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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
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23

People

Zinaida Greceanîi age 12
Aziz Akhannouch age 6
Armando Guebuza age 25
Einar Gerhardsen age 70
Farooq Leghari age 27
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 16
Emil Constantinescu age 28
Evaristo Carvalho age 26
Abdulla Aripov age 6
Rómulo Betancourt age 60
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 42
Luis Carrero Blanco age 64
Harold Alexander age 76
Masayoshi Ōhira age 58
Sōsuke Uno age 45
Pierre Mendès France age 61
Jeremy Hunt age 1
Michael Gove age 7 months
Gennady Yanayev age 30
Chadli Bendjedid age 39
Franz Vranitzky age 30
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 27
Wilfried Martens age 32
Dean Barrow age 17
Louis St. Laurent age 86
Aristides Pereira age 44
Pedro Pires age 33
Sherif Ismail age 12
Geir Haarde age 17
Ephraim Katzir age 51
Giovanni Goria age 24
Asqar Mamin age 2
Rolandas Paksas age 11
Algirdas Butkevičius age 9
Gediminas Kirkilas age 16
Muhyiddin Yassin age 20
Moussa Traoré age 31
Eddie Fenech Adami age 34
Adolfo López Mateos age 57
U Nu age 60
Ibrahim Babangida age 26
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 38
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 38
Julius Maada Bio age 3
Vladimír Mečiar age 25
Ronald Venetiaan age 31
Karin Keller-Sutter age 4
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 12
Rafael Caldera age 52
Hanna Suchocka age 22
Federico Franco age 5
Abdalla Hamdok age 12
Takeo Miki age 61
William Westmoreland age 54
Georges Bidault age 68
William Hague age 7
Vasily Sokolovsky age 70
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 18
Marcel Lefebvre age 62
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 21
Craig Venter age 21
Francis Collins age 18
Yang Shangkun age 60
Stephen Breyer age 29
James F. Byrnes age 86
Christian Stocker age 8
Hubert Maga age 51
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 46
Sylvie Kinigi age 15
Jioji Konrote age 20
Paavo Lipponen age 27
Rose Christiane Raponda age 4
Georgios Papandreou age 80
Alejandro Giammattei age 12
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 9
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 20
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 9 months
Guntis Ulmanis age 28
Hassan Diab age 8
Abdul Razak Hussein age 46
Lawrence Gonzi age 14
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 11
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 67
Mircea Snegur age 28
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 9
Shaukat Aziz age 19
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 12
Marcel Ciolacu age 4 months
Andrei Belousov age 9
Sergei Stepashin age 16
Guy Parmelin age 8
Paula-Mae Weekes age 9
Najla Bouden age 9
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 45
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 8
Nicanor Duarte age 11
Nikolai Tikhonov age 62
Jânio Quadros age 51
Ash Carter age 13
Michel Aflaq age 58
Ferdinand Schörner age 75
Marsha P. Johnson age 22
Karl von Habsburg age 7
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 54
Mohammad Mokhber age 12
Michael Dukakis age 34
Dobrica Ćosić age 46
Ronald McNair age 17
Lawrence Eagleburger age 37
Anthony Kennedy age 31
Cyrus Vance age 51
Arturo Umberto Illia age 67
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 20
Arturo Frondizi age 59
William McMahon age 60
Joe Clark age 28
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 25
Tshombé Moïse age 48
Luis Abinader age 9 months
Harri Holkeri age 31
Zurab Zhvania age 4
Efraín Ríos Montt age 41
László Kövér age 8
Kristján Eldjárn age 51
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 55
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 62
Yigal Allon age 49
Henri Konan Bédié age 33
Māris Kučinskis age 6
Gaston Thorn age 39
Duško Marković age 9
Saadeddine Othmani age 12
Htin Kyaw age 21
Shehu Shagari age 43
António José Seguro age 6
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 23
Mirko Cvetković age 17
Rudolf Schuster age 34
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 25
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 42
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 48
Michael Somare age 32
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 3
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 84
Fuad II of Egypt age 16
Chuck Hagel age 21
Milka Planinc age 43
Günter Schabowski age 39
Wesley Clark age 23
Kurt Student age 77
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg age 80
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 2
John Kasich age 15
Peter Mandelson age 14
Chris Christie age 5
Elena Kagan age 7
Souphanouvong age 58
John Ashcroft age 25
César Gaviria age 21
José Figueres Ferrer age 61
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 46
Mart Laar age 7
Péter Medgyessy age 25
Poul Schlüter age 39
Fouad Siniora age 24
James Michel age 23
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 13
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 42
Anutin Charnvirakul age 1
Mesut Yılmaz age 20
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 40
Julio María Sanguinetti age 32
Iolu Abil age 26
Phạm Minh Chính age 9
Marek Belka age 16
Mireya Moscoso age 21
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 33
Tanzan Ishibashi age 83
Michel Debré age 56
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 53
Margaret Chan age 20
Claude Auchinleck age 83
Christine Kangaloo age 6
Wilhelm List age 87
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 26
Frederica of Hanover age 51
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 32
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 31
Ahmad Uyahya age 15
Antoni Martí age 4
Gaston Browne age 1
Leo Tindemans age 46
Tshering Tobgay age 2
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 60
Melchior Ndadaye age 15
Vladimír Špidla age 16
Antoine Gizenga age 42
Eugenia Charles age 48
Nicholas Liverpool age 33
Bharrat Jagdeo age 4