✦ History

Explore October 7, 1952 – January 12, 1960

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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
Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin 1953-03-05 - 1953-03-09
Discovery of the structure of DNA 1953-04-25
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
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Carmen Pereira age 16
Roberto Micheletti age 9
József Antall age 20
Bjarni Benediktsson age 44
Ayad Allawi age 8
Marouf al-Bakhit age 5
Jens Otto Krag age 38
Isa Mustafa age 1
Khamtai Siphandone age 28
Omar Karami age 18
Mahmoud Jibril age 4 months
Artūras Paulauskas born 1953-08-23
David Kabua age 1
Nangolo Mbumba age 11
Ludwig Scotty age 4
Madhav Kumar Nepal born 1953-03-12
Jan P. Syse age 21
Trygve Bratteli age 42
Odvar Nordli age 24
Agathe Uwilingiyimana born 1953-05-23
Tufuga Efi age 14
Wee Kim Wee age 36
Carlos Vila Nova born 1959-07-27
Rahmon Nabiyev age 22
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 83
Carlos Arias Navarro age 43
Garret FitzGerald age 26
John Bruton age 5
Henry Paulson age 6
Larry Summers born 1954-11-30
Michael Howard age 11
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 61
Mark Warner born 1954-12-15
Eliot Spitzer born 1959-06-10
John Paul Stevens age 32
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 27
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 10
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 22
Viačasław Kiebič age 16
Mark Eyskens age 19
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 35
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 22
Elisabeth Domitien age 27
Michel Djotodia age 3
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 31
Ahmed Shafik age 10
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 37
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 7
Christos Sartzetakis age 23
Boniface Alexandre age 16
Nasry Asfura born 1958-06-08
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 41
Elias Hrawi age 26
Pakalitha Mosisili age 7
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 14
Emilio Portes Gil age 62
Jhala Nath Khanal age 2
Enrique Bolaños age 24
Mahamane Ousmane age 2
Murtala Muhammed age 13
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 28
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 20
Radu Vasile age 10
Petre Roman age 6
Mame Madior Boye age 11
Manasseh Sogavare born 1955-01-17
Lương Cường born 1957-08-15
Leszek Miller age 6
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 31
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 19
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 53
Okada Keisuke age 84
Ferruccio Parri age 62
Liam Cosgrave age 32
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 42
Vuk Drašković age 5
William Barr age 2
William J. Burns born 1956-04-04
Wang Qishan age 4
Raymond A. Spruance age 66
Tôn Đức Thắng age 64
James R. Schlesinger age 23
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 34
Héctor José Cámpora age 43
Juan Carlos Onganía age 38
Hovik Abrahamyan born 1958-01-24
Frank Forde age 62
David Hurley born 1953-08-26
Viktor Klima age 5
Michel Kafando age 10
Cyprien Ntaryamira born 1955-03-06
Domitien Ndayizeye born 1953-05-02
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 8
Ernesto Samper age 2
Juan Bosch age 43
Gustavo Noboa age 15
Keith Mitchell age 5
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 6
Arthur Chung age 34
Ariel Henry age 2
Zoltán Tildy age 62
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 5
Michael Manley age 27
Albert Zafy age 25
Anthony Mamo age 43
Amata Kabua age 23
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 10
Navin Ramgoolam age 5
Petru Lucinschi age 12
Momir Bulatović born 1956-09-21
Abbas El Fassi age 12
Baburam Bhattarai born 1954-06-18
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 27
David Lange age 10
Raja Pervez Ashraf age 1
Johnson Toribiong age 6
Rami Hamdallah born 1958-08-10
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 18
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 50
Philip J. Pierre born 1954-09-18
Su Tseng-chang age 5
Hubert Minnis born 1954-04-16
Keith Rowley age 2
Muteesa II of Buganda age 27
Le Duc Anh age 31
José Raúl Mulino born 1959-06-13
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 63
Manfred Wörner age 18
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 38
Alberto Gonzales born 1955-08-04
Vladimir Ivashko age 19
Ann Richards age 19
David Souter age 13
Vazgen Sargsyan born 1959-03-05
Owen Arthur age 2
George Cadle Price age 33
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 36
André Kolingba age 16
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi born 1958-06-05
Jiří Paroubek age 1 month
Dileita Mohamed Dileita born 1958-03-12
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano born 1956-12-05
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 70
Edgar Savisaar age 2
Taye Atske Selassie born 1956-01-13
Epeli Nailatikau age 11
Leslie Manigat age 22
Miklós Németh age 4
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 60
Robert Guéï age 11
Bah Ndaw age 2
Dioncounda Traoré age 10
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 10
Cindy Kiro born 1958-07-02
Patsy Reddy born 1954-05-17
Lars Korvald age 36
John Lyng age 47
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 48
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 8
Mohammad Shtayyeh born 1958-01-17
Denzil Douglas born 1953-01-14
James Mancham age 13
Siaka Stevens age 47
Benjamin Sheares age 45
Chuan Leekpai age 14
Perry Christie age 9
Mari Alkatiri age 2
Yıldırım Akbulut age 17
Pavlo Lazarenko born 1953-01-23
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh born 1959-12-25
Jan Olszewski age 22
José María Balcázar age 9
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 17
Ho Chong age 56
Creighton Abrams age 38
Charles Haughey age 27
Joseph Luns age 41
William J. Perry age 25
Han Zheng born 1954-04-22
Lamar Alexander age 12
John McEwen age 52
Novruz Mammadov age 5
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 26
Alfonso López Michelsen age 39
Ahmed Abdallah age 33
Ivica Račan age 8
Manny Mori age 3
Ahti Karjalainen age 29
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 66
Martti Miettunen age 45
Maurice Bishop age 8
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 5
Ricardo Maduro age 6
Mátyás Szűrös age 19
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 24
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer born 1958-03-11
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 22
Thongsing Thammavong age 8
Ruth Perry age 13
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 63