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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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Fayez al-Sarraj age 12
Modibo Keïta age 57
Ernesto Zedillo age 20
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 4
Luísa Diogo age 14
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 46
Mohamed Bazoum age 12
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 19
Viorica Dăncilă age 8
Goh Chok Tong age 31
Chan Santokhi age 13
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 23
Tô Lâm age 15
Michael Sata age 35
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 34
Martín Vizcarra age 9
Diosdado Macapagal age 62
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 85
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 35
José Sarney age 42
Brian Cowen age 12
Stanislav Shushkevich age 37
Empress Masako age 8
Christian Kern age 6
Ziaur Rahman age 36
Juha Sipilä age 11
Kostas Karamanlis age 16
Jimmy Morales age 3
Haider Al-Abadi age 20
Catherine Connolly age 17
Emilio Colombo age 52
Choummaly Sayasone age 36
Michel Suleiman age 24
George Abela age 24
José López Portillo age 52
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 24
Milovan Đilas age 61
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 37
Girija Prasad Koirala age 48
Pedro Passos Coelho age 8
Ernest Bai Koroma age 19
Milan Kučan age 31
Viola Amherd age 10
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 31
Levy Mwanawasa age 24
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 23
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 3
Michel Rocard age 42
Paul Wolfowitz age 28
Alain Poher age 63
Empress Michiko age 38
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 38
Abulfaz Elchibey age 34
Zhelyu Zhelev age 37
Hissène Habré age 30
Adly Mansour age 26
Nino Burjanadze age 8
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 19
Ferenc Mádl age 41
Árpád Göncz age 50
Laimdota Straujuma age 21
Joseph Aoun age 8
Min Aung Hlaing age 16
Ivica Dačić age 6
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 15
Ingvar Carlsson age 38
Francisco Guterres age 18
Frederick Chiluba age 29
Juan Carlos Varela age 8
Alejandro Toledo age 27
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 15
Željko Komšić age 8
Noboru Takeshita age 48
Keizō Obuchi age 35
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 24
Jeff Sessions age 25
Gerry Adams age 24
Oswald Mosley age 76
Tim Kaine age 14
Hu Yaobang age 57
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 21
Hailemariam Desalegn age 7
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 5
Costas Simitis age 36
Ezer Weizman age 48
Isaac Navon age 51
Dries van Agt age 41
Thongloun Sisoulith age 27
Krišjānis Kariņš age 7
Émile Lahoud age 36
Samuel Doe age 21
Jacques Santer age 35
Marc Ravalomanana age 22
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 14
Lazarus Chakwera age 17
Miguel de la Madrid age 37
Ne Win age 61
Ram Chandra Poudel age 28
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 26
Ueli Maurer age 21
Benjamin Mkapa age 34
Ricardo Martinelli age 20
Haris Silajdžić age 27
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 12
C. Rajagopalachari age 94
Takeo Fukuda age 67
Morihiro Hosokawa age 34
João Figueiredo age 54
Priti Patel age 7 months
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 80
Jerry Brown age 34
Alice Paul age 87
Warren Christopher age 47
Rexhep Meidani age 28
Reynaldo Bignone age 44
Ayaz Mutallibov age 34
Quett Masire age 47
John Turner age 43
David Dacko age 42
Catherine Samba-Panza age 18
Bohuslav Sobotka age 1
Leonel Fernández age 18
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 28
Antti Rinne age 10
H. D. Deve Gowda age 39
Abdul Rahman Arif age 56
Portia Simpson-Miller age 26
George William Vella age 30
Win Myint age 21
Baron Waqa age 12
Jenny Shipley age 20
Mamadou Tandja age 34
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 25
S. R. Nathan age 48
Didier Burkhalter age 12
Taur Matan Ruak age 16
Fouad Mebazaa age 39
Rupiah Banda age 35
Canaan Banana age 36
Han Duck-soo age 23
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 43
Raymond Barre age 48
Ernesto Geisel age 65
Jim Yong Kim age 12
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 38
Ingrid of Sweden age 62
John Lewis age 32
Tigran Sargsyan age 12
Lon Nol age 59
Azali Assoumani age 13
Alfredo Palacio age 33
Mostafa Madbouly age 6
Siim Kallas age 24
Frank Bainimarama age 18
Rose Francine Rogombe age 30
Otto Pérez Molina age 21
Álvaro Colom age 21
Joseph Michel Martelly age 11
Halla Tómasdóttir age 4
Mohammad Hatta age 70
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 20
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 9
Zdravko Krivokapić age 14
Boris Trajkovski age 16
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 57
Mikhail Kasianov age 14
Miro Cerar age 9
Alain Berset age 7 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 53
Željka Cvijanović age 5
Zenkō Suzuki age 61
Leon Panetta age 34
Philip Hammond age 16
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 6
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 15
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 7
Mario Cuomo age 40
Timothy McVeigh age 4
Liz Cheney age 6
George Wallace age 53
Alexander Haig age 47
Fatos Nano age 20
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 57
Carlos Mesa age 19
Petar Stoyanov age 20