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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16

People

Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 30
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 13
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 52
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 25
Viačasław Kiebič age 19
Mark Eyskens age 22
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 38
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 25
Elisabeth Domitien age 30
Michel Djotodia age 6
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 34
Ahmed Shafik age 13
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 40
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 10
Christos Sartzetakis age 26
Boniface Alexandre age 19
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 44
Elias Hrawi age 29
Pakalitha Mosisili age 10
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 17
Emilio Portes Gil age 65
Jhala Nath Khanal age 5
Enrique Bolaños age 27
Mahamane Ousmane age 5
Murtala Muhammed age 16
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 31
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 23
Fulbert Youlou age 38
Radu Vasile age 13
Petre Roman age 9
Mame Madior Boye age 14
Manasseh Sogavare age 9 months
Thanom Kittikachorn age 44
Leszek Miller age 9
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 34
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 22
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 56
Guy Mollet age 49
Ferruccio Parri age 65
Liam Cosgrave age 35
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 36
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 45
Vuk Drašković age 8
William Barr age 5
Dong Biwu age 69
Raymond A. Spruance age 69
Tôn Đức Thắng age 67
James R. Schlesinger age 26
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 37
Héctor José Cámpora age 46
Juan Carlos Onganía age 41
Frank Forde age 65
David Hurley age 2
Leopold Figl age 53
Viktor Klima age 8
Gaston Eyskens age 50
Michel Kafando age 13
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 7 months
Domitien Ndayizeye age 2
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 11
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 56
Ernesto Samper age 5
Juan Bosch age 46
Gustavo Noboa age 18
Keith Mitchell age 8
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 9
Arthur Chung age 37
Ariel Henry age 5
Zoltán Tildy age 65
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 8
Michael Manley age 30
Pierre Werner age 41
Albert Zafy age 28
Anthony Mamo age 46
Amata Kabua age 26
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 13
Navin Ramgoolam age 8
Petru Lucinschi age 15
Abbas El Fassi age 15
Baburam Bhattarai age 1
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 30
David Lange age 13
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 4
Johnson Toribiong age 9
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 21
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 53
Philip J. Pierre age 1
Su Tseng-chang age 8
Hubert Minnis age 1
Keith Rowley age 5
Muteesa II of Buganda age 30
Le Duc Anh age 34
Ibrahim Abboud age 55
Chen Yi age 54
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 66
Manfred Wörner age 21
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 41
Alberto Gonzales age 2 months
Vladimir Ivashko age 22
David Souter age 16
William P. Rogers age 42
Owen Arthur age 5
George Cadle Price age 36
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 39
André Kolingba age 19
Jiří Paroubek age 3
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 73
Edgar Savisaar age 5
Epeli Nailatikau age 14
Karl-August Fagerholm age 53
Leslie Manigat age 25
Miklós Németh age 7
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 63
Robert Guéï age 14
Bah Ndaw age 5
Dioncounda Traoré age 13
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 13
Patsy Reddy age 1
Lars Korvald age 39
John Lyng age 50
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 51
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 11
Américo Tomás age 60
Denzil Douglas age 2
James Mancham age 16
Siaka Stevens age 50
Benjamin Sheares age 48
Li Tsung-jen age 66
Chuan Leekpai age 17
Perry Christie age 12
Mari Alkatiri age 5
Yıldırım Akbulut age 20
Pavlo Lazarenko age 2
Jan Olszewski age 25
José María Balcázar age 12
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 20
Ho Chong age 59
Creighton Abrams age 41
Charles Haughey age 30
Joseph Luns age 44
Nereu Ramos age 67
William J. Perry age 28
John McEwen age 55
Novruz Mammadov age 8
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 29
Alfonso López Michelsen age 42
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 49
Ahmed Abdallah age 36
Ivica Račan age 11
Manny Mori age 6
Ahti Karjalainen age 32
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 69
Martti Miettunen age 48
Maurice Bishop age 11
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 8
Ricardo Maduro age 9
Mátyás Szűrös age 22
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 27
Adone Zoli age 67
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 25
Thongsing Thammavong age 11
Ruth Perry age 16
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 66
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 78
Driss Jettou age 10
Rosario Murillo age 4
Kim Yong-il age 11
Oscar Torp age 62
Per Borten age 42
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 18
Jules Wijdenbosch age 14
Rickard Sandler age 71
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 22
Anthony Carmona age 2
A. N. R. Robinson age 28
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 35
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 3
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 6
Jaime Lusinchi age 31
Phan Văn Khải age 21
Rashad al-Alimi age 1
Józef Oleksy age 9
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 66
Lee Hae Chan age 3
Nebojša Radmanović age 6
Giuseppe Bertello age 13
Giovanni Lajolo age 20
Giovanni Messe age 71
Zhang Xueliang age 54
José Linhares age 69
Geoffrey Howe age 28
Carlos Luz age 61
William D. Leahy age 80
William Cohen age 15
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 84
Warren E. Burger age 48
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 11 months
Rodney Williams age 7
Jaime Paz Zamora age 16
Joseph Ngute age 1