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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

People

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 3
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 18
Wee Kim Wee age 40
Rahmon Nabiyev age 25
Carlos Arias Navarro age 47
Trường Chinh age 49
Garret FitzGerald age 30
John Bruton age 8
Henry Paulson age 9
Larry Summers age 1
Michael Howard age 14
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 64
John Paul Stevens age 35
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 30
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 14
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 26
Viačasław Kiebič age 19
Mark Eyskens age 22
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 39
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 25
Elisabeth Domitien age 31
Michel Djotodia age 7
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 34
Ahmed Shafik age 14
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 40
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 10
Christos Sartzetakis age 26
Boniface Alexandre age 19
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 45
Elias Hrawi age 29
Pakalitha Mosisili age 11
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
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 45
Vuk Drašković age 9
William Barr age 5
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 47
Juan Carlos Onganía age 42
Frank Forde age 65
David Hurley age 2
Leopold Figl age 53
Viktor Klima age 8
Gaston Eyskens age 51
Michel Kafando age 13
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 1
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 10
Arthur Chung age 38
Ariel Henry age 6
Zoltán Tildy age 66
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 9
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 67
Manfred Wörner age 21
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 41
Alberto Gonzales age 7 months
Vladimir Ivashko age 23
David Souter age 16
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 2 months
Epeli Nailatikau age 14
Leslie Manigat age 25
Miklós Németh age 8
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 64
Robert Guéï age 15
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
Nereu Ramos age 67
William J. Perry age 28
John McEwen age 56
Novruz Mammadov age 9
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 43
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 18
Jules Wijdenbosch age 14
Rickard Sandler age 72
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 22
Anthony Carmona age 3
A. N. R. Robinson age 29
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 35
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 4
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 6