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Independence
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Country
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Founder
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September 3, 301
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San Marino
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Saint Marinus
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September 8, 1278
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Andorra
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Bishop of Urgell, Count of Foix
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August 1, 1291
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Switzerland *
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Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden
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October 12, 1492
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Spain
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Ferdinand, Isabella
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June 6, 1523
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Sweden
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Gustav Vasa
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January 23, 1579
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Netherlands *
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Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, Zutphen
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December 1, 1640
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Portugal
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John IV the Restorer
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November 19, 1734
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Monaco
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Honoré III
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July 4, 1776
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United States
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George Washington, Thomas Jefferson
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July 14, 1789
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France
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Count of Mirabeau, Marquis de Lafayette
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January 1, 1801
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United Kingdom
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George III
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January 1, 1804
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Haiti
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Toussaint Louverture
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July 20, 1810
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Colombia
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Simón Bolívar
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September 16, 1810
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Mexico
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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September 18, 1810
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Chile
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José de San Martín
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May 14, 1811
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Paraguay
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José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
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July 5, 1811
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Venezuela
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Simón Bolívar
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May 17, 1814
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Norway
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Frederick VI
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July 9, 1819
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Argentina
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José de San Martín
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March 25, 1821
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Greece
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Theodoros Kolokotronis
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July 28, 1821
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Peru
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José de San Martín
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September 15, 1821
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Costa Rica
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Juan Rafael Mora
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September 15, 1821
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El Salvador
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José Matías Delgado
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September 15, 1821
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Guatemala
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Rafael Carrera
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September 15, 1821
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Honduras
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Francisco Morazán
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September 15, 1821
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Nicaragua
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Miguel Larreynaga
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May 24, 1822
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Ecuador
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José Joaquín de Olmedo
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September 7, 1822
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Brazil
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Dom Pedro I
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August 6, 1825
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Bolivia
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Simón Bolívar
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August 25, 1825
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Uruguay
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Juan Antonio Lavalleja
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July 21, 1831
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Belgium
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Leopold I
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April 19, 1839
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Luxembourg
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William IV
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February 27, 1844
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Dominican Republic
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Juan Pablo Duarte
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July 26, 1847
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Liberia
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts
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June 5, 1849
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Denmark
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Ditlev Gothard Monrad
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March 17, 1861
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Italy
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Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini
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August 21, 1866
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Liechtenstein
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Johann II
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July 1, 1867
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Canada
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John Alexander Macdonald
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May 10, 1877
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Romania
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Carol I
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January 1, 1901
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Australia
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Edmund Barton
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November 3, 1903
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Panama
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Manuel Amador Guerrero
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September 26, 1907
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New Zealand
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Joseph Ward
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December 17, 1907
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Bhutan
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Ugyen Wangchuck
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September 22, 1908
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Bulgaria
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Ferdinand I
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November 28, 1912
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Albania
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Ismail Qemali
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December 6, 1917
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Finland
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Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
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November 11, 1918
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Poland
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Marshall Józef Piłsudski
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November 13, 1918
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Austria
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Michael Hainisch
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August 19, 1919
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Afghanistan
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Amanullah Khan
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September 10, 1919
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Hungary
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Mihály Károlyi
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July 11, 1921
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Mongolia
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Bogd Khan
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December 6, 1921
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Ireland
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Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith
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October 29, 1923
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Turkey
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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December 21, 1923
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Nepal
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Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana
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December 11, 1931
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South Africa
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James Barry Munnik Hertzog
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September 23, 1932
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Saudi Arabia
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Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud
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October 3, 1932
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Iraq
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Faisal I
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June 23, 1939
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Thailand
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Plaek Phibunsongkhram
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May 5, 1941
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Ethiopia
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Haile Selassie I
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November 22, 1943
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Lebanon
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Bechara Khalil El Khoury
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June 17, 1944
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Iceland
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Sveinn Björnsson
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May 12, 1945
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Oman
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Said bin Taimur
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August 15, 1945
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North Korea
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Kim Il-sung
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August 15, 1945
