✦ 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

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
Leng Ngeth age 56
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alexander Frick age 45
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Mohammad Yusuf age 39
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Lhendup Dorji age 20
Prime Minister - Bhutan
André Muhirwa age 36
Prime Minister - Burundi
Joseph Bamina age 31
Prime Minister - Burundi
Khim Tit age 59
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Ek Yi Oun age 46
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Makonnen Endelkachew age 65
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Johan Adolf Pengel age 39
Prime Minister - Suriname
Pedro Beltrán age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Pho Proeung age 52
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Sam Yun age 51
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Charles Assalé age 44
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Paul Southwell age 42
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Roland Theodore Symonette age 57
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez age 51
Prime Minister - Peru
Imru Haile Selassie age 63
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi age 70
Prime Minister - Iraq
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan age 47
Prime Minister - Iraq
Hussein ibn Nasser age 53
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ba Swe age 40
Prime Minister - Myanmar
George Charles age 39
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana age 39
Prime Minister - Peru
Albin Nyamoya age 31
Prime Minister - Burundi
Léopold Biha age 37
Prime Minister - Burundi
Joseph Cimpaye age 24
Prime Minister - Burundi
Carlos Moreyra y Paz Soldán age 57
Prime Minister - Peru
Jacques Opangault age 48
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Severinus Desiré Emanuels age 45
Prime Minister - Suriname
Luis Gallo Porras age 61
Prime Minister - Peru
Filip Bajković age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Đorđije Pajković age 38
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Vincent de Paul Ahanda age 37
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes age 51
Prime Minister - Peru
Roque A. Saldías age 63
Prime Minister - Peru
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa age 44
Prime Minister - Nigeria
Pote Sarasin age 50
Prime Minister - Thailand
Daniel Becerra de la Flor age 49
Prime Minister - Peru
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 64
Governor-General - Australia
Richard Casey, Baron Casey age 65
Governor-General - Australia
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 62
Governor-General - New Zealand
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 44
Governor-General - New Zealand
Clifford Campbell age 63
Governor-General - Jamaica
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 46
Governor-General - Australia
Kenneth Blackburne age 48
Governor-General - Jamaica
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 74
Governor-General - Madagascar
Martin Luther King Jr. age 26
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jimmy Carter age 31
Georgia State Senate
Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
Donald Trump age 9
Michael Jackson born 1958-08-29
Vladimir Putin age 3
Ronald Reagan age 44
Nelson Mandela age 37
George W. Bush age 9
Joe Biden age 13
Pablo Picasso age 74
Charlie Chaplin age 66
Bill Gates age 2 months
Pope Francis age 19
Steve Jobs age 10 months
Che Guevara age 27
Bill Clinton age 9
Angela Merkel age 1
Neil Armstrong age 25
François Hollande age 1
Walt Disney age 54
Elvis Presley age 20
John Paul II age 35
Ernest Hemingway age 56
Gabriel García Márquez age 28
Yuri Gagarin age 21
Mikhail Gorbachev age 24
Stephen Hawking age 13
Jean-Paul Sartre age 50
Benedict XVI age 28
Mother Teresa age 45
Harry S. Truman age 71
Hillary Clinton age 8
George H. W. Bush age 31
Kamala Harris born 1964-10-20
Nicolas Sarkozy age 11 months
Xi Jinping age 2
Naruhito born 1960-02-23
Hugo Chávez age 1
Simone de Beauvoir age 48
Niels Bohr age 70
Muammar Gaddafi age 13
John Lennon age 15
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 1
Muhammad Ali age 13
Kofi Annan age 17
Charles III age 7
Osama bin Laden born 1957-03-10
Lech Wałęsa age 12
Leo XIV age 3 months
Diego Maradona born 1960-10-30
Narendra Modi age 5
Rafael Correa born 1963-04-06
Indira Gandhi age 38
Saddam Hussein age 18
Aung San Suu Kyi age 10
Benjamin Netanyahu age 6
Dmitry Medvedev born 1965-09-14
14th Dalai Lama age 20
Silvio Berlusconi age 19
Shinzo Abe age 1
Bob Marley age 10
Herbert Hoover age 81
Tim Berners-Lee age 6 months
Mahathir Mohamad age 30
Boris Yeltsin age 24
Ali Khamenei age 16
Jacques Chirac age 23
Guillermo Lasso age 1 month
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 37
Alexander Lukashenko age 1
Tony Blair age 2
Yasser Arafat age 26
Ban Ki-moon age 11
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 8
Boris Johnson born 1964-06-19
Diana, Princess of Wales born 1961-07-01
Bashar al-Assad born 1965-09-11
Benazir Bhutto age 2
Jair Bolsonaro age 9 months
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 10
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad born 1956-10-28
Henry Kissinger age 32
Václav Havel age 19
Nicolás Maduro born 1962-11-23
Robert Mugabe age 31
Hosni Mubarak age 27
Golda Meir age 57
Dilma Rousseff age 8
Al Gore age 7
Malcolm X age 30
François Mitterrand age 39
Milton Friedman age 43
Ruhollah Khomeini age 53
Valentina Tereshkova age 18
Ilham Aliyev born 1961-12-24
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 17
António Guterres age 6
Akihito age 22
Helmut Kohl age 25
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 51
Rosa Parks age 42
Gordon Brown age 4
Shimon Peres age 32
John Paul I age 43
Olaf Scholz born 1958-06-14
Anwar Sadat age 37
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 18
Keir Starmer born 1962-09-02
Willy Brandt age 42
Gerhard Schröder age 11
Hassan Rouhani age 7
Salvador Allende age 47
Hu Jintao age 13
Evo Morales born 1959-10-26
Joko Widodo born 1961-06-21
Petro Poroshenko born 1965-09-26
John von Neumann age 52
Augusto Pinochet age 40
Ursula von der Leyen born 1958-10-08
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 2
Michelle Bachelet age 4
Suharto age 34
Ariel Sharon age 27
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 37
Desmond Tutu age 24
Viktor Yanukovych age 5
Mohamed Morsi age 4
Viktor Orbán born 1963-05-31
Sergio Mattarella age 14
Manmohan Singh age 23
Pervez Musharraf age 12
Yuri Andropov age 41
Julia Gillard born 1961-09-29
Abdullah Gül age 5
Lech Kaczyński age 6
Frank-Walter Steinmeier born 1956-01-05
Jeff Bezos born 1964-01-12
Buzz Aldrin age 25
Mohammad Khatami age 12
Yitzhak Rabin age 33
Tsai Ing-wen born 1956-08-31
Mariano Rajoy age 9 months
Rosalind Franklin age 35
Andrei Sakharov age 34
Dick Cheney age 14
Douglas MacArthur age 75