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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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23

People

Anker Jørgensen age 45
Taneti Maamau age 7
Aigars Kalvītis age 1
William Richard Tolbert age 54
Luc Frieden age 4
Didier Ratsiraka age 31
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 3
Abdelilah Benkirane age 14
Sushil Koirala age 28
Kåre Willoch age 39
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 9
Pascal Lissouba age 36
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 24
Nicolae Ciucă age 1
Adrian Năstase age 17
Michal Kováč age 37
Pascal Couchepin age 26
Wellington Koo age 80
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 7
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 57
Carlos P. Garcia age 71
Gaafar Nimeiry age 37
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 8
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 115
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 80
Tetsu Katayama age 80
Pierre Messmer age 52
Steven Mnuchin age 5
Sirhan Sirhan age 24
Biljana Plavšić age 37
Karl Rahner age 64
Paul Tibbets age 53
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 47
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 52
Janet Reno age 29
Pam Bondi age 2
Mohamed Boudiaf age 48
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 43
Arthur Fadden age 74
Quentin Bryce age 25
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 17
Hugo Banzer age 41
Nuon Chea age 41
Ange-Félix Patassé age 31
Glafcos Clerides age 49
Josefa Iloilo age 47
Esko Aho age 13
Luís Cabral age 37
Sam Hinds age 24
Janet Jagan age 47
Abdul Latif Rashid age 23
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 26
Giuseppe Pella age 66
Joop den Uyl age 48
Behgjet Pacolli age 16
Bakili Muluzi age 25
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 8
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 25
António Ramalho Eanes age 33
António de Spínola age 58
Milan Milutinović age 25
France-Albert René age 32
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 36
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 14
Ruth Dreifuss age 28
Fradique de Menezes age 26
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 30
Samak Sundaravej age 32
George Maxwell Richards age 36
Yurii Yekhanurov age 19
Juan María Bordaberry age 39
Baldwin Lonsdale age 19
Laurentino Cortizo age 15
Maurice Couve de Murville age 61
Pierre Bérégovoy age 42
Mark W. Clark age 72
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 62
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 22
Walter Hallstein age 66
Amber Rudd age 4
Margaret Beckett age 25
Paul Hausser age 87
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 1
Helen of Greece and Denmark age 72
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 61
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 61
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 36
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 4
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 35
Kathy Hochul age 9
William Rehnquist age 43
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 14
Andranik Margaryan age 16
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 68
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 38
Jigme Thinley age 15
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 0 months
Pierre Buyoya age 18
Jorge Alessandri age 71
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 13
Ikililou Dhoinine age 5
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 41
Essam Sharaf age 16
Ahmed Nazif age 15
Antonio Saca age 3
José Mário Vaz age 10
David A. Granger age 22
András Baka age 15
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 62
Patrick Hillery age 44
Serik Akhmetov age 9
Tammam Salam age 22
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 83
Kazimira Prunskienė age 25
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 15
Dom Mintoff age 51
Guido de Marco age 36
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 77
Marian Lupu age 1
Myint Swe age 16
Pedro Santana Lopes age 11
Ludovic Orban age 4
Sergei Kirienko age 5
Ralph Gonsalves age 21
Danny Faure age 5
Ola Ullsten age 36
Moritz Leuenberger age 21
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 16
Oqil Oqilov age 24
Somchai Wongsawat age 20
Yamandú Orsi age 10 months
Peter O'Neill age 3
Borjana Krišto age 6
Café Filho age 69
Félix Gouin age 83
Ante Marković age 43
James Earl Ray age 40
Bachir Gemayel age 20
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 22
David Paterson age 13
Özlem Türeci age 1
Merrick Garland age 15
Nandó dos Santos age 18
Baldwin Spencer age 19
Peter Cosgrove age 20
Freundel Stuart age 16
Syarhiey Sidorski age 14
Nicéphore Soglo age 33
Eduardo Rodríguez age 12
Petar Mladenov age 31
Belisario Betancur age 45
Juhan Parts age 1
Sitiveni Rabuka age 19
Kalevi Sorsa age 37
Óscar Berger age 21
Kumba Ialá age 15
Kaysone Phomvihane age 47
Ivars Godmanis age 16
Amine Gemayel age 26
Joseph Boakai age 23
Christopher Loeak age 15
Mihai Ghimpu age 16
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 13
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 17
Salam Fayyad age 16
Marien Ngouabi age 29
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 10
Wavel Ramkalawan age 7
Devan Nair age 44
Johan Ferrier age 57
Surayud Chulanont age 24
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 24
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 26
Guy Scott age 23
Martín Torrijos age 4
Valentín Paniagua age 31
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 61
Ye Jianying age 71
Robert Zoellick age 14
Jack Straw age 21
Mark Esper age 3
Gotthard Heinrici age 81
Milan Babić age 12
Jang Song-thaek age 22
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 60
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 31
Prince Michael of Kent age 25
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 29
Martin O'Malley age 5
Deval Patrick age 11
Klaus Tschütscher age 9 months
Wim Duisenberg age 32
Ellison Onizuka age 21
Eric Holder age 17
Abd al-Malek Selal age 19
Liamine Zéroual age 26
Karen Karapetyan age 4
Johnny Briceño age 7
Nikolai Denkov age 5
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 21