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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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967

People

Elizabeth II age 39
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 71
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 74
President - France
Lyndon B. Johnson age 56
President - United States
Hirohito age 64
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 75
President - Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev age 58
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 77
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 73
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 47
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 72
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 45
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 71
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 34
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 70
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 66
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 67
President - Brazil
Abdul Salam Arif age 44
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 58
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 54
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 46
President - Cuba
Amin al-Hafiz age 43
President - Syria
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 56
President - Guatemala
Amin al-Hafez age 39
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 40
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 38
Prime Minister - Cuba
Georges Pompidou age 53
Prime Minister - France
Zhou Enlai age 67
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 68
Chancellor - Germany
Eisaku Satō age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Alexei Kosygin age 61
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 69
Prime Minister - Israel
Hendrik Verwoerd age 63
Prime Minister - South Africa
Avery Brundage age 77
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 63
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 63
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 59
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 54
Prime Minister - Poland
Yen Chia-kan age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Manlio Brosio age 67
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 65
Taoiseach - Ireland
Ali Sabri age 44
Prime Minister - Egypt
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 53
Director-General - World Health Organization
George David Woods age 63
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 53
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 60
Prime Minister - India
Earl Warren age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hubert Humphrey age 54
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 72
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 79
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 60
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 57
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Zhu De age 78
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 55
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 66
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 63
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 69
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 65
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Earle Wheeler age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
James Callaghan age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert McNamara age 48
Secretary of Defense - United States
Dean Rusk age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Nicholas Katzenbach age 43
Attorney General - United States
Duncan Sandys age 57
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry H. Fowler age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Frank Soskice age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 70
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Alec Douglas-Home age 61
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Ramsey Clark age 37
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
William J. Brennan Jr. age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 47
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 65
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Douglas Jay age 58
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby age 66
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 51
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 67
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 41
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 53
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 56
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Robert F. Kennedy age 39
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 37
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 40
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 51
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Heath age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Christopher Soames age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nelson Rockefeller age 56
Governor of New York - United States
John Connally age 48
Governor of Texas - United States
Pat Brown age 60
Governor of California - United States
Orval Faubus age 55
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Carl Sanders age 40
Governor of Georgia - United States
Jim Rhodes age 55
Governor of Ohio - United States
Richard J. Hughes age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Albertis Harrison age 58
Governor of Virginia - United States
Roger D. Branigin age 62
Governor of Indiana - United States
J. Millard Tawes age 71
Governor of Maryland - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 55
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 37
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 72
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 63
President - Indonesia
Paul VI age 67
Pope - Vatican City
Park Chung-hee age 47
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 58
President - Senegal
Jomo Kenyatta age 71
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 43
President - Tanzania
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 76
President - India
Ahmed Ben Bella age 48
President - Algeria
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 59
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 29
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 61
President - Tunisia
Urho Kekkonen age 64
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 82
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 35
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 69
President - Turkey
Kenneth Kaunda age 41
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 61
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 52
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 43
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 58
President - Pakistan
Juliana of the Netherlands age 56
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 82
King - Sweden
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 59
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 41
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 58
President - Haiti
Makarios III age 51
President - Cyprus
Giuseppe Saragat age 66
President - Italy
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 40
President - Cameroon
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 60
President - Nigeria
Modibo Keïta age 49
President - Mali
Diosdado Macapagal age 54
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 36
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 35
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 55
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 56
President - Somalia
Sobhuza II age 65
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 71
President - Iceland
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 54
President - Chile
Fernando Belaúnde age 52
President - Peru
Léon M'ba age 63
President - Gabon
Zalman Shazar age 75
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 52
President - Madagascar
Arturo Umberto Illia age 64
President - Argentina
François Tombalbaye age 46
President - Chad
Diori Hamani age 48
President - Niger
William Tubman age 69
President - Liberia
Moktar Ould Daddah age 40
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 54
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 31
Emir - Bahrain
Muteesa II of Buganda age 40
President - Uganda
Américo Tomás age 70
President - Portugal
Haxhi Lleshi age 51
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 43
President - Honduras
Grégoire Kayibanda age 41
President - Rwanda
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 65
Queen - Tonga
Ismail al-Azhari age 64
President - Sudan
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 44
President - Republic of the Congo
Guillermo León Valencia age 56
President - Colombia
Raúl Leoni age 60
President - Venezuela
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 70
Emir - Kuwait
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 45
Emir - Qatar
Charles Helou age 51
President - Lebanon
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 44
President - Dominican Republic
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 51
President - Switzerland
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 58
President - Costa Rica
René Schick age 55
President - Nicaragua
Washington Beltrán age 51
President - Uruguay
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 69
President - Mongolia
Ferruccio Piva age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
C. R. Swart age 70
State President - South Africa