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South Korea
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Syngman Rhee
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August 17, 1945
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Indonesia
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Sukarno
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September 2, 1945
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Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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April 17, 1946
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Syria
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Shukri al-Quwatli
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May 25, 1946
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Jordan
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Abdullah I, Ibrahim Hashem
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July 4, 1946
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Philippines
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Manuel Roxas
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May 3, 1947
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Japan
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Shigeru Yoshida, Hirohito
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August 14, 1947
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Pakistan
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Liaquat Ali Khan
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August 15, 1947
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India
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Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel
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January 4, 1948
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Myanmar
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Sao Shwe Thaik
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February 4, 1948
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Sri Lanka
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Don Stephen Senanayake
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May 14, 1948
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Israel
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David Ben-Gurion
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July 19, 1949
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Laos
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Souphanouvong
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October 1, 1949
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China
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Mao Zedong
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December 24, 1951
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Libya
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Idris I
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July 23, 1952
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Egypt
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Mohamed Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser
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November 9, 1953
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Cambodia
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Norodom Sihanouk
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January 1, 1956
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Sudan
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Ismail al-Azhari, Ibrahim Abboud
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March 2, 1956
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Morocco
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Mohammed V
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March 20, 1956
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Tunisia
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Habib Bourguiba
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March 6, 1957
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Ghana
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Kwame Nkrumah
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August 31, 1957
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Malaysia
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Tunku Abdul Rahman
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October 2, 1958
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Guinea
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Ahmed Sékou Touré
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January 1, 1959
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Cuba
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Fidel Castro, Che Guevara
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January 1, 1960
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Cameroon
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Ahmadou Ahidjo
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April 4, 1960
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Senegal
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Léopold Sedar Senghor
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April 27, 1960
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Togo
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Sylvanus Olympio
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June 26, 1960
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Madagascar
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Philibert Tsiranana
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June 30, 1960
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D. R. Congo
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Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Patrice Lumumba
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July 1, 1960
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Somalia
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Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
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August 1, 1960
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Benin
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Hubert Maga
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August 3, 1960
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Niger
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Hamani Diori
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August 5, 1960
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Burkina Faso
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Maurice Yaméogo
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August 7, 1960
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Ivory Coast
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Félix Houphouët-Boigny
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August 11, 1960
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Chad
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François Tombalbaye
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August 13, 1960
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Central African Republic
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David Dacko
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August 15, 1960
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Republic of the Congo
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Fulbert Youlou
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August 17, 1960
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Gabon
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Gabriel Léon M'ba
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September 22, 1960
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Mali
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Modibo Keïta
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October 1, 1960
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Cyprus
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Makarios III
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October 1, 1960
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Nigeria
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Nnamdi Azikiwe
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November 28, 1960
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Mauritania
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Moktar Ould Daddah
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April 27, 1961
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Sierra Leone
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Milton Margai
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June 19, 1961
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Kuwait
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Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
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December 9, 1961
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Tanzania
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Julius Kambarage Nyerere
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January 1, 1962
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Samoa
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Malietoa Tanumafili II, Fiame Mulinu'u II
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July 1, 1962
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Burundi
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Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng
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July 1, 1962
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Rwanda
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Grégoire Kayibanda
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July 5, 1962
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Algeria
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Ahmed Ben Bella
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August 6, 1962
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Jamaica
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Alexander Bustamante
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August 31, 1962
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Trinidad and Tobago
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Ellis Clarke
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October 9, 1962
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Uganda
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Milton Obote
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December 12, 1963
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Kenya
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Jomo Kenyatta
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July 6, 1964
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Malawi
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Hastings Banda
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September 21, 1964
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Malta
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Anthony Mamo
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October 24, 1964
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Zambia
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Kenneth Kaunda
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February 18, 1965
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Gambia
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Dawda Jawara
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July 26, 1965
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Maldives
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Ibrahim Nasir
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August 9, 1965
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Singapore
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Lee Kuan Yew
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May 26, 1966
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Guyana
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Forbes Burnham
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September 30, 1966
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Botswana
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Seretse Khama
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October 4, 1966
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Lesotho
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Moshoeshoe II
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November 30, 1966
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Barbados
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Errol Barrow
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January 31, 1968
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Nauru
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Hammer DeRoburt
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March 12, 1968
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Mauritius
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Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
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September 6, 1968
