✦ History

Explore May 21, 1954

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

Events

Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
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

People

Carlos Gomes Júnior age 4
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 10
Gérard Latortue age 19
Jenő Fock age 38
Miklós Kállay age 67
Sutan Sjahrir age 45
P. J. Patterson age 19
Bruce Golding age 6
Abdullah Ensour age 15
Erik Eriksen age 51
Dirk Jan de Geer age 83
Victor Marijnen age 37
Charles D. B. King age 79
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 4
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 6
Kessai Note age 3
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 16
Anand Satyanand age 9
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 4 months
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 70
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 67
Constantin Dăscălescu age 30
Mugur Isărescu age 4
Frederick Ballantyne age 17
Abdoul Mbaye age 1
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 17
Andrej Bajuk age 10
Adib Shishakli age 45
Qahhor Mahkamov age 22
Mizengo Pinda age 5
Cleopa Msuya age 23
Yevhen Marchuk age 13
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 41
Aparicio Méndez age 49
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 44
Guillermo Endara age 18
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal age 25
Kim Hwang-sik age 5
Chung Un-chan age 7
Kim Jong-pil age 28
Chung Sye-kyun age 3
William Gopallawa age 56
D. M. Jayaratne age 22
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 12
He Long age 58
Manlio Brosio age 56
Franco Maria Malfatti age 26
Denis Healey age 36
David Blunkett age 6
Amin al-Hafiz age 32
Dragiša Cvetković age 61
J. Lawton Collins age 58
John W. Snow age 14
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 35
Elliot Richardson age 33
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 8
Lester Bird age 16
Ramón Puerta age 2
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 70
Eduardo Lonardi age 57
Bill Hayden age 21
Alfons Gorbach age 55
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 14
Georges Theunis age 81
Paul van Zeeland age 60
Colville Young age 21
Aleksandar Tsankov age 74
Goukouni Oueddei age 12
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 62
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 38
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 27
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 7
Osvaldo Hurtado age 14
Galo Plaza age 48
Joseph Urusemal age 2
Teuvo Aura age 41
Keijo Liinamaa age 25
Sakari Tuomioja age 42
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 59
Ioannis Grivas age 31
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 26
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 23
Vinicio Cerezo age 11
Desmond Hoyte age 25
Henri Namphy age 21
Claudette Werleigh age 7
Tiburcio Carías age 78
Péter Boross age 25
Károly Grósz age 23
Geir Hallgrímsson age 28
Erik Scavenius age 76
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 1
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 40
Salim al-Huss age 24
Edwin Barclay age 72
Moses Blah age 7
Antanas Merkys age 67
Anton Buttigieg age 42
Litokwa Tomeing age 14
Khil Raj Regmi age 4
Luis Somoza Debayle age 31
Cuthbert Sebastian age 32
Flavio Cotti age 14
H. H. Kung age 72
Chen Chien-jen age 2
Yen Hsi-shan age 70
Sanya Dharmasakti age 47
Kriangsak Chamanan age 36
Chatchai Chunhawan age 34
Arthur Foulkes age 26
Marguerite Pindling age 21
Eric Williams age 42
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 31
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 47
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 52
Julius Chan age 14
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 38
Diego Martínez Barrio age 70
Edem Kodjo age 16
Miles Dempsey age 57
Masayoshi Ito age 40
Dirk Stikker age 57
James Wolfensohn age 20
Eric Shinseki age 11
Frank Carlucci age 23
Les Aspin age 15
Michael Mullen age 7
Lien Chan age 17
William H. Webster age 30
Omer Nishani age 67
Rabah Bitat age 28
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 27
William Deane age 23
Clifford Husbands age 27
Reneta Indzhova age 10 months
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 5
Nikica Valentić age 3
Antonio Guzmán Fernández age 43
Hipólito Mejía age 13
Atef Ebeid age 22
Jacob Nena age 12
Reino Kuuskoski age 47
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 56
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 51
Ramiro de León Carpio age 12
Jorge Serrano Elías age 9
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 30
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 7
Gyula Kállai age 44
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 29
Hermann Jónasson age 57
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 43
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 4
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 5
Jan Eduard de Quay age 52
Rashid Karami age 32
Zigmantas Balčytis age 6 months
Richard Ratsimandrava age 23
Modibo Sidibé age 1
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 1
Abdellatif Filali age 26
René Harris age 6
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 14
Jens Hundseid age 71
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 68
Clément Mouamba age 10
Ilie Verdeț age 29
David Vunagi age 3
Prawit Wongsuwon age 8
Lynden Pindling age 24
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 16
Feleti Sevele age 9
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 2
Mohamed Mzali age 28
Ruhakana Rugunda age 6
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 21
Eleazar López Contreras age 71
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 15
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 38
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 20
José Giral age 74
Seán Lemass age 54
Alan Johnson age 4
Hugh Gaitskell age 48
Robert Rubin age 15
Francis Biddle age 68
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 28
Nadir al-Arbawi age 4
Edmond Leburton age 39
Jean Van Houtte age 47
Théo Lefèvre age 40
Andrey Lukanov age 15
Son Sann age 42
Eduardo Santos age 65
Said Mohamed Djohar age 35
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 62
Luis Alberto Monge age 28
Vlatko Pavletić age 23
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 50
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 36