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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
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16

People

Ramush Haradinaj age 4
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 2
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
Nikolai Tikhonov age 67
Jânio Quadros age 55
Ash Carter age 17
Sajid Javid age 2
Mohammad Mokhber age 17
Michael Dukakis age 38
Ronald McNair age 21
Lawrence Eagleburger age 42
Anthony Kennedy age 36
Dean Rusk age 63
Cyrus Vance age 55
Arturo Umberto Illia age 72
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 25
Arturo Frondizi age 63
Lotay Tshering age 3
Joe Clark age 33
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 30
Luis Abinader age 5
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 2
Gaston Thorn age 43
Duško Marković age 14
Saadeddine Othmani age 16
Htin Kyaw age 26
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
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 8
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 89
Fuad II of Egypt age 20
Chuck Hagel age 25
Milka Planinc age 47
John Kasich age 20
Peter Mandelson age 18
Chris Christie age 9
Souphanouvong age 63
John Ashcroft age 30
John Gorton age 60
César Gaviria age 25
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 51
Mart Laar age 12
Péter Medgyessy age 29
Poul Schlüter age 43
Fouad Siniora age 29
Vlad Filat age 3
Ilie Bolojan age 3
James Michel age 28
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 17
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 46
Anutin Charnvirakul age 5
Mesut Yılmaz age 24
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 44
Julio María Sanguinetti age 36
Iolu Abil age 30
Phạm Minh Chính age 13
Marek Belka age 20
Mireya Moscoso age 26
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 37
Tanzan Ishibashi age 87
Michel Debré age 60
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 57
Margaret Chan age 24
Christine Kangaloo age 10
Ahmad Uyahya age 20
Antoni Martí age 9
Gaston Browne age 5
Leo Tindemans age 50
Tshering Tobgay age 6
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 64
Melchior Ndadaye age 19
Vladimír Špidla age 21
Antoine Gizenga age 46
Eugenia Charles age 53
Nicholas Liverpool age 37
Bharrat Jagdeo age 8
Mario Scelba age 70
Anker Jørgensen age 50
Taneti Maamau age 11
Aigars Kalvītis age 6
Luc Frieden age 8
Didier Ratsiraka age 35
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 8
Abdelilah Benkirane age 18
Sushil Koirala age 33
Kåre Willoch age 43
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 13
Pascal Lissouba age 40
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 28
Nicolae Ciucă age 5
Adrian Năstase age 22
Michal Kováč age 42
Pascal Couchepin age 30
Wellington Koo age 84
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 11
James Marape age 1
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 12
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 119
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 84
Tetsu Katayama age 85
Steven Mnuchin age 9
Janet Reno age 34
Pam Bondi age 6
Mohamed Boudiaf age 53
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 47
Arthur Fadden age 78
Quentin Bryce age 29
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 2
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 22
Nuon Chea age 46
Ange-Félix Patassé age 35
Glafcos Clerides age 53
Josefa Iloilo age 51
Esko Aho age 18
Luís Cabral age 41
Sam Hinds age 28
Janet Jagan age 51
Abdul Latif Rashid age 28
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 30
Giuseppe Pella age 70
Andrew Holness age 0 months
Joop den Uyl age 53
Behgjet Pacolli age 20
Bakili Muluzi age 29
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 12
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 30
António Ramalho Eanes age 37
António de Spínola age 62
Florin Cîțu age 4 months
Milan Milutinović age 29
France-Albert René age 36
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 40
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 18
Ruth Dreifuss age 32
Fradique de Menezes age 30
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 35
Samak Sundaravej age 37
George Maxwell Richards age 40
Yurii Yekhanurov age 23
Baldwin Lonsdale age 24
Võ Văn Thưởng age 1
Laurentino Cortizo age 19
Maurice Couve de Murville age 65
Pierre Bérégovoy age 46
Mark W. Clark age 76
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 26
Walter Hallstein age 70
Amber Rudd age 9
Kathy Hochul age 13
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 18
Andranik Margaryan age 21
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 72
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 42
Jigme Thinley age 19
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 4
Pierre Buyoya age 22
Jorge Alessandri age 76
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 17
Ikililou Dhoinine age 9
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 46
Essam Sharaf age 20
Ahmed Nazif age 20
Antonio Saca age 7
José Mário Vaz age 14
David A. Granger age 27
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 2