✦ 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
Independence of Ghana 1957-03-06
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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
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
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
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
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
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
Brunei revolt 1962-12-08 - 1962-12-17
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
1963 Togolese coup d'état 1963-01-13
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
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
1964 Gabonese coup d'état 1964-02-17 - 1964-02-18
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
Independence of Zambia 1964-10-24
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967
Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Dominican Civil War 1965-04-24 - 1965-09-03
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23
Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31
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

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
Gustáv Husák age 43
Alan Greenspan age 29
Abolhassan Banisadr age 22
Patrice Talon born 1958-05-01
Blaise Compaoré age 4
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 5
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 37
Bettino Craxi age 21
Valdas Adamkus age 29
Samora Moisés Machel age 22
Mamnoon Hussain age 15
Andrej Kiska born 1963-02-02
Fahri Korutürk age 52
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 10
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 10
Michael I of Romania age 34
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 42
Élisabeth Borne born 1961-04-18
Édouard Daladier age 71
Thomas Bach age 2
Manuel Noriega age 21
Raúl Alfonsín age 28
Khaleda Zia age 9
Thomas Boni Yayi age 3
Georgi Parvanov born 1957-06-28
Paul Martin age 17
Mwai Kibaki age 24
Oleksandr Turchynov born 1964-03-31
Ollanta Humala born 1962-06-27
Chang Myon age 56
Chun Doo-hwan age 24
Lord Mountbatten age 55
Zhao Ziyang age 36
Rex Tillerson age 3
Mia Mottley born 1965-10-01
Elio Di Rupo age 4
Jean Chrétien age 21
Faustin-Archange Touadéra born 1957-04-21
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 16
John Kufuor age 17
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 34
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 10
Janez Drnovšek age 5
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 11
Ivan Konev age 58
Karl Carstens age 41
Jacques Delors age 30
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 25
John Nance Garner age 87
Vincent Auriol age 71
Mohammad Najibullah age 8
Zog I of Albania age 60
João Lourenço age 1
Werner Faymann born 1960-05-04
Guy Verhofstadt age 2
Dimitris Christofias age 9
Rafael Trujillo age 64
Alar Karis born 1958-03-26
V. V. Giri age 61
Yahya Khan age 38
Ivan Gašparovič age 14
Cevdet Sunay age 56
Necmettin Erbakan age 29
Morgan Tsvangirai age 3
Felipe González age 13
George F. Kennan age 51
Itamar Franco age 25
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 24
Farouk of Egypt age 35
Jacques Rogge age 13
Bamir Topi born 1957-04-24
Luis Arce born 1963-09-28
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 18
K. R. Narayanan age 35
Massimo D'Alema age 6
Daniel arap Moi age 31
Dick Schoof born 1957-03-08
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 6
Peter Mutharika age 15
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj born 1963-03-30
Mário Soares age 31
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 4
Zoran Đinđić age 3
Abhisit Vejjajiva born 1964-08-03
Adama Barrow born 1965-02-15
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan born 1961-03-11
Fernando Lugo age 4
Kgalema Motlanthe age 6
Shamil Basayev born 1965-01-14
Zhu Rongji age 27
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 22
Gough Whitlam age 39
Mathieu Kérékou age 22
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 8
Arnold Rüütel age 27
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 50
Nouri al-Maliki age 5
Moshe Katsav age 10
Luigi Einaudi age 81
Enrico de Nicola age 78
Ibrahim Rugova age 11
Amadou Toumani Touré age 7
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim born 1959-10-17
Ram Baran Yadav age 7
Stevo Pendarovski born 1963-04-03
Desi Bouterse age 10
Xanana Gusmão age 9
Armand Fallières age 114
Pierre Mauroy age 27
Laurent Fabius age 9
Édith Cresson age 21
Michel Barnier age 4
Lê Đức Thọ age 44
Enda Kenny age 4
Queen Sofía of Spain age 17
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh born 1964-03-10
Omar Bradley age 62
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 15
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 1 month
Ivo Sanader age 2
Mohamed Naguib age 54
Andrus Ansip born 1956-10-01
Loukas Papademos age 8
Mátyás Rákosi age 63
László Sólyom age 14
Charan Singh age 53
Valdis Zatlers age 9 months
Bingu wa Mutharika age 21
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 3
Violeta Chamorro age 26
Bola Tinubu age 3
Egor Gajdar born 1956-03-19
Göran Persson age 6
Carl Bildt age 6
Prayut Chanocha age 1
Semyon Budyonny age 72
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 118
Lloyd Austin age 2
Erich Raeder age 79
John Roberts age 11 months
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré born 1957-04-25
Brian Mulroney age 16
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 3
Matti Vanhanen age 1 month
R. Venkataraman age 45
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 18
Najib Mikati age 1 month
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca born 1958-12-07
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz born 1956-12-20
Nicolae Timofti age 7
Evgeny Primakov age 26
Danilo Türk age 3
Tupou VI of Tonga born 1959-07-12
Mykola Azarov age 8
Edgar Lungu born 1956-11-11
Siad Barre age 36
Lee Jae Myung born 1963-12-08
Yoshirō Mori age 18
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 60
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 12
Hjalmar Schacht age 78
Rodion Malinovsky age 57
Lázaro Cárdenas age 60
Vahagn Khachatryan born 1959-04-22
Bob Hawke age 26
Sandra Mason age 6
Jadranka Kosor age 2
Moshe Sharett age 61
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 16
Joaquim Chissano age 16
Sam Nujoma age 26
Sani Abacha age 12