✦ 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
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
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
Independence of Ghana 1957-03-06
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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20

People

Mizengo Pinda age 4
Cleopa Msuya age 21
Apisai Ielemia born 1955-08-19
Anatolii Kinakh born 1954-08-04
Yevhen Marchuk age 11
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 40
Aparicio Méndez age 48
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 43
Guillermo Endara age 16
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 24
Kim Hwang-sik age 4
Chung Un-chan age 5
Kim Jong-pil age 26
Chung Sye-kyun age 1
William Gopallawa age 55
D. M. Jayaratne age 21
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 11
Manlio Brosio age 55
Franco Maria Malfatti age 25
David Malpass born 1956-03-08
David Blunkett age 5
Amin al-Hafiz age 30
Dragiša Cvetković age 59
John W. Snow age 13
Walid Jumblatt age 3
Li Yuanchao age 1
Josef Harpe age 65
Issa Pliyev age 48
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 16
Markian Popov age 49
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 44
Princess Ileana of Romania age 43
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 40
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone age 78
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 13
Jim Gilmore age 3
Bob McDonnell born 1954-06-15
Terry McAuliffe born 1957-02-09
Mike Braun born 1954-03-24
Bill Lee born 1959-10-09
Slobodan Jovanović age 82
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 34
Elliot Richardson age 32
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 6
Lester Bird age 14
Ramón Puerta age 1
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 68
Bill Hayden age 19
Alfons Gorbach age 54
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 12
Georges Theunis age 79
Paul van Zeeland age 58
Colville Young age 19
Aleksandar Tsankov age 73
Goukouni Oueddei age 10
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 60
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 25
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 5
Osvaldo Hurtado age 13
Galo Plaza age 46
Joseph Urusemal age 6 months
Teuvo Aura age 39
Keijo Liinamaa age 23
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 57
Ioannis Grivas age 29
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 25
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 21
Vinicio Cerezo age 9
Desmond Hoyte age 23
Henri Namphy age 19
Claudette Werleigh age 6
Tiburcio Carías age 76
Péter Boross age 24
Károly Grósz age 22
Geir Hallgrímsson age 26
Erik Scavenius age 75
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah born 1953-03-15
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 38
Salim al-Huss age 22
Edwin Barclay age 70
Moses Blah age 5
Antanas Merkys age 65
Anton Buttigieg age 40
Litokwa Tomeing age 12
Khil Raj Regmi age 3
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani born 1960-01-01
Iuliu Maniu age 79
Cuthbert Sebastian age 30
Mahammed Dionne born 1959-09-22
Flavio Cotti age 12
H. H. Kung age 71
Chen Chien-jen age 1
Yen Hsi-shan age 69
Sanya Dharmasakti age 45
Kriangsak Chamanan age 34
Chatchai Chunhawan age 32
Arthur Foulkes age 24
Marguerite Pindling age 20
Eric Williams age 41
Ahmed Hachani born 1956-10-04
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 29
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 51
Julius Chan age 13
Kim Boo-kyum born 1958-01-21
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 36
Vjekoslav Bevanda born 1956-05-13
Diego Martínez Barrio age 68
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf born 1956-01-01
Edem Kodjo age 14
Miles Dempsey age 55
Masayoshi Ito age 38
Jim Fouché age 54
Nicolaas Diederichs age 48
Dirk Stikker age 55
James Wolfensohn age 18
Eric Shinseki age 9
Frank Carlucci age 21
Les Aspin age 14
Michael Mullen age 6
Jafar Sharif-Emami age 42
Takeo Kurita age 63
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 89
Halil Kut age 70
Hal Moore age 30
Mario Roatta age 65
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia age 57
Princess Deokhye age 40
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) age 38
Princess Clémentine of Belgium age 80
Kim Kyong-hui age 6
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 68
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife age 61
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia age 44
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954) born 1954-02-26
Timothy Laurence age 2
Zell Miller age 20
Miriam A. Ferguson age 77
Pete Wilson age 19
Mitja Ribičič age 33
Abeid Karume age 47
Lien Chan age 16
Rabah Bitat age 26
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 25
William Deane age 21
Clifford Husbands age 26
Reneta Indzhova born 1953-07-06
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 3
Nikica Valentić age 1
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 41
Hipólito Mejía age 11
Atef Ebeid age 20
Jacob Nena age 11
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 54
Raymond Ndong Sima born 1955-01-23
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 49
Ramiro de León Carpio age 10
Jorge Serrano Elías age 7
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 28
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 5
Gyula Kállai age 42
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 28
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 41
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 2
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 3
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov born 1956-12-09
Djoomart Otorbaev born 1955-08-18
Sam Matekane born 1958-03-15
Zigmantas Balčytis born 1953-11-16
Richard Ratsimandrava age 21
Modibo Sidibé born 1952-11-07
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall born 1953-01-01
Abdellatif Filali age 24
René Harris age 4
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 12
Jerry Mateparae born 1954-11-14
Jens Hundseid age 69
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 66
Mohammad Mustafa born 1954-08-26
Clément Mouamba age 8
Ilie Verdeț age 27
David Vunagi age 2
Cho Jung-tai born 1959-01-22
Prawit Wongsuwon age 7
Lynden Pindling age 22
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 14
Feleti Sevele age 8
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 1
Ali Laarayedh born 1955-08-15
Mohamed Mzali age 26
Ruhakana Rugunda age 4
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 19
Eleazar López Contreras age 69
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 13
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 36
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 18
José Giral age 73
Alan Johnson age 2
John J. Sullivan born 1959-11-20
Robert Rubin age 14
Bayard Rustin age 40