✦ History

Explore October 11, 1962 – December 8, 1965

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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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
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
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War 1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement 1963-01-01 - 1966-01-01
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
1963 Syrian coup d'état 1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963-06-11
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963-08-05
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-11-22
Zanzibar Revolution 1964-01-12
Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964 1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01
Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23
Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06
Operation Grand Slam 1965-09-01 - 1965-09-06
Battle of Phillora 1965-09-07 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Asal Uttar 1965-09-08 - 1965-09-10
Battle of Burki 1965-09-10 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Chawinda 1965-09-14 - 1965-09-19
Battle of Ia Drang 1965-11-14 - 1965-11-18

People

Elizabeth II age 36
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 45
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 68
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 71
President - France
Lyndon B. Johnson age 54
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 61
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 72
President - Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev age 55
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 74
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 70
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 44
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 70
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 42
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 69
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 32
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 68
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 63
Chairman - People's Republic of China
João Goulart age 43
President - Brazil
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 65
President - Brazil
Abdul Salam Arif age 41
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 55
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 51
President - Mexico
Adolfo López Mateos age 52
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 43
President - Cuba
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 52
President - Brazil
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 58
President - Iraq
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 67
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 56
President - Syria
Luai al-Atassi age 36
President - Syria
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 54
President - Guatemala
Amin al-Hafez age 36
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 37
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 36
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 72
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 86
Chancellor - Germany
Georges Pompidou age 51
Prime Minister - France
David Ben-Gurion age 76
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 64
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 65
Chancellor - Germany
Eisaku Satō age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Alec Douglas-Home age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Leone age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 58
Chairman - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 67
Prime Minister - Israel
Gulzarilal Nanda age 64
Prime Minister - India
Amintore Fanfani age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Hayato Ikeda age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 61
Prime Minister - South Africa
Avery Brundage age 75
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 60
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 61
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 56
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 65
Premier - Republic of China
Yen Chia-kan age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Manlio Brosio age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Amin al-Hafiz age 40
Prime Minister - Syria
Dirk Stikker age 65
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 63
Taoiseach - Ireland
Ali Sabri age 42
Prime Minister - Egypt
Zakaria Mohieddin age 44
Prime Minister - Egypt
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 51
Director-General - World Health Organization
George David Woods age 61
President - World Bank
Wang Yun-wu age 74
Premier - Republic of China
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 64
President - World Bank
Sami al-Jundi age 40
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Il-sung age 50
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 58
Prime Minister - India
Earl Warren age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Hubert Humphrey age 51
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 69
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 48
Vice President - Iraq
Dong Biwu age 76
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Maxwell D. Taylor age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Earle Wheeler age 54
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 36
Attorney General - United States
James Callaghan age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert McNamara age 46
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Dean Rusk age 53
Secretary Of State - United States
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Nicholas Katzenbach age 40
Attorney General - United States
C. Douglas Dillon age 53
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Reginald Maudling age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 54
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry H. Fowler age 54
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 50
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 44
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 67
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 58
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Edward Heath age 46
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Ramsey Clark age 34
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Hugh Gaitskell age 56
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 47
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Abe Fortas age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
George Brown age 48
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Jo Grimond age 49
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 64
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 38
President - Sinn Féin
Thurgood Marshall age 54
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Archibald Cox age 50
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Walter Mondale age 34
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 38
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 87
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 37
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 54
Governor of New York - United States
John Connally age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 53
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 34
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Francisco Franco age 69
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 61
President - Indonesia
Paul VI age 65
Pope - Vatican City
Park Chung-hee age 44
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 56
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 32
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 69
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 40
President - Tanzania
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 74
President - India
Ahmed Ben Bella age 45
President - Algeria
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 56
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 26
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 59
President - Tunisia
Urho Kekkonen age 62
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 80
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 33
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 67
President - Turkey
Kenneth Kaunda age 38
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 59
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 49
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 40
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 55
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 60
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 53
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 63
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 79
King - Sweden
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 57
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 39
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 30
President - Algeria
François Duvalier age 55
President - Haiti
Antonio Segni age 71
President - Italy
Makarios III age 49
President - Cyprus
Ferhat Abbas age 63
President - Algeria
Giuseppe Saragat age 64
President - Italy
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 38
President - Cameroon
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 57
President - Nigeria
Modibo Keïta age 47
President - Mali
Diosdado Macapagal age 52
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 33
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 32
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 52
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 77
President - Israel
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 41
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 66
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 53
President - Somalia
Franz Jonas age 63
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 63
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 68
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 54
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 51
President - Chile
Fernando Belaúnde age 50
President - Peru
Léon M'ba age 60
President - Gabon
Zalman Shazar age 72
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 50
President - Madagascar
Arturo Umberto Illia age 62
President - Argentina
François Tombalbaye age 44
President - Chad
Diori Hamani age 46
President - Niger
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 55
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 66
President - Liberia
Adolf Schärf age 72
President - Austria
Yusof bin Ishak age 52
President - Singapore
Jorge Alessandri age 66
President - Chile
Moktar Ould Daddah age 37
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 52
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 29
Emir - Bahrain
Fulbert Youlou age 45
President - Republic of the Congo
Juan Bosch age 53
President - Dominican Republic
Muteesa II of Buganda age 37
President - Uganda
Ibrahim Abboud age 62
President - Sudan
Américo Tomás age 67
President - Portugal
Haxhi Lleshi age 49
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 41
President - Honduras
Grégoire Kayibanda age 38
President - Rwanda
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 62
Queen - Tonga
Ismail al-Azhari age 62
President - Sudan
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 41
President - Republic of the Congo
José María Guido age 52
President - Argentina