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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
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
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

People

Luis Alberto Lacalle age 27
Guy Scott age 24
Martín Torrijos age 5
Valentín Paniagua age 31
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 61
Ye Jianying age 71
Robert Zoellick age 15
Jack Straw age 22
Mark Esper age 4
Ellison Onizuka age 22
Eric Holder age 17
Abd al-Malek Selal age 20
Liamine Zéroual age 27
Karen Karapetyan age 4
Johnny Briceño age 8
Nikolai Denkov age 5
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 21
Khieu Samphan age 37
Abel Pacheco age 34
Tihomir Orešković age 2
Giorgos Vasiliou age 37
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 16
Charles Savarin age 24
León Febres-Cordero age 37
Vano Merabishvili age 3 months
Hilla Limann age 33
Vasiliki Thanou age 17
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 69
Moussa Dadis Camara age 3
Carmen Pereira age 31
Roberto Micheletti age 24
József Antall age 36
Ayad Allawi age 24
Marouf al-Bakhit age 21
Jens Otto Krag age 53
Isa Mustafa age 17
Khamtai Siphandone age 44
Omar Karami age 33
Mahmoud Jibril age 16
Artūras Paulauskas age 14
David Kabua age 17
Nangolo Mbumba age 26
Ludwig Scotty age 20
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 15
Jan P. Syse age 37
Trygve Bratteli age 58
Odvar Nordli age 40
Chivu Stoica age 60
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 15
Tufuga Efi age 30
Wee Kim Wee age 52
Ignazio Cassis age 7
Carlos Vila Nova age 9
Rahmon Nabiyev age 37
Carlos Arias Navarro age 59
Trường Chinh age 61
Garret FitzGerald age 42
John Bruton age 21
Henry Paulson age 22
Larry Summers age 13
Michael Howard age 27
Scott Bessent age 5
Timothy Geithner age 6
John Paul Stevens age 48
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 43
Akhtar Mansour age 7 months
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 26
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 65
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 38
David Thompson age 6
Viačasław Kiebič age 32
Mark Eyskens age 35
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 51
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 38
Rodrigo Paz age 10 months
Plamen Oresharski age 8
Elisabeth Domitien age 43
Michel Djotodia age 19
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 46
Jiří Rusnok age 7
Ahmed Shafik age 26
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 23
Christos Sartzetakis age 39
Boniface Alexandre age 32
Nasry Asfura age 10
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 57
Elias Hrawi age 41
Pakalitha Mosisili age 23
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 30
Pravind Jugnauth age 6
Emilio Portes Gil age 77
Jhala Nath Khanal age 18
Enrique Bolaños age 40
Mahamane Ousmane age 18
Murtala Muhammed age 29
Vlado Bučkovski age 5
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 35
Fulbert Youlou age 51
Radu Vasile age 25
Petre Roman age 22
Aminata Touré age 5
Mame Madior Boye age 27
Manasseh Sogavare age 13
Lương Cường age 10
Leszek Miller age 22
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 46
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 35
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 69
Guy Mollet age 62
Ferruccio Parri age 78
Liam Cosgrave age 48
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 49
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 58
Vuk Drašković age 21
William Barr age 18
William J. Burns age 12
Raymond A. Spruance age 82
Tôn Đức Thắng age 80
James R. Schlesinger age 39
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 1
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 49
Héctor José Cámpora age 59
Hovik Abrahamyan age 10
Frank Forde age 78
David Hurley age 14
Viktor Klima age 21
Andrei Kobyakow age 7
Michel Kafando age 25
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 13
Domitien Ndayizeye age 15
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 24
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 69
Ernesto Samper age 18
Judith Suminwa age 9 months
Juan Bosch age 59
Gustavo Noboa age 30
Zurab Noghaideli age 3
Keith Mitchell age 21
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 22
Arthur Chung age 50
Ariel Henry age 18
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson age 6
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 21
Michael Manley age 43
Albert Zafy age 41
Christian Ntsay age 7
Anthony Mamo age 59
Amata Kabua age 39
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 26
Navin Ramgoolam age 21
Petru Lucinschi age 28
Pavel Filip age 2
Momir Bulatović age 11
Abbas El Fassi age 27
Baburam Bhattarai age 14
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 43
David Lange age 26
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 17
Johnson Toribiong age 22
Rami Hamdallah age 9
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 34
Philip J. Pierre age 13
Su Tseng-chang age 21
Hubert Minnis age 14
Keith Rowley age 18
Muteesa II of Buganda age 43
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 54
Le Duc Anh age 47
José Raúl Mulino age 9
Ibrahim Abboud age 67
Chen Yi age 66
Manfred Wörner age 33
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 54
Alberto Gonzales age 13
Vladimir Ivashko age 35
David Souter age 28
William P. Rogers age 55
Vazgen Sargsyan age 9
Owen Arthur age 18
George Cadle Price age 49
André Kolingba age 31
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 10
Rodrigo Chaves age 7
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 5
Jiří Paroubek age 15
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 10
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 11
Edgar Savisaar age 18
Taye Atske Selassie age 12
Epeli Nailatikau age 27
Karl-August Fagerholm age 66
Leslie Manigat age 37
Miklós Németh age 20
Robert Guéï age 27
Bah Ndaw age 17
Dioncounda Traoré age 26
Iurie Leancă age 4
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 26
Cindy Kiro age 10
Patsy Reddy age 14