✦ History

Explore August 9, 1957

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

People

Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 43
Alberto Gonzales age 2
Vladimir Ivashko age 24
Ann Richards age 23
David Souter age 17
Christian Herter age 62
Owen Arthur age 7
George Cadle Price age 38
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 41
André Kolingba age 21
Jiří Paroubek age 4
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 8 months
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 74
Edgar Savisaar age 7
Taye Atske Selassie age 1
Epeli Nailatikau age 16
Karl-August Fagerholm age 55
Leslie Manigat age 27
Miklós Németh age 9
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 65
Robert Guéï age 16
Bah Ndaw age 6
Dioncounda Traoré age 15
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 15
Patsy Reddy age 3
Lars Korvald age 41
John Lyng age 52
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 53
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 13
Américo Tomás age 62
Denzil Douglas age 4
James Mancham age 18
Siaka Stevens age 51
Benjamin Sheares age 50
Li Zongren age 67
Chuan Leekpai age 19
Perry Christie age 13
Mari Alkatiri age 7
Yıldırım Akbulut age 21
Pavlo Lazarenko age 4
Jan Olszewski age 26
José María Balcázar age 14
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 22
Ho Chong age 61
Creighton Abrams age 42
Charles Haughey age 31
Joseph Luns age 45
Nereu Ramos age 68
William J. Perry age 29
Han Zheng age 3
Lamar Alexander age 17
John McEwen age 57
Novruz Mammadov age 10
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 30
Alfonso López Michelsen age 44
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 51
Ahmed Abdallah age 38
Ivica Račan age 13
Manny Mori age 8
Ahti Karjalainen age 34
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 71
Martti Miettunen age 50
Maurice Bishop age 13
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 9
Ricardo Maduro age 11
Mátyás Szűrös age 23
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 29
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 27
Thongsing Thammavong age 13
Ruth Perry age 18
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 68
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 80
Driss Jettou age 12
Rosario Murillo age 6
Kim Yong-il age 13
Oscar Torp age 64
Per Borten age 44
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 19
Jules Wijdenbosch age 16
Rickard Sandler age 73
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 24
Anthony Carmona age 4
A. N. R. Robinson age 30
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 37
Nikenike Vurobaravu age 5
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 8
Jaime Lusinchi age 33
Phan Văn Khải age 23
Rashad al-Alimi age 3
Józef Oleksy age 11
Lee Hae Chan age 5
Nebojša Radmanović age 7
Dragan Čović age 11 months
Giuseppe Bertello age 14
Giovanni Lajolo age 22
Giovanni Messe age 73
Zhang Xueliang age 56
Geoffrey Howe age 30
Carlos Luz age 63
William D. Leahy age 82
William Cohen age 16
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 86
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 78
George Pataki age 12
Warren E. Burger age 49
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 2
Rodney Williams age 9
Jaime Paz Zamora age 18
Joseph Ngute age 3
Philémon Yang age 10
Julio César Turbay age 41
Laureano Gómez age 68
Spiros Cyprianou age 24
Sylvanie Burton age 1
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 22
Lucio Gutiérrez age 4 months
Ibrahim Mahlab age 8
Kamisese Mara age 37
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 25
Henrique Rosa age 11
Donald Ramotar age 6
Oswaldo López Arellano age 36
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 53
Nuri as-Said age 69
Poul Hartling age 43
Barend Biesheuvel age 37
Felix Kulov age 8
Nawaf Salam age 3
Bechara El Khoury age 67
Tom Thabane age 18
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 19
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 51
Kailash Purryag age 9
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 56
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 7
Brigi Rafini age 4
Choe Yong-rim age 26
Grégoire Kayibanda age 33
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 6
Lojze Peterle age 9
Samuel Schmid age 10
Joseph Deiss age 11
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 25
T. V. Soong age 65
Phumtham Wechayachai age 3
Hamadi Jebali age 8
Tito Okello age 42
Vitold Fokin age 24
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez age 31
Tallis Obed Moses age 2
Do Muoi age 40
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke age 38
Chung Il-kwon age 39
Jung Hong-won age 12
Ismail al-Azhari age 56
Raif Dizdarević age 30
Sulejman Tihić age 5
Vo Chi Cong age 45
W. T. Cosgrave age 77
Jean Rey age 55
Lloyd Bentsen age 36
Wang Zhen (general) age 49
Frank Jack Fletcher age 72
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 70
Tajuddin Ahmad age 32
Luis García Meza Tejada age 28
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré age 8
Jamil Mahuad age 8
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 5
Hazem Al Beblawi age 20
José Napoleón Duarte age 31
Tiit Vähi age 10
Mart Siimann age 10
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 15
Negasso Gidada age 13
Peter M. Christian age 9
Rafael Paasio age 54
Johannes Virolainen age 43
Georgios Rallis age 38
Raimundo Pereira age 11 months
Forbes Burnham age 34
István Dobi age 58
Ferenc Münnich age 70
Charles Konan Banny age 14
Daniel Kablan Duncan age 14
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 72
Ali Zeidan age 6
Ċensu Tabone age 44
Nahas Angula age 13
Hammer DeRoburt age 34
Surya Bahadur Thapa age 29
Jim Bolger age 22
Daouda Malam Wanké age 11
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 8
Ernest Shonekan age 21
Muhammad Junejo age 24
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral age 16
Vasco Gonçalves age 36
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 36
Kenny Anthony age 6