✦ 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

Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 55
President - Haiti
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 54
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 64
Emir - Qatar
Markus Feldmann age 58
President - Switzerland
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 46
President - Haiti
Franck Sylvain age 46
President - Haiti
Win Maung age 39
President - Myanmar
René Schick age 46
President - Nicaragua
Thomas Holenstein age 59
President - Switzerland
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 43
President - Gabon
Luis Giannattasio age 61
President - Uruguay
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 43
President - Panama
Daniel Fignolé age 42
President - Haiti
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 54
President - Uruguay
Washington Beltrán age 41
President - Uruguay
Benito Nardone age 49
President - Uruguay
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit age 34
President - Dominican Republic
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 60
President - Mongolia
Carlos Fischer age 53
President - Uruguay
Martín Echegoyen age 64
President - Uruguay
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 54
President - Uruguay
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 54
President - Uruguay
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 66
President - Pakistan
Arturo Lezama age 57
President - Uruguay
Faustino Harrison age 55
President - Uruguay
Charles Arden-Clarke age 57
President - Ghana
Paek Nak-chun age 60
Acting President - South Korea
Gwak Sanghun age 59
Acting President - South Korea
Giuseppe Maiani age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Honduran military junta of 1956–1957
President - Honduras
Giovanni Vito Marcucci age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Primo Marani age 33
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Zaccaria Savoretti age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Forcellini age 55
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ferruccio Piva age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Giancecchi age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enrico Andreoli age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pier Marino Mularoni born 1962-09-06
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Reffi age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 24
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alvaro Casali age 60
Captain Regent - San Marino
C. R. Swart age 61
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 32
Prime Minister - Singapore
Patrice Lumumba age 30
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
António de Oliveira Salazar age 66
Prime Minister - Portugal
Norodom Sihanouk age 33
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Süleyman Demirel age 31
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 39
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
İsmet İnönü age 71
Prime Minister - Turkey
Lester B. Pearson age 58
Prime Minister - Canada
Hastings Banda age 66
Prime Minister - Malawi
Imre Nagy age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Milton Obote age 30
Prime Minister - Uganda
János Kádár age 43
Prime Minister - Hungary
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 52
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Adnan Menderes age 57
Prime Minister - Turkey
Willem Drees age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Seretse Khama age 34
Prime Minister - Botswana
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 58
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 46
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 60
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 61
Prime Minister - Australia
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 41
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ne Win age 44
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 53
Prime Minister - Togo
Einar Gerhardsen age 58
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 73
Prime Minister - Canada
U Nu age 48
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Hubert Maga age 39
Prime Minister - Benin
Georgios Papandreou age 67
Prime Minister - Greece
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 31
Prime Minister - The Gambia
Tshombé Moïse age 36
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 29
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Barthélemy Boganda age 45
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Pascal Lissouba age 24
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 57
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 39
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 39
Prime Minister - Malta
Sarit Thanarat age 47
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mehmet Shehu age 43
Prime Minister - Albania
Johan Ferrier age 45
Prime Minister - Suriname
Bjarni Benediktsson age 47
Prime Minister - Iceland
Jens Otto Krag age 41
Prime Minister - Denmark
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 63
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Chivu Stoica age 47
Prime Minister - Romania
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 38
Prime Minister - Benin
Thanom Kittikachorn age 44
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gaston Eyskens age 50
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 42
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Karl-August Fagerholm age 54
Prime Minister - Finland
John Lyng age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Ahti Karjalainen age 32
Prime Minister - Finland
Martti Miettunen age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
H. C. Hansen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Per Borten age 42
Prime Minister - Norway
Julius Raab age 64
Chancellor - Austria
Achille Van Acker age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Nuri as-Said age 68
