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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
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
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Baltic Way 1989-08-23

People

Zinaida Greceanîi age 33
Aziz Akhannouch age 28
Armando Guebuza age 46
Farooq Leghari age 49
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 37
Emil Constantinescu age 49
Eduard Heger age 13
Evaristo Carvalho age 47
Abdulla Aripov age 28
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 63
Sōsuke Uno age 67
Jeremy Hunt age 22
Ri Sol-ju age 4
Michael Gove age 22
Gennady Yanayev age 52
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 49
Dean Barrow age 38
Pedro Pires age 55
Mahamat Déby age 5
Roosevelt Skerrit age 17
Sherif Ismail age 34
Geir Haarde age 38
Ephraim Katzir age 73
Giovanni Goria age 46
Asqar Mamin age 23
Rolandas Paksas age 33
Algirdas Butkevičius age 30
Gediminas Kirkilas age 38
Muhyiddin Yassin age 42
Milojko Spajić age 1
U Nu age 82
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 59
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 59
Dacian Cioloș age 20
Julius Maada Bio age 25
Vladimír Mečiar age 47
Ronald Venetiaan age 53
Karin Keller-Sutter age 25
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 33
Rafael Caldera age 73
Hanna Suchocka age 43
Federico Franco age 27
Fernando Belaúnde age 76
Abdalla Hamdok age 33
William Westmoreland age 75
George Osborne age 18
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 40
Marcel Lefebvre age 83
Eduardo Saverin age 7
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 43
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 15
Craig Venter age 42
Francis Collins age 39
Christian Stocker age 29
Hubert Maga age 73
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 68
Kiril Petkov age 9
Sylvie Kinigi age 36
Hun Manet age 11
Jioji Konrote age 41
Paavo Lipponen age 48
Rose Christiane Raponda age 26
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 18
Alejandro Giammattei age 33
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 30
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 42
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 22
Piet de Jong age 74
Ramush Haradinaj age 21
Guntis Ulmanis age 49
Hassan Diab age 30
Gintautas Paluckas age 10
Lawrence Gonzi age 36
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 32
Mircea Snegur age 49
Dorin Recean age 15
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 31
Christopher Luxon age 19
Shaukat Aziz age 40
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 33
Marcel Ciolacu age 21
Andrei Belousov age 30
Sergei Stepashin age 37
Marjan Šarec age 11
Guy Parmelin age 29
Paula-Mae Weekes age 30
Najla Bouden age 31
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 29
Nicanor Duarte age 32
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 19
Nikolai Tikhonov age 84
Jânio Quadros age 72
Ash Carter age 34
Sajid Javid age 19
Marsha P. Johnson age 44
Karl von Habsburg age 28
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona age 76
Mohammad Mokhber age 34
Dobrica Ćosić age 67
Lawrence Eagleburger age 59
Dean Rusk age 80
Cyrus Vance age 72
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 42
Arturo Frondizi age 80
Lotay Tshering age 20
Joe Clark age 50
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 47
Luis Abinader age 22
Zurab Zhvania age 25
Efraín Ríos Montt age 63
László Kövér age 29
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 77
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 83
Henri Konan Bédié age 55
Māris Kučinskis age 27
Saulius Skvernelis age 19
Gaston Thorn age 61
Duško Marković age 31
Saadeddine Othmani age 33
Htin Kyaw age 43
Marcus Stephen age 19
Yakubu Gowon age 54
Shehu Shagari age 64
António José Seguro age 27
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 44
Mirko Cvetković age 39
Rudolf Schuster age 55
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 46
Michael Somare age 53
Mario Abdo Benítez age 17
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 25
Fuad II of Egypt age 37
Chuck Hagel age 42
Milka Planinc age 64
Günter Schabowski age 60
Wesley Clark age 44
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 24
John Kasich age 37
Peter Mandelson age 35
Chris Christie age 26
Elena Kagan age 29
John Ashcroft age 47
John Gorton age 78
César Gaviria age 42
José Figueres Ferrer age 82
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 68
Mart Laar age 29
Péter Medgyessy age 46
Fouad Siniora age 46
Vlad Filat age 20
Ilie Bolojan age 20
James Michel age 45
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 34
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 63
Anutin Charnvirakul age 22
Mesut Yılmaz age 41
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 61
Iolu Abil age 47
Phạm Minh Chính age 30
Marek Belka age 37
Mireya Moscoso age 43
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 54
Michel Debré age 77
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 74
Margaret Chan age 42
Christine Kangaloo age 27
Ali Hassan al-Majid age 47
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent age 53
Princess Birgitta of Sweden age 52
Zara Tindall age 8
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland age 4
Ahmad Uyahya age 37
Antoni Martí age 26
Gaston Browne age 22
Leo Tindemans age 67
Tshering Tobgay age 23
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 81
Melchior Ndadaye age 36
Laura Fernández Delgado age 3
Carlos Alvarado Quesada age 9
Vladimír Špidla age 38
Antoine Gizenga age 63
Nicholas Liverpool age 54
Mamuka Bakhtadze age 7
Mamady Doumbouya age 4
Bharrat Jagdeo age 25
Mario Scelba age 88
Anker Jørgensen age 67
Taneti Maamau age 28
Aigars Kalvītis age 23
Luc Frieden age 25
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 25
Abdelilah Benkirane age 35
Sushil Koirala age 50
Kåre Willoch age 60
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 30
Pascal Lissouba age 57
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 45
Nicolae Ciucă age 22
Adrian Năstase age 39