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Events

Mexican Dirty War 1954 - 2000
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Operation Banner 1969-08-14 - 2007-07-31
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Indonesian occupation of East Timor 1975-12-07 - 1999-10-31
Insurgency in Aceh 1976 - 2005
Syrian occupation of Lebanon 1976-05-31 - 2005-04-30
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Casamance conflict 1982 - 2014-05-01
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 1982-05 - 2000
Second Sudanese Civil War 1983-06-05 - 2005-01-09
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon 1985-02-16 - 2000-05-25
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) 1985-02-16 - 2000-05-25
World Expo 88 1988 - 1998-10-30
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Macedonia naming dispute 1991 - 2019-02-08
Sierra Leone Civil War 1991-03-23 - 2002-01-18
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992-07-16 - 2004-12-02
Operation Southern Watch 1992-08-27 - 2003-03-19
Burundian Civil War 1993-10-21 - 2005-05-15
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
1990s North Korean famine 1994 - 2000
Insurgency in Ogaden 1994 - 2018
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War 1994-05 - 1997-11-24
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Nepalese Civil War 1996-02-13 - 2006-11-21
Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) 1996-09-27 - 2001-10-07
Operation Northern Watch 1997-01-01 - 2003-03-17
Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty 1997-05-31 - 2019-04-01
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998

People

Elizabeth II age 71
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 51
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 71
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 60
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 66
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 58
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 64
President - France
Hosni Mubarak age 69
President - Egypt
Akihito age 63
Emperor - Japan
Mohammad Khatami age 53
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 71
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 67
President - Syria
Albert II of Belgium age 63
King - Belgium
Roman Herzog age 63
President - Germany
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 66
President - Brazil
Lee Teng-hui age 74
President - Republic of China
Ernesto Zedillo age 45
President - Mexico
Trần Đức Lương age 60
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 51
President - Guatemala
Do Muoi age 80
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Kofi Annan age 59
Secretary-General - United Nations
Benjamin Netanyahu age 47
Prime Minister - Israel
Tony Blair age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 67
Chancellor - Germany
Romano Prodi age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 77
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 60
Prime Minister - France
Li Peng age 68
Premier - People's Republic of China
Bertie Ahern age 46
Taoiseach - Ireland
Inder Kumar Gujral age 77
Prime Minister - India
Javier Solana age 55
Secretary General - NATO
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 60
President - European Commission
Khamtai Siphandone age 73
Prime Minister - Laos
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Phan Văn Khải age 63
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Kamal Ganzouri age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
James Wolfensohn age 63
President - World Bank
Hiroshi Nakajima age 69
Director-General - World Health Organization
Vincent Siew age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 62
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Jong-il age 56
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
William Rehnquist age 73
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 49
Vice President - United States
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 55
Vice President - Iraq
Lien Chan age 61
Vice President - Republic of China
Rong Yiren age 81
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Zhu Rongji age 68
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Wesley Clark age 52
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
John Shalikashvili age 61
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Janet Reno age 59
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 57
Secretary of Defense - United States
Robert Rubin age 59
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Dennis Reimer age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George Tenet age 44
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Louis Freeh age 47
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 79
President - African National Congress
Hu Jintao age 54
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Gerry Adams age 49
President - Sinn Féin
Clarence Thomas age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 36
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Stephen Breyer age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Margaret Beckett age 54
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 46
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Paul Stevens age 77
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Joe Biden age 54
Senate - United States
John McCain age 61
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 53
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 50
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 73
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 51
Senate - United States
John Ashcroft age 55
Senate - United States
Theresa May age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Major age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Duncan Smith age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Clarke age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George W. Bush age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Mike Huckabee age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
George Pataki age 52
Governor of New York - United States
George Allen age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Voinovich age 61
Governor of Ohio - United States
Zell Miller age 65
Governor of Georgia - United States
Pete Wilson age 64
Governor of California - United States
Christine Todd Whitman age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Paul Cellucci age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Don Sundquist age 61
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Parris Glendening age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank O'Bannon age 67
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 74
New York State Senate - United States
John Paul II age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Alexander Lukashenko age 43
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 61
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 69
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 73
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 59
King - Spain
Suharto age 76
President - Indonesia
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 57
President - Kazakhstan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 57
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 60
King - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 56
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Martti Ahtisaari age 60
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 51
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 59
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 69
President - Georgia
Islam Karimov age 59
President - Uzbekistan
Omar al-Bashir age 53
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 74
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 74
King - Cambodia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 56
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 45
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 57
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 53
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 59
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 72
President - Turkey
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 61
President - Tunisia
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 50
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 59
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 55
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 45
President - Chad
Mswati III age 29
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 64
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 61
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 55
President - Equatorial Guinea
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 76
King - Saudi Arabia
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 42
President - Poland
Omar Bongo age 61
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 72
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Franjo Tuđman age 75
President - Croatia
Hassan II age 68
King - Morocco
Carlos Menem age 67
President - Argentina
Letsie III of Lesotho age 34
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 51
President - Eritrea
Kim Young-sam age 69
President - South Korea
Mohammed Omar age 37
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Yahya Jammeh age 32
President - The Gambia
Fidel Ramos age 69
President - Philippines
Aslan Maskhadov age 46
President - Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 54
President - Iceland
Blaise Compaoré age 46
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 79
President - Italy
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 52
President - Sri Lanka
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 57
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
K. R. Narayanan age 76
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 73
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 74
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 45
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 64
President - Benin
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 57
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 41
King - Bhutan
Joaquim Chissano age 57
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 68
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 54
President - Nigeria
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 79
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 64
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 50
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 58
President - Guinea-Bissau
Askar Akayev age 52
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 65
President - Lithuania
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 52
President - Armenia
Lennart Meri age 68
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 49
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 59
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 61
President - Togo
Than Shwe age 64
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 62
President - Guinea
René Préval age 54
President - Haiti
Kiro Gligorov age 80
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 58
President - Portugal
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 71
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 62
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 56
President - Slovenia
Árpád Göncz age 75
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 54
President - Zambia
Ezer Weizman age 73
President - Israel
Benjamin Mkapa age 58
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 53
President - Albania