✦ History

Explore January 1, 1956 – January 1, 1966

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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
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Khrushchev's Secret Speech 1956-02-25
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 1956-10-23 - 1956-11-10
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
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
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961-08-13
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962
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 - 1966
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
Colombian conflict 1964-05-27
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 - 1967
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

Walter Mondale age 28
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 78
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 31
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 41
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Robert Carr age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Merlyn Rees age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nelson Rockefeller age 47
Governor of New York - United States
John Connally age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
W. Averell Harriman age 64
Governor of New York - United States
Pat Brown age 50
Governor of California - United States
Goodwin Knight age 59
Governor of California - United States
Price Daniel age 45
Governor of Texas - United States
Orval Faubus age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John A. Volpe age 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frank Lausche age 60
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 48
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas B. Stanley age 65
Governor of Virginia - United States
Foster Furcolo age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
J. Lindsay Almond age 57
Governor of Virginia - United States
Carl Sanders age 30
Governor of Georgia - United States
C. William O'Neill age 39
Governor of Ohio - United States
Endicott Peabody age 35
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim Rhodes age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
John William Brown age 42
Governor of Ohio - United States
Ernest Vandiver age 37
Governor of Georgia - United States
Michael DiSalle age 48
Governor of Ohio - United States
Richard J. Hughes age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Albertis Harrison age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
Buford Ellington age 48
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Matthew E. Welsh age 43
Governor of Indiana - United States
Roger D. Branigin age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 55
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert B. Meyner age 47
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George N. Craig age 46
Governor of Indiana - United States
J. Millard Tawes age 61
Governor of Maryland - United States
Harold W. Handley age 46
Governor of Indiana - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 46
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 28
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Ferdinand Marcos age 38
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 63
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 54
President - Indonesia
Paul VI age 58
Pope - Vatican City
Pius XII age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Park Chung-hee age 38
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 49
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 25
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 62
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 33
President - Tanzania
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 67
President - India
Syngman Rhee age 80
President - South Korea
Ahmed Ben Bella age 39
President - Algeria
Rajendra Prasad age 71
President - India
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 34
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 50
King - Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 20
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 52
President - Tunisia
Celâl Bayar age 72
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 55
President - Finland
Hassan II age 26
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 60
President - Turkey
Kenneth Kaunda age 31
President - Zambia
Haakon VII of Norway age 83
King - Norway
Olav V of Norway age 52
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 43
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 34
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 48
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 53
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 46
Queen - Netherlands
Yun Po-sun age 58
President - South Korea
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 85
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 56
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 73
King - Sweden
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 50
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 32
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 23
President - Algeria
François Duvalier age 48
President - Haiti
Makarios III age 42
President - Cyprus
Ferhat Abbas age 56
President - Algeria
Giuseppe Saragat age 57
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 46
King - Morocco
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 31
President - Cameroon
Giovanni Gronchi age 68
President - Italy
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 51
President - Nigeria
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 56
President - Pakistan
Modibo Keïta age 40
President - Mali
Diosdado Macapagal age 45
President - Philippines
Ramon Magsaysay age 48
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 26
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 25
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 46
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 71
President - Israel
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 35
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 59
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 47
President - Somalia
Franz Jonas age 56
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 56
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 61
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 47
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Frei Montalva age 44
President - Chile
Fernando Belaúnde age 43
President - Peru
Léon M'ba age 53
President - Gabon
Zalman Shazar age 66
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 43
President - Madagascar
Arturo Umberto Illia age 55
President - Argentina
Arturo Frondizi age 47
President - Argentina
François Tombalbaye age 37
President - Chad
José Figueres Ferrer age 49
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 59
President - Nicaragua
Diori Hamani age 39
President - Niger
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 48
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 60
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 37
King - Tonga
Carlos P. Garcia age 59
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 65
President - Austria
Theodor Körner age 82
President - Austria
Joaquín Balaguer age 49
President - Dominican Republic
Yusof bin Ishak age 45
President - Singapore
Jorge Alessandri age 59
President - Chile
Moktar Ould Daddah age 31
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 45
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 22
Emir - Bahrain
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 52
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 73
President - Ireland
Fulbert Youlou age 38
President - Republic of the Congo
Juan Bosch age 46
President - Dominican Republic
Muteesa II of Buganda age 31
President - Uganda
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 41
President - Venezuela
Ibrahim Abboud age 55
President - Sudan
Américo Tomás age 61
President - Portugal
Ho Chong age 59
Acting President - South Korea
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 78
President - Chile
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 49
President - Colombia
Camille Chamoun age 55
President - Lebanon
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 66
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 42
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 34
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 17
King - Lesotho
Grégoire Kayibanda age 31
President - Rwanda
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 55
Queen - Tonga
Ismail al-Azhari age 55
President - Sudan
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 41
President - Bolivia
Norodom Suramarit age 59
King - Cambodia
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 34
President - Republic of the Congo
Manuel Odría age 58
President - Peru
José María Guido age 45
President - Argentina
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 55
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 61
President - Portugal
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 37
President - Bolivia
Guillermo León Valencia age 46
President - Colombia
Fouad Chehab age 53
President - Lebanon
Raúl Leoni age 50
President - Venezuela
Aleksander Zawadzki age 56
President - Poland
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 40
President - Costa Rica
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 61
Emir - Kuwait
Luis Somoza Debayle age 33
President - Nicaragua
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 36
Emir - Qatar
Nicolás Lindley López age 47
President - Peru
Abderrahmane Farès age 44
President - Algeria
Ramón Villeda Morales age 46
President - Honduras
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 43
President - Ecuador
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 42
Emir - Kuwait
Charles Helou age 42
President - Lebanon
Max Petitpierre age 56
President - Switzerland
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 36
President - Ecuador
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 35
President - Rwanda
Paul Magloire age 48
President - Haiti
Antonio Imbert Barrera age 35
President - Dominican Republic
Hans-Peter Tschudi age 42
President - Switzerland
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 50
President - Peru
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 48
President - Costa Rica
Hans Schaffner age 47
President - Switzerland
Ludwig von Moos age 45
President - Switzerland
Gabriel París Gordillo age 45
President - Colombia
Julio Lozano Díaz age 70
President - Honduras
Ba U age 68
President - Myanmar
Willy Spühler age 53
President - Switzerland
Paul Chaudet age 51
President - Switzerland
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 56
President - Switzerland
Hans Streuli age 63
President - Switzerland
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 35
President - Algeria