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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
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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964

People

Johann Schneider-Ammann age 8
Oqil Oqilov age 16
Somchai Wongsawat age 12
Café Filho age 61
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 72
Félix Gouin age 75
Ante Marković age 35
James Earl Ray age 32
Bachir Gemayel age 12
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 14
David Paterson age 5
John Connally age 43
Merrick Garland age 7
Nandó dos Santos age 10
Baldwin Spencer age 11
Peter Cosgrove age 12
Freundel Stuart age 8
Syarhiey Sidorski age 6
Nicéphore Soglo age 25
Eduardo Rodríguez age 4
Petar Mladenov age 23
Michel Micombero age 19
Belisario Betancur age 37
Sitiveni Rabuka age 11
Kalevi Sorsa age 29
Óscar Berger age 13
Kumba Ialá age 7
Kaysone Phomvihane age 39
Ivars Godmanis age 8
Amine Gemayel age 18
Joseph Boakai age 15
Christopher Loeak age 7
Mihai Ghimpu age 8
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 5
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 9
Salam Fayyad age 7
Marien Ngouabi age 21
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 2
Devan Nair age 36
Johan Ferrier age 49
Surayud Chulanont age 16
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 16
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 18
Guy Scott age 15
Valentín Paniagua age 23
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 53
Ye Jianying age 62
Artur da Costa e Silva age 60
J. Sigfrid Edström age 89
Robert Zoellick age 6
Jack Straw age 13
Gotthard Heinrici age 73
Milan Babić age 4
Jang Song-thaek age 14
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 52
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 23
Prince Michael of Kent age 17
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 21
Deval Patrick age 3
Wim Duisenberg age 24
Souvanna Phouma age 58
Ellison Onizuka age 13
Eric Holder age 9
Abd al-Malek Selal age 11
Liamine Zéroual age 18
Isa II of Bahrain age 26
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 40
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 13
Khieu Samphan age 28
Abel Pacheco age 26
Giorgos Vasiliou age 28
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 7
Charles Savarin age 16
León Febres-Cordero age 29
Hilla Limann age 25
Vasiliki Thanou age 9
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 60
Carmen Pereira age 23
Roberto Micheletti age 16
József Antall age 27
Bjarni Benediktsson age 51
Ayad Allawi age 15
Marouf al-Bakhit age 13
Jens Otto Krag age 45
Isa Mustafa age 8
Khamtai Siphandone age 36
Omar Karami age 25
Mahmoud Jibril age 7
Artūras Paulauskas age 6
David Kabua age 8
Nangolo Mbumba age 18
Ludwig Scotty age 11
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 7
Jan P. Syse age 29
Trygve Bratteli age 50
Odvar Nordli age 32
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 67
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 6
Tufuga Efi age 22
Wee Kim Wee age 44
Carlos Vila Nova age 7 months
Rahmon Nabiyev age 29
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 9
Carlos Arias Navarro age 51
Trường Chinh age 53
Dương Văn Minh age 44
Garret FitzGerald age 34
John Bruton age 12
Henry Paulson age 13
Larry Summers age 5
Michael Howard age 18
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 68
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 67
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 17
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 15
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 16
Mark Warner age 5
W. Averell Harriman age 68
Thomas E. Dewey age 58
Eliot Spitzer age 9 months
John Paul Stevens age 39
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 34
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 18
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 56
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 30
Viačasław Kiebič age 23
Mark Eyskens age 26
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 43
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 29
Plamen Oresharski age 0 months
Elisabeth Domitien age 35
Michel Djotodia age 11
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 38
Ahmed Shafik age 18
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 44
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 14
Christos Sartzetakis age 30
Boniface Alexandre age 23
Nasry Asfura age 1
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 49
Seán T. O'Kelly age 77
Elias Hrawi age 33
Pakalitha Mosisili age 15
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 22
Emilio Portes Gil age 69
Jhala Nath Khanal age 9
Enrique Bolaños age 31
Mahamane Ousmane age 10
Murtala Muhammed age 21
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 36
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 27
Fulbert Youlou age 42
Radu Vasile age 17
Petre Roman age 13
Pasteur Bizimungu age 10
Mame Madior Boye age 19
Manasseh Sogavare age 5
Thanom Kittikachorn age 48
Lương Cường age 2
Leszek Miller age 13
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 38
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 26
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 61
Guy Mollet age 54
Ferruccio Parri age 70
Liam Cosgrave age 39
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 49
Vuk Drašković age 13
William Barr age 9
William J. Burns age 3
Harriet Harman age 9
Mehdi Bazargan age 52
Wang Qishan age 11
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam age 19
Yves Congar age 55
Empress Nagako age 57
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 77
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 58
Princess Benedikte of Denmark age 15
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon age 30
Raymond A. Spruance age 73
Tôn Đức Thắng age 71
James R. Schlesinger age 31
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 41
Héctor José Cámpora age 51
Juan Carlos Onganía age 46
Hovik Abrahamyan age 2
Frank Forde age 69
David Hurley age 6
Leopold Figl age 57
Viktor Klima age 12
Michel Kafando age 17
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 5
Domitien Ndayizeye age 6
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 16
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 61
Ernesto Samper age 9
Juan Bosch age 50
Gustavo Noboa age 22
Keith Mitchell age 13