✦ 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
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
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
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

Esko Aho born 1954-05-20
Luís Cabral age 21
Sam Hinds age 8
Janet Jagan age 31
Abdul Latif Rashid age 8
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 10
Fernando Tambroni age 50
Joop den Uyl age 33
Behgjet Pacolli age 1
Bakili Muluzi age 9
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 10
António Ramalho Eanes age 17
António de Spínola age 42
Milan Milutinović age 9
France-Albert René age 16
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 20
Yusof bin Ishak age 42
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons born 1953-09-05
Ruth Dreifuss age 12
Fradique de Menezes age 10
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 15
Samak Sundaravej age 17
George Maxwell Richards age 20
Yurii Yekhanurov age 4
Juan María Bordaberry age 24
Baldwin Lonsdale age 4
Laurentino Cortizo born 1953-01-30
Juan Negrín age 60
Hugo Sperrle age 67
Maurice Couve de Murville age 45
Pierre Bérégovoy age 26
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 84
Mark W. Clark age 56
B. J. Vorster age 36
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 46
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 6
William Rehnquist age 28
Abd al-Aziz Jarad born 1954-02-12
Andranik Margaryan age 1
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 52
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 22
Jigme Thinley age 0 months
Pierre Buyoya age 2
Andrés Pastrana Arango born 1954-08-17
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 26
Essam Sharaf age 9 months
Ahmed Nazif age 3 months
Väinö Tanner age 71
José Mário Vaz born 1957-12-10
David A. Granger age 7
Mihály Károlyi age 77
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 46
Patrick Hillery age 29
Serik Akhmetov born 1958-06-25
Tammam Salam age 7
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 67
Kazimira Prunskienė age 9
Mohamed Waheed Hassan born 1953-01-03
Guido de Marco age 21
Moktar Ould Daddah age 27
Adolfo de la Huerta age 71
Myint Swe age 1
Pedro Santana Lopes born 1956-06-29
Ralph Gonsalves age 6
Ola Ullsten age 21
Moritz Leuenberger age 6
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 7 months
Oqil Oqilov age 8
Somchai Wongsawat age 5
Félix Gouin age 68
Ante Marković age 27
John Connally age 35
Merrick Garland born 1952-11-13
Nandó dos Santos age 2
Baldwin Spencer age 4
Peter Cosgrove age 5
Freundel Stuart age 1
Syarhiey Sidorski born 1954-03-13
Nicéphore Soglo age 17
Eduardo Rodríguez born 1956-03-02
Petar Mladenov age 16
Michel Micombero age 12
Belisario Betancur age 29
Sitiveni Rabuka age 4
Kalevi Sorsa age 21
Óscar Berger age 6
Kumba Ialá born 1953-03-15
Kaysone Phomvihane age 31
Ivars Godmanis age 10 months
Amine Gemayel age 10
Joseph Boakai age 7
Christopher Loeak born 1952-11-11
Mihai Ghimpu age 10 months
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário born 1954-10-26
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 2
Salam Fayyad age 5 months
Marien Ngouabi age 13
Petru Groza age 67
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa born 1957-04-29
Devan Nair age 29
Surayud Chulanont age 9
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 9
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 11
Guy Scott age 8
Valentín Paniagua age 16
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 46
Ye Jianying age 55
Artur da Costa e Silva age 53
Roy Jenkins age 31
J. Sigfrid Edström age 81
Robert Zoellick born 1953-07-25
Jack Straw age 6
Ellison Onizuka age 6
Eric Holder age 1
Abd al-Malek Selal age 4
Liamine Zéroual age 11
Isa II of Bahrain age 19
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 33
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 6
Khieu Samphan age 21
Abel Pacheco age 18
Giorgos Vasiliou age 21
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 3 months
Charles Savarin age 9
León Febres-Cordero age 21
Hilla Limann age 17
Vasiliki Thanou age 1
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 53
Carmen Pereira age 16
Roberto Micheletti age 9
József Antall age 20
Bjarni Benediktsson age 44
Ayad Allawi age 8
Marouf al-Bakhit age 5
Jens Otto Krag age 38
Isa Mustafa age 1
Khamtai Siphandone age 28
Omar Karami age 18
Mahmoud Jibril age 4 months
Artūras Paulauskas born 1953-08-23
David Kabua age 1
Nangolo Mbumba age 11
Ludwig Scotty age 4
Madhav Kumar Nepal born 1953-03-12
Jan P. Syse age 21
Trygve Bratteli age 42
Odvar Nordli age 24
Agathe Uwilingiyimana born 1953-05-23
Tufuga Efi age 14
Wee Kim Wee age 36
Carlos Vila Nova born 1959-07-27
Rahmon Nabiyev age 22
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 83
Carlos Arias Navarro age 43
Trường Chinh age 45
Garret FitzGerald age 26
John Bruton age 5
Henry Paulson age 6
Larry Summers born 1954-11-30
Michael Howard age 11
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 61
John Paul Stevens age 32
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 27
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 10
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 22
Viačasław Kiebič age 16
Mark Eyskens age 19
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 35
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 22
Elisabeth Domitien age 27
Michel Djotodia age 3
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 31
Ahmed Shafik age 10
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 37
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 7
Christos Sartzetakis age 23
Boniface Alexandre age 16
Nasry Asfura born 1958-06-08
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 41
Elias Hrawi age 26
Pakalitha Mosisili age 7
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 14
Emilio Portes Gil age 62
Jhala Nath Khanal age 2
Enrique Bolaños age 24
Mahamane Ousmane age 2
Murtala Muhammed age 13
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 28
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 20
Radu Vasile age 10
Petre Roman age 6
Mame Madior Boye age 11
Manasseh Sogavare born 1955-01-17
Lương Cường born 1957-08-15
Leszek Miller age 6
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 31
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 19
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 53
Okada Keisuke age 84
Ferruccio Parri age 62