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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966

People

Mahmoud Jibril age 4
Artūras Paulauskas age 3
David Kabua age 5
Nangolo Mbumba age 15
Ludwig Scotty age 8
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 3
Jan P. Syse age 25
Trygve Bratteli age 46
Odvar Nordli age 28
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 64
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 3
Tufuga Efi age 18
Wee Kim Wee age 40
Rahmon Nabiyev age 25
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 5
Carlos Arias Navarro age 47
Dương Văn Minh age 40
Garret FitzGerald age 30
John Bruton age 9
Henry Paulson age 10
Larry Summers age 1
Michael Howard age 15
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 65
William Halsey Jr. age 73
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 64
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 14
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 12
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 13
Mark Warner age 1
Thomas E. Dewey age 54
John Paul Stevens age 36
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 31
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 14
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 26
Viačasław Kiebič age 20
Mark Eyskens age 23
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 39
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 26
Elisabeth Domitien age 31
Michel Djotodia age 7
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 34
Ahmed Shafik age 14
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 41
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 11
Christos Sartzetakis age 27
Boniface Alexandre age 20
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 45
Elias Hrawi age 30
Pakalitha Mosisili age 11
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 18
Emilio Portes Gil age 65
Jhala Nath Khanal age 6
Enrique Bolaños age 28
Mahamane Ousmane age 6
Murtala Muhammed age 17
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 32
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 23
Fulbert Youlou age 39
Radu Vasile age 13
Petre Roman age 10
Pasteur Bizimungu age 6
Mame Madior Boye age 15
Manasseh Sogavare age 1
Thanom Kittikachorn age 45
Leszek Miller age 10
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 34
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 23
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 57
Ferruccio Parri age 66
Liam Cosgrave age 36
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 37
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 46
Vuk Drašković age 9
William Barr age 6
William J. Burns age 5 months
Harriet Harman age 6
Mehdi Bazargan age 49
Wang Qishan age 8
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 15
Yves Congar age 52
Empress Nagako age 53
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 73
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 54
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 12
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 26
Raymond A. Spruance age 70
Tôn Đức Thắng age 68
James R. Schlesinger age 27
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 38
Héctor José Cámpora age 47
Juan Carlos Onganía age 42
Frank Forde age 66
David Hurley age 3
Leopold Figl age 53
Viktor Klima age 9
Gaston Eyskens age 51
Michel Kafando age 14
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 1
Domitien Ndayizeye age 3
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 12
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 57
Ernesto Samper age 6
Juan Bosch age 47
Gustavo Noboa age 19
Keith Mitchell age 9
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 10
Arthur Chung age 38
Ariel Henry age 6
Zoltán Tildy age 66
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 9
Michael Manley age 31
Pierre Werner age 42
Albert Zafy age 29
Anthony Mamo age 47
Amata Kabua age 27
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 14
Navin Ramgoolam age 9
Petru Lucinschi age 16
Abbas El Fassi age 15
Baburam Bhattarai age 2
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 31
David Lange age 14
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 5
Johnson Toribiong age 10
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 42
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 22
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 53
Philip J. Pierre age 1
Su Tseng-chang age 9
Hubert Minnis age 2
Keith Rowley age 6
Muteesa II of Buganda age 31
Le Duc Anh age 35
Ibrahim Abboud age 55
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 67
Manfred Wörner age 21
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 42
Alberto Gonzales age 1
Vladimir Ivashko age 23
Neil Kinnock age 14
Sisavang Vatthana age 48
Mark Felt age 43
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 87
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 73
Elisabeth of Romania age 61
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 42
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 26
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 2
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 21
Margareta of Romania age 7
Princess Michael of Kent age 11
Ann Richards age 23
David Souter age 16
Owen Arthur age 6
George Cadle Price age 37
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 40
André Kolingba age 20
Jiří Paroubek age 4
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 73
Edgar Savisaar age 6
Taye Atske Selassie age 7 months
Epeli Nailatikau age 15
Leslie Manigat age 26
Miklós Németh age 8
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 64
Robert Guéï age 15
Bah Ndaw age 6
Dioncounda Traoré age 14
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 14
Patsy Reddy age 2
Lars Korvald age 40
John Lyng age 51
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 52
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 12
Américo Tomás age 61
Denzil Douglas age 3
James Mancham age 17
Siaka Stevens age 51
Benjamin Sheares age 49
Li Zongren age 66
Chuan Leekpai age 18
Perry Christie age 13
Mari Alkatiri age 6
Yıldırım Akbulut age 21
Pavlo Lazarenko age 3
Jan Olszewski age 26
José María Balcázar age 13
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 21
Ho Chong age 60
Hugh Dowding age 74
Creighton Abrams age 42
Charles Haughey age 30
Joseph Luns age 45
Nereu Ramos age 68
William J. Perry age 28
Michael Foot age 43
Matvei Zakharov age 58
Juan Almeida Bosque age 29
Han Zheng age 2
Shapour Bakhtiar age 42