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Explore June 11, 1956

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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

People

Silvia Cartwright age 12
Catherine Tizard age 25
Amadou Cheiffou age 13
Kim Il age 46
Alfredo Nobre da Costa age 32
Henk Chin A Sen age 22
Kaspar Villiger age 15
Luai al-Atassi age 30
Chawalit Yongchaiyut age 24
Basdeo Panday age 23
Maatia Toafa age 2
Bazilio Olara-Okello age 27
Paulo Muwanga age 32
Valerii Pustovoitenko age 9
Octavio Lepage age 32
Abdul Qadir Bajamal age 10
Ali Muhammad Mujawar age 3
Federico Chávez age 75
Ali Mohammed Ghedi age 3
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 18
Dudley Senanayake age 45
Sadiq al-Mahdi age 20
Brock Chisholm age 60
Robert Bork age 29
Otto Hofmann age 60
William J. Brennan Jr. age 50
Adil Çarçani age 34
Peter Hollingworth age 21
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir age 8
Joseph Pholien age 71
Elmira Minita Gordon age 25
Khandu Wangchuk age 5
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas age 30
Ognyan Gerdzhikov age 10
Son Ngoc Thanh age 47
Pascal Yoadimnadji age 6
Ali Soilih age 19
Zlatko Mateša age 6
Cyrille Adoula age 34
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 26
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 44
Ignacio Milam Tang age 15
Otto Tief age 66
Themba Dlamini age 5
Rainer von Fieandt age 65
Stefanos Stefanopoulos age 57
Stylianos Gonatas age 79
Spiridon Markezinis age 47
Carlos Correia age 22
Francisco Mendes age 17
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 29
Jóhann Hafstein age 40
Wasfi Tal age 37
Nader al-Dahabi age 9
Teburoro Tito age 2
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 43
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah age 8 months
Boun Oum age 44
Charles Helou age 42
Abdullah al-Thani age 2
Shukri Ghanem age 13
Justas Paleckis age 57
Charles Rabemananjara age 9
Albert Camille Vital age 3
Imata Kabua age 13
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla age 16
Saw Maung age 27
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 55
Robert Muldoon age 34
Nikola Kljusev age 28
Christopher Hornsrud age 96
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo age 39
Gavril Dejeu age 23
Anastase Murekezi age 3
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 28
Susan Dougan age 1
Otto Stich age 29
Arnold Koller age 22
Max Petitpierre age 57
Liu Chao-shiuan age 13
Lin Chuan age 4
Zhang Qun age 67
Hedi Amara Nouira age 45
Şemsettin Günaltay age 72
Ferit Melen age 49
Sir Iakoba Italeli age 6
Amama Mbabazi age 7
Óscar Diego Gestido age 54
Serge Vohor age 1
Pham Hung age 44
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 71
Paulias Matane age 24
José Patricio Guggiari age 72
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 15
Borislav Paravac age 13
Jorge del Castillo age 5
Yasuji Okamura age 72
John J. McCloy age 61
Leon Brittan age 16
Joseph Grew age 76
W. Michael Blumenthal age 30
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 76
Peter Pace age 10
Norman Lamont age 14
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 9
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 40
John N. Mitchell age 42
Òscar Ribas Reig age 19
Paulo Kassoma age 5
França Van-Dúnem age 21
James Carlisle age 18
Vere Bird age 45
Ninian Stephen age 33
Abdus Sattar age 50
Uladzimier Yarmoshyn age 13
Dimitar Iliev Popov age 28
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 30
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 42
Abel Goumba age 29
Emmanuel Nadingar age 5
Saleh Kebzabo age 9
Vladimir Bakarić age 44
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 57
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 36
Isidro Ayora age 76
Otto Arosemena age 30
Arturo Armando Molina age 28
Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku age 5
Cleopas Dlamini age 4
Bailey Olter age 24
Jocelerme Privert age 3
Emil Jónsson age 53
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 63
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 61
Robert Beugré Mambé age 4
Seydou Diarra age 22
Hani al-Mulki age 4
Bajram Rexhepi age 2
Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah age 5 months
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev age 5 months
Māris Gailis age 4
Ali Tarhouni age 5
Bronislovas Lubys age 17
Aleksandras Abišala age 5 months
Cécile Manorohanta age 6
Modibo Keita age 13
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga age 2
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici age 22
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly age 13
Valeriu Muravschi age 6
Ion Ciubuc age 13
Azzeddine Laraki age 27
Ahmed Laraki age 24
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 29
Man Mohan Adhikari age 36
Adolfo Díaz age 80
Thomas Remengesau age 24
Carlos Mota Pinto age 19
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 35
Habib Thiam age 23
Mamadou Dia age 45
Frank Kabui age 10
Ramsewak Shankar age 18
Fred Ramdat Misier age 29
Kurt Furgler age 31
René Felber age 23
Philipp Etter age 64
Adel Safar age 3
Hau Pei-tsun age 36
Salim Ahmed Salim age 14
Bonfoh Abass age 7
Rachid Sfar age 22
Valentyn Symonenko age 15
Juan José de Amézaga age 75
Alberto Demicheli age 59
Walter Lini age 14
Edward Babiuch age 28
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 19
Higinio Morínigo age 59
Arthur Goldberg age 47
Clark Clifford age 49
Robert A. Lovett age 60
Mohammad Rabbani age 9 months
Ylli Bufi age 8
Mehdi Frashëri age 84
Ali ibn Flais age 11
Youssef Yousfi age 14
Simon Vratsian age 74
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 23
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 35
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem age 40
Moudud Ahmed age 16
Errol Barrow age 36
Hyenadz Navitski age 7
Kinzang Dorji age 5
Juan Pereda age 25
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 60
Stefan Sofiyanski age 4
Penn Nouth age 50
Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye age 6