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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06

People

Harold Alexander age 74
Masayoshi Ōhira age 56
Sōsuke Uno age 44
Pierre Mendès France age 59
Oliver Tambo age 48
Gennady Yanayev age 29
Chadli Bendjedid age 37
Franz Vranitzky age 28
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 26
Wilfried Martens age 30
Dean Barrow age 15
Louis St. Laurent age 84
Aristides Pereira age 42
Pedro Pires age 32
Sherif Ismail age 11
Geir Haarde age 15
Ephraim Katzir age 50
Giovanni Goria age 23
Asqar Mamin age 10 months
Rolandas Paksas age 10
Algirdas Butkevičius age 7
Gediminas Kirkilas age 14
Muhyiddin Yassin age 19
Moussa Traoré age 29
Eddie Fenech Adami age 32
Adolfo López Mateos age 56
U Nu age 59
Ibrahim Babangida age 25
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 36
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 36
Julius Maada Bio age 2
Vladimír Mečiar age 24
Ronald Venetiaan age 30
Karin Keller-Sutter age 2
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 10
Rafael Caldera age 50
Hanna Suchocka age 20
Federico Franco age 4
Abdalla Hamdok age 10
Takeo Miki age 59
William Westmoreland age 52
Georges Bidault age 66
William Hague age 5
Vasily Sokolovsky age 69
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 17
Marcel Lefebvre age 60
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 19
Craig Venter age 19
Francis Collins age 16
Yang Shangkun age 59
Stephen Breyer age 28
James F. Byrnes age 84
Christian Stocker age 6
Hubert Maga age 50
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 45
Sylvie Kinigi age 13
Jioji Konrote age 18
Paavo Lipponen age 25
Rose Christiane Raponda age 3
Georgios Papandreou age 78
Alejandro Giammattei age 10
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 7
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 19
Piet de Jong age 51
Guntis Ulmanis age 26
Hassan Diab age 7
Abdul Razak Hussein age 44
Lawrence Gonzi age 13
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 9
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 65
Mircea Snegur age 26
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 8
Shaukat Aziz age 17
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 10
Andrei Belousov age 7
Sergei Stepashin age 14
Guy Parmelin age 6
Paula-Mae Weekes age 7
Najla Bouden age 8
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 43
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 6
Nicanor Duarte age 9
Nikolai Tikhonov age 61
Jânio Quadros age 49
Ash Carter age 11
Michel Aflaq age 56
Ferdinand Schörner age 74
Marsha P. Johnson age 21
Karl von Habsburg age 5
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 53
Mohammad Mokhber age 11
Michael Dukakis age 32
Dobrica Ćosić age 44
Ronald McNair age 15
Lawrence Eagleburger age 36
Anthony Kennedy age 30
Cyrus Vance age 49
Arturo Umberto Illia age 66
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 19
Arturo Frondizi age 57
William McMahon age 58
Joe Clark age 27
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 24
Tshombé Moïse age 46
Harri Holkeri age 29
Zurab Zhvania age 2
Efraín Ríos Montt age 40
László Kövér age 6
Kristján Eldjárn age 49
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 53
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 60
Yigal Allon age 47
Henri Konan Bédié age 32
Māris Kučinskis age 4
Gaston Thorn age 37
Duško Marković age 8
Saadeddine Othmani age 10
Htin Kyaw age 20
Shehu Shagari age 41
António José Seguro age 4
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 21
Mirko Cvetković age 16
Rudolf Schuster age 32
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 23
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 41
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 46
Michael Somare age 30
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 2
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 83
Fuad II of Egypt age 14
Chuck Hagel age 19
Milka Planinc age 41
Günter Schabowski age 37
Wesley Clark age 21
Kurt Student age 76
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 78
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 1
John Kasich age 14
Peter Mandelson age 12
Chris Christie age 3
Elena Kagan age 6
Souphanouvong age 57
John Ashcroft age 24
S. M. Bruce age 83
John Gorton age 54
César Gaviria age 19
José Figueres Ferrer age 59
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 45
Mart Laar age 6
Péter Medgyessy age 23
Poul Schlüter age 37
Fouad Siniora age 23
James Michel age 22
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 11
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 40
Mesut Yılmaz age 18
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 38
Julio María Sanguinetti age 30
Iolu Abil age 24
Phạm Minh Chính age 7
Marek Belka age 14
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 71
Mireya Moscoso age 20
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 31
Tanzan Ishibashi age 81
Michel Debré age 54
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 51
Margaret Chan age 19
Claude Auchinleck age 82
Christine Kangaloo age 4
Wilhelm List age 86
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 24
Frederica of Hanover age 49
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 30
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 29
Ahmad Uyahya age 14
Antoni Martí age 3
Leo Tindemans age 44
Tshering Tobgay age 11 months
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 58
Melchior Ndadaye age 13
Vladimír Špidla age 15
Antoine Gizenga age 40
Eugenia Charles age 47
Nicholas Liverpool age 31
Bharrat Jagdeo age 2
Mario Scelba age 65
Anker Jørgensen age 44
Taneti Maamau age 5
Aigars Kalvītis age 1 month
William Richard Tolbert age 53
Luc Frieden age 2
Didier Ratsiraka age 29
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 2
Abdelilah Benkirane age 12
Sushil Koirala age 27
Kåre Willoch age 37
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 7
Pascal Lissouba age 34
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 22