✦ 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
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
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

Elizabeth II age 29
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 38
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 62
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle age 65
President - France
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 65
President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 47
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 54
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 65
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Leonid Brezhnev age 49
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 68
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 63
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 37
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 63
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 36
Shah - Iran
Fulgencio Batista age 54
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 62
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 71
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 53
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 25
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 61
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 57
Chairman - People's Republic of China
René Coty age 73
President - France
João Goulart age 36
President - Brazil
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 58
President - Brazil
Abdul Salam Arif age 35
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 48
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 44
President - Mexico
Adolfo López Mateos age 45
President - Mexico
Jânio Quadros age 38
President - Brazil
Osvaldo Dorticós age 36
President - Cuba
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 65
President - Mexico
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 45
President - Brazil
Carlos Castillo Armas age 41
President - Guatemala
Nereu Ramos age 67
President - Brazil
Shukri al-Quwatli age 64
President - Syria
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 51
President - Iraq
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 54
President - Cuba
Nureddin al-Atassi age 27
President - Syria
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 60
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 49
President - Syria
Luai al-Atassi age 30
President - Syria
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 47
President - Guatemala
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 61
Acting President - Cuba
Amin al-Hafez age 29
President - Syria
Luis Arturo González López age 55
President - Guatemala
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 38
President - Guatemala
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 61
President - Guatemala
Izzat al-Nuss age 44
President - Syria
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 42
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 30
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Dag Hammarskjöld age 50
Secretary-General - United Nations
U Thant age 46
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 29
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 66
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 80
Chancellor - Germany
Georges Pompidou age 44
Prime Minister - France
David Ben-Gurion age 69
Prime Minister - Israel
Zhou Enlai age 57
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 39
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 58
Chancellor - Germany
Eisaku Satō age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Alec Douglas-Home age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 73
Taoiseach - Ireland
Giovanni Leone age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 51
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 60
Prime Minister - Israel
Antonio Segni age 64
Prime Minister - Italy
Gulzarilal Nanda age 57
Prime Minister - India
Paul-Henri Spaak age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Amintore Fanfani age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Bulganin age 60
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Nobusuke Kishi age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Hayato Ikeda age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Ichirō Hatoyama age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 54
Prime Minister - South Africa
Tanzan Ishibashi age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Debré age 43
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 68
President - International Olympic Committee
Fernando Tambroni age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Walter Hallstein age 54
President - European Commission
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 68
Secretary General - NATO
Souvanna Phouma age 54
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 49
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Guy Mollet age 50
Prime Minister - France
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
Adone Zoli age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
J. G. Strijdom age 62
Prime Minister - South Africa
Chen Cheng age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 50
Premier - Republic of China
John A. Costello age 64
Taoiseach - Ireland
Manlio Brosio age 58
Secretary General - NATO
Amin al-Hafiz age 34
Prime Minister - Syria
Dirk Stikker age 58
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 56
Taoiseach - Ireland
Boun Oum age 44
Prime Minister - Laos
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 56
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ali Sabri age 35
Prime Minister - Egypt
Zakaria Mohieddin age 37
Prime Minister - Egypt
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 30
Prime Minister - Syria
Sabri al-Asali age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 44
Director-General - World Health Organization
Gonzalo Güell age 60
Prime Minister - Cuba
Yu Hung-chun age 58
Premier - Republic of China
George David Woods age 54
President - World Bank
Jorge García Montes age 59
Prime Minister - Cuba
Bashir al-Azma age 45
Prime Minister - Syria
Wang Yun-wu age 67
Premier - Republic of China
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 35
Prime Minister - Egypt
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 57
President - World Bank
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 57
Prime Minister - Cuba
Nur al-Din Kahala age 46
Prime Minister - Syria
Sami al-Jundi age 34
Prime Minister - Syria
Kim Il-sung age 43
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 51
Prime Minister - India
Earl Warren age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 43
Vice President - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 44
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 62
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 41
Vice President - Iraq
Zhu De age 69
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 69
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Maxwell D. Taylor age 54
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Lyman Lemnitzer age 56
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nathan F. Twining age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Arthur W. Radford age 59
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Earle Wheeler age 48
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 30
Attorney General - United States
James Callaghan age 43
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert McNamara age 39
Secretary of Defense - United States
John Foster Dulles age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Dean Rusk age 46
Secretary of State - United States
Roy Jenkins age 35
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 36
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 60
Secretary of State - United States
William P. Rogers age 42
Attorney General - United States
Rab Butler age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Nicholas Katzenbach age 33
Attorney General - United States
C. Douglas Dillon age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 49
Secretary of Defense - United States
Charles Erwin Wilson age 65
Secretary of Defense - United States
Iain Macleod age 42
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Robert B. Anderson age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 48
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 38
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 51
Attorney General - United States
George M. Humphrey age 65
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Duncan Sandys age 47
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry H. Fowler age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Neil H. McElroy age 51
Secretary of Defense - United States
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 50
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 35
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 50
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Decker age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 43
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 37
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Livingston T. Merchant age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 52
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 61
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Deng Xiaoping age 51
Secretariat - Communist Party of China
Edward Heath age 39
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Ramsey Clark age 28
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Hugh Gaitskell age 49
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg age 47
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 40
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 38
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Abe Fortas age 45
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
George Brown age 41
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Clement Davies age 71
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jo Grimond age 42
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 58
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 57
President - Sinn Féin
Tomás Mac Giolla age 31
President - Sinn Féin
Thurgood Marshall age 47
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Archibald Cox age 43
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
William H. Webster age 31
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Walter Mondale age 28
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 78
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 31
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 47
Governor of New York - United States
John Connally age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 46
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 28
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 74
Pope - Vatican City