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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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10

People

France-Albert René age 27
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 31
Yusof bin Ishak age 52
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 9
Ruth Dreifuss age 23
Fradique de Menezes age 21
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 25
Samak Sundaravej age 27
George Maxwell Richards age 31
Yurii Yekhanurov age 14
Juan María Bordaberry age 34
Baldwin Lonsdale age 14
Laurentino Cortizo age 10
Maurice Couve de Murville age 56
Pierre Bérégovoy age 37
Mark W. Clark age 67
B. J. Vorster age 47
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 57
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 17
Margaret Beckett age 20
Paul Hausser age 82
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 66
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 56
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 66
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 56
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 31
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 30
Kathy Hochul age 4
William Rehnquist age 38
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 9
Andranik Margaryan age 11
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 63
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 33
Jigme Thinley age 10
Pierre Buyoya age 13
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 8
Ikililou Dhoinine age 8 months
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 36
Essam Sharaf age 11
Ahmed Nazif age 10
Väinö Tanner age 82
José Mário Vaz age 5
David A. Granger age 17
András Baka age 10
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 57
Patrick Hillery age 39
Serik Akhmetov age 4
Tammam Salam age 17
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 78
Kazimira Prunskienė age 20
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 10
Dom Mintoff age 46
Guido de Marco age 31
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 72
Myint Swe age 11
Pedro Santana Lopes age 6
Sergei Kirienko age 8 months
Ralph Gonsalves age 16
Danny Faure age 11 months
Ola Ullsten age 31
Moritz Leuenberger age 16
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 11
Oqil Oqilov age 19
Somchai Wongsawat age 15
Borjana Krišto age 1
Café Filho age 64
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 75
Félix Gouin age 78
Ante Marković age 38
James Earl Ray age 35
Bachir Gemayel age 15
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 17
David Paterson age 8
Merrick Garland age 10
Nandó dos Santos age 13
Baldwin Spencer age 14
Peter Cosgrove age 15
Freundel Stuart age 11
Syarhiey Sidorski age 9
Nicéphore Soglo age 28
Eduardo Rodríguez age 7
Petar Mladenov age 26
Michel Micombero age 22
Belisario Betancur age 40
Sitiveni Rabuka age 14
Kalevi Sorsa age 32
Óscar Berger age 16
Kumba Ialá age 10
Kaysone Phomvihane age 42
Ivars Godmanis age 11
Amine Gemayel age 21
Joseph Boakai age 18
Christopher Loeak age 10
Mihai Ghimpu age 11
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 8
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 12
Salam Fayyad age 11
Marien Ngouabi age 24
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 5
Wavel Ramkalawan age 2
Devan Nair age 39
Johan Ferrier age 52
Surayud Chulanont age 19
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 19
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 21
Guy Scott age 18
Valentín Paniagua age 26
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 56
Ye Jianying age 66
Artur da Costa e Silva age 63
J. Sigfrid Edström age 92
Robert Zoellick age 9
Jack Straw age 16
Gotthard Heinrici age 76
Milan Babić age 7
Jang Song-thaek age 17
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 55
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 26
Prince Michael of Kent age 20
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 24
Martin O'Malley age 2 months
Deval Patrick age 6
Wim Duisenberg age 27
Ellison Onizuka age 16
Eric Holder age 12
Abd al-Malek Selal age 14
Liamine Zéroual age 21
Johnny Briceño age 2
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 43
Nikolai Denkov age 7 months
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 16
Khieu Samphan age 31
Abel Pacheco age 29
Giorgos Vasiliou age 31
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 10
Charles Savarin age 19
León Febres-Cordero age 32
Hilla Limann age 28
Vasiliki Thanou age 12
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 63
Carmen Pereira age 26
Roberto Micheletti age 19
József Antall age 31
Bjarni Benediktsson age 54
Ayad Allawi age 18
Marouf al-Bakhit age 16
Isa Mustafa age 11
Khamtai Siphandone age 39
Omar Karami age 28
Mahmoud Jibril age 10
Artūras Paulauskas age 9
David Kabua age 11
Nangolo Mbumba age 21
Ludwig Scotty age 14
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 10
Jan P. Syse age 32
Trygve Bratteli age 53
Odvar Nordli age 35
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 70
Chivu Stoica age 54
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 9
Tufuga Efi age 25
Wee Kim Wee age 47
Ignazio Cassis age 2
Carlos Vila Nova age 3
Rahmon Nabiyev age 32
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 12
Carlos Arias Navarro age 54
Trường Chinh age 56
Dương Văn Minh age 47
Garret FitzGerald age 37
John Bruton age 15
Henry Paulson age 17
Larry Summers age 8
Michael Howard age 21
Scott Bessent age 7 months
Timothy Geithner age 1
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 71
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 70
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark age 20
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester age 18
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson age 19
Mark Warner age 8
W. Averell Harriman age 71
Thomas E. Dewey age 61
Eliot Spitzer age 3
John Paul Stevens age 43
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 38
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 21
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 59
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 33
David Thompson age 1
Viačasław Kiebič age 26
Mark Eyskens age 29
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 46
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 32
Plamen Oresharski age 3
Elisabeth Domitien age 38
Michel Djotodia age 14
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 41