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Events

Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Occupation of the Baltic states 1940 - 1991
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
White Terror (Taiwan) 1949-05-19 - 1992-11-06
Mexican Dirty War 1954 - 2000
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Communist insurgency in Sarawak 1962-06-22 - 1990-11-03
Rhodesian Bush War 1964-07-04 - 1979-12-12
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon 1968 - 1982
Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989) 1968 - 1989
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Operation Banner 1969-08-14 - 2007-07-31
Basic Treaty, 1972 1972-12-21 - 1990-10-03
Ethiopian Civil War 1974-09-12 - 1991-06-04
Cuban intervention in Angola 1975 - 1991
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Third Indochina War 1975-05-01 - 1991-10-23
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Indonesian occupation of East Timor 1975-12-07 - 1999-10-31
Indonesian invasion of East Timor 1975-12-07 - 1979-03-26
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Syrian occupation of Lebanon 1976-05-31 - 2005-04-30
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Chadian–Libyan War 1978 - 1987
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Tsutomu Hata age 42
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 29
Édouard Balladur age 49
David Petraeus age 25
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 33
Igor Girkin age 7
Queen Mary of Denmark age 6
Mike Huckabee age 22
Rick Perry age 28
Greg Abbott age 20
Eduardo Duhalde age 36
Wolfgang Schüssel age 32
Artur Rasizade age 43
John Diefenbaker age 82
José Maria Neves age 18
Ricardo Lagos age 40
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 51
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 5
Gyula Horn age 45
Fatmir Sejdiu age 26
Fayez al-Sarraj age 18
Ernesto Zedillo age 26
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa age 9
Luísa Diogo age 20
Mohamed Bazoum age 18
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 24
Viorica Dăncilă age 14
Goh Chok Tong age 36
Chan Santokhi age 19
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 28
Tô Lâm age 20
Michael Sata age 40
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 39
Martín Vizcarra age 15
Diosdado Macapagal age 67
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 40
José Sarney age 48
Brian Cowen age 18
Stanislav Shushkevich age 43
Empress Masako age 14
George Shultz age 57
Christian Kern age 12
Kristen Michal age 2
Juha Sipilä age 17
Kostas Karamanlis age 21
Jimmy Morales age 9
Haider Al-Abadi age 26
Catherine Connolly age 22
Emilio Colombo age 58
Choummaly Sayasone age 42
Michel Suleiman age 29
Joseph Muscat age 4
George Abela age 30
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 30
Milovan Đilas age 66
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 42
Girija Prasad Koirala age 53
Pedro Passos Coelho age 13
Ernest Bai Koroma age 24
Milan Kučan age 37
Viola Amherd age 15
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 36
Levy Mwanawasa age 29
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 28
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 9
Michel Rocard age 47
Paul Wolfowitz age 34
Alain Poher age 69
Empress Michiko age 43
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 43
Abulfaz Elchibey age 39
Zhelyu Zhelev age 43
Hissène Habré age 35
Nicos Christodoulides age 4
Adly Mansour age 32
Nino Burjanadze age 13
Georgios Papadopoulos age 59
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 24
Ferenc Mádl age 47
Árpád Göncz age 56
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 3
Laimdota Straujuma age 27
Joseph Aoun age 14
Min Aung Hlaing age 21
Ivica Dačić age 12
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 21
Lawrence Wong age 5
Ingvar Carlsson age 43
Francisco Guterres age 23
Frederick Chiluba age 35
Juan Carlos Varela age 14
Alejandro Toledo age 33
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 21
Željko Komšić age 14
Noboru Takeshita age 54
Keizō Obuchi age 40
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 30
Jeff Sessions age 31
Gerry Adams age 29
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 4
Oswald Mosley age 81
Tim Kaine age 20
Hu Yaobang age 62
Clarence Thomas age 29
Robert Menzies age 83
Iajuddin Ahmed age 47
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 28
Luis Guillermo Solís age 20
Jan Fischer age 27
Danilo Medina age 26
Hailemariam Desalegn age 12
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 10
Costas Simitis age 41
Ezer Weizman age 53
Isaac Navon age 57
Thongloun Sisoulith age 32
Krišjānis Kariņš age 13
Émile Lahoud age 42
Samuel Doe age 27
Jacques Santer age 40
Marc Ravalomanana age 28
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 19
Lazarus Chakwera age 23
Luis Echeverría age 56
Miguel de la Madrid age 43
Natalia Gavrilița age 7 months
Ram Chandra Poudel age 33
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 31
Luís Montenegro age 5
Ueli Maurer age 27
Benjamin Mkapa age 39
Ricardo Martinelli age 26
Haris Silajdžić age 32
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 17
Morihiro Hosokawa age 40
João Figueiredo age 60
Priti Patel age 6
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 86
Warren Christopher age 52
Rexhep Meidani age 33
Reynaldo Bignone age 50
Ayaz Mutallibov age 39
Quett Masire age 52
John Turner age 48
David Dacko age 48
Catherine Samba-Panza age 23
Bohuslav Sobotka age 6
Leonel Fernández age 24
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 33
Antti Rinne age 15
H. D. Deve Gowda age 44
Abdul Rahman Arif age 62
Portia Simpson-Miller age 32
George William Vella age 36
Win Myint age 26
Baron Waqa age 18
Jenny Shipley age 26
Mamadou Tandja age 39
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 30
S. R. Nathan age 53
Igor Matovič age 4
Didier Burkhalter age 18
Taur Matan Ruak age 21
Fouad Mebazaa age 44
Rupiah Banda age 41
Canaan Banana age 42
Han Duck-soo age 28
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 48
Jim Yong Kim age 18
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 43
Tarana Burke age 4
Ingrid of Sweden age 68
John Lewis age 38
Tigran Sargsyan age 18
Lon Nol age 64
Azali Assoumani age 19
Alfredo Palacio age 39
Mostafa Madbouly age 12
Siim Kallas age 29
Frank Bainimarama age 24
Rose Francine Rogombe age 35
Otto Pérez Molina age 27
Álvaro Colom age 26
Joseph Michel Martelly age 17
Halla Tómasdóttir age 9
Mohammad Hatta age 75
Mariano Rumor age 62
Ciriaco De Mita age 50
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 34
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 82
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 32
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 25
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 15
Zdravko Krivokapić age 19
Boris Trajkovski age 21
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 63
Marcelo Caetano age 71
Mikhail Kasianov age 20
Miro Cerar age 14
Alain Berset age 6