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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
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23

People

Antoni Martí age 5
Gaston Browne age 1
Leo Tindemans age 46
Tshering Tobgay age 2
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 60
Melchior Ndadaye age 15
Vladimír Špidla age 17
Antoine Gizenga age 42
Eugenia Charles age 49
Nicholas Liverpool age 33
Bharrat Jagdeo age 4
Mario Scelba age 67
Anker Jørgensen age 46
Taneti Maamau age 7
Aigars Kalvītis age 2
William Richard Tolbert age 55
Luc Frieden age 4
Didier Ratsiraka age 31
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 4
Abdelilah Benkirane age 14
Sushil Koirala age 29
Kåre Willoch age 39
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 9
Pascal Lissouba age 36
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 24
Nicolae Ciucă age 1
Adrian Năstase age 18
Michal Kováč age 38
Pascal Couchepin age 26
Wellington Koo age 80
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 7
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 58
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 81
Pierre Messmer age 52
Steven Mnuchin age 5
Sirhan Sirhan age 24
Biljana Plavšić age 38
Karl Rahner age 64
Paul Tibbets age 53
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 47
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 53
Janet Reno age 30
Pam Bondi age 2
Mohamed Boudiaf age 49
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 43
Arthur Fadden age 74
Quentin Bryce age 25
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 18
Hugo Banzer age 42
Nuon Chea age 42
Ange-Félix Patassé age 31
Glafcos Clerides age 49
Josefa Iloilo age 47
Esko Aho age 14
Luís Cabral age 37
Sam Hinds age 24
Janet Jagan age 47
Abdul Latif Rashid age 24
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 26
Giuseppe Pella age 66
Joop den Uyl age 49
Behgjet Pacolli age 17
Bakili Muluzi age 25
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 8
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 26
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 31
Samak Sundaravej age 33
George Maxwell Richards age 36
Yurii Yekhanurov age 20
Juan María Bordaberry age 40
Baldwin Lonsdale age 20
Laurentino Cortizo age 15
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 5
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 62
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 36
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 4
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 35
Kathy Hochul age 10
William Rehnquist age 43
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 14
Andranik Margaryan age 17
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 68
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 38
Jigme Thinley age 15
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 4 months
Pierre Buyoya age 18
Jorge Alessandri age 72
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 14
Ikililou Dhoinine age 6
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 42
Essam Sharaf age 16
Ahmed Nazif age 16
Antonio Saca age 3
José Mário Vaz age 10
David A. Granger age 23
András Baka age 15
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 62
Patrick Hillery age 45
Serik Akhmetov age 10
Tammam Salam age 23
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 83
Kazimira Prunskienė age 25
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 15
Dom Mintoff age 52
Guido de Marco age 37
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 21
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
James Earl Ray age 40
Bachir Gemayel age 20
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 23
David Paterson age 14
Özlem Türeci age 1
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 2
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
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 26
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 30
Martin O'Malley age 5
Deval Patrick age 12