✦ 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
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
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
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
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
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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Giovanni Spadolini age 27
Arnaldo Forlani age 26
Raila A Odinga age 7
Anote Tong age 3 months
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 12
Anerood Jugnauth age 22
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 41
Zinaida Greceanîi born 1956-02-07
Armando Guebuza age 9
Farooq Leghari age 12
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 8 months
Emil Constantinescu age 12
Evaristo Carvalho age 10
José Paciano Laurel age 61
Sergio Osmeña age 74
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 26
Luis Carrero Blanco age 48
Rodolfo Graziani age 70
Masayoshi Ōhira age 42
Sōsuke Uno age 30
Peng Dehuai age 53
Gennady Yanayev age 15
Chadli Bendjedid age 23
Franz Vranitzky age 15
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 12
Wilfried Martens age 16
Dean Barrow age 1
Aristides Pereira age 28
Pedro Pires age 18
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 41
Sherif Ismail born 1955-07-06
Geir Haarde age 1
Ephraim Katzir age 36
Giovanni Goria age 9
Rolandas Paksas born 1956-06-10
Algirdas Butkevičius born 1958-11-19
Gediminas Kirkilas age 1
Muhyiddin Yassin age 5
Moussa Traoré age 16
Eddie Fenech Adami age 18
Ibrahim Babangida age 11
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 22
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 22
Vladimír Mečiar age 10
Ronald Venetiaan age 16
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf born 1956-03-16
Rafael Caldera age 36
Hanna Suchocka age 6
Fernando Belaúnde age 40
Abdalla Hamdok born 1956-01-01
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 71
Takeo Miki age 45
William Westmoreland age 38
Venceslau Brás age 84
Georges Bidault age 53
Hans Fritzsche age 52
Yang Shangkun age 45
Stephen Breyer age 14
Thurgood Marshall age 44
James F. Byrnes age 70
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 31
Sylvie Kinigi born 1952-11-24
Arthur Meighen age 78
Jioji Konrote age 4
Paavo Lipponen age 11
Georgios Papandreou age 64
Alejandro Giammattei born 1956-03-09
Bernardo Arévalo de León born 1958-10-07
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 5
Zalman Shazar age 62
Piet de Jong age 37
Guntis Ulmanis age 13
Hassan Diab born 1959-06-01
Abdul Razak Hussein age 30
Lawrence Gonzi born 1953-07-01
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani born 1956-12-31
Mircea Snegur age 12
Nambaryn Enkhbayar born 1958-06-01
Shaukat Aziz age 3
Thomas Remengesau Jr. born 1956-02-28
Andrei Belousov born 1959-03-17
Sergei Stepashin age 7 months
Guy Parmelin born 1959-11-09
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 28
Paula-Mae Weekes born 1958-12-23
Najla Bouden born 1958-06-29
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 29
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz born 1959-12-20
Nicanor Duarte born 1956-10-11
Maxime Weygand age 85
Nikolai Tikhonov age 47
Jânio Quadros age 35
Ash Carter born 1954-09-24
Ronald McNair age 1
Lawrence Eagleburger age 22
Anthony Kennedy age 16
Dean Rusk age 43
Cyrus Vance age 35
Arturo Umberto Illia age 52
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 5
William McMahon age 44
Earle Page age 72
Joe Clark age 13
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 10
Tshombé Moïse age 32
Harri Holkeri age 15
Efraín Ríos Montt age 26
László Kövér born 1959-12-29
Kristján Eldjárn age 35
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 40
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 46
Yigal Allon age 34
Henri Konan Bédié age 18
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 26
Gaston Thorn age 24
Duško Marković born 1958-07-06
Saadeddine Othmani born 1956-01-16
Htin Kyaw age 6
Yakubu Gowon age 17
Shehu Shagari age 27
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 7
Mirko Cvetković age 2
Rudolf Schuster age 18
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 9
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 27
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 32
Michael Somare age 16
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 69
Chuck Hagel age 6
Milka Planinc age 27
Souphanouvong age 43
John Ashcroft age 10
S. M. Bruce age 69
John Gorton age 41
César Gaviria age 5
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 31
Péter Medgyessy age 9
Poul Schlüter age 23
Fouad Siniora age 9
Diori Hamani age 36
James Michel age 8
Mikuláš Dzurinda born 1955-02-04
Thorbjörn Fälldin age 26
Mesut Yılmaz age 4
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 24
Julio María Sanguinetti age 16
Iolu Abil age 10
Phạm Minh Chính born 1958-12-10
Marek Belka age 9 months
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 57
Mireya Moscoso age 6
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 17
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 37
Washington Luís age 83
Margaret Chan age 5
Ahmad Uyahya age 3 months
Leo Tindemans age 30
Melchior Ndadaye born 1953-01-01
Vladimír Špidla age 1
Antoine Gizenga age 27
Eugenia Charles age 33
Nicholas Liverpool age 18
Anker Jørgensen age 30
William Richard Tolbert age 39
Didier Ratsiraka age 15
Abdelilah Benkirane born 1954-04-08
Sushil Koirala age 13
Kåre Willoch age 24
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi born 1958-12-27
Pascal Lissouba age 20
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 8
Adrian Năstase age 2
Michal Kováč age 22
Pascal Couchepin age 10
Wellington Koo age 64
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 42
Gaafar Nimeiry age 21
Victoire Dogbé Tomegah born 1959-12-23
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 99
Nobuyuki Abe age 76
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 64
Tetsu Katayama age 65
Hitoshi Ashida age 64
Pierre Messmer age 36
Artur Bernardes age 77
Janet Reno age 14
Edmund Muskie age 38
Fan S. Noli age 70
Mohamed Boudiaf age 33
Roberto Eduardo Viola age 28
James Scullin age 76
Arthur Fadden age 58
Quentin Bryce age 9
Mikhail Myasnikovich age 2
Hugo Banzer age 26
Nuon Chea age 26
Ange-Félix Patassé age 15
Glafcos Clerides age 33
Joaquín Balaguer age 46
Josefa Iloilo age 31