✦ 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

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
Miguel Díaz-Canel born 1960-04-20
Ram Nath Kovind age 13
Nawaz Sharif age 9
François Fillon age 4
Albert II of Belgium age 24
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 24
José Eduardo dos Santos age 16
Néstor Kirchner age 8
John Howard age 19
Idriss Déby age 6
Alexander Kerensky age 77
Turgut Özal age 31
Eisaku Satō age 57
Yukio Hatoyama age 11
Georgy Malenkov age 57
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 37
Sahle-Work Zewde age 8
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 39
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 53
Michel Temer age 18
Sergei Korolev age 52
Mauricio Macri born 1959-02-08
Erna Solberg born 1961-02-24
Traian Băsescu age 7
Walter Mondale age 31
Paul Biya age 25
Lester B. Pearson age 61
Tansu Çiller age 12
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 10
Ratko Mladić age 16
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 13
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 28
Teodoro Obiang age 16
B. J. Habibie age 22
Mary Robinson age 14
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 38
Hastings Banda age 69
Thaksin Shinawatra age 9
Jarosław Kaczyński age 9
Moshe Dayan age 43
Yoshihiko Noda age 1
Trygve Lie age 62
Alberto Fernández born 1959-04-02
Hamad II of Bahrain age 9
Ali Bongo Ondimba born 1959-02-09
John Mahama age 2 months
János Áder born 1959-05-09
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 28
Abdurrahman Wahid age 18
Alassane Ouattara age 17
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 78
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 15
Stefan Löfven age 1
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 4
Johannes Rau age 28
Yasuo Fukuda age 22
Dominique de Villepin age 5
Franz von Papen age 79
Malcolm Turnbull age 4
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 17
Omar Bongo age 23
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 2
Najib Razak age 5
Helen Clark age 8
Lee Hsien Loong age 6
Samia Suluhu Hassan born 1960-01-27
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 16
Lee Myung-bak age 17
Alija Izetbegović age 33
Franjo Tuđman age 36
Jorge Rafael Videla age 33
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 19
Nana Akufo-Addo age 14
Prabowo Subianto age 7
Isaac Herzog born 1960-09-22
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 3
Tomislav Nikolić age 6
Boris Tadić age 1
José Ramos-Horta age 9
Alec Douglas-Home age 55
Gustavo Petro born 1960-04-19
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 5
John Evans Atta Mills age 14
Reuven Rivlin age 19
Almazbek Atambaev age 2
Roza Otunbayeva age 8
Trương Tấn Sang age 10
Kenneth Kaunda age 34
Alan García age 9
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 7
Robert Schuman age 72
Janet Yellen age 12
Armen Sarkissian age 5
Boyko Borissov born 1959-06-13
Joyce Banda age 8
Goodluck Jonathan age 1
Victor Chernomyrdin age 20
Halimah Yacob age 4
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 17
Binali Yıldırım age 3
José María Aznar age 5
Andrei Gromyko age 49
Kliment Voroshilov age 78
Spiro Agnew age 40
Carlos Menem age 28
Robert Kocharyan age 4
Laura Chinchilla born 1959-03-28
Nikos Anastasiades age 12
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 16
Laurent Gbagbo age 13
Shehbaz Sharif age 7
Kenan Evren age 41
Benigno Aquino III born 1960-02-08
Roman Herzog age 24
Sali Berisha age 14
Stjepan Mesić age 24
Isaac Shamir age 43
Michel Aoun age 25
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 34
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 19
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 9
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 13
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 40
Umberto II of Italy age 54
Ngo Dinh Diem age 58
Henry A. Wallace age 70
Ivo Josipović age 1
Isaias Afwerki age 13
Meles Zenawi age 3
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 21
Jan Peter Balkenende age 2
Filip Vujanović age 4
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 7
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 10
Ion Iliescu age 28
Janez Janša age 4 months
Bülent Ecevit age 33
Kim Young-sam age 31
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 9
Leopold III of Belgium age 57
Erich von Manstein age 71
Sandro Pertini age 62
Anwar Ibrahim age 11
Gjorge Ivanov born 1960-05-02
Tabaré Vázquez age 19
Walter Scheel age 39
Mohammed Omar born 1960-01-01
Jalal Talabani age 25
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 29
Vicente Fox age 16
Olusegun Obasanjo age 21
Beji Caid Essebsi age 32
Trần Đại Quang age 2
Fidel Ramos age 30
Wallis Simpson age 62
Hua Guofeng age 37
Agostinho Neto age 36
Yves Leterme born 1960-10-06
Alpha Condé age 20
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 15
Mary McAleese age 7
Ehud Barak age 16
Giuliano Amato age 20
Ma Ying-jeou age 8
Emilio Aguinaldo age 89
Bongbong Marcos age 1
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 38
Chester W. Nimitz age 73
Abdul Hamid age 15
Hun Sen age 6
Kim Campbell age 11
Andrej Babiš age 4
Lenín Moreno age 5
Mauno Koivisto age 35
Giorgos Papandreou age 6
Karolos Papoulias age 29
Zakir Husain age 62
Rafiq Hariri age 14
Lai Ching-te born 1959-10-06
John Magufuli born 1959-10-29
Pridi Banomyong age 58
Milton Obote age 33