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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25

People

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 78
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 47
Mohammad Mokhber age 5
Michael Dukakis age 26
Dobrica Ćosić age 38
Ronald McNair age 9
Lawrence Eagleburger age 30
Anthony Kennedy age 24
Dean Rusk age 51
Cyrus Vance age 43
Arturo Umberto Illia age 60
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 13
William McMahon age 52
Earle Page age 80
Joe Clark age 21
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 18
Tshombé Moïse age 40
Harri Holkeri age 23
Efraín Ríos Montt age 34
László Kövér age 8 months
Kristján Eldjárn age 43
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 48
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 54
Yigal Allon age 41
Henri Konan Bédié age 26
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 34
Gaston Thorn age 32
Duško Marković age 2
Saadeddine Othmani age 4
Htin Kyaw age 14
Yakubu Gowon age 25
Shehu Shagari age 35
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 15
Mirko Cvetković age 10
Rudolf Schuster age 26
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 17
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 35
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 40
Michael Somare age 24
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 77
Fuad II of Egypt age 8
Chuck Hagel age 13
Milka Planinc age 35
Günter Schabowski age 31
Wesley Clark age 15
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 90
Kurt Student age 70
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 72
John Kasich age 8
Peter Mandelson age 6
Elena Kagan age 4 months
Souphanouvong age 51
John Ashcroft age 18
S. M. Bruce age 77
John Gorton age 49
César Gaviria age 13
José Figueres Ferrer age 54
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 39
Mart Laar age 5 months
Péter Medgyessy age 17
Poul Schlüter age 31
Fouad Siniora age 17
Diori Hamani age 44
James Michel age 16
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 5
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 34
Mesut Yılmaz age 12
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 32
Julio María Sanguinetti age 24
Iolu Abil age 18
Phạm Minh Chính age 1
Marek Belka age 8
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 65
Mireya Moscoso age 14
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 25
Tanzan Ishibashi age 76
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 45
Margaret Chan age 13
Claude Auchinleck age 76
Wilhelm List age 80
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 18
Frederica of Hanover age 43
Louise Mountbatten age 71
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 24
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 23
Ahmad Uyahya age 8
Leo Tindemans age 38
Melchior Ndadaye age 7
Vladimír Špidla age 9
Antoine Gizenga age 34
Eugenia Charles age 41
Nicholas Liverpool age 26
Mario Scelba age 59
Anker Jørgensen age 38
Taneti Maamau age 0 months
William Richard Tolbert age 47
Didier Ratsiraka age 23
Abdelilah Benkirane age 6
Sushil Koirala age 21
Kåre Willoch age 31
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 66
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 1
Pascal Lissouba age 28
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 16
Adrian Năstase age 10
Michal Kováč age 30
Pascal Couchepin age 18
Wellington Koo age 72
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 50
Gaafar Nimeiry age 29
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 9 months
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 107
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 72
Tetsu Katayama age 73
Pierre Messmer age 44
Sirhan Sirhan age 16
Biljana Plavšić age 30
Karl Rahner age 56
Paul Tibbets age 45
Felix Yusupov age 73
Maria of Yugoslavia age 60
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 39
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 45
Janet Reno age 22
Fan S. Noli age 78
Mohamed Boudiaf age 41
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 35
Arthur Fadden age 66
Quentin Bryce age 17
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 10
Hugo Banzer age 34
Nuon Chea age 34
Ange-Félix Patassé age 23
Glafcos Clerides age 41
Josefa Iloilo age 39
Esko Aho age 6
Luís Cabral age 29
Sam Hinds age 16
Janet Jagan age 39
Abdul Latif Rashid age 16
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 18
Giuseppe Pella age 58
Fernando Tambroni age 58
Joop den Uyl age 41
Behgjet Pacolli age 9
Bakili Muluzi age 17
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 8 months
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 18
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 48
António Ramalho Eanes age 25
António de Spínola age 50
Milan Milutinović age 17
France-Albert René age 24
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 28
Yusof bin Ishak age 50
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 7
Ruth Dreifuss age 20
Fradique de Menezes age 18
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 23
Samak Sundaravej age 25
George Maxwell Richards age 28
Yurii Yekhanurov age 12
Juan María Bordaberry age 32
Baldwin Lonsdale age 12
Laurentino Cortizo age 7
Maurice Couve de Murville age 53
Pierre Bérégovoy age 34
Mark W. Clark age 64
B. J. Vorster age 44
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 54
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 14
Margaret Beckett age 17
Paul Hausser age 80
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 64
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 54
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 63
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 53
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 28
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 27
Kathy Hochul age 2
William Rehnquist age 36
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 6
Andranik Margaryan age 9
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 60
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 30
Jigme Thinley age 8
Pierre Buyoya age 10
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 6
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 34
Essam Sharaf age 8
Ahmed Nazif age 8
Väinö Tanner age 79
José Mário Vaz age 2
David A. Granger age 15
András Baka age 7
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 54
Patrick Hillery age 37
Serik Akhmetov age 2
Tammam Salam age 15
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 75