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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
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

People

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 77
Marian Lupu age 2
Myint Swe age 17
Pedro Santana Lopes age 12
Ludovic Orban age 5
Sergei Kirienko age 6
Ralph Gonsalves age 22
Danny Faure age 6
Ola Ullsten age 37
Moritz Leuenberger age 21
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 16
Oqil Oqilov age 24
Somchai Wongsawat age 20
Yamandú Orsi age 1
Peter O'Neill age 3
Borjana Krišto age 7
Café Filho age 69
Félix Gouin age 83
Ante Marković age 43
David Paterson age 14
Merrick Garland age 15
Nandó dos Santos age 18
Baldwin Spencer age 19
Peter Cosgrove age 21
Freundel Stuart age 17
Syarhiey Sidorski age 14
Nicéphore Soglo age 33
Eduardo Rodríguez age 12
Petar Mladenov age 32
Belisario Betancur age 45
Juhan Parts age 1
Sitiveni Rabuka age 19
Kalevi Sorsa age 37
Óscar Berger age 22
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 18
Salam Fayyad age 16
Marien Ngouabi age 29
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 11
Wavel Ramkalawan age 7
Devan Nair age 45
Johan Ferrier age 58
Surayud Chulanont age 25
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 25
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
Martin O'Malley age 5
Deval Patrick age 12
Ellison Onizuka age 22
Eric Holder age 17
Abd al-Malek Selal age 20
Liamine Zéroual age 27
Karen Karapetyan age 5
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 4 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 25
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 15
David Kabua age 17
Nangolo Mbumba age 27
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 6
Timothy Geithner age 7
Mark Warner age 13
W. Averell Harriman age 76
Thomas E. Dewey age 66
Eliot Spitzer age 9
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 11 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
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 0 months
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 11
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
Wang Qishan age 20
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 50
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 26
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 10 months
Juan Bosch age 59
Gustavo Noboa age 31
Zurab Noghaideli age 3
Keith Mitchell age 21
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 22
Arthur Chung age 50
Ariel Henry age 18