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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
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
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
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962

People

Ludwig Scotty age 13
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 9
Jan P. Syse age 31
Trygve Bratteli age 52
Odvar Nordli age 34
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 69
Chivu Stoica age 53
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 9
Tufuga Efi age 24
Wee Kim Wee age 46
Ignazio Cassis age 1
Carlos Vila Nova age 2
Rahmon Nabiyev age 31
Carlos Arias Navarro age 53
Trường Chinh age 55
Garret FitzGerald age 36
John Bruton age 15
Henry Paulson age 16
Larry Summers age 7
Michael Howard age 20
Timothy Geithner age 9 months
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 71
Mark Warner age 7
W. Averell Harriman age 70
Thomas E. Dewey age 60
Eliot Spitzer age 2
John Paul Stevens age 42
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 37
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 20
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 59
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 32
David Thompson age 5 months
Viačasław Kiebič age 25
Mark Eyskens age 29
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 45
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 31
Plamen Oresharski age 2
Elisabeth Domitien age 37
Michel Djotodia age 13
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 40
Jiří Rusnok age 1
Ahmed Shafik age 20
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 46
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 16
Christos Sartzetakis age 33
Boniface Alexandre age 25
Nasry Asfura age 3
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 51
Seán T. O'Kelly age 79
Elias Hrawi age 35
Pakalitha Mosisili age 17
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 24
Pravind Jugnauth age 5 months
Emilio Portes Gil age 71
Jhala Nath Khanal age 12
Enrique Bolaños age 34
Mahamane Ousmane age 12
Murtala Muhammed age 23
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 38
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 29
Radu Vasile age 19
Petre Roman age 15
Mame Madior Boye age 21
Manasseh Sogavare age 7
Thanom Kittikachorn age 50
Lương Cường age 4
Leszek Miller age 15
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 40
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 29
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 63
Guy Mollet age 56
Ferruccio Parri age 72
Liam Cosgrave age 42
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 52
Vuk Drašković age 15
William Barr age 12
William J. Burns age 6
Wang Qishan age 13
Raymond A. Spruance age 75
Tôn Đức Thắng age 73
James R. Schlesinger age 33
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 43
Héctor José Cámpora age 53
Juan Carlos Onganía age 48
Hovik Abrahamyan age 4
Frank Forde age 71
David Hurley age 8
Leopold Figl age 59
Viktor Klima age 15
Andrei Kobyakow age 1
Gaston Eyskens age 57
Michel Kafando age 19
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 7
Domitien Ndayizeye age 9
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 18
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 63
Ernesto Samper age 11
Juan Bosch age 52
Gustavo Noboa age 24
Keith Mitchell age 15
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 16
Arthur Chung age 44
Ariel Henry age 12
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 1 month
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 15
Michael Manley age 37
Albert Zafy age 35
Christian Ntsay age 1
Anthony Mamo age 53
Amata Kabua age 33
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 20
Navin Ramgoolam age 14
Petru Lucinschi age 22
Momir Bulatović age 5
Abbas El Fassi age 21
Baburam Bhattarai age 7
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 37
David Lange age 19
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 11
Johnson Toribiong age 15
Rami Hamdallah age 3
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 27
Philip J. Pierre age 7
Su Tseng-chang age 14
Hubert Minnis age 8
Keith Rowley age 12
Muteesa II of Buganda age 37
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 48
Le Duc Anh age 41
José Raúl Mulino age 2
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 73
Manfred Wörner age 27
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 47
Alberto Gonzales age 6
Vladimir Ivashko age 29
Ann Richards age 28
David Souter age 22
Christian Herter age 67
William P. Rogers age 48
Vazgen Sargsyan age 3
Owen Arthur age 12
George Cadle Price age 43
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 46
André Kolingba age 25
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 3
Rodrigo Chaves age 11 months
Jiří Paroubek age 9
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 4
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 5
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 79
Edgar Savisaar age 12
Taye Atske Selassie age 6
Epeli Nailatikau age 20
Karl-August Fagerholm age 60
Leslie Manigat age 31
Miklós Németh age 14
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 70
Robert Guéï age 21
Bah Ndaw age 11
Dioncounda Traoré age 20
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 20
Cindy Kiro age 3
Patsy Reddy age 8
Lars Korvald age 46
John Lyng age 56
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 58
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 18
Mohammad Shtayyeh age 4
Denzil Douglas age 9
James Mancham age 22
Siaka Stevens age 56
Benjamin Sheares age 54
Li Zongren age 71
Chuan Leekpai age 23
Perry Christie age 18
Mari Alkatiri age 12
Yıldırım Akbulut age 26
Pavlo Lazarenko age 9
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 2
Jan Olszewski age 31
José María Balcázar age 19
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 27
Ho Chong age 66
Creighton Abrams age 47
Charles Haughey age 36
Joseph Luns age 50
William J. Perry age 34
Han Zheng age 8
Lamar Alexander age 21
John McEwen age 62
Novruz Mammadov age 15
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 35
Alfonso López Michelsen age 48
Ahmed Abdallah age 43
Ivica Račan age 18
Manny Mori age 13
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 76
Martti Miettunen age 55
Maurice Bishop age 18
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 14