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Eswatini
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Sobhuza II
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October 12, 1968
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Equatorial Guinea
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Francisco Macías Nguema
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June 4, 1970
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Tonga
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Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
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October 10, 1970
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Fiji
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Kamisese Mara
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August 15, 1971
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Bahrain
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Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
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September 3, 1971
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Qatar
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Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani
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December 2, 1971
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United Arab Emirates
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Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
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December 16, 1971
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Bangladesh
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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July 10, 1973
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Bahamas
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Lynden Pindling
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September 23, 1973
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Guinea-Bissau
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Amílcar Cabral
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February 7, 1974
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Grenada
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Eric Gairy
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June 25, 1975
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Mozambique
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Samora Machel
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July 5, 1975
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Cape Verde
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Aristides Pereira
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July 6, 1975
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Comoros
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Ahmed Abdallah
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July 12, 1975
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São Tomé and Príncipe
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Manuel Pinto da Costa
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September 16, 1975
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Papua New Guinea
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Michael Somare
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November 11, 1975
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Angola
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António Agostinho da Silva Neto
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November 25, 1975
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Suriname
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Johan Henri Eliza Ferrier
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November 28, 1975
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East Timor
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Francisco Xavier do Amaral
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June 29, 1976
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Seychelles
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James Mancham
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June 27, 1977
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Djibouti
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Hassan Gouled Aptidon
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July 7, 1978
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Solomon Islands
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Peter Kenilorea
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October 1, 1978
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Tuvalu
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Toaripi Lauti
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November 3, 1978
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Dominica
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Patrick Roland John
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February 22, 1979
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Saint Lucia
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John George Melvin Compton
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April 1, 1979
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Iran
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Ruhollah Khomeini
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July 12, 1979
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Kiribati
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Ieremia Tabai
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October 27, 1979
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Milton Cato
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April 18, 1980
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Zimbabwe
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Canaan Banana, Robert Mugabe
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July 30, 1980
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Vanuatu
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Walter Lini
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September 21, 1981
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Belize
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George Cadle Price
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November 1, 1981
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Vere Bird
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September 19, 1983
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Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Kennedy Simmonds
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January 1, 1984
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Brunei
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Hassanal Bolkiah
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October 21, 1986
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Marshall Islands
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Amata Kabua
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November 3, 1986
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F. S. Micronesia
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Tosiwo Nakayama
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March 11, 1990
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Lithuania
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Vytautas Landsbergis
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March 21, 1990
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Namibia
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Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma
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May 22, 1990
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Yemen
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Ali Abdullah Saleh
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October 3, 1990
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Germany
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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl
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April 6, 1991
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Georgia
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Eduard Shevardnadze
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June 25, 1991
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Croatia
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Franjo Tuđman
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June 25, 1991
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Slovenia
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Milan Kučan
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August 20, 1991
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Estonia
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Lennart Meri, Arnold Rüütel
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August 21, 1991
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Latvia
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Guntis Ulmanis
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August 24, 1991
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Ukraine
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Leonid Kravchuk
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August 25, 1991
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Belarus
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Stanislav Shushkevich
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August 27, 1991
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Moldova
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Mircea Snegur
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August 31, 1991
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Kyrgyzstan
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Askar Akayev
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September 1, 1991
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Uzbekistan
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Islam Karimov
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September 8, 1991
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North Macedonia
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Kiro Gligorov
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September 9, 1991
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Tajikistan
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Qadriddin Aslonov
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September 21, 1991
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Armenia
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Levon Ter-Petrosyan
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October 18, 1991
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Azerbaijan
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Ayaz Mutalibov, Heydar Aliyev
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October 27, 1991
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Turkmenistan
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Saparmurat Niyazov
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December 16, 1991
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Kazakhstan
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Nursultan Nazarbayev
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December 25, 1991
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Russia
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Boris Yeltsin
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March 1, 1992
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Alija Izetbegović
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January 1, 1993
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Czech Republic
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Václav Havel
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January 1, 1993
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Slovakia
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Michal Kováč
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May 24, 1993
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Eritrea
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Isaias Afwerki
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October 1, 1994
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Palau
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Kuniwo Nakamura, Tommy Remengesau
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June 3, 2006
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Montenegro
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Filip Vujanović, Milo Đukanović
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June 5, 2006
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Serbia
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Slobodan Milosevic, Boris Tadić
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July 9, 2011
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South Sudan
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Salva Kiir Mayardit
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