Prime Minister - Iraq
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 36
Prime Minister - Somalia
Chung Il-kwon age 38
Prime Minister - South Korea
Johannes Virolainen age 41
Prime Minister - Finland
Ferenc Münnich age 69
Prime Minister - Hungary
Joseph Bech age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Pierre Harmel age 44
Prime Minister - Belgium
V. J. Sukselainen age 49
Prime Minister - Finland
András Hegedüs age 33
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Thors age 63
Prime Minister - Iceland
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 42
Prime Minister - Iraq
Viggo Kampmann age 45
Prime Minister - Denmark
Louis Beel age 53
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 50
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Josef Klaus age 45
Chancellor - Austria
Victor Marijnen age 38
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 27
Prime Minister - Somalia
Alfons Gorbach age 57
Chancellor - Austria
Eric Williams age 44
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Reino Kuuskoski age 48
Prime Minister - Finland
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 57
Prime Minister - Finland
Gyula Kállai age 45
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hermann Jónasson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Alexander Bustamante age 71
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Jan Eduard de Quay age 54
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Rashid Karami age 34
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Théo Lefèvre age 41
Prime Minister - Belgium
Keith Holyoake age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jo Cals age 41
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Tulsi Giri age 29
Prime Minister - Nepal
Dudley Senanayake age 44
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Cyrille Adoula age 34
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rainer von Fieandt age 65
Prime Minister - Finland
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Wasfi Tal age 36
Prime Minister - Jordan
Abel Goumba age 29
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Emil Jónsson age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Mustafa Ben Halim age 34
Prime Minister - Libya
Mamadou Dia age 45
Prime Minister - Senegal
Penn Nouth age 49
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Abdirizak Haji Hussein age 31
Prime Minister - Somalia
Prince Louis Rwagasore of Burundi age 23
Prime Minister - Burundi
Joseph Iléo age 34
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Panagiotis Pipinelis age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Eric Gairy age 33
Prime Minister - Grenada
Ali Sastroamidjojo age 52
Prime Minister - Indonesia
George Borg Olivier age 44
Prime Minister - Malta
Ahmed Bahnini age 47
Prime Minister - Morocco
Jigme Palden Dorji age 36
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ilias Tsirimokos age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Djuanda Kartawidjaja age 44
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Norman Manley age 62
Premier - Jamaica
Pierre Frieden age 63
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Abdallah Ibrahim age 37
Prime Minister - Morocco
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Benedicto Kiwanuka age 33
Prime Minister - Uganda
John Kotelawala age 58
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum age 50
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Justin Marie Bomboko age 27
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 62
Prime Minister - Greece
Konstantinos Dovas age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Abdul Majid Kubar age 46
Prime Minister - Libya
Muhammad Osman Said age 31
Prime Minister - Libya
Mbarek Bekkay age 48
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Nash age 73
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Abdullahi Issa age 33
Prime Minister - Somalia
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Tahir Yahya age 40
Prime Minister - Iraq
Gerard Batliner age 27
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Sidney Holland age 62
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Pié Masumbuko age 24
Prime Minister - Burundi
Stilianos Mavromichalis age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Burhanuddin Harahap age 38
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Husayn al-Khalidi age 61
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mohieddin Fikini age 30
Prime Minister - Libya
Veselin Đuranović age 30
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ahmed Balafrej age 47
Prime Minister - Morocco
Wijeyananda Dahanayake age 53
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 34
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Herbert Blaize age 37
Prime Minister - Grenada
Hussein Maziq age 37
Prime Minister - Libya
Sim Var age 49
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Norodom Kantol age 35
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Nhiek Tioulong age 47
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Évariste Kimba age 29
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Léonard Mulamba age 28
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 43
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 35
Prime Minister - Iraq
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Abdallah El-Yafi age 54
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Tu'i Pelehake age 34
Prime Minister - Tonga
Tahar Ben Ammar age 66
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Grantley Herbert Adams age 57
Prime Minister - Barbados
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 26
Prime Minister - Burundi
Oum Cheang Sun age 55
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Abebe Aregai age 52
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban age 56
Prime Minister - Iraq
Hazza' al-Majali age 37
Prime Minister - Jordan
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 34
Prime Minister - Samoa