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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

People

Princess Caroline of Monaco age 21
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 13
Mario Cuomo age 45
Timothy McVeigh age 9
Liz Cheney age 11
George Wallace age 58
Fatos Nano age 25
Carlos Mesa age 24
Petar Stoyanov age 25
Sergey Stanishev age 11
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 9
Patricio Aylwin age 59
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 23
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 59
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 18
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 30
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 30
Davíð Oddsson age 30
Giovanni Spadolini age 52
Arnaldo Forlani age 52
Raila A Odinga age 33
Anote Tong age 25
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 37
Anerood Jugnauth age 47
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 66
Zinaida Greceanîi age 22
Aziz Akhannouch age 16
Armando Guebuza age 35
Einar Gerhardsen age 80
Farooq Leghari age 37
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 26
Emil Constantinescu age 38
Eduard Heger age 1
Tage Erlander age 76
Evaristo Carvalho age 36
Abdulla Aripov age 16
Rómulo Betancourt age 70
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 51
Masayoshi Ōhira age 67
Sōsuke Uno age 55
Pierre Mendès France age 71
Jeremy Hunt age 11
Michael Gove age 10
Gennady Yanayev age 40
Chadli Bendjedid age 48
Franz Vranitzky age 40
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 37
Wilfried Martens age 41
Dean Barrow age 26
Pedro Pires age 43
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 67
Roosevelt Skerrit age 5
Sherif Ismail age 22
Geir Haarde age 26
Giovanni Goria age 34
Asqar Mamin age 12
Rolandas Paksas age 21
Algirdas Butkevičius age 19
Gediminas Kirkilas age 26
Muhyiddin Yassin age 30
Eddie Fenech Adami age 44
U Nu age 70
Ibrahim Babangida age 36
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 48
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 48
Dacian Cioloș age 8
Julius Maada Bio age 13
Vladimír Mečiar age 35
Ronald Venetiaan age 41
Karin Keller-Sutter age 14
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 21
Rafael Caldera age 62
Hanna Suchocka age 31
Federico Franco age 15
Fernando Belaúnde age 65
Abdalla Hamdok age 22
Takeo Miki age 70
William Westmoreland age 63
Georges Bidault age 78
George Osborne age 6
William Hague age 16
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 28
Marcel Lefebvre age 72
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 31
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 4
Craig Venter age 31
Francis Collins age 27
Yang Shangkun age 70
Stephen Breyer age 39
Christian Stocker age 17
Hubert Maga age 61
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 56
Sylvie Kinigi age 25
Hun Manet age 3 months
Jioji Konrote age 30
Paavo Lipponen age 36
Rose Christiane Raponda age 14
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 6
Alejandro Giammattei age 21
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 19
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 30
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 10
Piet de Jong age 62
Ramush Haradinaj age 9
Guntis Ulmanis age 38
Hassan Diab age 18
Philibert Tsiranana age 65
Lawrence Gonzi age 24
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 21
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 77
Mircea Snegur age 38
Dorin Recean age 3
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 19
Christopher Luxon age 7
Shaukat Aziz age 28
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 21
Marcel Ciolacu age 10
Andrei Belousov age 18
Sergei Stepashin age 25
Marjan Šarec age 2 months
Guy Parmelin age 18
Paula-Mae Weekes age 19
Najla Bouden age 19
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 18
Nicanor Duarte age 21
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 8
Nikolai Tikhonov age 72
Jânio Quadros age 61
Ash Carter age 23
Sajid Javid age 8
Michel Aflaq age 68
Marsha P. Johnson age 32
Karl von Habsburg age 17
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 64
Mohammad Mokhber age 22
Michael Dukakis age 44
Dobrica Ćosić age 56
Ronald McNair age 27
Lawrence Eagleburger age 47
Dean Rusk age 69
Arturo Umberto Illia age 77
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 30
Arturo Frondizi age 69
William McMahon age 70
Lotay Tshering age 8
Joe Clark age 38
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 35
Luis Abinader age 10
Harri Holkeri age 41
Zurab Zhvania age 14
Efraín Ríos Montt age 51
László Kövér age 18
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 65
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 72
Yigal Allon age 59
Henri Konan Bédié age 43
Māris Kučinskis age 16
Saulius Skvernelis age 7
Duško Marković age 19
Saadeddine Othmani age 22
Htin Kyaw age 31
Marcus Stephen age 8
Yakubu Gowon age 43
Shehu Shagari age 52
António José Seguro age 15
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 32
Mirko Cvetković age 27
Rudolf Schuster age 44
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 35
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 52
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 58
Mario Abdo Benítez age 6
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 13
Fuad II of Egypt age 26
Chuck Hagel age 31
Milka Planinc age 53
Günter Schabowski age 49
Wesley Clark age 33
Kurt Student age 87
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 12
John Kasich age 25
Peter Mandelson age 24
Chris Christie age 15
Elena Kagan age 17
John Ashcroft age 35
John Gorton age 66
César Gaviria age 30
José Figueres Ferrer age 71
Osvaldo Dorticós age 58
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 56
Mart Laar age 17
Péter Medgyessy age 35
Poul Schlüter age 48
Fouad Siniora age 34
Vlad Filat age 8
Diori Hamani age 61
Ilie Bolojan age 8
James Michel age 33
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 23
Anutin Charnvirakul age 11