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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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

People

Jigme Thinley age 8
Pierre Buyoya age 11
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 6
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 34
Essam Sharaf age 9
Ahmed Nazif age 8
Väinö Tanner age 80
José Mário Vaz age 3
David A. Granger age 15
András Baka age 8
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 55
Patrick Hillery age 38
Serik Akhmetov age 3
Tammam Salam age 16
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 76
Kazimira Prunskienė age 18
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 8
Dom Mintoff age 44
Guido de Marco age 29
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 70
Myint Swe age 10
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 51
Pedro Santana Lopes age 4
Ralph Gonsalves age 14
Ola Ullsten age 30
Moritz Leuenberger age 14
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 9
Oqil Oqilov age 17
Somchai Wongsawat age 13
Café Filho age 62
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 74
Félix Gouin age 76
Ante Marković age 36
James Earl Ray age 33
Bachir Gemayel age 13
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 15
David Paterson age 7
John Connally age 44
Merrick Garland age 8
Nandó dos Santos age 11
Baldwin Spencer age 12
Peter Cosgrove age 13
Freundel Stuart age 10
Syarhiey Sidorski age 7
Nicéphore Soglo age 26
Eduardo Rodríguez age 5
Petar Mladenov age 24
Michel Micombero age 20
Belisario Betancur age 38
Sitiveni Rabuka age 12
Kalevi Sorsa age 30
Óscar Berger age 14
Kumba Ialá age 8
Kaysone Phomvihane age 40
Ivars Godmanis age 9
Amine Gemayel age 19
Joseph Boakai age 16
Christopher Loeak age 8
Mihai Ghimpu age 9
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 6
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 10
Salam Fayyad age 9
Marien Ngouabi age 22
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 4
Wavel Ramkalawan age 3 months
Devan Nair age 37
Johan Ferrier age 51
Surayud Chulanont age 17
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 17
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 19
Guy Scott age 17
Valentín Paniagua age 24
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 54
Ye Jianying age 64
Artur da Costa e Silva age 61
J. Sigfrid Edström age 90
Robert Zoellick age 7
Jack Straw age 14
Gotthard Heinrici age 74
Milan Babić age 5
Jang Song-thaek age 15
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 53
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 24
Prince Michael of Kent age 18
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 23
Deval Patrick age 4
Wim Duisenberg age 25
Souvanna Phouma age 59
Ellison Onizuka age 15
Eric Holder age 10
Abd al-Malek Selal age 12
Liamine Zéroual age 19
Isa II of Bahrain age 28
Johnny Briceño age 11 months
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 42
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 14
Khieu Samphan age 29
Abel Pacheco age 27
Giorgos Vasiliou age 30
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 8
Charles Savarin age 17
León Febres-Cordero age 30
Hilla Limann age 26
Vasiliki Thanou age 10
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 61
Carmen Pereira age 24
Roberto Micheletti age 17
József Antall age 29
Bjarni Benediktsson age 53
Ayad Allawi age 17
Marouf al-Bakhit age 14
Jens Otto Krag age 46
Isa Mustafa age 10
Khamtai Siphandone age 37
Omar Karami age 26
Mahmoud Jibril age 9
Artūras Paulauskas age 7
David Kabua age 10
Nangolo Mbumba age 19
Ludwig Scotty age 13
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 8
Jan P. Syse age 30
Trygve Bratteli age 51
Odvar Nordli age 33
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 68
Chivu Stoica age 52
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 8
Tufuga Efi age 23
Wee Kim Wee age 45
Ignazio Cassis age 2 months
Carlos Vila Nova age 1
Rahmon Nabiyev age 30
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 10
Carlos Arias Navarro age 52
Trường Chinh age 54
Dương Văn Minh age 45
Garret FitzGerald age 35
John Bruton age 14
Henry Paulson age 15
Larry Summers age 6
Michael Howard age 19
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 70
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 68
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 19
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 16
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 17
Mark Warner age 6
W. Averell Harriman age 69
Thomas E. Dewey age 59
Eliot Spitzer age 2
John Paul Stevens age 41
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 36
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 19
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 58
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 31
Viačasław Kiebič age 25
Mark Eyskens age 28
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 44
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 31
Plamen Oresharski age 1
Elisabeth Domitien age 36
Michel Djotodia age 12
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 39
Jiří Rusnok age 8 months
Ahmed Shafik age 19
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 45
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 15
Christos Sartzetakis age 32
Boniface Alexandre age 24
Nasry Asfura age 3
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 50
Seán T. O'Kelly age 78
Elias Hrawi age 34
Pakalitha Mosisili age 16
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 23
Emilio Portes Gil age 70
Jhala Nath Khanal age 11
Enrique Bolaños age 33
Mahamane Ousmane age 11
Murtala Muhammed age 22
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 37
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 28
Radu Vasile age 18
Petre Roman age 14
Pasteur Bizimungu age 11
Mame Madior Boye age 20
Manasseh Sogavare age 6
Thanom Kittikachorn age 49
Lương Cường age 3
Leszek Miller age 14
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 39
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 28
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 62
Guy Mollet age 55
Ferruccio Parri age 71
Liam Cosgrave age 41
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 51
Vuk Drašković age 14
William Barr age 11
William J. Burns age 5