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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
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
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

People

Ramush Haradinaj age 4
Guntis Ulmanis age 33
Hassan Diab age 13
Philibert Tsiranana age 60
Lawrence Gonzi age 19
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 16
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 72
Mircea Snegur age 33
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 14
Christopher Luxon age 2
Shaukat Aziz age 24
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 17
Marcel Ciolacu age 5
Andrei Belousov age 14
Sergei Stepashin age 21
Guy Parmelin age 13
Paula-Mae Weekes age 14
Najla Bouden age 14
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 50
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 13
Nicanor Duarte age 16
Nikolai Tikhonov age 68
Jânio Quadros age 56
Ash Carter age 18
Sajid Javid age 3
Mohammad Mokhber age 17
Michael Dukakis age 39
Ronald McNair age 22
Lawrence Eagleburger age 42
Anthony Kennedy age 36
Dean Rusk age 64
Cyrus Vance age 56
Arturo Umberto Illia age 72
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 25
Arturo Frondizi age 64
William McMahon age 65
Lotay Tshering age 3
Joe Clark age 33
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 30
Luis Abinader age 5
Harri Holkeri age 36
Zurab Zhvania age 9
Efraín Ríos Montt age 46
László Kövér age 13
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 60
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 67
Yigal Allon age 54
Henri Konan Bédié age 39
Māris Kučinskis age 11
Saulius Skvernelis age 2
Gaston Thorn age 44
Duško Marković age 14
Saadeddine Othmani age 17
Htin Kyaw age 26
Marcus Stephen age 3
Shehu Shagari age 48
António José Seguro age 11
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 28
Mirko Cvetković age 22
Rudolf Schuster age 39
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 30
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 48
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 53
Michael Somare age 37
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 8
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 90
Fuad II of Egypt age 21
Chuck Hagel age 26
Milka Planinc age 48
John Kasich age 21
Peter Mandelson age 19
Chris Christie age 10
Elena Kagan age 13
Souphanouvong age 63
John Ashcroft age 31
John Gorton age 61
César Gaviria age 26
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 51
Mart Laar age 13
Péter Medgyessy age 30
Poul Schlüter age 44
Fouad Siniora age 29
Vlad Filat age 4
Ilie Bolojan age 4
James Michel age 28
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 18
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 47
Anutin Charnvirakul age 6
Mesut Yılmaz age 25
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 45
Julio María Sanguinetti age 37
Iolu Abil age 31
Phạm Minh Chính age 14
Marek Belka age 21
Mireya Moscoso age 26
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 38
Michel Debré age 61
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 58
Margaret Chan age 25
Christine Kangaloo age 11
Ahmad Uyahya age 20
Antoni Martí age 9
Gaston Browne age 6
Leo Tindemans age 51
Tshering Tobgay age 7
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 65
Melchior Ndadaye age 20
Vladimír Špidla age 22
Antoine Gizenga age 47
Eugenia Charles age 54
Nicholas Liverpool age 38
Bharrat Jagdeo age 9
Mario Scelba age 71
Taneti Maamau age 12
Aigars Kalvītis age 6
Luc Frieden age 9
Didier Ratsiraka age 36
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 9
Abdelilah Benkirane age 19
Sushil Koirala age 33
Kåre Willoch age 44
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 14
Pascal Lissouba age 41
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 29
Nicolae Ciucă age 6
Adrian Năstase age 22
Michal Kováč age 42
Pascal Couchepin age 31
Wellington Koo age 85
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 12
James Marape age 2
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 13
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 120
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 85
Tetsu Katayama age 85
Avery Brundage age 85
Steven Mnuchin age 10
Janet Reno age 34
Pam Bondi age 7
Mohamed Boudiaf age 53
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 48
Quentin Bryce age 30
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 3
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 23
Nuon Chea age 46
Ange-Félix Patassé age 36
Glafcos Clerides age 54
Josefa Iloilo age 52
Esko Aho age 18
Luís Cabral age 42
Sam Hinds age 29
Janet Jagan age 52
Abdul Latif Rashid age 28
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 31
Giuseppe Pella age 71
Andrew Holness age 9 months
Joop den Uyl age 53
Behgjet Pacolli age 21
Bakili Muluzi age 30
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 13
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 30
António Ramalho Eanes age 38
António de Spínola age 63
Florin Cîțu age 1
Milan Milutinović age 30
France-Albert René age 37
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 41
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 19
Ruth Dreifuss age 33
Fradique de Menezes age 31
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 35
Samak Sundaravej age 37
George Maxwell Richards age 41
Yurii Yekhanurov age 24
Baldwin Lonsdale age 24
Võ Văn Thưởng age 2
Laurentino Cortizo age 20
Maurice Couve de Murville age 66
Pierre Bérégovoy age 47
Mark W. Clark age 77
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 27
Walter Hallstein age 71
Amber Rudd age 9
Kathy Hochul age 14
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 19
Andranik Margaryan age 21
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 73
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 43
Jigme Thinley age 20
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 5
Pierre Buyoya age 23
Jorge Alessandri age 77
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 18
Ikililou Dhoinine age 10
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 46
Essam Sharaf age 21
Ahmed Nazif age 20
Antonio Saca age 8
José Mário Vaz age 15
David A. Granger age 27