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Events

Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Occupation of the Baltic states 1940 - 1991
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mexican Dirty War 1954 - 2000
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
Portuguese Colonial War 1961-02-04 - 1974-04-25
Angolan War of Independence 1961-02-04 - 1974-04-25
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
Rhodesian Bush War 1964-07-04 - 1979-12-12
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
Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989) 1968 - 1989
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Operation Banner 1969-08-14 - 2007-07-31
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Operation Linebacker 1972-05-09 - 1972-10-23
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 7
Mario Cuomo age 40
Timothy McVeigh age 4
Liz Cheney age 5
George Wallace age 52
Alexander Haig age 47
Fatos Nano age 19
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 57
Carlos Mesa age 18
Petar Stoyanov age 20
Sergey Stanishev age 6
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 4
Patricio Aylwin age 53
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 55
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 17
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 53
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 12
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 24
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 78
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 24
Davíð Oddsson age 24
Giovanni Spadolini age 47
Arnaldo Forlani age 46
Raila A Odinga age 27
Anote Tong age 20
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 31
Anerood Jugnauth age 42
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 61
Zinaida Greceanîi age 16
Aziz Akhannouch age 10
Armando Guebuza age 29
Einar Gerhardsen age 75
Farooq Leghari age 32
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 20
Emil Constantinescu age 32
Tage Erlander age 71
Evaristo Carvalho age 30
Abdulla Aripov age 11
Rómulo Betancourt age 64
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 46
Luis Carrero Blanco age 68
Masayoshi Ōhira age 62
Sōsuke Uno age 49
Pierre Mendès France age 65
Jeremy Hunt age 5
Michael Gove age 4
Earl Warren age 81
Gennady Yanayev age 34
Chadli Bendjedid age 43
Franz Vranitzky age 34
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 31
Wilfried Martens age 36
Dean Barrow age 21
Louis St. Laurent age 90
Aristides Pereira age 48
Pedro Pires age 38
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 61
Roosevelt Skerrit age 0 months
Sherif Ismail age 16
Geir Haarde age 21
Ephraim Katzir age 56
Giovanni Goria age 28
Asqar Mamin age 6
Rolandas Paksas age 16
Algirdas Butkevičius age 13
Gediminas Kirkilas age 20
Muhyiddin Yassin age 25
Eddie Fenech Adami age 38
U Nu age 65
Ibrahim Babangida age 30
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 42
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 42
Dacian Cioloș age 2
Julius Maada Bio age 8
Vladimír Mečiar age 29
Ronald Venetiaan age 36
Karin Keller-Sutter age 8
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 16
Hanna Suchocka age 26
Federico Franco age 9
Fernando Belaúnde age 59
Abdalla Hamdok age 16
Takeo Miki age 65
Georges Bidault age 72
George Osborne age 1
William Hague age 11
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 22
Marcel Lefebvre age 66
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 25
Craig Venter age 25
Francis Collins age 22
Yang Shangkun age 64
Stephen Breyer age 33
Christian Stocker age 12
Hubert Maga age 55
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 50
Sylvie Kinigi age 19
Jioji Konrote age 24
Paavo Lipponen age 31
Rose Christiane Raponda age 8
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 11 months
Alejandro Giammattei age 16
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 13
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 25
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 4
Piet de Jong age 57
Ramush Haradinaj age 3
Guntis Ulmanis age 32
Hassan Diab age 13
Lawrence Gonzi age 19
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 15
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 71
Mircea Snegur age 32
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 14
Christopher Luxon age 1
Shaukat Aziz age 23
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 16
Marcel Ciolacu age 4
Andrei Belousov age 13
Sergei Stepashin age 20
Guy Parmelin age 12
Paula-Mae Weekes age 13
Najla Bouden age 14
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 49
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 12
Nicanor Duarte age 15
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 2
Nikolai Tikhonov age 67
Jânio Quadros age 55
Ash Carter age 17
Sajid Javid age 2
Michel Aflaq age 62
Ferdinand Schörner age 80
Marsha P. Johnson age 26
Karl von Habsburg age 11
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 59
Mohammad Mokhber age 17
Michael Dukakis age 38
Dobrica Ćosić age 50
Ronald McNair age 21
Lawrence Eagleburger age 41
Anthony Kennedy age 35
Dean Rusk age 63
Cyrus Vance age 55
Arturo Umberto Illia age 71
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 24
Arturo Frondizi age 63
Lotay Tshering age 3
Joe Clark age 33
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 30
Luis Abinader age 4
Harri Holkeri age 35
Zurab Zhvania age 8
Efraín Ríos Montt age 46
László Kövér age 12
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 59
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 66
Yigal Allon age 53
Henri Konan Bédié age 38
Māris Kučinskis age 10
Saulius Skvernelis age 1
Gaston Thorn age 43
Duško Marković age 13
Saadeddine Othmani age 16
Htin Kyaw age 25
Marcus Stephen age 2
Shehu Shagari age 47
António José Seguro age 10
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 27
Mirko Cvetković age 21
Rudolf Schuster age 38
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 29
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 47
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 52
Michael Somare age 36
Mario Abdo Benítez age 7 months
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 7
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 89
Fuad II of Egypt age 20
Chuck Hagel age 25
Milka Planinc age 47
Günter Schabowski age 43
Wesley Clark age 27
Kurt Student age 82
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 7
John Kasich age 20
Peter Mandelson age 18
Chris Christie age 9
Elena Kagan age 12
Souphanouvong age 62
John Ashcroft age 30
John Gorton age 60
César Gaviria age 25
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 50
Mart Laar age 12
Péter Medgyessy age 29
Poul Schlüter age 43
Fouad Siniora age 28
Vlad Filat age 3
Ilie Bolojan age 3