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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20

People

Carlos Luz age 61
William D. Leahy age 80
William Cohen age 15
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 85
Warren E. Burger age 48
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 1
Rodney Williams age 8
Jaime Paz Zamora age 16
Joseph Ngute age 1
Philémon Yang age 8
Julio César Turbay age 39
Laureano Gómez age 67
Spiros Cyprianou age 23
Sylvanie Burton age 1 month
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 20
Ibrahim Mahlab age 6
Kamisese Mara age 35
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 24
Henrique Rosa age 10
Donald Ramotar age 5
Oswaldo López Arellano age 34
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 51
Poul Hartling age 41
Barend Biesheuvel age 35
Felix Kulov age 7
Nawaf Salam age 2
Bechara El Khoury age 65
Tom Thabane age 16
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 17
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 49
Kailash Purryag age 8
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 55
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 5
Brigi Rafini age 2
Choe Yong-rim age 25
Grégoire Kayibanda age 31
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 4
Lojze Peterle age 7
Samuel Schmid age 9
Joseph Deiss age 10
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 23
T. V. Soong age 64
Phumtham Wechayachai age 2
Hamadi Jebali age 7
Tito Okello age 41
Vitold Fokin age 23
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 30
Tallis Obed Moses age 1
Do Muoi age 39
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 36
Chung Il-kwon age 38
Jung Hong-won age 11
Ismail al-Azhari age 55
Raif Dizdarević age 29
Sulejman Tihić age 4
Vo Chi Cong age 43
W. T. Cosgrave age 75
Jean Rey age 53
Lloyd Bentsen age 35
Wang Zhen (general) age 47
Frank Jack Fletcher age 70
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 69
Tajuddin Ahmad age 30
Luis García Meza Tejada age 26
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 41
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 7
Jamil Mahuad age 6
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 4
Hazem Al Beblawi age 19
José Napoleón Duarte age 30
Tiit Vähi age 9
Mart Siimann age 9
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 13
Negasso Gidada age 12
Peter M. Christian age 8
Rafael Paasio age 52
Johannes Virolainen age 42
Georgios Rallis age 37
Forbes Burnham age 33
István Dobi age 57
Ferenc Münnich age 69
Charles Konan Banny age 13
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 12
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 70
Ali Zeidan age 5
Ċensu Tabone age 42
Nahas Angula age 12
Hammer DeRoburt age 33
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 27
Jim Bolger age 20
Daouda Malam Wanké age 9
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 6
Ernest Shonekan age 19
Muhammad Junejo age 23
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 14
Vasco Gonçalves age 34
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 35
Kenny Anthony age 5
Ong Teng Cheong age 20
Thanin Kraiwichian age 28
Luis Herrera Campins age 30
Nur Hassan Hussein age 18
Goh Kun age 18
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 31
Marais Viljoen age 40
Sicco Mansholt age 47
François-Xavier Ortoli age 31
Alistair Darling age 2
Jack Lew age 6 months
Louise Lake-Tack age 11
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 39
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 36
José María Guido age 45
Pierre Harmel age 44
Said Musa age 11
Kimon Georgiev age 73
Norodom Ranariddh age 12
José María Figueres Olsen age 1
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 54
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 15
Kamal Ganzouri age 23
Alfredo Cristiani age 8
Andres Tarand age 16
V. J. Sukselainen age 49
Edward Akufo-Addo age 49
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 42
Michael Stasinopoulos age 52
Alfonso Portillo age 4
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 20
Géza Lakatos age 65
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 8
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 43
Ahmed Chalabi age 11
Patrick Allen age 5
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 36
Viggo Kampmann age 45
Louis Beel age 53
Jelle Zijlstra age 37
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 15
Gyude Bryant age 7
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 10
Arnoldo Alemán age 10
Wasim Sajjad age 14
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 17
Theodor Stolojan age 12
Manea Mănescu age 39
Nureddin al-Atassi age 27
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 43
Hussein Arnous age 3
Miguel Trovoada age 19
Yen Chia-kan age 50
Khuang Aphaiwong age 53
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 23
Edward Natapei age 1
Nguyen Huu Tho age 45
Mieczysław Rakowski age 29
Luis González Macchi age 8
Lee Nack-yon age 3
Ali Saibou age 15
Jack Lynch age 38
Willy Claes age 17
Rauf Orbay age 74
Martin Dempsey age 3
Nigel Lawson age 23
Harold Brown age 28
Thomas Gage age 238
Juan José Arévalo age 51
Ali Kafi age 27
Eduardo Camaño age 9
Michael Jeffery age 18
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 2 months
Hubert Pierlot age 72
Jean Duvieusart age 55
Camille Huysmans age 84
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 36
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 37
Guillermo León Valencia age 46
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 47
Armando Calderón Sol age 7
Akwasi Afrifa age 19
Fred Akuffo age 18
Phaedon Gizikis age 38
Patrick Achi age 3 months
Edward Seaga age 25
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 14
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 1
Fouad Chehab age 53
René Moawad age 30
Hussein Onn age 34
Ibrahim Nasir age 29
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 23
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 62
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 31
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 66
Mike Moore age 7
Pak Pong-ju age 16
Haruo Remeliik age 22
Ivan Stambolić age 19
Hashim al-Atassi age 80
Wu Den-yih age 8