Beijing in the Cold War
The atlas holds 39 people and 88 moments here, from 1949 to 1991. The most recorded lives are Kim Il Sung, Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing.
Notable people
Abdus Salam
in 1978
1 moment here
Pakistani theoretical physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate whose career connected education in Punjab and Cambridge with professorships in Lahore…
Ali Khamenei
in 1989
1 moment here
Iranian Shia cleric and politician who was president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 and supreme leader from 1989 until his death in 2026.…
Deng Xiaoping
from 1949 to 1973
3 moments here
Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 to 1989.…
Dorothy Hodgkin
from 1972 to 1986
3 moments here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Ferdinand Marcos
in 1975
1 moment here
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1965 until his overthrow…
George H. W. Bush
in 1989
1 moment here
George Herbert Walker Bush was an American naval aviator, oil executive, congressman, diplomat, director of central intelligence, vice president, and…
George Michael
in 1985
1 moment here
English singer-songwriter and record producer, born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley, England.…
Gerald Ford
in 1975
1 moment here
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 after having served as…
Gough Whitlam
from 1971 to 1973
2 moments here
Edward Gough Whitlam was an Australian lawyer, Royal Australian Air Force navigator, Labor politician and the 21st prime minister of Australia.…
Haile Selassie
in 1971
1 moment here
Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until his deposition in 1974.…
Ho Chi Minh
in 1957
1 moment here
Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, who led the Việt Minh, proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, and…
Hosni Mubarak
in 1976
1 moment here
Egyptian military officer and politician who served as president of Egypt from 1981 until his resignation in 2011.…
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
in 1976
2 moments here
Central African military officer and politician who seized power in the Central African Republic in 1966, served as president, and proclaimed himself…
Jiang Qing
from 1964 to 1991
6 moments here
Jiang Qing (1914–1991), also known as Madame Mao, was a Chinese actress, revolutionary, and political figure.…
Kim Il Sung
from 1953 to 1991
10 moments here
Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…
Kwame Nkrumah
in 1966
1 moment here
Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Lee Kuan Yew
in 1980
1 moment here
Singaporean barrister and statesman who co-founded the People’s Action Party and served as Singapore’s first prime minister from 1959 to 1990.…
Li Keqiang
from 1978 to 1988
3 moments here
Chinese politician and economist who rose from rural labour in Anhui through the Communist Youth League, led Henan and Liaoning, served as vice…
Liu Xiaobo
from 1982 to 1989
4 moments here
Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, human-rights activist, and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.…
Mao Zedong
from 1949 to 1976
6 moments here
Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Margaret Thatcher
in 1984
1 moment here
British stateswoman Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the…
Mikhail Gorbachev
in 1989
1 moment here
Soviet and Russian politician who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991.…
Muammar Gaddafi
in 1982
1 moment here
Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from the 1969 coup until his overthrow and killing during…
Nikita Khrushchev
in 1954
1 moment here
Soviet Communist Party leader and chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev rose from industrial work in the Donbas through party posts in…
Moments
- 1949 Attends proclamation of the People's Republic Deng Xiaoping
- 1949 Proclamation of the People's Republic Mao Zedong
- 1949 CPPCC and PRC founding ceremony Soong Ching-ling
- 1950 Return to Beijing during Korean War crisis Zhou Enlai
- 1952 Assumes central posts in Beijing Deng Xiaoping
- 1952 Beijing Peace Conference speech Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- 1953 State visit to Beijing Kim Il Sung
- 1954 Visit to China Nikita Khrushchev
- 1954 Chinese National Day visit Kim Il Sung
- 1955 Visit to Beijing Simone de Beauvoir
- 1956 First visit to Beijing Sukarno
- 1956 First visit to China Norodom Sihanouk
- 1957 Mao–Khrushchev state visit Mao Zedong
- 1957 Visit to the People’s Republic of China Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- 1957 Stop in Beijing Ho Chi Minh
- 1958 Diplomatic visit to Beijing Kim Il Sung
- 1959 Tenth PRC anniversary parade Kim Il Sung
- 1959 Return to Beijing Puyi
- 1961 Sino-North Korean treaty signing Kim Il Sung
- 1962 Marriage to Li Shuxian Puyi
- 1964 CPPCC literary editor Puyi
- 1964 Peking Opera reform speech Jiang Qing
- 1965 Meeting Chinese leaders in Beijing Norodom Sihanouk
- 1965 Visit with Mao Zedong Pridi Banomyong
- 1966 All-Army Artistic Creation Conference Jiang Qing
- 1966 Arrival in Beijing after coup Kwame Nkrumah
- 1966 Red Guard public appearance Mao Zedong
- 1967 Death in Beijing Puyi
- 1970 Visit to Beijing before the 1970 coup Pol Pot
- 1970 Arrival in Beijing after deposition Norodom Sihanouk
- 1970 Meeting Mao in Beijing Kim Il Sung
- 1971 Meeting with Zhou Enlai in Beijing Yang Chen-Ning
- 1971 Peking School of Medicine visit Gough Whitlam
- 1971 Arrival in Beijing Haile Selassie
- 1972 State visit to China Sirimavo Bandaranaike
- 1972 First return visit to Beijing Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1972 State visit to Beijing Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1972 Red Detachment of Women performance with Nixon Jiang Qing
- 1972 Meeting with President Nixon Mao Zedong
- 1972 China state visit: Beijing Richard Nixon
- 1972 Reception of Richard Nixon in Beijing Zhou Enlai
- 1972 Insulin discussions in Beijing Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1973 Return from exile to Beijing Deng Xiaoping
- 1973 Meeting with Mao Zedong Yang Chen-Ning
- 1973 Official visit to China Gough Whitlam
- 1974 Official visit to Peking Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1975 Normalization visit to Beijing Ferdinand Marcos
- 1975 China normalization visit Gerald Ford
- 1975 Meeting with President Ford Mao Zedong
- 1976 Meeting Mao Zedong Hosni Mubarak