An attempt by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot to form a Communist peasant farming society in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of 25% of the…
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Protests in the 1960s can be divided into two main categories; those provoked by racial tensions, such as the ghetto riots in the United States,…
1 9 4 4 – 1 9 9 1 Elder son of Indira Gandhi and grandson of Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi was born into the Kashmiri…
In a desperate attempt to prevent a third consecutive Tory victory at the looming General Election, Red Wedge – a coalition of Socialist-minded pop stars…
1 9 1 3 – 1 9 9 4 Unless you were actually there, it’s hard to imagine just how utterly loathed and reviled Richard…
1 9 2 1 – 1 9 9 2 New Zealand National Party right-of-centre politician and NZ prime minister from 1975 to 1984. Nicknamed “”Piggy”…
1 9 1 1 – 2 0 0 4 Ronald Wilson Reagan entered the public eye in 1932 as “Dutch” Reagan, sports commentator. In 1937…
1 9 3 7 – 2 0 0 6 Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was born in the town of Al-Awja in Iraq in 1937…
Republican US vice-president (under Richard Nixon) between 1969 and 1973. He had previously been governor of Maryland between 1966 and 1969. Agnew took the lead…
1 9 4 6 – 1 9 7 7 Stephen Biko founded the South African Students Organization (SASO) in 1968 and was co-founder in 1972 of the…
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn was a British Labour politician. In fact, he was formerly the leading figure on the party’s left wing. He was minister…
At 2.30 am on 17 June 1972, during the lead-up to the 1972 American presidential elections, five intruders broke into the Democratic National Committee’s offices…
1 9 0 8 – 1 9 8 8 McMahon was born in Sydney, Australia. He graduated in law and economics from Sydney University and…
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England – the seat of his grandfather the 7th Duke of…
Born Muhammad Abed Ar’ouf Arafat, Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian nationalist politician, cofounder of al-Fatah in 1957, president of the Palestinian Authority, and leader of…
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli Labour politician and the nation’s prime minister from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1992 to 1995. As a former…
1 9 1 4 – 1 9 8 4 Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (born 15 June 1914) was a prominent Soviet politician who held the position…