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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16

People

John Diefenbaker age 75
José Maria Neves age 11
Ricardo Lagos age 33
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 45
Gyula Horn age 39
Fatmir Sejdiu age 19
Fayez al-Sarraj age 11
Modibo Keïta age 56
Ernesto Zedillo age 19
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 3
Luísa Diogo age 13
Mohamed Bazoum age 11
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 18
Viorica Dăncilă age 7
Goh Chok Tong age 30
Chan Santokhi age 12
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 21
Tô Lâm age 14
Michael Sata age 34
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 32
Martín Vizcarra age 8
Diosdado Macapagal age 60
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 84
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 34
José Sarney age 41
Brian Cowen age 11
Stanislav Shushkevich age 36
Empress Masako age 7
George Shultz age 50
Christian Kern age 5
Ziaur Rahman age 35
Juha Sipilä age 10
Kostas Karamanlis age 14
Jimmy Morales age 2
Haider Al-Abadi age 19
Catherine Connolly age 15
Choummaly Sayasone age 35
Michel Suleiman age 22
George Abela age 23
José López Portillo age 51
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 23
Milovan Đilas age 60
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 36
Girija Prasad Koirala age 47
Pedro Passos Coelho age 7
Ernest Bai Koroma age 17
Milan Kučan age 30
Viola Amherd age 9
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 30
Levy Mwanawasa age 22
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 22
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 2
Michel Rocard age 41
Paul Wolfowitz age 27
Alain Poher age 62
Empress Michiko age 36
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 37
Abulfaz Elchibey age 33
Zhelyu Zhelev age 36
Hissène Habré age 29
Adly Mansour age 25
Nino Burjanadze age 7
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 18
Ferenc Mádl age 40
Árpád Göncz age 49
Laimdota Straujuma age 20
Joseph Aoun age 7
Min Aung Hlaing age 15
Ivica Dačić age 5
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 14
Ingvar Carlsson age 36
Francisco Guterres age 16
Frederick Chiluba age 28
Juan Carlos Varela age 7
Alejandro Toledo age 26
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 14
Željko Komšić age 7
Noboru Takeshita age 47
Keizō Obuchi age 34
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 23
Jeff Sessions age 24
Gerry Adams age 22
Oswald Mosley age 74
Tim Kaine age 13
Hu Yaobang age 55
Clarence Thomas age 23
Robert Menzies age 76
Iajuddin Ahmed age 40
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 21
Luis Guillermo Solís age 13
Jan Fischer age 20
Danilo Medina age 19
Hailemariam Desalegn age 6
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 4
Costas Simitis age 35
Ezer Weizman age 47
Isaac Navon age 50
Dries van Agt age 40
Thongloun Sisoulith age 25
Krišjānis Kariņš age 6
Émile Lahoud age 35
Samuel Doe age 20
Jacques Santer age 34
Marc Ravalomanana age 21
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 12
Lazarus Chakwera age 16
Miguel de la Madrid age 36
Ne Win age 60
Ram Chandra Poudel age 26
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 25
Ueli Maurer age 20
Benjamin Mkapa age 32
Ricardo Martinelli age 19
Haris Silajdžić age 25
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 11
C. Rajagopalachari age 92
Takeo Fukuda age 66
Morihiro Hosokawa age 33
João Figueiredo age 53
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 79
Jerry Brown age 33
Alice Paul age 86
Warren Christopher age 45
Rexhep Meidani age 27
Reynaldo Bignone age 43
Ayaz Mutallibov age 33
Quett Masire age 46
John Turner age 42
David Dacko age 41
Catherine Samba-Panza age 17
Leonel Fernández age 17
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 27
Antti Rinne age 8
H. D. Deve Gowda age 38
Abdul Rahman Arif age 55
Portia Simpson-Miller age 25
George William Vella age 29
Win Myint age 19
Baron Waqa age 11
Jenny Shipley age 19
Mamadou Tandja age 33
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 23
S. R. Nathan age 47
Didier Burkhalter age 11
Taur Matan Ruak age 14
Fouad Mebazaa age 38
Rupiah Banda age 34
Canaan Banana age 35
Han Duck-soo age 22
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 41
Raymond Barre age 47
Ernesto Geisel age 64
Jim Yong Kim age 11
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 37
Ingrid of Sweden age 61
John Lewis age 31
Tigran Sargsyan age 11
Lon Nol age 57
Azali Assoumani age 12
Alfredo Palacio age 32
Mostafa Madbouly age 5
Siim Kallas age 22
Frank Bainimarama age 17
Rose Francine Rogombe age 28
Otto Pérez Molina age 20
Álvaro Colom age 20
Joseph Michel Martelly age 10
Halla Tómasdóttir age 2
Mohammad Hatta age 69
Mariano Rumor age 56
Ciriaco De Mita age 43
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 28
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 75
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 25
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 18
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 8
Zdravko Krivokapić age 12
Boris Trajkovski age 15
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 56
Mikhail Kasianov age 13
Miro Cerar age 7
Srettha Thavisin age 9
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 19
Trần Đức Lương age 34
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 62
Choi Kyu-hah age 52
Željka Cvijanović age 4
Zenkō Suzuki age 60
Leon Panetta age 33
Philip Hammond age 15
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 5
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 14
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 6
Mario Cuomo age 39
Timothy McVeigh age 3
Liz Cheney age 5
George Wallace age 52
Alexander Haig age 46
Fatos Nano age 18
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 56