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Events

Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Operation Banner 1969-08-14 - 2007-07-31
Ethiopian Civil War 1974-09-12 - 1991-06-04
Third Indochina War 1975-05-01 - 1991-10-23
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Syrian occupation of Lebanon 1976-05-31 - 2005-04-30
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon 1985-02-16 - 2000-05-25
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) 1985-02-16 - 2000-05-25
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) 1989-02-15 - 1992-04-27
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Siege of Kijevo 1991 - 1991-08-26
Operation Provide Comfort 1991-03 - 1996-12-31
Sierra Leone Civil War 1991-03-23 - 2002-01-18
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Operation Ring 1991-04-30 - 1991-05-15

People

Melchior Ndadaye age 38
Laura Fernández Delgado age 4
Carlos Alvarado Quesada age 11
Vladimír Špidla age 40
Antoine Gizenga age 65
Nicholas Liverpool age 56
Mamuka Bakhtadze age 8
Mamady Doumbouya age 6
Bharrat Jagdeo age 27
Mario Scelba age 89
Anker Jørgensen age 68
Taneti Maamau age 30
Aigars Kalvītis age 24
Luc Frieden age 27
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih age 27
Abdelilah Benkirane age 37
Sushil Koirala age 51
Kåre Willoch age 62
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi age 32
Pascal Lissouba age 59
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 47
Nicolae Ciucă age 24
Adrian Năstase age 40
Michal Kováč age 60
Pascal Couchepin age 49
Kokhir Rasulzoda age 30
James Marape age 20
Gaafar Nimeiry age 60
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah age 31
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 138
Pierre Messmer age 75
Steven Mnuchin age 28
Sirhan Sirhan age 47
Biljana Plavšić age 60
Dustin Moskovitz age 6
Paul Tibbets age 76
Alexandra of Yugoslavia age 70
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland age 75
Prince Joachim of Denmark age 21
Kash Patel age 11
Janet Reno age 52
Pam Bondi age 25
Edmund Muskie age 77
Mohamed Boudiaf age 71
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 66
Quentin Bryce age 48
Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain age 21
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 41
Hugo Banzer age 65
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba age 10
Nuon Chea age 64
Ange-Félix Patassé age 54
Glafcos Clerides age 72
Josefa Iloilo age 70
Luís Cabral age 60
Sam Hinds age 47
Janet Jagan age 70
Abdul Latif Rashid age 46
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 49
Andrew Holness age 18
Behgjet Pacolli age 39
Bakili Muluzi age 48
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 31
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 48
António Ramalho Eanes age 56
António de Spínola age 81
Sorin Grindeanu age 17
Florin Cîțu age 19
Milan Milutinović age 48
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 59
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 37
Ruth Dreifuss age 51
Fradique de Menezes age 49
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 53
Samak Sundaravej age 55
George Maxwell Richards age 59
Yurii Yekhanurov age 42
Juan María Bordaberry age 62
Baldwin Lonsdale age 42
Võ Văn Thưởng age 20
Laurentino Cortizo age 38
Santiago Peña Palacios age 12
Maurice Couve de Murville age 84
Pierre Bérégovoy age 65
Amber Rudd age 27
Suella Braverman age 11
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan age 24
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner age 59
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo age 27
Katharine, Duchess of Kent age 58
Kathy Hochul age 32
Sarah Huckabee Sanders age 8
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 37
Andranik Margaryan age 39
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 61
Jigme Thinley age 38
Rosen Zhelyazkov age 23
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 36
Abelardo de la Espriella age 12
Ikililou Dhoinine age 28
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 64
Essam Sharaf age 39
Ahmed Nazif age 38
Antonio Saca age 26
José Mário Vaz age 33
David A. Granger age 45
András Baka age 38
Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir age 2
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani age 21
Patrick Hillery age 68
Bisher Al-Khasawneh age 22
Serik Akhmetov age 32
Älihan Smaiylov age 18
Tammam Salam age 46
Kazimira Prunskienė age 48
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 38
Dom Mintoff age 74
Guido de Marco age 59
Moktar Ould Daddah age 66
Marian Lupu age 24
Igor Lukšić age 14
Myint Swe age 39
Pedro Santana Lopes age 34
Ludovic Orban age 27
Sergei Kirienko age 28
Ralph Gonsalves age 44
Danny Faure age 29
Ola Ullsten age 59
Moritz Leuenberger age 44
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 39
Muhammad al-Bashir age 8
Oqil Oqilov age 47
Somchai Wongsawat age 43
Yamandú Orsi age 23
Peter O'Neill age 26
Borjana Krišto age 29
James Cleverly age 21
James Earl Ray age 63
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia age 45
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway age 19
David Paterson age 36
Özlem Türeci age 24
John Connally age 74
Merrick Garland age 38
Nandó dos Santos age 41
Baldwin Spencer age 42
Peter Cosgrove age 43
Tarique Rahman age 22
Freundel Stuart age 40
Syarhiey Sidorski age 37
Syarhei Rumas age 21
Eduardo Rodríguez age 35
Petar Mladenov age 54
Belisario Betancur age 68
Juhan Parts age 24
Sitiveni Rabuka age 42
Kalevi Sorsa age 60
Nika Gilauri age 16
Óscar Berger age 44
Kumba Ialá age 38
Amine Gemayel age 49
Joseph Boakai age 46
Boubou Cisse age 17
Christopher Loeak age 38
Mihai Ghimpu age 39
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 36
Dimitar Kovačevski age 16
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 40
Salam Fayyad age 39
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 34
Wavel Ramkalawan age 30
Devan Nair age 67
Johan Ferrier age 81
Surayud Chulanont age 47
Guy Scott age 46
Martín Torrijos age 27
Valentín Paniagua age 54
José Jerí age 4
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 84
Roy Jenkins age 70
Robert Zoellick age 37
Mark Esper age 27
Milan Babić age 35
Chris Hughes age 7
Jang Song-thaek age 45
Princess Alexandra of Kent age 54
Prince Michael of Kent age 48
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld age 52
Martin O'Malley age 28
Deval Patrick age 34
Klaus Tschütscher age 23
Wim Duisenberg age 55
Eric Holder age 40
Abd al-Malek Selal age 42
Liamine Zéroual age 49
Karen Karapetyan age 27
Johnny Briceño age 30
Nikolai Denkov age 28
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 44
Khieu Samphan age 59