Explore 1955-05-12

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

People

Nikita Khrushchev age 61
Anthony Eden age 57
Ho Chi Minh age 65
Carlos Castillo Armas age 40
Hirohito age 54
Chiang Kai-shek age 67
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 64
Mao Zedong age 61
Elizabeth II age 29
Konrad Adenauer age 79
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 37
Richard Nixon age 42
Kim Il-sung age 43
Zhou Enlai age 57
John F. Kennedy age 37
Hubert Humphrey age 43
Lyndon B. Johnson age 46
Alben W. Barkley age 77
Gerald Ford age 41
Melvin Laird age 32
Earl Warren age 64
Zhu De age 68
John Foster Dulles age 67
Clement Attlee age 72
Winston Churchill age 80
John Marshall Harlan II age 56
Zhao Ziyang age 35
George Wallace age 35
John Paul Stevens age 35
Hua Guofeng age 34
J. Edgar Hoover age 60
Henry Kissinger age 31
Lee Yuan-tsu age 31
William H. Webster age 31
George H. W. Bush age 30
Daniel Inouye age 30
Jimmy Carter age 30
Clark Clifford age 48
William J. Brennan Jr. age 49
Yang Shangkun age 47
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 47
Wang Zhen (general) age 47
Thurgood Marshall age 46
Arthur Goldberg age 46
Li Xiannian age 45
Chiang Ching-kuo age 45
Ronald Reagan age 44
Deng Xiaoping age 50
Archibald Cox age 43
Sun Yun-suan age 41
Liu Shaoqi age 56
Potter Stewart age 40
Hu Yaobang age 39
Rong Yiren age 39
Byron White age 37
Rudolf Hess age 61
Douglas MacArthur age 75
David Souter age 15
Hillary Clinton age 7
Bill Clinton age 8
Lien Chan age 18
Tôn Đức Thắng age 66
John Lewis age 15
Dick Cheney age 14
Dong Biwu age 69
Jacques Chirac age 22
Wen Jiabao age 12
Joe Biden age 12
Herbert Hoover age 80
James Baker age 25
Hu Jintao age 12
Sandra Day O'Connor age 25
James R. Schlesinger age 26
Li Peng age 26
Walter Mondale age 27
Karl Dönitz age 63
Jiang Zemin age 28
Condoleezza Rice age 5 months
John Kerry age 11
George C. Marshall age 74
Ruhollah Khomeini age 52
Kliment Voroshilov age 74
Souvanna Phouma age 53
Juan José Arévalo age 50
Albert Speer age 50
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 75
Franz von Papen age 75
Hjalmar Schacht age 78
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 49
Erich Raeder age 79
Puyi age 49
Hubert Gough age 84
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 49
John Nance Garner age 86
Leonid Brezhnev age 48
Soong Ching-ling age 62
Omar Bradley age 62
Francisco Franco age 62
Naoki Hoshino age 63
Charles de Gaulle age 64
Edward VIII age 60
Walther Funk age 64
He Yingqin age 65
Semyon Timoshenko age 60
Kingorō Hashimoto age 65
Henry A. Wallace age 66
Robert A. Lovett age 59
Otto Hofmann age 59
Erich von Manstein age 67
Courtney Hodges age 68
Raymond A. Spruance age 68
Peng Dehuai age 56
Rodion Malinovsky age 56
Frank Jack Fletcher age 70
Chester W. Nimitz age 70
Harry S. Truman age 71
Thomas Gage age 237
Yasser Arafat age 25
Lawrence Eagleburger age 24
Hafez al-Assad age 24
Boris Yeltsin age 24
Mikhail Gorbachev age 24
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 22
Antonin Scalia age 19
Anthony Kennedy age 18
Colin Powell age 18
Saddam Hussein age 18
Gennady Yanayev age 17
Stephen Breyer age 16
Zeng Qinghong age 15
Kim Jong-il age 14
Muhammad Ali age 13
John Major age 12
Aung San Suu Kyi age 9
Donald Trump age 8
Ellison Onizuka age 8
George W. Bush age 8
Dan Quayle age 8
Al Gore age 7
Clarence Thomas age 6
Charles III age 6
Narendra Modi age 4
Ronald McNair age 4
Gordon Brown age 4
Tony Blair age 2
Xi Jinping age 1
François Hollande age 9 months
John Roberts age 3 months
Nicolas Sarkozy age 3 months
Lê Duẩn age 48
Baldur von Schirach age 48
Warren E. Burger age 47
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 46
Nelson Rockefeller age 46
Souphanouvong age 45
Abe Fortas age 44
Konstantin Chernenko age 43
Clarence M. Kelley age 43
Jo Ann Robinson age 43
Rosa Parks age 42
Jacobo Árbenz age 41
Yuri Andropov age 40
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 39
Robert McNamara age 38
John Connally age 38
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 36
Nelson Mandela age 36
Spiro Agnew age 36
George Shultz age 34
Nicholas Katzenbach age 33
Lee Teng-hui age 32
William Rehnquist age 30
Pol Pot age 30
Malcolm X age 30
Margaret Thatcher age 29
Warren Christopher age 29
Robert F. Kennedy age 29
Fidel Castro age 28
Ramsey Clark age 27
Zhu Rongji age 26
Martin Luther King Jr. age 26