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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Nicholas Liverpool age 22
Mario Scelba age 55
Anker Jørgensen age 34
William Richard Tolbert age 43
Didier Ratsiraka age 20
Abdelilah Benkirane age 2
Sushil Koirala age 17
Kåre Willoch age 28
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 62
Pascal Lissouba age 25
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 13
Adrian Năstase age 6
Michal Kováč age 26
Pascal Couchepin age 14
Wellington Koo age 69
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 46
Carlos P. Garcia age 60
Gaafar Nimeiry age 26
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 104
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 69
Tetsu Katayama age 69
Hitoshi Ashida age 69
Pierre Messmer age 40
Sirhan Sirhan age 12
Biljana Plavšić age 26
Karl Rahner age 53
Paul Tibbets age 42
Felix Yusupov age 69
Maria of Yugoslavia age 57
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 35
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 41
Janet Reno age 18
Edmund Muskie age 42
Fan S. Noli age 75
Mohamed Boudiaf age 37
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 32
Arthur Fadden age 62
Quentin Bryce age 14
Adolf Schärf age 66
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 6
Hugo Banzer age 30
Nuon Chea age 30
Ange-Félix Patassé age 20
Glafcos Clerides age 37
Joaquín Balaguer age 50
Josefa Iloilo age 36
Esko Aho age 2
Luís Cabral age 25
Sam Hinds age 13
Janet Jagan age 36
Abdul Latif Rashid age 12
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 15
Giuseppe Pella age 54
Fernando Tambroni age 55
Joop den Uyl age 37
Behgjet Pacolli age 5
Bakili Muluzi age 13
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 14
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 45
António Ramalho Eanes age 22
António de Spínola age 46
Milan Milutinović age 14
France-Albert René age 21
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 25
Yusof bin Ishak age 46
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 3
Ruth Dreifuss age 17
Fradique de Menezes age 14
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 19
Samak Sundaravej age 21
George Maxwell Richards age 25
Yurii Yekhanurov age 8
Juan María Bordaberry age 28
Baldwin Lonsdale age 8
Laurentino Cortizo age 4
Maurice Couve de Murville age 50
Pierre Bérégovoy age 31
Mark W. Clark age 60
B. J. Vorster age 41
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 51
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 10
Walter Hallstein age 55
Margaret Beckett age 14
Paul Hausser age 76
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia age 81
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 60
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 50
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 59
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 50
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 25
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 24
William Rehnquist age 32
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 3
Andranik Margaryan age 5
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 56
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 27
Jigme Thinley age 4
Pierre Buyoya age 7
Jorge Alessandri age 60
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 2
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 30
Essam Sharaf age 5
Ahmed Nazif age 4
Väinö Tanner age 76
David A. Granger age 11
András Baka age 4
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 51
Patrick Hillery age 33
Tammam Salam age 11
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 72
Kazimira Prunskienė age 14
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 4
Guido de Marco age 25
Moktar Ould Daddah age 32
Myint Swe age 5
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 47
Pedro Santana Lopes age 8 months
Ralph Gonsalves age 10
Ola Ullsten age 25
Moritz Leuenberger age 10
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 5
Oqil Oqilov age 13
Sarit Thanarat age 48
Somchai Wongsawat age 9
D. F. Malan age 82
Café Filho age 58
Félix Gouin age 72
Ante Marković age 32
James Earl Ray age 28
Bachir Gemayel age 9
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 11
David Paterson age 2
John Connally age 40
Merrick Garland age 4
Nandó dos Santos age 6
Baldwin Spencer age 8
Peter Cosgrove age 9
Freundel Stuart age 5
Syarhiey Sidorski age 2
Nicéphore Soglo age 22
Eduardo Rodríguez age 12 months
Petar Mladenov age 20
Michel Micombero age 16
Belisario Betancur age 34
Sitiveni Rabuka age 8
Kalevi Sorsa age 26
Óscar Berger age 10
Kumba Ialá age 3
Kaysone Phomvihane age 36
Ivars Godmanis age 5
Amine Gemayel age 15
Joseph Boakai age 12
Christopher Loeak age 4
Mihai Ghimpu age 5
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 2
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 6
Salam Fayyad age 4
Marien Ngouabi age 18
Petru Groza age 72
Devan Nair age 33
Surayud Chulanont age 13
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 13
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 15
Guy Scott age 12
Valentín Paniagua age 20
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 50
Ye Jianying age 59
Artur da Costa e Silva age 57
J. Sigfrid Edström age 86
Robert Zoellick age 3
Jack Straw age 10
Gotthard Heinrici age 70
Milan Babić age 1
Jang Song-thaek age 11
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 49
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 20
Prince Michael of Kent age 14
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 18
Deval Patrick age 7 months
Wim Duisenberg age 21
Ellison Onizuka age 10
Eric Holder age 6
Abd al-Malek Selal age 8
Liamine Zéroual age 15
Isa II of Bahrain age 23
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 37
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 10
Khieu Samphan age 25
Abel Pacheco age 23
Giorgos Vasiliou age 25
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 4
Charles Savarin age 13
León Febres-Cordero age 25
Hilla Limann age 22
Vasiliki Thanou age 6
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 57
Carmen Pereira age 20
Roberto Micheletti age 13
József Antall age 24
Bjarni Benediktsson age 48