✦ 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 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba 1961-01-17

People

Elizabeth II age 32
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 41
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 65
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle age 68
President - France
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 68
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 57
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 71
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 66
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 41
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 66
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 39
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 65
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 75
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 56
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 28
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 64
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 60
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Lê Duẩn age 51
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Adolfo López Mateos age 48
President - Mexico
Jânio Quadros age 42
President - Brazil
Osvaldo Dorticós age 39
President - Cuba
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 54
President - Iraq
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 57
President - Cuba
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 63
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 53
President - Syria
Izzat al-Nuss age 47
President - Syria
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 45
President - Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 32
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 69
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 83
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 60
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 76
Taoiseach - Ireland
Antonio Segni age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Paul-Henri Spaak age 60
Secretary General - NATO
Amintore Fanfani age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Nobusuke Kishi age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Hayato Ikeda age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 57
Prime Minister - South Africa
Michel Debré age 47
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 71
President - International Olympic Committee
Fernando Tambroni age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Walter Hallstein age 57
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 57
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 52
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Seán Lemass age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Boun Oum age 47
Prime Minister - Laos
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 33
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 47
Director-General - World Health Organization
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 38
Prime Minister - Egypt
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 60
President - World Bank
Nur al-Din Kahala age 49
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Il-sung age 46
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj age 34
Prime Minister - Syria
Earl Warren age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 46
Vice President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 50
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 66
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Zhu De age 72
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 72
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Lyman Lemnitzer age 59
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Nathan F. Twining age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 33
Attorney General - United States
Robert McNamara age 42
Secretary Of Defense - United States
John Foster Dulles age 70
Secretary Of State - United States
Dean Rusk age 50
Secretary Of State - United States
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 63
Secretary Of State - United States
William P. Rogers age 45
Attorney General - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
C. Douglas Dillon age 49
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 52
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Iain Macleod age 45
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Robert B. Anderson age 48
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Neil H. McElroy age 54
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Christopher Soames age 38
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 53
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Decker age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Livingston T. Merchant age 55
Secretary Of State - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 64
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 54
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Hugh Gaitskell age 52
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 44
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 41
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
John Marshall Harlan II age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jo Grimond age 45
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 61
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 60
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 46
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
William H. Webster age 34
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Hubert Humphrey age 47
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 84
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 33
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Inouye age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 50
Governor of New York - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 49
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 31
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Francisco Franco age 66
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 57
President - Indonesia
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 52
President - Senegal
Syngman Rhee age 83
President - South Korea
Rajendra Prasad age 74
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 23
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 55
President - Tunisia
Celâl Bayar age 75
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 58
President - Finland
Hassan II age 29
King - Morocco
Olav V of Norway age 55
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 46
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 37
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 51
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 57
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 49
Queen - Netherlands
Yun Po-sun age 61
President - South Korea
Frederik IX of Denmark age 59
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 76
King - Sweden
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 53
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 35
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 51
President - Haiti
Makarios III age 45
President - Cyprus
Mohammed V of Morocco age 49
King - Morocco
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 34
President - Cameroon
Giovanni Gronchi age 71
President - Italy
Modibo Keïta age 43
President - Mali
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 29
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 28
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 49
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 74
President - Israel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 63
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 50
President - Somalia
Sobhuza II age 59
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 64
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 50
President - Venezuela
Léon M'ba age 57
President - Gabon
Philibert Tsiranana age 46
President - Madagascar
Arturo Frondizi age 50
President - Argentina
François Tombalbaye age 40
President - Chad
Diori Hamani age 42
President - Niger
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 51
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 63
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 62
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 68
President - Austria
Joaquín Balaguer age 52
President - Dominican Republic
Jorge Alessandri age 62
President - Chile
Moktar Ould Daddah age 34
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 48
Sultan - Oman
Seán T. O'Kelly age 76
President - Ireland
Fulbert Youlou age 41
President - Republic of the Congo
Ibrahim Abboud age 58
President - Sudan
Américo Tomás age 64
President - Portugal
Ho Chong age 62
Acting President - South Korea
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 52
President - Colombia
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 69
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 45
President - Albania
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 58
Queen - Tonga
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 44
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 62
King - Cambodia
Fouad Chehab age 56
President - Lebanon
Aleksander Zawadzki age 59
President - Poland
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 43
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 64
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 36
President - Nicaragua
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 39
Emir - Qatar
Ramón Villeda Morales age 49
President - Honduras
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 47
President - Ecuador
Max Petitpierre age 59
President - Switzerland
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 38
President - Rwanda
Paul Chaudet age 54
President - Switzerland
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 59
President - Switzerland
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 57
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 67
Emir - Qatar
Win Maung age 42
President - Myanmar
Benito Nardone age 52
President - Uruguay
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 63
President - Mongolia
Carlos Fischer age 56
President - Uruguay
Martín Echegoyen age 67
President - Uruguay
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 57
President - Uruguay
Paek Nak-chun age 63
Acting President - South Korea
Gwak Sanghun age 62
Acting President - South Korea
Giuseppe Forcellini age 58
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ferruccio Piva age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Giancecchi age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Reffi age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 27
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alvaro Casali age 63
Captain Regent - San Marino
Lee Kuan Yew age 35
Prime Minister - Singapore
Patrice Lumumba age 33
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo