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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
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
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

People

Juan Bosch age 49
Gustavo Noboa age 21
Keith Mitchell age 12
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 12
Arthur Chung age 41
Ariel Henry age 9
Zoltán Tildy age 69
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 11
Michael Manley age 34
Pierre Werner age 45
Albert Zafy age 31
Anthony Mamo age 50
Amata Kabua age 30
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 17
Navin Ramgoolam age 11
Petru Lucinschi age 19
Momir Bulatović age 2
Abbas El Fassi age 18
Baburam Bhattarai age 4
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 34
David Lange age 16
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 8
Johnson Toribiong age 12
Rami Hamdallah age 6 months
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 24
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 56
Philip J. Pierre age 4
Su Tseng-chang age 11
Hubert Minnis age 4
Keith Rowley age 9
Muteesa II of Buganda age 34
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 44
Le Duc Anh age 38
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 69
Manfred Wörner age 24
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 44
Alberto Gonzales age 3
Vladimir Ivashko age 26
Ann Richards age 25
David Souter age 19
Christian Herter age 63
Owen Arthur age 9
George Cadle Price age 40
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 43
André Kolingba age 22
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 8 months
Jiří Paroubek age 6
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 11 months
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 2
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 76
Edgar Savisaar age 8
Taye Atske Selassie age 3
Epeli Nailatikau age 17
Karl-August Fagerholm age 57
Leslie Manigat age 28
Miklós Németh age 11
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 67
Robert Guéï age 17
Bah Ndaw age 8
Dioncounda Traoré age 16
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 17
Cindy Kiro age 7 months
Patsy Reddy age 4
Lars Korvald age 42
John Lyng age 53
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 55
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 15
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 1
Denzil Douglas age 6
James Mancham age 19
Siaka Stevens age 53
Benjamin Sheares age 51
Li Zongren age 68
Chuan Leekpai age 20
Perry Christie age 15
Mari Alkatiri age 9
Yıldırım Akbulut age 23
Pavlo Lazarenko age 6
Jan Olszewski age 28
José María Balcázar age 16
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 24
Ho Chong age 62
Creighton Abrams age 44
Charles Haughey age 33
Joseph Luns age 47
William J. Perry age 31
Han Zheng age 4
Lamar Alexander age 18
John McEwen age 58
Novruz Mammadov age 11
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 32
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 81
Alfonso López Michelsen age 45
Ahmed Abdallah age 39
Ivica Račan age 14
Manny Mori age 10
Ahti Karjalainen age 36
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 72
Martti Miettunen age 51
Maurice Bishop age 14
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 11
Ricardo Maduro age 12
Mátyás Szűrös age 25
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 30
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 11 months
Adone Zoli age 71
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 28
Thongsing Thammavong age 14
Camille Chamoun age 58
Ruth Perry age 19
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 69
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 81
Driss Jettou age 13
Rosario Murillo age 7
Kim Yong-il age 14
Per Borten age 45
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 21
Jules Wijdenbosch age 17
Rickard Sandler age 75
Shukri al-Quwatli age 67
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 25
Anthony Carmona age 5
A. N. R. Robinson age 32
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 38
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 7
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 9
Jaime Lusinchi age 34
Phan Văn Khải age 25
Rashad al-Alimi age 5
Józef Oleksy age 12
Lee Hae Chan age 6
Šefik Džaferović age 1
Nebojša Radmanović age 9
Dragan Čović age 2
Giuseppe Bertello age 16
Giovanni Lajolo age 24
Giovanni Messe age 75
Zhang Xueliang age 57
Geoffrey Howe age 32
Carlos Luz age 64
William D. Leahy age 83
William Cohen age 18
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 88
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 79
George Pataki age 13
Warren E. Burger age 51
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 4
Rodney Williams age 11
Achille Van Acker age 60
Jaime Paz Zamora age 19
Joseph Ngute age 4
Philémon Yang age 11
Julio César Turbay age 42
Laureano Gómez age 70
Spiros Cyprianou age 26
Sylvanie Burton age 3
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 23
Lucio Gutiérrez age 1
Ibrahim Mahlab age 9
Kamisese Mara age 38
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 27
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 10 months
Henrique Rosa age 13
Donald Ramotar age 8
Oswaldo López Arellano age 37
Poul Hartling age 44
Barend Biesheuvel age 38
Felix Kulov age 10
Nawaf Salam age 5
Bechara El Khoury age 68
Tom Thabane age 19
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 20
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 52
Kailash Purryag age 11
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 58
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 8
Brigi Rafini age 5
Choe Yong-rim age 28
Victor Khristenko age 1
Grégoire Kayibanda age 34
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 7
Lojze Peterle age 10
Samuel Schmid age 12
Joseph Deiss age 13
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 26
T. V. Soong age 67
Phumtham Wechayachai age 5
Hamadi Jebali age 10
Tito Okello age 44
Vitold Fokin age 26
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 33
Tallis Obed Moses age 4
Do Muoi age 42
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 39
Chung Il-kwon age 41
Jung Hong-won age 14
Ismail al-Azhari age 58
Raif Dizdarević age 32
Sulejman Tihić age 7
Vo Chi Cong age 46