 50
Sherif Ismail age 6
Geir Haarde age 10
Ephraim Katzir age 45
Giovanni Goria age 18
Rolandas Paksas age 5
Algirdas Butkevičius age 2
Gediminas Kirkilas age 9
Muhyiddin Yassin age 14
Moussa Traoré age 24
Eddie Fenech Adami age 27
U Nu age 54
Ibrahim Babangida age 20
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 31
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 31
Vladimír Mečiar age 19
Ronald Venetiaan age 25
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 5
Rafael Caldera age 45
Hanna Suchocka age 15
Fernando Belaúnde age 48
Abdalla Hamdok age 5
Takeo Miki age 54
William Westmoreland age 47
Venceslau Brás age 93
Georges Bidault age 61
William Hague age 4 months
Vasily Sokolovsky age 64
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 12
Marcel Lefebvre age 55
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 14
Craig Venter age 14
Francis Collins age 11
Yang Shangkun age 54
Stephen Breyer age 23
Thurgood Marshall age 53
James F. Byrnes age 79
Christian Stocker age 1
Hubert Maga age 45
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 40
Sylvie Kinigi age 8
Jioji Konrote age 13
Paavo Lipponen age 20
Georgios Papandreou age 73
Alejandro Giammattei age 5
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 2
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 14
Zalman Shazar age 71
Piet de Jong age 46
Guntis Ulmanis age 21