✦ 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

Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 63
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 75
Driss Jettou age 7
Rosario Murillo age 1
Kim Yong-il age 8
Per Borten age 39
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 15
Crin Antonescu born 1959-09-21
Jules Wijdenbosch age 11
Rickard Sandler age 68
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 69
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 90
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 19
Anthony Carmona born 1953-03-07
A. N. R. Robinson age 25
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 32
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 10 months
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 3
Jaime Lusinchi age 28
Phan Văn Khải age 18
Rashad al-Alimi born 1954-01-15
Józef Oleksy age 6
Waldemar Pawlak born 1959-09-05
Lee Hae Chan age 2 months
Šefik Džaferović born 1957-09-09
Nebojša Radmanović age 3
Dragan Čović born 1956-08-20
Giuseppe Bertello age 10
Giovanni Lajolo age 17
Giovanni Messe age 68
Zhang Xueliang age 51
José Linhares age 66
Geoffrey Howe age 25
William D. Leahy age 77
William Cohen age 12
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 81
Loretta Lynch born 1959-05-21
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 73
George Pataki age 7
Warren E. Burger age 45
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany born 1954-11-10
Rodney Williams age 4
Jaime Paz Zamora age 13
Joseph Ngute born 1954-03-12
Philémon Yang age 5
Julio César Turbay age 36
Laureano Gómez age 63
Spiros Cyprianou age 19
Sylvanie Burton born 1956-01-01
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 17
Lucio Gutiérrez born 1957-03-23
Ibrahim Mahlab age 3
Kamisese Mara age 32
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 21
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo born 1958-03-25
Henrique Rosa age 6
Donald Ramotar age 1
Oswaldo López Arellano age 31
Poul Hartling age 38
Barend Biesheuvel age 32
Felix Kulov age 3
Nawaf Salam born 1953-12-15
Bechara El Khoury age 62
Tom Thabane age 13
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 14
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 46
Kailash Purryag age 4
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 52
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 2
Brigi Rafini born 1953-04-07
Choe Yong-rim age 21
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani born 1959-08-30
Victor Khristenko born 1957-08-28
Grégoire Kayibanda age 28
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 1
Lojze Peterle age 4
Samuel Schmid age 5
Joseph Deiss age 6
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 20
T. V. Soong age 60
Phumtham Wechayachai born 1953-12-05
Hamadi Jebali age 3
Tito Okello age 38
Vitold Fokin age 19
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 26
Tallis Obed Moses born 1954-10-24
Do Muoi age 35
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 33
Chung Il-kwon age 34
Jung Hong-won age 8
Ismail al-Azhari age 52
Raif Dizdarević age 25
Sulejman Tihić age 10 months
Vo Chi Cong age 40
W. T. Cosgrave age 72
Jean Rey age 50
Ajay Banga born 1959-11-10
Ralph Northam born 1959-09-13
Wang Zhen (general) age 44
Frank Jack Fletcher age 67
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 65
Tajuddin Ahmad age 27
Luis García Meza Tejada age 23
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 4
Jamil Mahuad age 3
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 8 months
Hazem Al Beblawi age 15
José Napoleón Duarte age 26
Tiit Vähi age 5
Mart Siimann age 6
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 10
Negasso Gidada age 9
Peter M. Christian age 4
Rafael Paasio age 49
Johannes Virolainen age 38
Noe Zhordania age 84
Georgios Rallis age 33
Raimundo Pereira born 1956-08-28
Forbes Burnham age 29
István Dobi age 53
Charles Konan Banny age 9
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 9
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 67
Ali Zeidan age 1
Abd al-Hamid Dbeibeh born 1959-02-13
Ċensu Tabone age 39
Prithvirajsing Roopun born 1959-05-24
Nahas Angula age 9
Hammer DeRoburt age 30
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 24
Jim Bolger age 17
Daouda Malam Wanké age 6
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 3
Ernest Shonekan age 16
Muhammad Junejo age 20
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 11
Vasco Gonçalves age 31
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 31
Kenny Anthony age 1
Ong Teng Cheong age 16
Maria das Neves born 1958-07-11
Thanin Kraiwichian age 25
Luis Herrera Campins age 27
Nur Hassan Hussein age 14
Goh Kun age 14
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 28
Marais Viljoen age 36
Sicco Mansholt age 44
François-Xavier Ortoli age 27
Alistair Darling born 1953-11-28
Jack Lew born 1955-08-29
Mark Milley born 1958-06-20
Mike Beebe age 5
Asa Hutchinson age 1
Bill Weld age 7
Jon Corzine age 5
Phil Murphy born 1957-08-16
George Allen age 7 months
Charlie Baker born 1956-11-13
Louise Lake-Tack age 8
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 36
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 32
José María Guido age 42
Pierre Harmel age 41
Said Musa age 8
Kimon Georgiev age 70
Norodom Ranariddh age 8
José María Figueres Olsen born 1954-12-24
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 11
Kamal Ganzouri age 19
Alfredo Cristiani age 4
Andres Tarand age 12
Edward Akufo-Addo age 46
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 39
Michael Stasinopoulos age 49
Alfonso Portillo age 1
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 16
Géza Lakatos age 62
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 4
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 39
Ahmed Chalabi age 7
Amadou Gon Coulibaly born 1959-02-10
Patrick Allen age 1
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 32
Viggo Kampmann age 42
Jelle Zijlstra age 34
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 11
Gyude Bryant age 3
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 7
Arnoldo Alemán age 6
Wasim Sajjad age 11
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 13
Theodor Stolojan age 8
Manea Mănescu age 36
Nureddin al-Atassi age 23
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 40
Hussein Arnous born 1953-01-01
Miguel Trovoada age 15
Yen Chia-kan age 46
Khuang Aphaiwong age 50