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Explore September 5, 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

Jorge Sampaio age 16
George Tupou V of Tonga age 8
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 13
Franz Halder age 72
Nobusuke Kishi age 59
Toshiki Kaifu age 25
Kiichi Miyazawa age 36
Tsutomu Hata age 21
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 8
Édouard Balladur age 27
David Petraeus age 3
Daniel Cohn-Bendit age 11
Mike Huckabee age 1
Rick Perry age 6
Eduardo Duhalde age 14
Malcolm Fraser age 26
Wolfgang Schüssel age 11
Artur Rasizade age 21
John Diefenbaker age 61
Ricardo Lagos age 18
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 30
Gyula Horn age 24
Fatmir Sejdiu age 4
Modibo Keïta age 41
Ernesto Zedillo age 4
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 30
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova age 3
Goh Chok Tong age 15
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 6
Michael Sata age 19
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 17
Diosdado Macapagal age 45
Heinrich Brüning age 70
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 69
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 19
José Sarney age 26
Stanislav Shushkevich age 21
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 71
Walther Funk age 66
George Shultz age 35
Harold Holt age 48
Ziaur Rahman age 20
Haider Al-Abadi age 4
Catherine Connolly age 10 months
Emilio Colombo age 36
Choummaly Sayasone age 20
Michel Suleiman age 7
George Abela age 8
José López Portillo age 36
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 8
Milovan Đilas age 45
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 21
Girija Prasad Koirala age 32
Abdou Diouf age 21
Ernest Bai Koroma age 2
Milan Kučan age 15
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 15
Levy Mwanawasa age 8
Gotabaya Rajapaksa age 7
Michel Rocard age 26
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 58
Paul Wolfowitz age 12
Alain Poher age 47
Empress Michiko age 21
Prince Henrik of Denmark age 22
Abulfaz Elchibey age 18
Zhelyu Zhelev age 21
Hissène Habré age 14
Adly Mansour age 10
Georgios Papadopoulos age 37
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 3
Ferenc Mádl age 25
Árpád Göncz age 34
Laimdota Straujuma age 5
Min Aung Hlaing age 2 months
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 54
Ingvar Carlsson age 21
Francisco Guterres age 1
Rómulo Gallegos age 72
Frederick Chiluba age 13
Alejandro Toledo age 11
Maurice Gamelin age 84
Hayato Ikeda age 56
Noboru Takeshita age 32
Keizō Obuchi age 19
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 8
Jeff Sessions age 9
Gerry Adams age 7
Kirill Meretskov age 59
Oswald Mosley age 59
Hu Yaobang age 40
Clarence Thomas age 8
Iajuddin Ahmed age 25
Mohammad Shahabuddin age 6
Jan Fischer age 5
Danilo Medina age 4
Costas Simitis age 20
Abdul Salam Arif age 35
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 41
Ezer Weizman age 32
Isaac Navon age 35
Dries van Agt age 25
Thongloun Sisoulith age 10
Émile Lahoud age 20
Samuel Doe age 5
Jacques Santer age 19
Marc Ravalomanana age 6
Lazarus Chakwera age 1
Luis Echeverría age 34
Miguel de la Madrid age 21
Ne Win age 45
Ram Chandra Poudel age 11
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 10
Ueli Maurer age 5
Benjamin Mkapa age 17
Ricardo Martinelli age 4
Haris Silajdžić age 10
C. Rajagopalachari age 77
Takeo Fukuda age 51
Morihiro Hosokawa age 18
Hendrik Verwoerd age 55
João Figueiredo age 38
Allen Dulles age 63
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 64
Jerry Brown age 18
Alice Paul age 71
Warren Christopher age 30
Rexhep Meidani age 12
Reynaldo Bignone age 28
Ayaz Mutallibov age 18
Quett Masire age 31
John Turner age 27
David Dacko age 26
Catherine Samba-Panza age 2
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 46
Leonel Fernández age 2
Salvador Sánchez Cerén age 12
H. D. Deve Gowda age 23
Abdul Rahman Arif age 40
Portia Simpson-Miller age 10
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 35
George William Vella age 14
Win Myint age 4
Jenny Shipley age 4
Mamadou Tandja age 18
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 9
S. R. Nathan age 32
Fouad Mebazaa age 23
Rupiah Banda age 19
Canaan Banana age 20
Han Duck-soo age 7
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 54
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 26
Raymond Barre age 32
Ernesto Geisel age 49
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. age 22
Ingrid of Sweden age 46
John Lewis age 16
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 20
Lon Nol age 42
Alfredo Palacio age 17
Siim Kallas age 7
Frank Bainimarama age 2
Rose Francine Rogombe age 13
Otto Pérez Molina age 5
Álvaro Colom age 5
Mohammad Hatta age 54
Mariano Rumor age 41
Ciriaco De Mita age 28
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 13
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 10
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 3
Boris Trajkovski age 2 months
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 41
Marcelo Caetano age 50
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 4
Trần Đức Lương age 19
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 47
Choi Kyu-hah age 37
Zenkō Suzuki age 45
Paul Reynaud age 77
Leon Panetta age 18
Philip Hammond age 9 months
Mario Cuomo age 24
Lê Duẩn age 49
George Wallace age 37
Alexander Haig age 31
Fatos Nano age 3
Franz Jonas age 56
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 41
Carlos Mesa age 3
Petar Stoyanov age 4
Patricio Aylwin age 37
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 39
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 1
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 37
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 8
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 9
Davíð Oddsson age 8
Giovanni Spadolini age 31