✦ 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

Dick Cheney age 14
Douglas MacArthur age 75
Condoleezza Rice age 1
Raúl Castro age 24
Sheikh Hasina age 8
Giorgio Napolitano age 30
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 15
Idi Amin age 31
Yulia Tymoshenko born 1960-11-27
Rodrigo Duterte age 10
Abdullah II of Jordan born 1962-01-30
Helmut Schmidt age 37
Stephen Harper born 1959-04-30
Margrethe II of Denmark age 15
Donald Tusk born 1957-04-22
Rachel Carson age 48
Corazon Aquino age 22
Edward VIII age 61
John Kerry age 12
Madeleine Albright age 18
Hamid Karzai born 1957-12-24
José Mujica age 20
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 31
Yoshihide Suga age 7
Rajiv Gandhi age 11
Thabo Mbeki age 13
Wernher von Braun age 43
Clement Attlee age 73
Harald V of Norway age 18
Viktor Yushchenko age 1
George C. Marshall age 75
John Major age 12
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 1
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 18
Jens Stoltenberg born 1959-03-16
Slobodan Milošević age 14
Enver Hoxha age 47
Mohammed VI of Morocco born 1963-08-21
Jacob Zuma age 13
Park Geun-hye age 3
Martti Ahtisaari age 18
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 9
Moon Jae-in age 2
Mitt Romney age 8
Juan Manuel Santos age 4
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 20
Konstantin Chernenko age 44
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 24
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 17
Jiang Zemin age 29
Friedrich Merz age 1 month
Sauli Niinistö age 7
Eduard Shevardnadze age 27
Romano Prodi age 16
Giuseppe Conte born 1964-08-08
Ebrahim Raisi born 1960-12-14
Cyril Ramaphosa age 3
Serzh Sargsyan age 1
Pranab Mukherjee age 20
Vyacheslav Molotov age 65
Joachim Gauck age 15
Thomas Sankara age 6
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 8
Menachem Begin age 42
Jean-Claude Juncker age 1
Shavkat Mirziyoyev born 1957-07-24
Erich Honecker age 43
Hafez al-Assad age 25
Li Keqiang age 6 months
Muhammadu Buhari age 13
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero born 1960-08-04
Horst Köhler age 12
Fumio Kishida born 1957-07-29
Sanae Takaichi born 1961-03-07
Kevin Rudd born 1957-09-21
Sebastián Piñera age 6
Tarja Halonen age 12
Daniel Ortega age 10
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 16
Islam Karimov age 17
Dan Quayle age 8
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 35
Paul Kagame born 1957-10-23
Omar al-Bashir age 12
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 291
Naoto Kan age 9
Philippe of Belgium born 1960-04-15
Pratibha Patil age 21
Droupadi Murmu born 1958-06-20
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 6
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 28
Juan Perón age 60
Heydar Aliyev age 32
Hassanal Bolkiah age 9
Mario Draghi age 8
Kim Dae-jung age 32
Christian Wulff born 1959-06-19
Radovan Karadžić age 10
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 33
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 15
Asif Ali Zardari age 5 months
Yoon Suk Yeol born 1960-12-18
F. W. de Klerk age 19
Ashraf Ghani age 6
Kurt Waldheim age 37
Alexander Van der Bellen age 11
Mark Carney born 1965-03-16
Miloš Zeman age 11
Salome Zourabichvili age 3
Emomali Rahmon age 3
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow born 1957-06-29
Saparmurat Niyazov age 15
Yoweri Museveni age 11
Leonid Kuchma age 17
Masoud Pezeshkian age 1
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 2
Albert II, Prince of Monaco born 1958-03-14
Klaus Iohannis born 1959-06-13
Robert Fico born 1964-09-15
Olof Palme age 28
Ahmet Davutoğlu born 1959-02-26
Queen Camilla age 8
Jonas Salk age 41
Karl Dönitz age 64
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 22
Pierre Trudeau age 36
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 32
Bronisław Komorowski age 3
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 8
Junichiro Koizumi age 13
Tarō Asō age 15
Rudolf Hess age 61
Colin Powell age 18
Norodom Sihamoni age 2
Giulio Andreotti age 36
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 2
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 19
Alexander Dubček age 34
Wen Jiabao age 13
Anthony Albanese born 1963-03-02
Václav Klaus age 14
Ehud Olmert age 10
Francesco Cossiga age 27
Dalia Grybauskaitė born 1956-03-01
Leonid Kravchuk age 21
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 8
Puyi age 49
Antony Blinken born 1962-04-16
Tony Abbott born 1957-11-04
Heinz Fischer age 17
Michael D. Higgins age 14
Paolo Gentiloni age 1
Mario Monti age 12
Alberto Fujimori age 17
Roh Moo-hyun age 9
Bernard Montgomery age 68
Richard von Weizsäcker age 35
Albert Speer age 50
Miguel Díaz-Canel born 1960-04-20
Ram Nath Kovind age 10
Nawaz Sharif age 6
François Fillon age 1
Albert II of Belgium age 21
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 21
José Eduardo dos Santos age 13
Néstor Kirchner age 5
John Howard age 16
Idriss Déby age 3
Alexander Kerensky age 74
Turgut Özal age 28
Yukio Hatoyama age 8
Georgy Malenkov age 54
Edi Rama born 1964-07-04
Sahle-Work Zewde age 5
Bidya Devi Bhandari born 1961-06-19
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 35
Michel Temer age 15
Sergei Korolev age 49
Mauricio Macri born 1959-02-08
Erna Solberg born 1961-02-24
Traian Băsescu age 4
Mike Pompeo born 1963-12-30
Rumen Radev born 1963-06-18
Paul Biya age 22
Borut Pahor born 1963-11-02
Tansu Çiller age 9
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 7
Ratko Mladić age 13
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 10
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 24
Teodoro Obiang age 13
B. J. Habibie age 19
Mary Robinson age 11
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 35
Thaksin Shinawatra age 6
Jarosław Kaczyński age 6
Moshe Dayan age 40
Yoshihiko Noda born 1957-05-20
Trygve Lie age 59
Alberto Fernández born 1959-04-02