✦ 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
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
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

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
Mohammad Khatami age 15
Yitzhak Rabin age 36
Tsai Ing-wen age 2
Mariano Rajoy age 3
Andrei Sakharov age 37
Dick Cheney age 18
Douglas MacArthur age 79
Condoleezza Rice age 4
Raúl Castro age 27
Sheikh Hasina age 11
Giorgio Napolitano age 33
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 18
Idi Amin age 34
Yulia Tymoshenko born 1960-11-27
Rodrigo Duterte age 13
Helmut Schmidt age 40
Stephen Harper born 1959-04-30
Margrethe II of Denmark age 18
Donald Tusk age 1
Rachel Carson age 51
Corazon Aquino age 26
Edward VIII age 64
John Kerry age 15
Madeleine Albright age 21
Hamid Karzai age 1
José Mujica age 23
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 34
Yoshihide Suga age 10
Rajiv Gandhi age 14
Thabo Mbeki age 16
Wernher von Braun age 46
Clement Attlee age 76
Harald V of Norway age 21
Viktor Yushchenko age 4
George C. Marshall age 78
John Major age 15
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 4
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 21
Jens Stoltenberg born 1959-03-16
Slobodan Milošević age 17
Enver Hoxha age 50
Jacob Zuma age 16
Park Geun-hye age 7
Martti Ahtisaari age 21
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 12
Moon Jae-in age 6
Juan Manuel Santos age 7
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 23
Konstantin Chernenko age 47
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 27
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 21
Jiang Zemin age 32
Friedrich Merz age 3
Sauli Niinistö age 10
Eduard Shevardnadze age 31
Romano Prodi age 19
Ebrahim Raisi born 1960-12-14
Cyril Ramaphosa age 6
Serzh Sargsyan age 4
Pranab Mukherjee age 23
Park Chung-hee age 41
Vyacheslav Molotov age 68
Joachim Gauck age 19
Anthony Eden age 61
Thomas Sankara age 9
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 12
Menachem Begin age 45
Jean-Claude Juncker age 4
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 1
Erich Honecker age 46
Hafez al-Assad age 28
Li Keqiang age 3
Muhammadu Buhari age 16
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero born 1960-08-04
Horst Köhler age 15
Fumio Kishida age 1
Sanae Takaichi born 1961-03-07
Kevin Rudd age 1
Sebastián Piñera age 9
Tarja Halonen age 15
Daniel Ortega age 13
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 19
Islam Karimov age 21
Dan Quayle age 12
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 38
Paul Kagame age 1
Omar al-Bashir age 15
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 294
Naoto Kan age 12
Philippe of Belgium born 1960-04-15
Pratibha Patil age 24
Droupadi Murmu age 7 months
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 9
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 31
Juan Perón age 63
Heydar Aliyev age 35
Hassanal Bolkiah age 12
Mario Draghi age 11
Kim Dae-jung age 35
Christian Wulff born 1959-06-19
Radovan Karadžić age 13
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 36
Aldo Moro age 42
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 18
Asif Ali Zardari age 3
Yoon Suk Yeol born 1960-12-18
F. W. de Klerk age 22
Ludwig Erhard age 62
Ashraf Ghani age 9
Kurt Waldheim age 40
Alexander Van der Bellen age 15
Miloš Zeman age 14
Mobutu Sese Seko age 28
Salome Zourabichvili age 6
Jomo Kenyatta age 65
Emomali Rahmon age 6
Julius Nyerere age 36
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 1
Saparmurat Niyazov age 18
Yoweri Museveni age 14
Leonid Kuchma age 20
Donald Rumsfeld age 26
Masoud Pezeshkian age 4
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 5
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 10 months
Klaus Iohannis born 1959-06-13
Olof Palme age 32
Süleyman Demirel age 34
Ahmet Davutoğlu born 1959-02-26
Queen Camilla age 11
Jonas Salk age 44
Karl Dönitz age 67
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 25
Pierre Trudeau age 39
Fulgencio Batista age 58
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 70
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 35
Bronisław Komorowski age 6
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 11
Junichiro Koizumi age 17
Tarō Asō age 18
U Thant age 50
Rudolf Hess age 64
Colin Powell age 21
Norodom Sihamoni age 5
Giulio Andreotti age 40
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 6
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 22
Alexander Dubček age 37
Wen Jiabao age 16
Václav Klaus age 17
Ehud Olmert age 13
Francesco Cossiga age 30
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 2
İsmet İnönü age 74
Leonid Kravchuk age 25
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 11
Puyi age 53
Ahmed Ben Bella age 42
Tony Abbott age 1
Heinz Fischer age 20
Michael D. Higgins age 17
Paolo Gentiloni age 4
Mario Monti age 15
Alberto Fujimori age 20
Roh Moo-hyun age 12
Bernard Montgomery age 71
Richard von Weizsäcker age 38
Albert Speer age 53