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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Baltic Way 1989-08-23

People

Martín Vizcarra age 26
Diosdado Macapagal age 78
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 52
Brian Cowen age 29
Stanislav Shushkevich age 54
Empress Masako age 25
George Shultz age 68
Christian Kern age 23
Kristen Michal age 14
Juha Sipilä age 28
Kostas Karamanlis age 32
Jimmy Morales age 20
Haider Al-Abadi age 37
Catherine Connolly age 33
Emilio Colombo age 69
Choummaly Sayasone age 53
Michel Suleiman age 40
Inga Ruginienė age 8
Joseph Muscat age 15
George Abela age 41
José López Portillo age 69
Milovan Đilas age 78
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 54
Girija Prasad Koirala age 65
Pedro Passos Coelho age 25
Ernest Bai Koroma age 35
Milan Kučan age 48
Viola Amherd age 27
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 48
Levy Mwanawasa age 40
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 40
Anura Kurankan Dissanayake age 20
Paul Wolfowitz age 45
Alain Poher age 80
Kemi Badenoch age 9
Empress Michiko age 54
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 55
Abulfaz Elchibey age 51
Zhelyu Zhelev age 54
Nicos Christodoulides age 15
Adly Mansour age 43
Nino Burjanadze age 25
Georgios Papadopoulos age 70
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 36
Ferenc Mádl age 58
Árpád Göncz age 67
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson age 14
Laimdota Straujuma age 38
Joseph Aoun age 25
Min Aung Hlaing age 33
Ivica Dačić age 23
Tharman Shanmugaratnam age 32
Lawrence Wong age 16
Francisco Guterres age 34
Olexii Honcharuk age 5
Frederick Chiluba age 46
Juan Carlos Varela age 25
Alejandro Toledo age 44
Hwang Kyo-ahn age 32
Željko Komšić age 25
Noboru Takeshita age 65
Keizō Obuchi age 52
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 41
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland age 10
Queen Mette-Marit of Norway age 16
Tim Kaine age 31
Clarence Thomas age 41
Iajuddin Ahmed age 58
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 39
Luis Guillermo Solís age 31
Jan Fischer age 38
Danilo Medina age 37
Hailemariam Desalegn age 24
Giorgi Kvirikashvili age 22
Costas Simitis age 53
Ezer Weizman age 65
Isaac Navon age 68
Dries van Agt age 58
Thongloun Sisoulith age 43
Krišjānis Kariņš age 24
Émile Lahoud age 53
Marc Ravalomanana age 39
Hery Rajaonarimampianina age 30
Lazarus Chakwera age 34
Luis Echeverría age 67
Miguel de la Madrid age 54
Natalia Gavrilița age 11
Ne Win age 78
Ram Chandra Poudel age 44
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 43
Luís Montenegro age 16
Ueli Maurer age 38
Benjamin Mkapa age 50
Ricardo Martinelli age 37
Haris Silajdžić age 43
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan age 29
Takeo Fukuda age 84
Morihiro Hosokawa age 51
João Figueiredo age 71
Priti Patel age 17
Jerry Brown age 51
Warren Christopher age 63
Rexhep Meidani age 45
Reynaldo Bignone age 61
Ayaz Mutallibov age 51
John Turner age 60
David Dacko age 59
Catherine Samba-Panza age 35
Bohuslav Sobotka age 17
Leonel Fernández age 35
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 45
Antti Rinne age 26
H. D. Deve Gowda age 56
Abdul Rahman Arif age 73
Portia Simpson-Miller age 43
George William Vella age 47
Win Myint age 37
Baron Waqa age 29
Jenny Shipley age 37
Mamadou Tandja age 51
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 42
S. R. Nathan age 65
Igor Matovič age 16
Didier Burkhalter age 29
Taur Matan Ruak age 32
Fouad Mebazaa age 56
Rupiah Banda age 52
Canaan Banana age 53
Han Duck-soo age 40
Raymond Barre age 65
Mohamed Bouazizi age 5
Ernesto Geisel age 82
Simon Harris age 2
Jim Yong Kim age 29
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 55
Tarana Burke age 15
Ingrid of Sweden age 79
Princess Beatrice age 1
Tigran Sargsyan age 29
Azali Assoumani age 30
Alfredo Palacio age 50
Mostafa Madbouly age 23
Siim Kallas age 40
Frank Bainimarama age 35
Rose Francine Rogombe age 46
Otto Pérez Molina age 38
Álvaro Colom age 38
Joseph Michel Martelly age 28
Halla Tómasdóttir age 20
Mariano Rumor age 74
Ciriaco De Mita age 61
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 46
Assimi Goïta age 5
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 43
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 36
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 26
Zdravko Krivokapić age 30
Dritan Abazović age 3
Boris Trajkovski age 33
Mikhail Kasianov age 31
Bassirou Diomaye Faye age 9
Miro Cerar age 26
Alain Berset age 17
Srettha Thavisin age 27
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 37
Trần Đức Lương age 52
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 80
Choi Kyu-hah age 70
Željka Cvijanović age 22
Zenkō Suzuki age 78
Philip Hammond age 33
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 23
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 32
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 24
Timothy McVeigh age 21
Li Xiannian age 80
Liz Cheney age 23
George Wallace age 70
Alexander Haig age 64
Fatos Nano age 36
Xavier Espot Zamora age 9
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 74
Carlos Mesa age 36
Petar Stoyanov age 37
Sergey Stanishev age 23
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 21
Patricio Aylwin age 70
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 34
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 70
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 30
Irfaan Ali age 9
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 41
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 41
Davíð Oddsson age 41
Giovanni Spadolini age 64
Arnaldo Forlani age 63
Raila A Odinga age 44
Anote Tong age 37
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 48
Mohamed Muizzu age 11