✦ History

Explore April 18, 1955 – April 24, 1955

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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24

People

Elizabeth II age 29
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 61
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 64
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 54
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 64
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 67
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 62
President - Yugoslavia
Haile Selassie age 62
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 35
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 54
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 61
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 71
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 24
Monarch - Belgium
René Coty age 73
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 64
President - Mexico
Café Filho age 56
President - Brazil
Carlos Castillo Armas age 40
President - Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi age 79
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 49
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 65
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 79
Chancellor - Germany
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 37
Prime Minister - Egypt
Zhou Enlai age 57
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Moshe Sharett age 60
Prime Minister - Israel
Nikolai Bulganin age 59
Chairman - Soviet Union
Ichirō Hatoyama age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Mario Scelba age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Avery Brundage age 67
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 67
Secretary General - NATO
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
J. G. Strijdom age 61
Prime Minister - South Africa
John A. Costello age 63
Taoiseach - Ireland
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 43
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Jorge García Montes age 58
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 57
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 43
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 42
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 68
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Chen Cheng age 58
Vice President - Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 59
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 67
Secretary Of State - United States
Matthew Ridgway age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 64
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 51
Attorney General - United States
George M. Humphrey age 65
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 45
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 80
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Clement Attlee age 72
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Marshall Harlan II age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clement Davies age 71
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 57
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 56
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 40
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 37
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 46
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 43
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 77
Senate - United States
Gerald Ford age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Christian Herter age 60
Governor Of Massachusetts - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 27
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 62
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 53
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Perón age 59
President - Argentina
Syngman Rhee age 80
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 70
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 19
King - Jordan
Celâl Bayar age 71
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 82
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 42
President - Paraguay
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 53
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 45
King - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 84
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 56
Monarch - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 72
Monarch - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 31
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 81
President - Italy
Ramon Magsaysay age 47
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 25
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 70
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 59
Monarch - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 55
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 60
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 48
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 59
President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 47
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 59
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 82
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 44
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 72
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 41
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 77
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 55
President - Lebanon
Haxhi Lleshi age 41
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 55
Monarch - Tonga
Norodom Suramarit age 59
King - Cambodia
Manuel Odría age 57
President - Peru
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 55
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 61
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 55
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 60
Emir - Kuwait
Max Petitpierre age 56
President - Switzerland
Paul Magloire age 47
President - Haiti
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 69
Sultan - Morocco
Julio Lozano Díaz age 70
President - Honduras
Ba U age 67
President - Myanmar
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 53
King - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 63
Emir - Qatar
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 43
President - Panama
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 59
President - Mongolia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 66
Prime Minister - Portugal
Urho Kekkonen age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
Imre Nagy age 58
Prime Minister - Hungary
Adnan Menderes age 56
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 57
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 45
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Einar Gerhardsen age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 73
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 47
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 36
Prime Minister - Tonga
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 38
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 38
Prime Minister - Malta
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 45
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Mehmet Shehu age 42
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 44
Prime Minister - Suriname
Alexandros Papagos age 71
Prime Minister - Greece
H. C. Hansen age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 63
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 67
Prime Minister - Iraq
Joseph Bech age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
András Hegedüs age 32
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Thors age 63
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mustafa Ben Halim age 34
Prime Minister - Libya
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 51
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Jigme Palden Dorji age 35
Prime Minister - Bhutan
John Kotelawala age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 63
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sidney Holland age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Grantley Herbert Adams age 57
Prime Minister - Barbados
Alexander Frick age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 65
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Filip Bajković age 44
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Roque A. Saldías age 62
Prime Minister - Peru
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 63
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 61
Governor-General - New Zealand
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 73
Governor-General - Madagascar
Donald Trump age 8
Albert Einstein age 76
Vladimir Putin age 2
Ronald Reagan age 44
Nelson Mandela age 36
George W. Bush age 8
Joe Biden age 12
Pablo Picasso age 73
Charlie Chaplin age 66
Martin Luther King Jr. age 26
Pope Francis age 18
Steve Jobs age 1 month
Che Guevara age 26
Bill Clinton age 8
Charles de Gaulle age 64
Angela Merkel age 9 months
Neil Armstrong age 24
François Hollande age 8 months
Walt Disney age 53
Elvis Presley age 20
John Paul II age 34
Margaret Thatcher age 29
Ernest Hemingway age 55
Gabriel García Márquez age 28
Fidel Castro age 28
Yuri Gagarin age 21
Mikhail Gorbachev age 24
Stephen Hawking age 13
Jean-Paul Sartre age 49
Jimmy Carter age 30
Benedict XVI age 28
Mother Teresa age 44
Harry S. Truman age 70
Hillary Clinton age 7
George H. W. Bush age 30
Nicolas Sarkozy age 2 months
Xi Jinping age 1
Hugo Chávez age 8 months