✦ 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

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
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 76
Aslan Maskhadov age 7
Hua Guofeng age 37
Agostinho Neto age 36
Yves Leterme born 1960-10-06
Alpha Condé age 20
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 15
Morarji Desai age 62
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
Anastas Mikoyan age 63
Otto von Habsburg age 46
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
Horacio Cartes age 2
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 62
Gustav Heinemann age 59
Shigeru Ishiba age 1
Lionel Jospin age 21
Abolhassan Banisadr age 25
Patrice Talon age 9 months
Blaise Compaoré age 8
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 8
János Kádár age 46
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 40
Bettino Craxi age 24
Valdas Adamkus age 32
Samora Moisés Machel age 25
Mamnoon Hussain age 18
Fahri Korutürk age 55
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 13
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 13
Michael I of Romania age 37
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 45
Édouard Daladier age 74
Thomas Bach age 5
Manuel Noriega age 24
Raúl Alfonsín age 31
Khaleda Zia age 12
Thomas Boni Yayi age 6
Georgi Parvanov age 1
Paul Martin age 20
Mwai Kibaki age 27
Chang Myon age 59
Chun Doo-hwan age 28
Lord Mountbatten age 58
Zhao Ziyang age 39
Rex Tillerson age 6
Elio Di Rupo age 7
Jean Chrétien age 25
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 1
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 19
John Kufuor age 20
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 37
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 14
Janez Drnovšek age 8
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 14
Ivan Konev age 61
Karl Carstens age 44
Jacques Delors age 33
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 28
John Nance Garner age 90
Vincent Auriol age 74
Mohammad Najibullah age 11
Zog I of Albania age 63
João Lourenço age 4
Werner Faymann born 1960-05-04
Guy Verhofstadt age 5
Dimitris Christofias age 12
Rafael Trujillo age 67
Alar Karis age 10 months
V. V. Giri age 64
Giovanni Leone age 50
Yahya Khan age 42
Ivan Gašparovič age 17
Cevdet Sunay age 60
Necmettin Erbakan age 32
Morgan Tsvangirai age 6
Felipe González age 16
Alexei Kosygin age 54
George F. Kennan age 54
Itamar Franco age 28
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 27
Farouk of Egypt age 39
Jacques Rogge age 16
Bamir Topi age 1
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 21
K. R. Narayanan age 38
Levi Eshkol age 63
Massimo D'Alema age 9
Daniel arap Moi age 34
Dick Schoof age 1
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 9
Peter Mutharika age 18
Mário Soares age 34
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 7
Zoran Đinđić age 6
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan born 1961-03-11
Fernando Lugo age 7
Kgalema Motlanthe age 9
Zhu Rongji age 30
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 25
Houari Boumédiène age 26
Gough Whitlam age 42
Mathieu Kérékou age 25
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 11
Arnold Rüütel age 30
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 53
Nouri al-Maliki age 8
Moshe Katsav age 13
Luigi Einaudi age 84
Enrico de Nicola age 81
Ibrahim Rugova age 14
Amadou Toumani Touré age 10
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim born 1959-10-17
Ram Baran Yadav age 11
Desi Bouterse age 13
Xanana Gusmão age 12
Armand Fallières age 117
Pierre Mauroy age 30
Laurent Fabius age 12
Édith Cresson age 25
Michel Barnier age 8
Lê Đức Thọ age 47
Enda Kenny age 7
Queen Sofía of Spain age 20
Omar Bradley age 66
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 18
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 3
Ivo Sanader age 5
Mohamed Naguib age 57
Andrus Ansip age 2
Loukas Papademos age 11
Mátyás Rákosi age 66
László Sólyom age 17
Charan Singh age 56
Valdis Zatlers age 3
Bingu wa Mutharika age 24
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 6
Violeta Chamorro age 29
Bola Tinubu age 6
Egor Gajdar age 2
Göran Persson age 10
Carl Bildt age 9
Prayut Chanocha age 4
Semyon Budyonny age 75
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 121
Lloyd Austin age 5
Erich Raeder age 82
John Roberts age 4
René Coty age 76
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 1
Brian Mulroney age 19
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 6
Matti Vanhanen age 3
R. Venkataraman age 48
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 21
Mohamed Agha age 3
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 1 month
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 2
Nicolae Timofti age 10
Evgeny Primakov age 29
Danilo Türk age 6
Tupou VI of Tonga born 1959-07-12
Mykola Azarov age 11
Edgar Lungu age 2
Siad Barre age 39
Yoshirō Mori age 21
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 35
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 63
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 15
Hjalmar Schacht age 82
Rodion Malinovsky age 60
Lázaro Cárdenas age 63
Vahagn Khachatryan born 1959-04-22