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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
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 68
Tetsu Katayama age 68
Hitoshi Ashida age 68
Pierre Messmer age 39
Sirhan Sirhan age 11
Biljana Plavšić age 25
Karl Rahner age 51
Paul Tibbets age 40
Felix Yusupov age 68
Maria of Yugoslavia age 56
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 34
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 40
Janet Reno age 17
Edmund Muskie age 41
Fan S. Noli age 74
Mohamed Boudiaf age 36
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 31
Arthur Fadden age 61
Quentin Bryce age 13
Adolf Schärf age 65
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 5
Hugo Banzer age 29
Nuon Chea age 29
Ange-Félix Patassé age 19
Glafcos Clerides age 36
Joaquín Balaguer age 49
Josefa Iloilo age 35
Esko Aho age 1
Luís Cabral age 24
Sam Hinds age 12
Janet Jagan age 35
Abdul Latif Rashid age 11
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 14
Giuseppe Pella age 53
Fernando Tambroni age 54
Joop den Uyl age 36
Behgjet Pacolli age 4
Bakili Muluzi age 12
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 13
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 44
António Ramalho Eanes age 21
António de Spínola age 45
Milan Milutinović age 13
France-Albert René age 20
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 23
Yusof bin Ishak age 45
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 2
Ruth Dreifuss age 16
Fradique de Menezes age 13
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 18
Samak Sundaravej age 20
George Maxwell Richards age 24
Yurii Yekhanurov age 7
Juan María Bordaberry age 27
Baldwin Lonsdale age 7
Laurentino Cortizo age 3
Juan Negrín age 64
Maurice Couve de Murville age 49
Pierre Bérégovoy age 30
Mark W. Clark age 59
B. J. Vorster age 40
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 50
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 9
Walter Hallstein age 54
Margaret Beckett age 13
Paul Hausser age 75
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 80
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 59
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 49
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 58
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 49
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 23
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 22
William Rehnquist age 31
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 1
Andranik Margaryan age 4
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 55
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 26
Jigme Thinley age 3
Pierre Buyoya age 6
Jorge Alessandri age 59
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 1
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 29
Essam Sharaf age 4
Ahmed Nazif age 3
Väinö Tanner age 74
David A. Granger age 10
András Baka age 3
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 50
Patrick Hillery age 32
Tammam Salam age 10
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 70
Kazimira Prunskienė age 12
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 3
Guido de Marco age 24
Moktar Ould Daddah age 31
Myint Swe age 4
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 46
Ralph Gonsalves age 9
Ola Ullsten age 24
Moritz Leuenberger age 9
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 3
Oqil Oqilov age 12
Sarit Thanarat age 47
Somchai Wongsawat age 8
D. F. Malan age 81
Café Filho age 57
Félix Gouin age 71
Ante Marković age 31
James Earl Ray age 27
Bachir Gemayel age 8
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 10
David Paterson age 1
John Connally age 38
Merrick Garland age 3
Nandó dos Santos age 5
Baldwin Spencer age 7
Peter Cosgrove age 8
Freundel Stuart age 4
Syarhiey Sidorski age 1
Nicéphore Soglo age 21
Petar Mladenov age 19
Michel Micombero age 15
Belisario Betancur age 33
Sitiveni Rabuka age 7
Kalevi Sorsa age 25
Óscar Berger age 9
Kumba Ialá age 2
Kaysone Phomvihane age 35
Ivars Godmanis age 4
Amine Gemayel age 14
Joseph Boakai age 11
Christopher Loeak age 3
Mihai Ghimpu age 4
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 1
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 5
Salam Fayyad age 3
Marien Ngouabi age 17
Petru Groza age 71
Devan Nair age 32
Surayud Chulanont age 12
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 12
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 14
Guy Scott age 11
Valentín Paniagua age 19
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 49
Ye Jianying age 58
Artur da Costa e Silva age 56
J. Sigfrid Edström age 85
Robert Zoellick age 2
Jack Straw age 9
Gotthard Heinrici age 69
Jang Song-thaek age 10
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 48
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 19
Prince Michael of Kent age 13
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 17
Wim Duisenberg age 20
Souvanna Phouma age 54
Ellison Onizuka age 9
Eric Holder age 5
Abd al-Malek Selal age 7
Liamine Zéroual age 14
Isa II of Bahrain age 22
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 36
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 9
Khieu Samphan age 24
Abel Pacheco age 22
Giorgos Vasiliou age 24
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 3
Charles Savarin age 12
León Febres-Cordero age 24
Hilla Limann age 21
Vasiliki Thanou age 5
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 56
Carmen Pereira age 19
Roberto Micheletti age 12
József Antall age 23
Bjarni Benediktsson age 47
Ayad Allawi age 11
Marouf al-Bakhit age 8
Jens Otto Krag age 41
Isa Mustafa age 4
Khamtai Siphandone age 32
Omar Karami age 21
Mahmoud Jibril age 3
Artūras Paulauskas age 2
David Kabua age 4
Nangolo Mbumba age 14
Ludwig Scotty age 7
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 2
Jan P. Syse age 25
Trygve Bratteli age 46
Odvar Nordli age 28
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 63
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 2
Tufuga Efi age 17
Wee Kim Wee age 40
Rahmon Nabiyev age 25
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 5