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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
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

People

Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 18
Emilio Portes Gil age 65
Jhala Nath Khanal age 5
Enrique Bolaños age 27
Mahamane Ousmane age 6
Murtala Muhammed age 17
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 32
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 23
Fulbert Youlou age 38
Radu Vasile age 13
Petre Roman age 9
Mame Madior Boye age 15
Manasseh Sogavare age 1
Thanom Kittikachorn age 44
Leszek Miller age 9
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 34
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 22
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 57
Ferruccio Parri age 66
Liam Cosgrave age 35
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 36
Dong Biwu age 70
Raymond A. Spruance age 69
Tôn Đức Thắng age 67
James R. Schlesinger age 27
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 11 months
Domitien Ndayizeye age 2
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 12
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 57
Ernesto Samper age 5
Juan Bosch age 46
Gustavo Noboa age 18
Keith Mitchell age 9
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 9
Arthur Chung age 38
Ariel Henry age 6
Zoltán Tildy age 66
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 8
Michael Manley age 31
Pierre Werner age 42
Albert Zafy age 28
Anthony Mamo age 47
Amata Kabua age 27
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 14
Navin Ramgoolam age 8
Petru Lucinschi age 16
Abbas El Fassi age 15
Baburam Bhattarai age 1
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 31
David Lange age 13
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 5
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 6
Muteesa II of Buganda age 31
Le Duc Anh age 35
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
David Souter age 16
Christian Herter age 60
William P. Rogers age 42
Owen Arthur age 6
George Cadle Price age 37
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 40
André Kolingba age 19
Jiří Paroubek age 3
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 73
Edgar Savisaar age 5
Taye Atske Selassie age 1 month
Epeli Nailatikau age 14
Karl-August Fagerholm age 54
Leslie Manigat age 25
Miklós Németh age 8
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 64
Robert Guéï age 14
Bah Ndaw age 5
Dioncounda Traoré age 14
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 14
Patsy Reddy age 1
Lars Korvald age 39
John Lyng age 50
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 52
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 12
Américo Tomás age 61
Denzil Douglas age 3
James Mancham age 16
Siaka Stevens age 50
Benjamin Sheares age 48
Li Tsung-jen age 67
Chuan Leekpai age 17
Perry Christie age 12
Mari Alkatiri age 6
Yıldırım Akbulut age 20
Pavlo Lazarenko age 3
Jan Olszewski age 25
José María Balcázar age 13
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 21
Ho Chong age 59
Creighton Abrams age 41
Charles Haughey age 30
Joseph Luns age 44
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 12
Manny Mori age 7
Ahti Karjalainen age 33
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 68
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 79
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 72
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 22
Anthony Carmona age 2
A. N. R. Robinson age 29
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 35
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 4
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 6
Jaime Lusinchi age 31
Phan Văn Khải age 22
Rashad al-Alimi age 2
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 21
Giovanni Messe age 72
Zhang Xueliang age 54
José Linhares age 70
Warren E. Burger age 48
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 1
Rodney Williams age 8
Jaime Paz Zamora age 16
Joseph Ngute age 1
Philémon Yang age 8
Julio César Turbay age 39
Laureano Gómez age 67
Spiros Cyprianou age 23
Sylvanie Burton age 1 month
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 20
Ibrahim Mahlab age 6
Kamisese Mara age 35
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 24
Henrique Rosa age 10
Donald Ramotar age 5
Oswaldo López Arellano age 34
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 51
Poul Hartling age 41
Barend Biesheuvel age 35
Felix Kulov age 7
Nawaf Salam age 2
Bechara El Khoury age 65
Tom Thabane age 16
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 17
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 49
Kailash Purryag age 8
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 55
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 5
Brigi Rafini age 2
Choe Yong-rim age 25
Grégoire Kayibanda age 31
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 4
Lojze Peterle age 7
Samuel Schmid age 9