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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 3
Shaukat Aziz age 12
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 5
Andrei Belousov age 2
Sergei Stepashin age 9
Guy Parmelin age 1
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 37
Paula-Mae Weekes age 2
Najla Bouden age 2
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 38
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 1
Nicanor Duarte age 4
Maxime Weygand age 94
Nikolai Tikhonov age 56
Ash Carter age 6
Michel Aflaq age 51
Ferdinand Schörner age 69
Marsha P. Johnson age 15
Karl von Habsburg age 5 months
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 48
Mohammad Mokhber age 6
Michael Dukakis age 27
Dobrica Ćosić age 39
Ronald McNair age 10
Lawrence Eagleburger age 30
Anthony Kennedy age 24
Cyrus Vance age 44
Arturo Umberto Illia age 60
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 13
William McMahon age 53
Earle Page age 80
Joe Clark age 22
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 19
Tshombé Moïse age 41
Harri Holkeri age 24
Efraín Ríos Montt age 35
László Kövér age 1
Kristján Eldjárn age 44
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 48
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 55
Yigal Allon age 42
Henri Konan Bédié age 27
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 35
Gaston Thorn age 32
Duško Marković age 2
Saadeddine Othmani age 5
Htin Kyaw age 14
Yakubu Gowon age 26
Shehu Shagari age 36
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 16
Mirko Cvetković age 10
Rudolf Schuster age 27
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 18
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 36
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 41
Michael Somare age 25
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 78
Fuad II of Egypt age 9
Chuck Hagel age 14
Milka Planinc age 36
Günter Schabowski age 32
Wesley Clark age 16
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck age 91
Kurt Student age 71
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 73
John Kasich age 9
Peter Mandelson age 7
Elena Kagan age 1
Souphanouvong age 51
John Ashcroft age 19
S. M. Bruce age 78
John Gorton age 49
César Gaviria age 14
José Figueres Ferrer age 54
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 39
Mart Laar age 1
Péter Medgyessy age 18
Poul Schlüter age 32
Fouad Siniora age 17
James Michel age 16
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 6
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 35
Mesut Yılmaz age 13
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 33
Julio María Sanguinetti age 25
Iolu Abil age 19
Phạm Minh Chính age 2
Marek Belka age 9
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 66
Mireya Moscoso age 14
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 26
Tanzan Ishibashi age 76
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 46
Margaret Chan age 13
Claude Auchinleck age 77
Wilhelm List age 81
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 19
Frederica of Hanover age 44
Louise Mountbatten age 71
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 25
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 24
Ahmad Uyahya age 8
Leo Tindemans age 39
Melchior Ndadaye age 8
Vladimír Špidla age 10
Antoine Gizenga age 35
Eugenia Charles age 42
Nicholas Liverpool age 26
Mario Scelba age 59
Anker Jørgensen age 38
Taneti Maamau age 9 months
William Richard Tolbert age 48
Didier Ratsiraka age 24
Abdelilah Benkirane age 7
Sushil Koirala age 21
Kåre Willoch age 32
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 66
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 2
Pascal Lissouba age 29
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 17
Adrian Năstase age 11
Michal Kováč age 30
Pascal Couchepin age 19
Wellington Koo age 73
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 3 months
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 51
Gaafar Nimeiry age 30
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 1
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 108
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 73
Tetsu Katayama age 73
Pierre Messmer age 45
Sirhan Sirhan age 17
Biljana Plavšić age 30
Karl Rahner age 57
Paul Tibbets age 46
Felix Yusupov age 74
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 40
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 45
Janet Reno age 22
Fan S. Noli age 79
Mohamed Boudiaf age 42
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 36
Arthur Fadden age 67
Quentin Bryce age 18
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 11
Hugo Banzer age 35
Nuon Chea age 34
Ange-Félix Patassé age 24
Glafcos Clerides age 42
Josefa Iloilo age 40
Esko Aho age 7
Luís Cabral age 30
Sam Hinds age 17
Janet Jagan age 40
Abdul Latif Rashid age 16
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 19
Giuseppe Pella age 59
Fernando Tambroni age 59
Joop den Uyl age 41
Behgjet Pacolli age 9
Bakili Muluzi age 18
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 1
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 19
António Ramalho Eanes age 26
António de Spínola age 51
Milan Milutinović age 18
France-Albert René age 25
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 29
Yusof bin Ishak age 50
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 7
Ruth Dreifuss age 21
Fradique de Menezes age 19
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 23
Samak Sundaravej age 26
George Maxwell Richards age 29
Yurii Yekhanurov age 12
Juan María Bordaberry age 33
Baldwin Lonsdale age 12
Laurentino Cortizo age 8
Maurice Couve de Murville age 54
Pierre Bérégovoy age 35
Mark W. Clark age 65
B. J. Vorster age 45
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 55
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 15
Margaret Beckett age 18
Paul Hausser age 80
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 65
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 54
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 64
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 54
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 29
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 28
Kathy Hochul age 2
William Rehnquist age 36
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 7
Andranik Margaryan age 10
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 61
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 31