Explore July 26, 1953 – January 1, 1959

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Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
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
Korean Armistice Agreement 1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état 1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état 1954-02-01
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état 1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31

People

Elizabeth II age 27
Mao Zedong age 59
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 62
Nikita Khrushchev age 59
Hirohito age 52
Ho Chi Minh age 63
Chiang Kai-shek age 65
Josip Broz Tito age 61
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 35
Haile Selassie age 61
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 33
Fulgencio Batista age 52
Getúlio Vargas age 71
Walter Ulbricht age 60
Theodor Heuss age 69
Juscelino Kubitschek age 50
Baudouin of Belgium age 22
Vincent Auriol age 68
Mohamed Naguib age 52
René Coty age 71
Jacobo Árbenz age 39
Adolfo López Mateos age 43
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 62
Café Filho age 54
Carlos Castillo Armas age 38
Nereu Ramos age 64
Shukri al-Quwatli age 61
Carlos Luz age 59
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 49
Hashim al-Atassi age 77
Adib Shishakli age 44
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 57
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 38
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 41
Luis Arturo González López age 52
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 36
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 59
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 39
Dag Hammarskjöld age 48
Winston Churchill age 78
Charles de Gaulle age 62
Jawaharlal Nehru age 63
Konrad Adenauer age 77
David Ben-Gurion age 66
Zhou Enlai age 55
Anthony Eden age 56
Harold Macmillan age 59
Georgy Malenkov age 51
Éamon de Valera age 70
Alcide De Gasperi age 72
Antonio Segni age 62
Moshe Sharett age 58
Paul-Henri Spaak age 54
Amintore Fanfani age 45
Nikolai Bulganin age 58
Bolesław Bierut age 61
Shigeru Yoshida age 74
Nobusuke Kishi age 56
Ichirō Hatoyama age 70
Hendrik Verwoerd age 51
Pierre Mendès France age 46
Tanzan Ishibashi age 68
Mario Scelba age 51
Avery Brundage age 65
Giuseppe Pella age 51
Walter Hallstein age 51
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 66
Souvanna Phouma age 51
Phạm Văn Đồng age 47
Guy Mollet age 47
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 42
Adone Zoli age 65
J. G. Strijdom age 60
Chen Cheng age 56
John A. Costello age 62
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 54
Sabri al-Asali age 50
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 56
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 42
Gonzalo Güell age 58
Yu Hung-chun age 55
Jorge García Montes age 56
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 55
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 54
Nur al-Din Kahala age 43
Kim Il-sung age 41
D. F. Malan age 79
Earl Warren age 62
Fred M. Vinson age 63
Richard Nixon age 40
Zhu De age 66
Li Tsung-jen age 64
Omar Bradley age 60
Nathan F. Twining age 55
Arthur W. Radford age 57
John Foster Dulles age 65
William P. Rogers age 40
Maxwell D. Taylor age 51
Matthew Ridgway age 58
J. Lawton Collins age 57
Rab Butler age 50
Charles Erwin Wilson age 63
Robert B. Anderson age 43
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 45
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 49
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 53
George M. Humphrey age 63
Neil H. McElroy age 48
Christopher Soames age 32
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 44
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 53
Gwilym Lloyd George age 58
Peter Thorneycroft age 44
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 47
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 49
J. Edgar Hoover age 58
Deng Xiaoping age 48
Clement Attlee age 70
Robert H. Jackson age 61
William J. Brennan Jr. age 47
Potter Stewart age 38
John Marshall Harlan II age 54
Tom C. Clark age 53
John F. Kennedy age 36
Lyndon B. Johnson age 44
Hubert Humphrey age 42
Alben W. Barkley age 75
Gerald Ford age 40
Melvin Laird age 30
Nelson Rockefeller age 45
Christian Herter age 58
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 25
John XXIII age 71
Francisco Franco age 60
Sukarno age 52
Pius XII age 77
Ibn Saud age 77
Juan Perón age 57
Norodom Sihanouk age 30
Syngman Rhee age 78
Rajendra Prasad age 68
Hussein I of Jordan age 17
Habib Bourguiba age 50
Celâl Bayar age 70
Urho Kekkonen age 52
Haakon VII of Norway age 81
Olav V of Norway age 50
Alfredo Stroessner age 40
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 31
Ayub Khan age 46
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 51
Juliana of the Netherlands age 44
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 82
Frederik IX of Denmark age 54
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 70
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 30
François Duvalier age 46
Luigi Einaudi age 79
Mohammed V of Morocco age 43
Giovanni Gronchi age 65
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 53
Ramon Magsaysay age 45
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 24
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 68
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 57
Sobhuza II age 54
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 59
Elpidio Quirino age 62
Arturo Frondizi age 44
José Figueres Ferrer age 46
Anastasio Somoza García age 57
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 45
William Tubman age 57
Carlos P. Garcia age 56
Adolf Schärf age 63
Theodor Körner age 80
Jorge Alessandri age 57
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 42
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 50
Seán T. O'Kelly age 70
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 39
Ibrahim Abboud age 52
Américo Tomás age 58
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 75
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 47
Camille Chamoun age 53
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 64
Haxhi Lleshi age 39
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 53
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 39
Norodom Suramarit age 57
Manuel Odría age 55
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 53
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 59
Fouad Chehab age 51
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 59
Aleksander Zawadzki age 53
Eduardo Lonardi age 56
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 38
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 58