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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
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Tim Kaine age 14
Hu Yaobang age 56
Clarence Thomas age 24
Robert Menzies age 77
Iajuddin Ahmed age 41
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 22
Luis Guillermo Solís age 14
Jan Fischer age 21
Danilo Medina age 20
Hailemariam Desalegn age 6
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 4
Costas Simitis age 36
Ezer Weizman age 48
Isaac Navon age 51
Dries van Agt age 41
Thongloun Sisoulith age 26
Krišjānis Kariņš age 7
Émile Lahoud age 36
Samuel Doe age 21
Jacques Santer age 35
Marc Ravalomanana age 22
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 13
Lazarus Chakwera age 17
Ne Win age 61
Ram Chandra Poudel age 27
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 26
Ueli Maurer age 21
Benjamin Mkapa age 33
Ricardo Martinelli age 20
Haris Silajdžić age 26
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 11
C. Rajagopalachari age 93
Takeo Fukuda age 67
Morihiro Hosokawa age 34
João Figueiredo age 54
Priti Patel age 2 months
Jerry Brown age 34
Warren Christopher age 46
Rexhep Meidani age 27
Reynaldo Bignone age 44
Ayaz Mutallibov age 34
Quett Masire age 46
John Turner age 43
David Dacko age 42
Catherine Samba-Panza age 17
Bohuslav Sobotka age 7 months
Leonel Fernández age 18
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 28
Antti Rinne age 9
Abdul Rahman Arif age 56
Portia Simpson-Miller age 26
George William Vella age 30
Win Myint age 20
Baron Waqa age 12
Jenny Shipley age 20
Mamadou Tandja age 33
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 24
S. R. Nathan age 47
Didier Burkhalter age 12
Taur Matan Ruak age 15
Fouad Mebazaa age 39
Rupiah Banda age 35
Canaan Banana age 36
Han Duck-soo age 23
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 42
Raymond Barre age 48
Ernesto Geisel age 64
Jim Yong Kim age 12
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 37
John Lewis age 32
Tigran Sargsyan age 12
Lon Nol age 58
Azali Assoumani age 13
Alfredo Palacio age 33
Mostafa Madbouly age 6
Frank Bainimarama age 18
Rose Francine Rogombe age 29
Otto Pérez Molina age 21
Álvaro Colom age 21
Joseph Michel Martelly age 11
Halla Tómasdóttir age 3
Mohammad Hatta age 69
Mariano Rumor age 57
Ciriaco De Mita age 44
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 29
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 76
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 26
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 19
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 9
Zdravko Krivokapić age 13
Boris Trajkovski age 15
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 57
Mikhail Kasianov age 14
Miro Cerar age 8
Alain Berset age 2 months
Srettha Thavisin age 10
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 20
Trần Đức Lương age 35
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 63
Choi Kyu-hah age 52
Željka Cvijanović age 5
Zenkō Suzuki age 61
Leon Panetta age 33
Philip Hammond age 16
Mario Cuomo age 40
Liz Cheney age 5
George Wallace age 52
Alexander Haig age 47
Fatos Nano age 19
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 57
Carlos Mesa age 18
Petar Stoyanov age 20
Sergey Stanishev age 6
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 4
Patricio Aylwin age 53
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 55
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 17
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 53
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 12
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 24
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 78
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 24
Davíð Oddsson age 24
Giovanni Spadolini age 47
Arnaldo Forlani age 46
Raila A Odinga age 27
Anote Tong age 20
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 31
Anerood Jugnauth age 42
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 61
Zinaida Greceanîi age 16
Aziz Akhannouch age 10
Armando Guebuza age 29
Einar Gerhardsen age 75
Farooq Leghari age 32
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 20
Emil Constantinescu age 32
Tage Erlander age 71
Evaristo Carvalho age 30
Abdulla Aripov age 11
Rómulo Betancourt age 64
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 46
Luis Carrero Blanco age 68
Masayoshi Ōhira age 62
Sōsuke Uno age 49
Pierre Mendès France age 65
Jeremy Hunt age 5
Michael Gove age 4
Earl Warren age 81
Gennady Yanayev age 34
Chadli Bendjedid age 43
Franz Vranitzky age 34
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 31
Wilfried Martens age 36
Dean Barrow age 21
Louis St. Laurent age 90
Aristides Pereira age 48
Pedro Pires age 38
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 61
Roosevelt Skerrit age 0 months
Sherif Ismail age 16
Geir Haarde age 21
Ephraim Katzir age 56
Giovanni Goria age 28
Asqar Mamin age 6
Rolandas Paksas age 16
Algirdas Butkevičius age 13
Gediminas Kirkilas age 20
Muhyiddin Yassin age 25
Eddie Fenech Adami age 38
U Nu age 65
Ibrahim Babangida age 30
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 42
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 42
Dacian Cioloș age 2
Julius Maada Bio age 8
Vladimír Mečiar age 29
Ronald Venetiaan age 36
Karin Keller-Sutter age 8
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 16
Hanna Suchocka age 26
Federico Franco age 9
Fernando Belaúnde age 59
Abdalla Hamdok age 16
Takeo Miki age 65
Georges Bidault age 72
George Osborne age 1
Yang Shangkun age 64
Stephen Breyer age 33
Christian Stocker age 12
Hubert Maga age 55
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 50
Sylvie Kinigi age 19
Jioji Konrote age 24
Paavo Lipponen age 31
Rose Christiane Raponda age 8
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 11 months
Alejandro Giammattei age 16
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 13
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 25