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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
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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16

People

Erskine Hamilton Childers age 66
Patrick Hillery age 49
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 3
Serik Akhmetov age 14
Tammam Salam age 27
Kazimira Prunskienė age 29
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 19
Guido de Marco age 41
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 81
Marian Lupu age 6
Myint Swe age 21
Pedro Santana Lopes age 16
Ludovic Orban age 9
Sergei Kirienko age 10
Ralph Gonsalves age 26
Danny Faure age 10
Ola Ullsten age 41
Moritz Leuenberger age 25
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 20
Oqil Oqilov age 28
Somchai Wongsawat age 24
Yamandú Orsi age 5
Peter O'Neill age 7
Borjana Krišto age 10
Félix Gouin age 87
Ante Marković age 47
James Cleverly age 2
David Paterson age 18
John Connally age 55
Merrick Garland age 19
Nandó dos Santos age 22
Baldwin Spencer age 23
Peter Cosgrove age 25
Tarique Rahman age 3
Freundel Stuart age 21
Syarhiey Sidorski age 18
Syarhei Rumas age 2
Nicéphore Soglo age 37
Eduardo Rodríguez age 16
Petar Mladenov age 35
Belisario Betancur age 49
Juhan Parts age 5
Sitiveni Rabuka age 23
Kalevi Sorsa age 41
Óscar Berger age 26
Kumba Ialá age 19
Kaysone Phomvihane age 51
Ivars Godmanis age 20
Amine Gemayel age 30
Joseph Boakai age 27
Christopher Loeak age 19
Mihai Ghimpu age 20
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 17
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 62
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 21
Salam Fayyad age 20
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 15
Wavel Ramkalawan age 11
Devan Nair age 49
Johan Ferrier age 62
Surayud Chulanont age 28
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 29
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 31
Guy Scott age 28
Martín Torrijos age 9
Valentín Paniagua age 35
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 65
Ye Jianying age 75
Robert Zoellick age 19
Jack Straw age 26
Mark Esper age 8
Martin O'Malley age 9
Deval Patrick age 16
Ellison Onizuka age 26
Eric Holder age 21
Abd al-Malek Selal age 24
Liamine Zéroual age 31
Karen Karapetyan age 8
Johnny Briceño age 12
Nikolai Denkov age 9
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 25
Khieu Samphan age 41
Abel Pacheco age 38
Tihomir Orešković age 6
Giorgos Vasiliou age 41
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 20
Charles Savarin age 28
León Febres-Cordero age 41
Vano Merabishvili age 4
Hilla Limann age 37
Vasiliki Thanou age 21
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 73
Moussa Dadis Camara age 7
Carmen Pereira age 35
Roberto Micheletti age 29
József Antall age 40
Ayad Allawi age 28
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 3 months
Marouf al-Bakhit age 25
Isa Mustafa age 21
Khamtai Siphandone age 48
Omar Karami age 37
Mahmoud Jibril age 20
Artūras Paulauskas age 18
David Kabua age 21
Nangolo Mbumba age 31
Ludwig Scotty age 24
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 19
Jan P. Syse age 41
Odvar Nordli age 44
Chivu Stoica age 64
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 19
Tufuga Efi age 34
Wee Kim Wee age 56
Ignazio Cassis age 11
Carlos Vila Nova age 13
Rahmon Nabiyev age 41
Carlos Arias Navarro age 63
Trường Chinh age 65
Garret FitzGerald age 46
John Bruton age 25
Henry Paulson age 26
Larry Summers age 17
Michael Howard age 31
Scott Bessent age 9
Timothy Geithner age 10
Mark Warner age 17
W. Averell Harriman age 80
Eliot Spitzer age 13
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 47
Akhtar Mansour age 4
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 30
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 42
David Thompson age 10
Viačasław Kiebič age 36
Mark Eyskens age 39
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 55
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 42
Rodrigo Paz age 4
Plamen Oresharski age 12
Elisabeth Domitien age 47
Michel Djotodia age 23
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 50
Jiří Rusnok age 11
Stanislav Gross age 2
Ahmed Shafik age 30
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 57
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 27
Christos Sartzetakis age 43
Boniface Alexandre age 36
Nasry Asfura age 14
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 61
Elias Hrawi age 45
Pakalitha Mosisili age 27
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 34
Pravind Jugnauth age 10
Emilio Portes Gil age 81
Jhala Nath Khanal age 22
Enrique Bolaños age 44
Mahamane Ousmane age 22
Murtala Muhammed age 33
Vlado Bučkovski age 9
Surangel Whipps Jr. age 4
Radu Vasile age 29
Petre Roman age 26
Aminata Touré age 9
Mame Madior Boye age 31
Manasseh Sogavare age 17
Thanom Kittikachorn age 61
Lương Cường age 14
Leszek Miller age 26
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 50
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 39
Guy Mollet age 66
Ferruccio Parri age 82
Liam Cosgrave age 52
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 53
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 62
Vuk Drašković age 25
William Barr age 22
William J. Burns age 16
Wang Qishan age 24
James R. Schlesinger age 43
Ayman ibn Abd ar-Rahman age 5
Héctor José Cámpora age 63
Juan Carlos Onganía age 58
Hovik Abrahamyan age 14
Frank Forde age 82
David Hurley age 18
Viktor Klima age 25
Andrei Kobyakow age 11
Duma Boko age 2
Michel Kafando age 29
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 17
Domitien Ndayizeye age 19
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 28
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 73
Ernesto Samper age 22
Judith Suminwa age 4
Juan Bosch age 63