✦ 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

Mike Pompeo born 1963-12-30
Rumen Radev born 1963-06-18
Paul Biya age 22
António Costa born 1961-07-17
Borut Pahor born 1963-11-02
Tansu Çiller age 9
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 7
Ratko Mladić age 13
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 11
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
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 34
Moshe Dayan age 40
Yoshihiko Noda born 1957-05-20
Trygve Lie age 59
Ahmad Shah Massoud age 2
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 51
Alberto Fernández born 1959-04-02
Hamad II of Bahrain age 5
Ali Bongo Ondimba born 1959-02-09
John Mahama born 1958-11-29
János Áder born 1959-05-09
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 25
Abdurrahman Wahid age 15
Alassane Ouattara age 14
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 75
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 12
Stefan Löfven born 1957-07-21
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 1
Johannes Rau age 24
Yasuo Fukuda age 19
Dominique de Villepin age 2
Manuel Valls born 1962-08-13
Jeremy Corbyn age 6
Franz von Papen age 76
Malcolm Turnbull age 1
Pierre Nkurunziza born 1964-12-18
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 14
Omar Bongo age 20
Katerina Sakellaropoulou born 1956-05-30
Najib Razak age 2
Helen Clark age 5
Lee Hsien Loong age 3
Samia Suluhu Hassan born 1960-01-27
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 13
Lee Myung-bak age 14
Alija Izetbegović age 30
Franjo Tuđman age 33
Jorge Rafael Videla age 30
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 16
Nana Akufo-Addo age 11
Prabowo Subianto age 4
Isaac Herzog born 1960-09-22
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 8 months
Tomislav Nikolić age 3
Boris Tadić born 1958-01-15
José Ramos-Horta age 6
Adolfo Suárez age 23
François Englert age 23
Gustavo Petro born 1960-04-19
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 2
John Evans Atta Mills age 11
Reuven Rivlin age 16
Almazbek Atambaev born 1956-09-17
Roza Otunbayeva age 5
Trương Tấn Sang age 6
Alan García age 6
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 4
Robert Schuman age 69
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus born 1965-03-03
Janet Yellen age 9
Lee Harvey Oswald age 16
Anne, Princess Royal age 5
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor born 1960-02-19
Armen Sarkissian age 2
Boyko Borissov born 1959-06-13
Yair Lapid born 1963-11-05
Joyce Banda age 5
Felipe Calderón born 1962-08-18
John Key born 1961-08-09
Goodluck Jonathan born 1957-11-20
Victor Chernomyrdin age 17
Halimah Yacob age 1
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 14
Binali Yıldırım age 0 months
José María Aznar age 2
Andrei Gromyko age 46
Constantine II of Greece age 15
Robert G. Edwards age 30
Kliment Voroshilov age 74
Spiro Agnew age 37
Carlos Menem age 25
Robert Kocharyan age 1
Laura Chinchilla born 1959-03-28
Nikos Anastasiades age 9
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 13
Laurent Gbagbo age 10
Shehbaz Sharif age 4
Macky Sall born 1961-12-11
Fredrik Reinfeldt born 1965-08-04
Kenan Evren age 38
Benigno Aquino III born 1960-02-08
Roman Herzog age 21
Jean Castex born 1965-06-25
Sali Berisha age 11
Stjepan Mesić age 21
Isaac Shamir age 40
Michel Aoun age 22
Letsie III of Lesotho born 1963-07-17
Gitanas Nausėda born 1964-05-19
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 31
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 16
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 6
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 10
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 37
Umberto II of Italy age 51
Ngo Dinh Diem age 55
Katalin Karikó age 11 months
Henry A. Wallace age 67
Ivo Josipović born 1957-08-28
Petr Pavel born 1961-11-01
Isaias Afwerki age 9
Meles Zenawi age 7 months
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 18
Jan Peter Balkenende born 1956-05-07
Filip Vujanović age 1
Milo Đukanović born 1962-02-15
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 4
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 7
Ion Iliescu age 25
Janez Janša born 1958-09-17
Bülent Ecevit age 30
Beata Szydło born 1963-04-15
Kim Young-sam age 28
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 5
Leopold III of Belgium age 54
Erich von Manstein age 68
Sandro Pertini age 59
Anwar Ibrahim age 8
Gjorge Ivanov born 1960-05-02
Tabaré Vázquez age 15
Walter Scheel age 36
Mohammed Omar born 1960-01-01
Félix Tshisekedi born 1963-06-13
Jalal Talabani age 22
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 26
Vicente Fox age 13
Olusegun Obasanjo age 18
Yahya Jammeh born 1965-05-25
Beji Caid Essebsi age 29
Trần Đại Quang born 1956-10-12
Fidel Ramos age 27
Wallis Simpson age 59
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 73
Aslan Maskhadov age 4
Hua Guofeng age 34
Agostinho Neto age 33
Yves Leterme born 1960-10-06
Alpha Condé age 17
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 12
Morarji Desai age 59
Mary McAleese age 4
Ehud Barak age 13
Giuliano Amato age 17
Uhuru Kenyatta born 1961-10-26
Lars Løkke Rasmussen born 1964-05-15
Ma Ying-jeou age 5
Dina Boluarte born 1962-05-31
Emilio Aguinaldo age 86
Bongbong Marcos born 1957-09-13
Pietro Badoglio age 84
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 35
Anastas Mikoyan age 60
Otto von Habsburg age 43
Chester W. Nimitz age 70
Abdul Hamid age 12
Hun Sen age 3
Kim Campbell age 8
Andrej Babiš age 1
Lenín Moreno age 2
Mauno Koivisto age 32
Giorgos Papandreou age 3
Karolos Papoulias age 26
Zakir Husain age 58
Rafiq Hariri age 11
Ulf Kristersson born 1963-12-29
Lai Ching-te born 1959-10-06
John Magufuli born 1959-10-29
Pridi Banomyong age 55
Horacio Cartes born 1956-07-05
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 59
Gustav Heinemann age 56
Shigeru Ishiba born 1957-02-04
Lionel Jospin age 18