✦ 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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
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
Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24
Austrian State Treaty 1955-05-15
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
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961

People

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
Jânio Quadros age 36
Ash Carter born 1954-09-24
Mohammad Mokhber born 1955-06-26
Daniel Inouye age 28
Ronald McNair age 2
Lawrence Eagleburger age 23
Anthony Kennedy age 17
Dean Rusk age 44
Cyrus Vance age 36
Arturo Umberto Illia age 53
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 6
William McMahon age 45
Earle Page age 73
Joe Clark age 14
François Tombalbaye age 35
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 11
Tshombé Moïse age 33
Harri Holkeri age 16
Efraín Ríos Montt age 27
Kristján Eldjárn age 36
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 40
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 47
Yigal Allon age 34
Henri Konan Bédié age 19
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 27
Gaston Thorn age 24
Duško Marković born 1958-07-06
Saadeddine Othmani born 1956-01-16
Htin Kyaw age 7
Yakubu Gowon age 18
Shehu Shagari age 28
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 8
Mirko Cvetković age 2
Rudolf Schuster age 19
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 10
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 28
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 33
Michael Somare age 17
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 70
Fuad II of Egypt age 1
Chuck Hagel age 6
Milka Planinc age 28
Souphanouvong age 44
John Ashcroft age 11
S. M. Bruce age 70
John Gorton age 41
César Gaviria age 6
Osvaldo Dorticós age 34
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 32
Péter Medgyessy age 10
Poul Schlüter age 24
Fouad Siniora age 10
Diori Hamani age 37
James Michel age 8
Mikuláš Dzurinda born 1955-02-04
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 27
Mesut Yılmaz age 5
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 25
Julio María Sanguinetti age 17
Iolu Abil age 11
Phạm Minh Chính born 1958-12-10
Marek Belka age 1
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 58
Mireya Moscoso age 7
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 18
Michel Debré age 41
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 38
Washington Luís age 83
Margaret Chan age 5
Ahmad Uyahya age 1
Leo Tindemans age 31
Melchior Ndadaye age 6 months
Vladimír Špidla age 2
Antoine Gizenga age 27
Eugenia Charles age 34
Nicholas Liverpool age 18
Anker Jørgensen age 31
William Richard Tolbert age 40
Didier Ratsiraka age 16
Abdelilah Benkirane born 1954-04-08
Sushil Koirala age 13
Kåre Willoch age 24
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 59
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi born 1958-12-27
Pascal Lissouba age 21
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 9
Adrian Năstase age 3
Michal Kováč age 22
Pascal Couchepin age 11
Wellington Koo age 65
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 43
Gaafar Nimeiry age 22
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 100
Nobuyuki Abe age 77
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 65
Tetsu Katayama age 66
Hitoshi Ashida age 65
Pierre Messmer age 37
Artur Bernardes age 78
Janet Reno age 15
Edmund Muskie age 39
Fan S. Noli age 71
Mohamed Boudiaf age 34
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 28
Arthur Fadden age 59
Quentin Bryce age 10
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 3
Hugo Banzer age 27
Nuon Chea age 27
Ange-Félix Patassé age 16
Glafcos Clerides age 34
Joaquín Balaguer age 46
Josefa Iloilo age 32
Esko Aho born 1954-05-20
Luís Cabral age 22
Sam Hinds age 9
Janet Jagan age 32
Abdul Latif Rashid age 8
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 11
Fernando Tambroni age 51
Joop den Uyl age 33
Behgjet Pacolli age 1
Bakili Muluzi age 10
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 11
António Ramalho Eanes age 18
António de Spínola age 43
Milan Milutinović age 10
France-Albert René age 17
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 21
Yusof bin Ishak age 42
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons born 1953-09-05
Ruth Dreifuss age 13
Fradique de Menezes age 11
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 15
Samak Sundaravej age 18
George Maxwell Richards age 21
Yurii Yekhanurov age 4
Juan María Bordaberry age 25
Baldwin Lonsdale age 4
Laurentino Cortizo age 5 months
Juan Negrín age 61
Maurice Couve de Murville age 46
Pierre Bérégovoy age 27
Mark W. Clark age 57
B. J. Vorster age 37
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 47
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 7
William Rehnquist age 28
Abd al-Aziz Jarad born 1954-02-12
Andranik Margaryan age 2
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 53
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 23
Jigme Thinley age 10 months
Pierre Buyoya age 3
Andrés Pastrana Arango born 1954-08-17
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 27
Essam Sharaf age 1
Ahmed Nazif age 1
Väinö Tanner age 72
José Mário Vaz born 1957-12-10
David A. Granger age 8
Mihály Károlyi age 78
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 47
Patrick Hillery age 30
Serik Akhmetov born 1958-06-25
Tammam Salam age 8
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 68
Kazimira Prunskienė age 10
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 6 months
Guido de Marco age 22
Moktar Ould Daddah age 28
Adolfo de la Huerta age 72
Myint Swe age 2