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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
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962

People

Ellison Onizuka age 11
Eric Holder age 6
Abd al-Malek Selal age 9
Liamine Zéroual age 16
Isa II of Bahrain age 24
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 38
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 11
Khieu Samphan age 26
Abel Pacheco age 24
Giorgos Vasiliou age 26
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 5
Charles Savarin age 14
León Febres-Cordero age 26
Hilla Limann age 23
Vasiliki Thanou age 7
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 58
Carmen Pereira age 21
Roberto Micheletti age 14
József Antall age 25
Bjarni Benediktsson age 49
Ayad Allawi age 13
Marouf al-Bakhit age 10
Jens Otto Krag age 43
Isa Mustafa age 6
Khamtai Siphandone age 33
Omar Karami age 23
Mahmoud Jibril age 5
Artūras Paulauskas age 4
David Kabua age 6
Nangolo Mbumba age 16
Ludwig Scotty age 9
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 4
Jan P. Syse age 27
Trygve Bratteli age 48
Odvar Nordli age 30
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 65
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 4
Tufuga Efi age 19
Wee Kim Wee age 42
Rahmon Nabiyev age 27
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 7
Carlos Arias Navarro age 49
Trường Chinh age 50
Dương Văn Minh age 41
Garret FitzGerald age 31
John Bruton age 10
Henry Paulson age 11
Larry Summers age 3
Michael Howard age 16
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 66
William Halsey Jr. age 75
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 65
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 15
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 13
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 14
Mark Warner age 3
Thomas E. Dewey age 55
John Paul Stevens age 37
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 32
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 16
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 27
Viačasław Kiebič age 21
Mark Eyskens age 24
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 40
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 27
Elisabeth Domitien age 33
Michel Djotodia age 9
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 36
Ahmed Shafik age 16
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 42
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 12
Christos Sartzetakis age 28
Boniface Alexandre age 21
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 46
Elias Hrawi age 31
Pakalitha Mosisili age 12
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 20
Emilio Portes Gil age 67
Jhala Nath Khanal age 7
Enrique Bolaños age 29
Mahamane Ousmane age 7
Murtala Muhammed age 19
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 33
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 25
Fulbert Youlou age 40
Radu Vasile age 15
Petre Roman age 11
Pasteur Bizimungu age 8
Mame Madior Boye age 17
Manasseh Sogavare age 2
Lương Cường age 4 months
Leszek Miller age 11
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 36
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 24
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 58
Guy Mollet age 52
Ferruccio Parri age 67
Liam Cosgrave age 37
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 38
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 47
Vuk Drašković age 11
William Barr age 7
William J. Burns age 1
Harriet Harman age 7
Mehdi Bazargan age 50
Wang Qishan age 9
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 17
Yves Congar age 53
Empress Nagako age 54
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 75
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 56
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 13
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 27
Raymond A. Spruance age 71
Tôn Đức Thắng age 69
James R. Schlesinger age 28
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 39
Héctor José Cámpora age 48
Juan Carlos Onganía age 43
Frank Forde age 67
David Hurley age 4
Leopold Figl age 55
Viktor Klima age 10
Gaston Eyskens age 52
Michel Kafando age 15
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 2
Domitien Ndayizeye age 4
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 13
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 59
Ernesto Samper age 7
Juan Bosch age 48
Gustavo Noboa age 20
Keith Mitchell age 11
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 11
Arthur Chung age 40
Ariel Henry age 8
Zoltán Tildy age 68
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 10
Michael Manley age 33
Pierre Werner age 44
Albert Zafy age 30
Anthony Mamo age 49
Amata Kabua age 29
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 16
Navin Ramgoolam age 10
Petru Lucinschi age 17
Momir Bulatović age 1
Abbas El Fassi age 17
Baburam Bhattarai age 3
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 33
David Lange age 15
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 7
Johnson Toribiong age 11
Francisco da Costa Gomes age 43
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 23
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 55
Philip J. Pierre age 3
Su Tseng-chang age 10
Hubert Minnis age 3
Keith Rowley age 8
Muteesa II of Buganda age 33
Le Duc Anh age 37
Ibrahim Abboud age 57
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 68
Manfred Wörner age 23
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 43
Alberto Gonzales age 2
Vladimir Ivashko age 25
Neil Kinnock age 15
Sisavang Vatthana age 50
Mark Felt age 44
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 74
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark age 43
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen age 27
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia age 4
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler age 23
Margareta of Romania age 8
Princess Michael of Kent age 12
Ann Richards age 24
David Souter age 18
Christian Herter age 62
Owen Arthur age 8
George Cadle Price age 38
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 41
André Kolingba age 21
Jiří Paroubek age 5
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 1
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 75
Edgar Savisaar age 7
Taye Atske Selassie age 1
Epeli Nailatikau age 16
Karl-August Fagerholm age 56
Leslie Manigat age 27
Miklós Németh age 9
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 66
Robert Guéï age 16
Bah Ndaw age 7
Dioncounda Traoré age 15
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 15
Patsy Reddy age 3