Explore August 24, 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

People

Sylvanie Burton age 7 months
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 21
Ibrahim Mahlab age 7
Kamisese Mara age 36
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 24
Henrique Rosa age 10
Donald Ramotar age 5
Oswaldo López Arellano age 35
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 52
Poul Hartling age 42
Barend Biesheuvel age 36
Felix Kulov age 7
Nawaf Salam age 2
Bechara El Khoury age 66
Tom Thabane age 17
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 18
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 50
Kailash Purryag age 8
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 55
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 6
Brigi Rafini age 3
Choe Yong-rim age 25
Grégoire Kayibanda age 32
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 5
Lojze Peterle age 8
Samuel Schmid age 9
Joseph Deiss age 10
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 24
T. V. Soong age 64
Phumtham Wechayachai age 2
Hamadi Jebali age 7
Tito Okello age 41
Vitold Fokin age 23
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 30
Tallis Obed Moses age 1
Do Muoi age 39
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 37
Chung Il-kwon age 38
Jung Hong-won age 11
Ismail al-Azhari age 55
Raif Dizdarević age 29
Sulejman Tihić age 4
Vo Chi Cong age 44
W. T. Cosgrave age 76
Jean Rey age 54
Wang Zhen (general) age 48
Frank Jack Fletcher age 71
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 69
Tajuddin Ahmad age 31
Luis García Meza Tejada age 27
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 7
Jamil Mahuad age 7
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 4
Hazem Al Beblawi age 19
José Napoleón Duarte age 30
Tiit Vähi age 9
Mart Siimann age 9
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 14
Negasso Gidada age 12
Peter M. Christian age 8
Rafael Paasio age 53
Johannes Virolainen age 42
Georgios Rallis age 37
Forbes Burnham age 33
István Dobi age 57
Ferenc Münnich age 69
Charles Konan Banny age 13
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 13
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 71
Ali Zeidan age 5
Ċensu Tabone age 43
Nahas Angula age 13
Hammer DeRoburt age 33
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 28
Jim Bolger age 21
Daouda Malam Wanké age 10
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 7
Ernest Shonekan age 20
Muhammad Junejo age 24
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 15
Vasco Gonçalves age 35
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 35
Kenny Anthony age 5
Ong Teng Cheong age 20
Thanin Kraiwichian age 29
Luis Herrera Campins age 31
Manuel Odría age 58
Nur Hassan Hussein age 18
Goh Kun age 18
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 32
Marais Viljoen age 40
Sicco Mansholt age 47
François-Xavier Ortoli age 31
Louise Lake-Tack age 12
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 39
Roberto Marcelo Levingston age 36
José María Guido age 46
Pierre Harmel age 45
Said Musa age 12
Kimon Georgiev age 74
Norodom Ranariddh age 12
José María Figueres Olsen age 1
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 54
Jaime Roldos Aquilera age 15
Kamal Ganzouri age 23
Alfredo Cristiani age 8
Andres Tarand age 16
V. J. Sukselainen age 49
Edward Akufo-Addo age 50
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 43
Michael Stasinopoulos age 53
Alfonso Portillo age 4
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 20
Géza Lakatos age 66
Þorsteinn Pálsson age 8
Ólafur Thors age 64
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 43
Ahmed Chalabi age 11
Patrick Allen age 5
Hilmar Baunsgaard age 36
Viggo Kampmann age 46
Louis Beel age 54
Jelle Zijlstra age 38
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 15
Gyude Bryant age 7
Baghdadi Mahmudi age 11
Arnoldo Alemán age 10
Wasim Sajjad age 15
Joachim Yhombi-Opango age 17
Theodor Stolojan age 12
Manea Mănescu age 40
Nureddin al-Atassi age 27
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 44
Hussein Arnous age 3
Miguel Trovoada age 19
Yen Chia-kan age 50
Khuang Aphaiwong age 54
Banhan Sinlapa-acha age 24
Edward Natapei age 2
Nguyen Huu Tho age 46
Mieczysław Rakowski age 29
Luis González Macchi age 8
Lee Nack-yon age 3
Ali Saibou age 16
Jack Lynch age 39
Willy Claes age 17
Rauf Orbay age 75
Thomas Gage age 238
Juan José Arévalo age 51
Ali Kafi age 27
Eduardo Camaño age 10
Michael Jeffery age 18
Reinhold Mitterlehner age 8 months
Hubert Pierlot age 72
Jean Duvieusart age 56
Camille Huysmans age 85
Paul Vanden Boeynants age 37
Alfredo Ovando Candía age 38
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 3 months
Guillermo León Valencia age 47
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 48
Armando Calderón Sol age 8
Akwasi Afrifa age 20
Fred Akuffo age 19
Phaedon Gizikis age 39
Patrick Achi age 9 months
Edward Seaga age 26
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah age 14
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 2
Fouad Chehab age 54
René Moawad age 31
Hussein Onn age 34
Ibrahim Nasir age 29
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 23
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 62
Abderrahmane Youssoufi age 32
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 67
Mike Moore age 7
Pak Pong-ju age 17
Haruo Remeliik age 23
Ivan Stambolić age 19
Hashim al-Atassi age 80
Wu Den-yih age 8
Edward Lowassa age 2
Seni Pramoj age 51
Kukrit Pramoj age 45
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 9
Anand Panyarachun age 24
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 20
Hubert Ingraham age 9
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 15
Mohamed Ennaceur age 22
Apolo Nsibambi age 15
Godfrey Binaisa age 36
Vitalii Masol age 27
Raúl Leoni age 51
Ramón José Velásquez age 39
Vo Van Kiet age 33
Mohammed Basindawa age 21
Arnulfo Arias age 55