✦ History

Explore July 26, 1953 – January 1, 1959

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

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
Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
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
Philippeville massacre 1955-08-20 - 1955-08-25
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
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
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

Paul Keating age 9
Thomas Klestil age 20
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 29
Konstantin Päts age 79
Bidzina Ivanishvili born 1956-02-18
Jerry Rawlings age 6
Manuel Zelaya age 10 months
Pál Schmitt age 11
Zail Singh age 37
Sooronbay Jeenbekov born 1958-11-16
Egils Levits born 1955-06-30
Sushila Karki age 1
Mahamadou Issoufou age 1
Arif Alvi age 3
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 1
Viktor Zubkov age 11
Vojislav Koštunica age 9
Ewa Kopacz born 1956-12-03
Maithripala Sirisena age 1
Tomiichi Murayama age 29
João Goulart age 34
Jean Monnet age 64
Li Peng age 24
Ferhat Abbas age 53
Brigitte Bierlein age 4
Tassos Papadopoulos age 19
Antonis Samaras age 2
João Bernardo Vieira age 14
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 34
Chaim Herzog age 34
Giuseppe Saragat age 54
Lamberto Dini age 22
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 16
Askar Akayev age 8
Algirdas Brazauskas age 20
Pushpa Kamal Dahal born 1954-12-11
José Sócrates born 1957-09-06
Prem Tinsulanonda age 32
Roh Tae-woo age 20
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 4
Lin Biao age 45
François Bayrou age 2
Egon Krenz age 16
Fernando Collor de Mello age 3
Robert Mueller age 8
Ramiz Alia age 27
Leopoldo Galtieri age 27
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 8
Bruno Kreisky age 42
Festus Mogae age 13
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 4 months
Seretse Khama age 32
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 28
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 2
Lennart Meri age 24
Risto Ryti age 64
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 40
Wim Kok age 14
Charles Taylor age 5
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 15
Agatha Barbara age 30
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 48
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 2
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 17
Moncef Marzouki age 8
Kais Saied born 1958-02-22
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc born 1954-07-20
Joseph Estrada age 16
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud born 1955-11-29
Jean Casimir-Perier age 105
Alain Juppé age 7
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 29
Robert Gates age 9
Baldur von Schirach age 46
Dean Acheson age 60
Mulatu Teshome born 1957-01-29
Andreas Papandreou age 34
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 2
Chandra Shekhar age 26
Fuad Masum age 15
Andrius Kubilius born 1956-12-08
Hage Geingob age 11
Mikhhail Fradkov age 2
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 13
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 8
Jerzy Buzek age 13
Kakuei Tanaka age 35
Bertie Ahern age 1
James Baker age 23
Chiang Ching-kuo age 43
Antonin Scalia age 17
Babrak Karmal age 24
Hafizullah Amin age 24
Alfred Moisiu age 23
Kurt Schuschnigg age 55
Zillur Rahman age 24
François Bozizé age 6
Mirek Topolánek born 1956-05-15
Tamás Sulyok born 1956-03-24
Inder Kumar Gujral age 33
V. P. Singh age 22
Masoud Barzani age 6
Thein Sein age 8
Than Shwe age 20
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah age 9 months
Bakir Izetbegović born 1956-06-28
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 76
Albert Kesselring age 67
Joseph Wirth age 73
Hans Luther age 74
Édouard Herriot age 81
Javier Solana age 11
Jim Mattis age 2
Ali Asadov born 1956-11-30
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 28
Lansana Conté age 18
René Préval age 10
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 39
Talal I of Jordan age 44
Ruud Lubbers age 14
Bounnhang Vorachit age 15
Andris Bērziņš age 8
Hilda Heine age 2
Vladimir Voronin age 12
Kiro Gligorov age 36
Thorbjørn Jagland age 2
Jorge Sampaio age 13
George Tupou V of Tonga age 5
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 10
Franz Halder age 69
Toshiki Kaifu age 22
Kiichi Miyazawa age 33
Tsutomu Hata age 17
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 4
Édouard Balladur age 24
Eduardo Duhalde age 11
Malcolm Fraser age 23
Wolfgang Schüssel age 8
Artur Rasizade age 18
Ricardo Lagos age 15
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 26
Gyula Horn age 21
Fatmir Sejdiu age 1
Modibo Keïta age 38
Luísa Diogo born 1958-04-11
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 27
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 2 months
Goh Chok Tong age 12
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 3
Tô Lâm born 1957-07-10
Michael Sata age 16
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 14
Diosdado Macapagal age 42
Heinrich Brüning age 67
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 65
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 16
José Sarney age 23
Walther Funk age 62
George Shultz age 32
Harold Holt age 45
Ziaur Rahman age 17
Kostas Karamanlis born 1956-09-14
Haider Al-Abadi age 1
Catherine Connolly born 1955-11-05
Emilio Colombo age 33
Choummaly Sayasone age 17
Michel Suleiman age 4
George Abela age 5
José López Portillo age 33
Milovan Đilas age 42
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 17
Girija Prasad Koirala age 29
Abdou Diouf age 17
Ernest Bai Koroma born 1953-10-02
Milan Kučan age 12
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 11
Levy Mwanawasa age 4
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 4
Michel Rocard age 22
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 55
Paul Wolfowitz age 9
Alain Poher age 44
Abulfaz Elchibey age 15
Zhelyu Zhelev age 18
Hissène Habré age 10
Adly Mansour age 7
Georgios Papadopoulos age 34
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 0 months
Ferenc Mádl age 22
Árpád Göncz age 31
Laimdota Straujuma age 2
Min Aung Hlaing born 1956-07-03
Tharman Shanmugaratnam born 1957-01-22
Ingvar Carlsson age 18
Rómulo Gallegos age 69
Frederick Chiluba age 10
Alejandro Toledo age 8
Hwang Kyo-ahn born 1957-04-15
Maurice Gamelin age 80
Hayato Ikeda age 53