✦ History

Explore February 1, 1959 – April 1, 1961

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba 1961-01-17

People

Norodom Sihanouk age 36
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 42
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Cemal Gürsel age 63
Prime Minister - Turkey
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 56
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 60
Prime Minister - Turkey
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 51
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 49
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 64
Prime Minister - Australia
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 44
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ne Win age 47
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 56
Prime Minister - Togo
Einar Gerhardsen age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Hubert Maga age 42
Prime Minister - Benin
Barthélemy Boganda age 48
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 40
Prime Minister - Tonga
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 60
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 42
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Sarit Thanarat age 50
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mehmet Shehu age 46
Prime Minister - Albania
Chivu Stoica age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Gaston Eyskens age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 45
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
H. C. Hansen age 52
Prime Minister - Denmark
Julius Raab age 67
Chancellor - Austria
Grégoire Kayibanda age 34
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 39
Prime Minister - Somalia
Ferenc Münnich age 72
Prime Minister - Hungary
V. J. Sukselainen age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Ólafur Thors age 67
Prime Minister - Iceland
Viggo Kampmann age 48
Prime Minister - Denmark
Louis Beel age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 30
Prime Minister - Somalia
Jan Eduard de Quay age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rashid Karami age 37
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Keith Holyoake age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abel Goumba age 32
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Emil Jónsson age 56
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mamadou Dia age 48
Prime Minister - Senegal
Penn Nouth age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Joseph Iléo age 37
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jigme Palden Dorji age 39
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 48
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Norman Manley age 65
Premier - Jamaica
Abdallah Ibrahim age 40
Prime Minister - Morocco
Justin Marie Bomboko age 30
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Abdul Majid Kubar age 49
Prime Minister - Libya
Muhammad Osman Said age 34
Prime Minister - Libya
Walter Nash age 77
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdullahi Issa age 36
Prime Minister - Somalia
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Herbert Blaize age 40
Prime Minister - Grenada
Abebe Aregai age 55
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Hazza' al-Majali age 40
Prime Minister - Jordan
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 37
Prime Minister - Samoa
Alexander Frick age 48
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Pedro Beltrán age 61
Prime Minister - Peru
Pho Proeung age 55
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Charles Assalé age 47
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Paul Southwell age 45
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
George Charles age 42
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Joseph Cimpaye age 27
Prime Minister - Burundi
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 48
Prime Minister - Suriname
Luis Gallo Porras age 64
Prime Minister - Peru
Filip Bajković age 48
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 47
Prime Minister - Nigeria
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 67
Governor-General - Australia
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 77
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 30
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Donald Trump age 12
Michael Jackson age 5 months
Vladimir Putin age 6
Ronald Reagan age 48
Nelson Mandela age 40
George W. Bush age 12
Joe Biden age 16
Pablo Picasso age 77
Charlie Chaplin age 69
Bill Gates age 3
Pope Francis age 22
Steve Jobs age 3
Che Guevara age 30
Bill Clinton age 12
Angela Merkel age 4
Neil Armstrong age 28
François Hollande age 4
Walt Disney age 57
Elvis Presley age 24
John Paul II age 38
Ernest Hemingway age 59
Gabriel García Márquez age 31
Yuri Gagarin age 24
Mikhail Gorbachev age 27
Stephen Hawking age 17
Jean-Paul Sartre age 53
Jimmy Carter age 34
Benedict XVI age 31
Mother Teresa age 48
Harry S. Truman age 74
Hillary Clinton age 11
George H. W. Bush age 34
Nicolas Sarkozy age 4
Xi Jinping age 5
Naruhito born 1960-02-23
Hugo Chávez age 4
Simone de Beauvoir age 51
Niels Bohr age 73
Muammar Gaddafi age 16
John Lennon age 18
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 4
Muhammad Ali age 17
Kofi Annan age 20
Charles III age 10
Osama bin Laden age 1
Lech Wałęsa age 15
Leo XIV age 3
Diego Maradona born 1960-10-30
Narendra Modi age 8
Indira Gandhi age 41
Saddam Hussein age 21
Aung San Suu Kyi age 13
Benjamin Netanyahu age 9
14th Dalai Lama age 23
Silvio Berlusconi age 22
Shinzo Abe age 4
Bob Marley age 13
Herbert Hoover age 84
Tim Berners-Lee age 3
Mahathir Mohamad age 33
Boris Yeltsin age 28
Ali Khamenei age 19
Jacques Chirac age 26
Guillermo Lasso age 3
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 40
Alexander Lukashenko age 4
Tony Blair age 5
Yasser Arafat age 29
Ban Ki-moon age 14
Benazir Bhutto age 5
Jair Bolsonaro age 3
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 13
Theresa May age 2
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 2
Henry Kissinger age 35
Václav Havel age 22
Georges Pompidou age 47
Leonid Brezhnev age 52
Robert Mugabe age 34
Hosni Mubarak age 30
Golda Meir age 60
Dilma Rousseff age 11
Ferdinand Marcos age 41
Al Gore age 10
Malcolm X age 33
François Mitterrand age 42
Milton Friedman age 46
Ruhollah Khomeini age 56
Valentina Tereshkova age 21
Pol Pot age 33
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 20
António Guterres age 9
Akihito age 25
Helmut Kohl age 28
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 54
Rosa Parks age 46
Gordon Brown age 7
Shimon Peres age 35
John Paul I age 46
Olaf Scholz age 7 months
Anwar Sadat age 40
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 21
Paul VI age 61
Willy Brandt age 45
Gerhard Schröder age 14
Hassan Rouhani age 10
Salvador Allende age 50
Hu Jintao age 16
Evo Morales born 1959-10-26
Augusto Pinochet age 43
Ursula von der Leyen age 3 months
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 5
Michelle Bachelet age 7
Suharto age 37
Ariel Sharon age 30
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 41
Desmond Tutu age 27
Viktor Yanukovych age 8
Mohamed Morsi age 7
Sergio Mattarella age 17
Manmohan Singh age 26
Pervez Musharraf age 15
Yuri Andropov age 44
Abdullah Gül age 8
Lech Kaczyński age 9
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 3
Buzz Aldrin age 29