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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

Pedro Santana Lopes age 1
Ralph Gonsalves age 11
Ola Ullsten age 26
Moritz Leuenberger age 10
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 5
Oqil Oqilov age 13
Sarit Thanarat age 49
Somchai Wongsawat age 9
Café Filho age 58
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 70
Félix Gouin age 72
Ante Marković age 32
David Paterson age 3
John Connally age 40
Merrick Garland age 4
Nandó dos Santos age 7
Baldwin Spencer age 8
Peter Cosgrove age 10
Freundel Stuart age 6
Syarhiey Sidorski age 3
Nicéphore Soglo age 22
Eduardo Rodríguez age 1
Petar Mladenov age 20
Michel Micombero age 16
Belisario Betancur age 34
Sitiveni Rabuka age 8
Kalevi Sorsa age 26
Óscar Berger age 11
Kumba Ialá age 4
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 5
Marien Ngouabi age 18
Petru Groza age 72
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 3 months
Devan Nair age 34
Surayud Chulanont age 13
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 13
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 16
Guy Scott age 13
Valentín Paniagua age 20
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 50
Ye Jianying age 60
Artur da Costa e Silva age 57
J. Sigfrid Edström age 86
Robert Zoellick age 4
Jack Straw age 11
Deval Patrick age 1
Ellison Onizuka age 11
Eric Holder age 6
Abd al-Malek Selal age 9
Liamine Zéroual age 16
Isa II of Bahrain age 24
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 38
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 10
Khieu Samphan age 26
Abel Pacheco age 23
Giorgos Vasiliou age 26
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 5
Charles Savarin age 13
León Febres-Cordero age 26
Hilla Limann age 22
Vasiliki Thanou age 6
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 58
Carmen Pereira age 20
Roberto Micheletti age 14
József Antall age 25
Bjarni Benediktsson age 49
Ayad Allawi age 13
Marouf al-Bakhit age 10
Jens Otto Krag age 42
Isa Mustafa age 6
Khamtai Siphandone age 33
Omar Karami age 22
Mahmoud Jibril age 5
Artūras Paulauskas age 3
David Kabua age 6
Nangolo Mbumba age 15
Ludwig Scotty age 9
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 4
Jan P. Syse age 26
Trygve Bratteli age 47
Odvar Nordli age 29
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 4
Tufuga Efi age 19
Wee Kim Wee age 41
Rahmon Nabiyev age 26
Carlos Arias Navarro age 48
Trường Chinh age 50
Garret FitzGerald age 31
John Bruton age 10
Henry Paulson age 11
Larry Summers age 2
Michael Howard age 16
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 66
Mark Warner age 2
Thomas E. Dewey age 55
John Paul Stevens age 37
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 32
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 15
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 27
Viačasław Kiebič age 21
Mark Eyskens age 24
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 40
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 27
Elisabeth Domitien age 32
Michel Djotodia age 8
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 35
Ahmed Shafik age 15
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 42
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 12
Christos Sartzetakis age 28
Boniface Alexandre age 21
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 46
Elias Hrawi age 30
Pakalitha Mosisili age 12
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 19
Emilio Portes Gil age 66
Jhala Nath Khanal age 7
Enrique Bolaños age 29
Mahamane Ousmane age 7
Murtala Muhammed age 18
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 33
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 24
Fulbert Youlou age 40
Radu Vasile age 14
Petre Roman age 11
Mame Madior Boye age 16
Manasseh Sogavare age 2
Thanom Kittikachorn age 46
Leszek Miller age 11
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 35
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 24
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 58
Guy Mollet age 51
Ferruccio Parri age 67
Liam Cosgrave age 37
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 38
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 47
Vuk Drašković age 10
William Barr age 7
William J. Burns age 1
Wang Qishan age 9
Raymond A. Spruance age 71
Tôn Đức Thắng age 69
James R. Schlesinger age 28
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 38
Héctor José Cámpora age 48
Juan Carlos Onganía age 43
Frank Forde age 67
David Hurley age 3
Leopold Figl age 54
Viktor Klima age 10
Gaston Eyskens age 52
Michel Kafando age 14
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 2
Domitien Ndayizeye age 4
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 13
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 58
Ernesto Samper age 7
Juan Bosch age 48
Gustavo Noboa age 19
Keith Mitchell age 10
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 11
Arthur Chung age 39
Ariel Henry age 7
Zoltán Tildy age 67
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 10
Michael Manley age 32
Pierre Werner age 43
Albert Zafy age 30
Anthony Mamo age 48
Amata Kabua age 28
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 15
Navin Ramgoolam age 10
Petru Lucinschi age 17
Momir Bulatović age 10 months
Abbas El Fassi age 16
Baburam Bhattarai age 3
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 32
David Lange age 15
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 6
Johnson Toribiong age 11
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 23
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 54
Philip J. Pierre age 2
Su Tseng-chang age 10
Hubert Minnis age 3
Keith Rowley age 7
Muteesa II of Buganda age 32
Le Duc Anh age 36
Ibrahim Abboud age 56
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 68
Manfred Wörner age 22