✦ 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

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
Lucius D. Clay age 55
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi born 1959-01-01
Vittorio Ambrosio age 73
Arthur Percival age 64
Mostafa Chamran age 20
Şehzade Ahmed Nihad age 69
Otto Ruge age 70
Eberhard von Mackensen age 63
Alphonse Juin age 63
Zhang Wentian age 52
Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse age 55
Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia age 43
Regina von Habsburg age 27
Infanta Beatriz of Spain age 43
Lady Mountbatten age 50
Princess Elena of Romania age 1
Hernando de Soto (economist) age 11
James M. Cox age 82
Bill Haslam born 1958-08-23
Petar Stambolić age 40
Jan Syrový age 64
Francis Biddle age 66
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 26
Nadir al-Arbawi age 3
Edmond Leburton age 37
Théo Lefèvre age 38
Philip Dimitrov born 1955-03-31
Andrey Lukanov age 14
Son Sann age 41
Eduardo Santos age 64
Said Mohamed Djohar age 34
Luis Alberto Monge age 26
Vlatko Pavletić age 21
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 49
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 35
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 3
Tafari Benti age 31
Leo Falcam age 16
Laisenia Qarase age 11
Jean-Max Bellerive born 1958-01-01
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 8
José Azcona del Hoyo age 25
György Lázár age 28
Ferenc Nagy age 49
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 39
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim born 1953-01-01
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 4
Wim Schermerhorn age 57
Suleiman Frangieh age 42
Amos Sawyer age 7
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 13
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 5 months
Alfred Sant age 4
Paul Xuereb age 29
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 10
Pascoal Mocumbi age 11
Aires Ali born 1955-12-06
Soe Win age 5
Pak Song-chol age 39
Nurul Amin age 59
Shujaat Hussain age 12
Kuniwo Nakamura age 8
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 32
Tapley Seaton age 2
John Compton age 27
Henck Arron age 16
Adolf Ogi age 10
Nazim al-Kudsi age 46
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 8
Frank Hsieh age 6
Cornelius A. Smith age 15
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 13
Patrick Manning age 6
Habib Essid age 3
Bülent Ulusu age 29
Kausea Natano born 1957-07-05
Enele Sopoaga born 1956-02-10
Yusuf Lule age 40
Ham Lini age 10 months
Kazimierz Sabbat age 39
Michael Ogio age 10
Nicolás Lindley López age 43
Richard O'Connor age 63
Douglas Hurd age 22
John Shalikashvili age 16
Michael Mukasey age 11
William Calley age 9
Rasim Delić age 3
Otto Braun age 52
Georg-Hans Reinhardt age 65
Friedrich Hoßbach age 57
Valentin Varennikov age 28
Wilhelm Stuckart age 49
Hisako, Princess Takamado born 1953-07-10
Natalia Pavlovna Paley age 46
Zakir Hasanov born 1959-06-06
Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria age 74
Elias, Duke of Parma age 72
Prince Alois of Liechtenstein (1869–1955) age 83
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg age 51
Kim Song-ae age 27
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein age 80
Sigvard Bernadotte age 45
Carl Johan Bernadotte age 35
Berthold, Margrave of Baden age 46
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg age 17
George Deukmejian age 24
Christine Todd Whitman age 6
Ivan Šubašić age 60
Jan Stráský age 11
Marián Čalfa age 6
Zdeněk Fierlinger age 61
He Yingqin age 62
Abderrahmane Farès age 41
Marc Forné Molné age 5
Vazgen Manukyan age 6
John Kerr age 38
Otto Ender age 76
Isa Gambar born 1957-02-24
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad age 34
Manuel Esquivel age 12
Sangay Ngedup born 1953-07-01
Wálter Guevara age 40
David Padilla age 25
Enrique Peñaranda age 58
Enrique Hertzog age 54
Guido Vildoso age 15
Luc-Adolphe Tiao born 1954-06-04
Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla born 1958-06-11
Ephraïm Inoni age 5
Lol Mahamat Choua age 13
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 66
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 36
Josip Manolić age 32
Fabián Alarcón age 5
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 73
Aman Andom age 28
John Haglelgam age 3
Naiqama Lalabalavu born 1953-12-23
Tengiz Sigua age 17
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 33
Sofoklis Venizelos age 57
Konstantinos Tsaldaris age 68
Mohamed Said Fofana age 9 months
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana born 1954-04-15
Aristides Gomes born 1954-11-08
Ansumane Mané age 12
Moses Nagamootoo age 4
Martial Célestin age 39
Carlos Roberto Flor age 2
Carlos Roberto Reina age 26
Móric Esterházy age 71
Mohammad Natsir age 44
Abdelsalam al-Majali age 27
Knud Kristensen age 71
Jo Cals age 38
Bujar Bukoshi age 5
Nexhat Daci age 8
Jakup Krasniqi age 1
Nikolai Tanayev age 6
Indulis Emsis age 9 months
Elias Sarkis age 28
Gediminas Vagnorius born 1957-06-10
Irena Degutienė age 3
Jacques Sylla age 6
Moctar Ouane born 1955-10-11
Norovyn Altankhuyag born 1958-01-20
Bernard Dowiyogo age 6
Tulsi Giri age 26
Silvia Cartwright age 8
Catherine Tizard age 21
Amadou Cheiffou age 9
Kim Il age 42
Hari Kostov born 1959-11-13
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 29
Henk Chin A Sen age 18
Kaspar Villiger age 11
Luai al-Atassi age 26
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 20
Basdeo Panday age 19
Maatia Toafa born 1954-05-01