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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Yıldırım Akbulut age 21
Pavlo Lazarenko age 4
Jan Olszewski age 26
José María Balcázar age 14
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 22
Ho Chong age 60
Creighton Abrams age 42
Charles Haughey age 31
Joseph Luns age 45
Nereu Ramos age 68
William J. Perry age 29
Han Zheng age 2
John McEwen age 56
Novruz Mammadov age 9
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 30
Alfonso López Michelsen age 43
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 50
Ahmed Abdallah age 37
Ivica Račan age 12
Manny Mori age 8
Ahti Karjalainen age 33
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 70
Martti Miettunen age 49
Maurice Bishop age 12
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 9
Ricardo Maduro age 10
Mátyás Szűrös age 23
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 28
Adone Zoli age 69
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 26
Thongsing Thammavong age 12
Ruth Perry age 17
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 67
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 79
Driss Jettou age 11
Rosario Murillo age 5
Kim Yong-il age 12
Oscar Torp age 63
Per Borten age 43
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 19
Jules Wijdenbosch age 15
Rickard Sandler age 73
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 23
Anthony Carmona age 3
A. N. R. Robinson age 30
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 36
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 5
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 7
Jaime Lusinchi age 32
Phan Văn Khải age 23
Rashad al-Alimi age 3
Józef Oleksy age 10
Lee Hae Chan age 4
Nebojša Radmanović age 7
Dragan Čović age 5 months
Giuseppe Bertello age 14
Giovanni Lajolo age 22
Giovanni Messe age 73
Zhang Xueliang age 55
José Linhares age 71
Geoffrey Howe age 30
Carlos Luz age 62
William D. Leahy age 81
William Cohen age 16
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 86
Warren E. Burger age 49
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 2
Rodney Williams age 9
Jaime Paz Zamora age 17
Joseph Ngute age 2
Philémon Yang age 9
Julio César Turbay age 40
Laureano Gómez age 67
Spiros Cyprianou age 24
Sylvanie Burton age 1
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 21
Ibrahim Mahlab age 7
Kamisese Mara age 36
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 25
Henrique Rosa age 11
Donald Ramotar age 6
Oswaldo López Arellano age 35
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 52
Poul Hartling age 42
Barend Biesheuvel age 36
Felix Kulov age 8
Nawaf Salam age 3
Bechara El Khoury age 66
Tom Thabane age 17
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 18
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 50
Kailash Purryag age 9
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 56
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 6
Brigi Rafini age 3
Choe Yong-rim age 26
Grégoire Kayibanda age 32
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 5
Lojze Peterle age 8
Samuel Schmid age 10
Joseph Deiss age 11
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 24
T. V. Soong age 65
Phumtham Wechayachai age 3
Hamadi Jebali age 8
Tito Okello age 42
Vitold Fokin age 24
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 31
Tallis Obed Moses age 2
Do Muoi age 40
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 37
Chung Il-kwon age 39
Jung Hong-won age 12
Ismail al-Azhari age 56
Raif Dizdarević age 30
Sulejman Tihić age 5
Vo Chi Cong age 44
W. T. Cosgrave age 76
Jean Rey age 54
Lloyd Bentsen age 35
Wang Zhen (general) age 48
Frank Jack Fletcher age 71
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 70
Tajuddin Ahmad age 31
Luis García Meza Tejada age 27
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 8
Jamil Mahuad age 7
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 4
Hazem Al Beblawi age 20
José Napoleón Duarte age 31
Tiit Vähi age 10
Mart Siimann age 10
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 14
Negasso Gidada age 13
Peter M. Christian age 9
Rafael Paasio age 53
Johannes Virolainen age 43
Georgios Rallis age 38
Raimundo Pereira age 5 months
Forbes Burnham age 33
István Dobi age 58
Ferenc Münnich age 70
Charles Konan Banny age 14
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 13
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 71
Ali Zeidan age 6
Ċensu Tabone age 43
Nahas Angula age 13
Hammer DeRoburt age 34
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 28
Jim Bolger age 21
Daouda Malam Wanké age 10
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 7
Ernest Shonekan age 20
Muhammad Junejo age 24
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 15
Vasco Gonçalves age 35
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 35
Kenny Anthony age 6
Ong Teng Cheong age 21
Thanin Kraiwichian age 29
Luis Herrera Campins age 31
Manuel Odría age 59
Nur Hassan Hussein age 18
Goh Kun age 19
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 32
Marais Viljoen age 41
Sicco Mansholt age 48
François-Xavier Ortoli age 31
Alistair Darling age 3
Jack Lew age 1
Louise Lake-Tack age 12
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 40
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 37
José María Guido age 46
Pierre Harmel age 45
Said Musa age 12
Kimon Georgiev age 74
Norodom Ranariddh age 13
José María Figueres Olsen age 2
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 55
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 16
Kamal Ganzouri age 24
Alfredo Cristiani age 9
Andres Tarand age 17
V. J. Sukselainen age 50
Edward Akufo-Addo age 50
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 43
Michael Stasinopoulos age 53
Alfonso Portillo age 5
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 21
András Hegedüs age 34
Géza Lakatos age 66
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 9
Ólafur Thors age 65
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 43
Ahmed Chalabi age 12
Patrick Allen age 5
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 36
Viggo Kampmann age 46