✦ 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

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
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 20
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 65
Edward Natapei born 1954-07-17
Nguyen Huu Tho age 42
Mieczysław Rakowski age 25
Luis González Macchi age 4
Lee Nack-yon born 1952-12-20
Nikola Špirić born 1956-09-04
Ali Saibou age 12
Jack Lynch age 35
Willy Claes age 13
Rauf Orbay age 71
Martin Dempsey age 6 months
Nigel Lawson age 20
Harold Brown age 25
Alexander Vandegrift age 65
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 80
Takahito, Prince Mikasa age 36
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 62
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 80
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia age 35
Aspasia Manos age 56
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz age 16
Andris Bērziņš (prime minister) age 1
George Voinovich age 16
Evan Bayh born 1955-12-26
Mike DeWine age 5
Larry Hogan born 1956-05-25
Ken Starr age 6
John Profumo age 37
Thomas Gage age 234
Juan José Arévalo age 48
Ali Kafi age 24
Eduardo Camaño age 6
Michael Jeffery age 14
Reinhold Mitterlehner born 1955-12-10
Hubert Pierlot age 68
Jean Duvieusart age 52
Camille Huysmans age 81
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 33
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 34
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya born 1956-05-08
Guillermo León Valencia age 43
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 44
Armando Calderón Sol age 4
Akwasi Afrifa age 16
Fred Akuffo age 15
Phaedon Gizikis age 35
Patrick Achi born 1955-11-17
Edward Seaga age 22
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 10
Bouasone Bouphavanh born 1954-06-03
René Moawad age 27
Hussein Onn age 30
Ibrahim Nasir age 26
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 19
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 28
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 63
Mike Moore age 3
Pak Pong-ju age 13
Haruo Remeliik age 19
Ivan Stambolić age 15
Wu Den-yih age 4
Edward Lowassa born 1953-08-26
Seni Pramoj age 47
Kukrit Pramoj age 41
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 6
Anand Panyarachun age 20
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 16
Hubert Ingraham age 5
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 11
Mohamed Ennaceur age 18
Apolo Nsibambi age 11
Godfrey Binaisa age 32
Vitalii Masol age 23
Sato Kilman born 1957-12-30
Raúl Leoni age 47
Ramón José Velásquez age 35
Vo Van Kiet age 29
Mohammed Basindawa age 17
Arnulfo Arias age 51
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 58
Francisco Sagasti age 7
Momčilo Krajišnik age 7
Mladen Ivanić born 1958-09-16
Andrés Rodríguez age 29
Liu Bocheng age 59
Glubb Pasha age 55
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 22
Claire Lee Chennault age 59
Albert Reynolds age 19
Lee Jong-wook age 7
Dušan Simović age 69
Kenneth Clarke age 12
John Smith age 14
Abdel Hakim Amer age 32
Fazlollah Zahedi age 60
Ahmad Qavam age 76
Nobutake Kondō age 66
Bai Chongxi age 59
Johannes Frießner age 60
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 56
Veljko Kadijević age 26
Shunroku Hata age 73
Princess Helen of Serbia age 67
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 38
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 31
Sam Manekshaw age 38
Ko Yong-hui age 3 months
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 49
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 66
Prince William of Gloucester age 10
Nathan Deal age 10
Sonny Perdue age 5
Mitch Daniels age 3
Gray Davis age 9
Otmar Hasler born 1953-09-28
Milan Stojadinović age 64
Gaylord Nelson age 36
Ramsey Clark age 24
Courtney Hodges age 65
Albert Pintat age 9
Carlos Lacoste age 23
Josef Klaus age 42
Juan José Torres age 32
Ivan Kostov age 2
Saye Zerbo age 20
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 10
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 28
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 12
Savka Dabčević-Kučar age 28
Josef Tošovský age 2
Adolphe Muzito born 1957-02-12
Sufi Abu Taleb age 27
Francisco Flores born 1959-10-17
Tosiwo Nakayama age 20
Edwin Linkomies age 57
Xenophon Zolotas age 48
Tillman Thomas age 7
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 2
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 9
Gérard Latortue age 18
Jenő Fock age 36
Miklós Kállay age 65
Sutan Sjahrir age 43
P. J. Patterson age 17
Bruce Golding age 4
Abdullah Ensour age 13
Dirk Jan de Geer age 81
Victor Marijnen age 35
Phankham Viphavanh age 1
Charles D. B. King age 77
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 2
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 4
Kessai Note age 2
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 14
Anand Satyanand age 8
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou born 1954-01-01
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 69
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 65
Victor Ciorbea born 1954-10-26
Constantin Dăscălescu age 29
Mugur Isărescu age 3
Frederick Ballantyne age 16
Abdoul Mbaye born 1953-04-13
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 15
Andrej Bajuk age 8
Qahhor Mahkamov age 20
Mizengo Pinda age 4
Cleopa Msuya age 21