Explore October 17, 1955

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
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

People

Bernard Ayandho age 24
Halifa Humadi age 8
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 57
Bheki Dlamini age 3
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 47
Jo Ann Robinson age 43
Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai age 7
Jean-Luc Mandaba age 12
Enoch Derant Lakoué age 10
Carlos Lemos Simmonds age 21
Salim Ben Ali age 37
Paul Shabangu age 12
Tesfaye Dinka age 15
Horacio Liendo age 30
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 44
Vincent de Paul Ahanda age 37
Lee Yuan-tsu age 32
Sandra Day O'Connor age 25
Kim Jong-il age 14
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 51
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 29
Fernando de la Rúa age 18
Khaleda Zia age 9
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 16
Herman Van Rompuy age 7
Waldo Bernal Pereira age 24
Óscar Pammo Rodríguez age 21
Saïd Ali Mohamed age 9
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández age 39
Siim Kallas age 7
Andreas Fakudze age 10
Hailu Yimenu age 20
Mekonnen Endalkachew age 27
Jorge Serrano Elías age 10
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 61
Luis Arturo González López age 54
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 40
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 66
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 8
Vinicio Cerezo age 12
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 60
Mohamed Said Fofana age 3
Jean-Marie Doré age 17
Diarra Traoré age 20
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana age 1
Lamine Sidimé age 11
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré age 4
Kabiné Komara age 5
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 31
Cellou Dalein Diallo age 3
Lansana Kouyaté age 5
Eugène Camara age 13
François Lonseny Fall age 6
Sidya Touré age 10
Mohamed Béavogui age 2
Lansana Conté age 20
Alpha Condé age 17
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 33
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 5
Aristides Gomes age 11 months
Mário Pires age 6
João Bernardo Vieira age 16
Carlos Correia age 21
Caetano N'Tchama age 8 months
Constantino Teixeira age 22
Francisco Fadul age 1
Francisco Mendes age 16
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 12
Victor Saúde Maria age 16
Ansumane Mané age 15
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 8
Kumba Ialá age 2
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 8
Carmen Pereira age 19
Henrique Rosa age 9
Luís Cabral age 24
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 8
Sam Hinds age 11
Moses Nagamootoo age 7
Janet Jagan age 35
Forbes Burnham age 32
Desmond Hoyte age 26
Donald Ramotar age 4
David A. Granger age 10
Arthur Chung age 37
Edward Luckhoo age 43
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 45
Prosper Avril age 17
Jocelerme Privert age 2
François Duvalier age 48
René Préval age 12
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 2
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 55
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 12
Leslie Manigat age 25
Henri Namphy age 22
Marc Bazin age 23
Stenio Vincent age 81
Hérard Abraham age 15
Franck Lavaud age 52
Ariel Henry age 5
Élie Lescot age 71
Émile Jonassaint age 42
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 4
Boniface Alexandre age 19
Daniel Fignolé age 41
Franck Sylvain age 46
Gérard Latortue age 21
Martial Célestin age 42
Yvon Neptune age 8
Claudette Werleigh age 9
Jacques-Édouard Alexis age 8
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 8
Smarck Michel age 18
Jean-Michel Lapin age 5
Jean Marie Chérestal age 8
Jean-Jacques Honorat age 24
Rosny Smarth age 15
Robert Malval age 12
Tiburcio Carías age 79
Carlos Roberto Flor age 5
Manuel Zelaya age 3
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 7
Oswaldo López Arellano age 34
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 77
Ricardo Maduro age 9
Ramón Villeda Morales age 45
Carlos Roberto Reina age 29
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro age 25
Policarpo Paz García age 22
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 52
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 68
Roberto Suazo Córdova age 28
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 11
José Azcona del Hoyo age 28
Francisco Bueso age 95
Roberto Micheletti age 12
György Lázár age 31
István Dobi age 56
Móric Esterházy age 74
Jenő Fock age 39
Péter Boross age 27
Géza Lakatos age 65
Imre Nagy age 59
János Kádár age 43
Mátyás Rákosi age 63
Zoltán Tildy age 65
Miklós Németh age 7
József Antall age 23
Lajos Dinnyés age 54
Miklós Kállay age 68
Gyula Horn age 23
Péter Medgyessy age 13
Károly Grósz age 25
Gyula Kállai age 45
Ferenc Nagy age 52
Ferenc Münnich age 68
Pál Schmitt age 13
Ferenc Mádl age 24
Mátyás Szűrös age 22
Árpád Göncz age 33
László Sólyom age 13
András Baka age 2
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 12
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 25
Kristján Eldjárn age 38
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 13
Bjarni Benediktsson age 47
Emil Jónsson age 53
Björn Þórðarson age 76
Geir Haarde age 4
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 8
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 7
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 27
Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal age 31
Hermann Jónasson age 58
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 42
Davíð Oddsson age 7
Geir Hallgrímsson age 29
Steingrímur Steinþórsson age 62
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson age 61
Jóhann Hafstein age 40
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 44
Morarji Desai age 59
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 30
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 51
Inder Kumar Gujral age 35
Rajiv Gandhi age 11
Manmohan Singh age 23
Chandra Shekhar age 28
H. D. Deve Gowda age 22
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 34
V. P. Singh age 24
Gulzarilal Nanda age 57
Charan Singh age 52
Pranab Mukherjee age 19
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 43
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 49
K. R. Narayanan age 34
Pratibha Patil age 20