✦ History

Explore January 7, 1957 – October 8, 1957

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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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04

People

Elizabeth II age 30
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 63
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 66
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 55
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 66
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 69
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 64
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 39
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 64
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 37
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 56
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 63
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 72
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 54
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 26
King - Belgium
René Coty age 74
President - France
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 66
President - Mexico
Carlos Castillo Armas age 42
President - Guatemala
Shukri al-Quwatli age 65
President - Syria
Luis Arturo González López age 56
President - Guatemala
Dag Hammarskjöld age 51
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 67
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 81
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 58
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 74
Taoiseach - Ireland
Antonio Segni age 65
Prime Minister - Italy
Paul-Henri Spaak age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Nikolai Bulganin age 61
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Nobusuke Kishi age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Tanzan Ishibashi age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 69
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 55
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 50
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Guy Mollet age 51
Prime Minister - France
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
Adone Zoli age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
J. G. Strijdom age 63
Prime Minister - South Africa
John A. Costello age 65
Taoiseach - Ireland
Sabri al-Asali age 54
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 45
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yu Hung-chun age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Jorge García Montes age 60
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 58
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 44
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Earl Warren age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 44
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 70
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Chen Cheng age 60
Vice President - Republic of China
Nathan F. Twining age 59
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Arthur W. Radford age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John Foster Dulles age 68
Secretary of State - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Erwin Wilson age 66
Secretary of Defense - United States
Robert B. Anderson age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 52
Attorney General - United States
George M. Humphrey age 66
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Gwilym Lloyd George age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 62
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 52
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Hugh Gaitskell age 50
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 43
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 59
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 58
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 41
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
John F. Kennedy age 39
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 48
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 45
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 82
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 29
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 64
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 55
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Syngman Rhee age 81
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 72
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 21
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 53
President - Tunisia
Celâl Bayar age 73
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 56
President - Finland
Haakon VII of Norway age 84
King - Norway
Olav V of Norway age 53
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 44
President - Paraguay
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 55
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 47
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 57
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 74
King - Sweden
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 33
Prince - Monaco
Mohammed V of Morocco age 47
King - Morocco
Giovanni Gronchi age 69
President - Italy
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 57
President - Pakistan
Ramon Magsaysay age 49
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 27
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 72
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 60
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 57
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 62
President - Iceland
José Figueres Ferrer age 50
President - Costa Rica
William Tubman age 61
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 60
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 66
President - Austria
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 46
Sultan - Oman
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 53
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 74
President - Ireland
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 42
President - Venezuela
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 79
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 56
President - Lebanon
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 67
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 43
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 56
Queen - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 42
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 60
King - Cambodia
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 56
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 62
President - Portugal
Aleksander Zawadzki age 57
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 34
President - Nicaragua
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 44
President - Ecuador
Gabriel París Gordillo age 46
President - Colombia
Ba U age 69
President - Myanmar
Hans Streuli age 64
President - Switzerland
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 56
President - Haiti
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 55
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 65
Emir - Qatar
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 47
President - Haiti
Franck Sylvain age 47
President - Haiti
Win Maung age 40
President - Myanmar
Daniel Fignolé age 43
President - Haiti
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 55
President - Uruguay
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 61
President - Mongolia
Arturo Lezama age 58
President - Uruguay
Charles Arden-Clarke age 58
President - Ghana
Primo Marani age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Kwame Nkrumah age 47
Prime Minister - Ghana
António de Oliveira Salazar age 67
Prime Minister - Portugal
Norodom Sihanouk age 34
Prime Minister - Cambodia
János Kádár age 44
Prime Minister - Hungary
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 53
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 58
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 70
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 49
Prime Minister - Greece
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 59
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 47
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 62
Prime Minister - Australia
Einar Gerhardsen age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 74
Prime Minister - Canada
Léon M'ba age 54
Prime Minister - Gabon
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 38
Prime Minister - Tonga
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 40
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 40
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 44
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 46
Prime Minister - Suriname
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 64
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Chivu Stoica age 48
Prime Minister - Romania
Karl-August Fagerholm age 55
Prime Minister - Finland
H. C. Hansen age 50
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 65
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 69
Prime Minister - Iraq
Joseph Bech age 69
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
V. J. Sukselainen age 50
Prime Minister - Finland
Hermann Jónasson age 60
Prime Minister - Iceland
Keith Holyoake age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Mustafa Ben Halim age 35
Prime Minister - Libya
Mamadou Dia age 46
Prime Minister - Senegal
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 53
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Jigme Palden Dorji age 37
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 46
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Abdul Majid Kubar age 47
Prime Minister - Libya
Mbarek Bekkay age 49
Prime Minister - Morocco
Abdullahi Issa age 34
Prime Minister - Somalia
Sidney Holland age 63
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Husayn al-Khalidi age 62
Prime Minister - Jordan
Sim Var age 50
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 49
Prime Minister - Jordan
Abdallah El-Yafi age 55
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Grantley Herbert Adams age 58
Prime Minister - Barbados
Alexander Frick age 46
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 66
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Sam Yun age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 71
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ba Swe age 41
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Jacques Opangault age 49
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Filip Bajković age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro