✦ History

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
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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Khrushchev's Secret Speech 1956-02-25
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 1956-10-23 - 1956-11-10
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 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961

People

Noboru Takeshita age 29
Keizō Obuchi age 16
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 5
Jeff Sessions age 6
Hu Yaobang age 37
Clarence Thomas age 5
Iajuddin Ahmed age 22
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 3
Luis Guillermo Solís born 1958-04-25
Jan Fischer age 2
Danilo Medina age 1
Costas Simitis age 17
Abdul Salam Arif age 32
Ezer Weizman age 29
Isaac Navon age 32
Dries van Agt age 22
Thongloun Sisoulith age 7
Émile Lahoud age 17
Samuel Doe age 2
Jacques Santer age 16
Marc Ravalomanana age 3
Hery Rajaonarimampianina born 1958-11-06
Lazarus Chakwera born 1955-04-05
Luis Echeverría age 31
Ram Chandra Poudel age 8
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 7
Ueli Maurer age 2
Benjamin Mkapa age 14
Ricardo Martinelli age 1
Haris Silajdžić age 7
C. Rajagopalachari age 74
Takeo Fukuda age 48
Morihiro Hosokawa age 15
João Figueiredo age 35
Warren Christopher age 27
Rexhep Meidani age 8
Reynaldo Bignone age 25
Ayaz Mutallibov age 15
Quett Masire age 28
John Turner age 24
David Dacko age 23
Catherine Samba-Panza born 1954-06-26
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 43
Leonel Fernández born 1953-12-26
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 9
Abdul Rahman Arif age 37
Portia Simpson-Miller age 7
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 32
George William Vella age 11
Win Myint age 1
Jenny Shipley age 1
Mamadou Tandja age 15
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 5
S. R. Nathan age 29
Taur Matan Ruak born 1956-10-10
Fouad Mebazaa age 20
Rupiah Banda age 16
Canaan Banana age 17
Han Duck-soo age 4
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 50
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 23
Raymond Barre age 29
Ernesto Geisel age 46
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 18
John Lewis age 13
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 56
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 17
Lon Nol age 39
Azali Assoumani born 1959-01-01
Alfredo Palacio age 14
Frank Bainimarama born 1954-04-27
Rose Francine Rogombe age 10
Otto Pérez Molina age 2
Álvaro Colom age 2
Mohammad Hatta age 50
Mariano Rumor age 38
Ciriaco De Mita age 25
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 10
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 7
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 9 months
Zdravko Krivokapić born 1958-09-02
Boris Trajkovski born 1956-06-25
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 38
Marcelo Caetano age 46
Mikhail Kasianov born 1957-12-08
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 1
Trần Đức Lương age 16
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 44
Choi Kyu-hah age 34
Zenkō Suzuki age 42
Paul Reynaud age 74
Leon Panetta age 15
Philip Hammond born 1955-12-04
Lê Duẩn age 46
Li Xiannian age 44
George Wallace age 33
Alexander Haig age 28
Fatos Nano age 10 months
Franz Jonas age 53
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 38
Carlos Mesa born 1953-08-12
Petar Stoyanov age 1
Patricio Aylwin age 34
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 36
Anneli Jäätteenmäki born 1955-02-11
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 34
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 5
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 5
Davíð Oddsson age 5
Giovanni Spadolini age 28
Arnaldo Forlani age 27
Raila A Odinga age 8
Anote Tong age 1
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 12
Anerood Jugnauth age 23
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 42
Zinaida Greceanîi born 1956-02-07
Armando Guebuza age 10
Farooq Leghari age 13
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 1
Emil Constantinescu age 13
Evaristo Carvalho age 11
Rómulo Betancourt age 45
José Paciano Laurel age 62
Sergio Osmeña age 74
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 27
Luis Carrero Blanco age 49
Rodolfo Graziani age 71
Masayoshi Ōhira age 43
Sōsuke Uno age 30
Peng Dehuai age 54
Gennady Yanayev age 15
Chadli Bendjedid age 24
Franz Vranitzky age 15
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 12
Wilfried Martens age 17
Dean Barrow age 2
Aristides Pereira age 29
Pedro Pires age 19
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 42
Sherif Ismail born 1955-07-06
Geir Haarde age 2
Ephraim Katzir age 37
Giovanni Goria age 9
Rolandas Paksas born 1956-06-10
Algirdas Butkevičius born 1958-11-19
Gediminas Kirkilas age 1
Muhyiddin Yassin age 6
Moussa Traoré age 16
Eddie Fenech Adami age 19
Ibrahim Babangida age 11
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 23
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 23
Vladimír Mečiar age 11
Ronald Venetiaan age 17
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf born 1956-03-16
Rafael Caldera age 37
Hanna Suchocka age 7
Fernando Belaúnde age 40
Abdalla Hamdok born 1956-01-01
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 72
Takeo Miki age 46
William Westmoreland age 39
Venceslau Brás age 85
Georges Bidault age 53
Hans Fritzsche age 53
Yang Shangkun age 46
Stephen Breyer age 14
Thurgood Marshall age 45
James F. Byrnes age 71
Hubert Maga age 36
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 31
Sylvie Kinigi age 8 months
Arthur Meighen age 79
Jioji Konrote age 5
Paavo Lipponen age 12
Georgios Papandreou age 65
Alejandro Giammattei born 1956-03-09
Bernardo Arévalo de León born 1958-10-07
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 6
Zalman Shazar age 63
Piet de Jong age 38
Guntis Ulmanis age 13
Philibert Tsiranana age 40
Abdul Razak Hussein age 31
Lawrence Gonzi age 0 months
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani born 1956-12-31
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 52
Mircea Snegur age 13
Nambaryn Enkhbayar born 1958-06-01
Shaukat Aziz age 4
Thomas Remengesau Jr. born 1956-02-28
Sergei Stepashin age 1
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 29
Paula-Mae Weekes born 1958-12-23
Najla Bouden born 1958-06-29
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 30
Nicanor Duarte born 1956-10-11
Maxime Weygand age 86
Nikolai Tikhonov age 48