Explore 1955-12-31

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Events

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower age 65
Mao Zedong age 62
Chiang Kai-shek age 68
Nikita Khrushchev age 61
Hirohito age 54
Ho Chi Minh age 65
Elizabeth II age 29
Carlos Castillo Armas age 41
René Coty age 73
Fulgencio Batista age 54
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 65
Shukri al-Quwatli age 64
Kim Il-sung age 43
Anthony Eden age 58
Zhou Enlai age 57
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 37
Jawaharlal Nehru age 66
David Ben-Gurion age 69
Jorge García Montes age 59
Antonio Segni age 64
Yu Hung-chun age 58
Phạm Văn Đồng age 49
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 44
Earl Warren age 64
Richard Nixon age 43
Zhu De age 69
John Foster Dulles age 67
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 51
J. Edgar Hoover age 61
John Marshall Harlan II age 56
Potter Stewart age 40
John F. Kennedy age 38
Lyndon B. Johnson age 47
Hubert Humphrey age 44
Alben W. Barkley age 78
Winston Churchill age 81
Gerald Ford age 42
Melvin Laird age 33
Deng Xiaoping age 51
Jimmy Carter age 31
Ronald Reagan age 44
George H. W. Bush age 31
Bill Clinton age 9
Joe Biden age 13
Rudolf Hess age 61
Karl Dönitz age 64
Liu Shaoqi age 57
Jiang Zemin age 29
Henry Kissinger age 32
Herbert Hoover age 81
Dick Cheney age 14
Hu Jintao age 13
Li Xiannian age 46
Yang Shangkun age 48
Dong Biwu age 69
Zhao Ziyang age 36
Hu Yaobang age 40
Hua Guofeng age 34
Walter Mondale age 28
Daniel Inouye age 31
Li Peng age 27
Rong Yiren age 39
Wang Zhen (general) age 47
Wen Jiabao age 13
Li Keqiang age 6 months
James Baker age 25
Byron White age 38
Chiang Ching-kuo age 45
Sun Yun-suan age 42
Lee Yuan-tsu age 32
Lien Chan age 19
John Paul Stevens age 35
David Souter age 16
Sandra Day O'Connor age 25
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 48
Thurgood Marshall age 47
Archibald Cox age 43
William H. Webster age 31
Arthur Goldberg age 47
William J. Brennan Jr. age 49
John Kerry age 12
Hillary Clinton age 8
Tôn Đức Thắng age 67
Clark Clifford age 49
James R. Schlesinger age 26
Condoleezza Rice age 1
John Lewis age 15
George Wallace age 36
Douglas MacArthur age 75
Jacques Chirac age 23
Haxhi Lleshi age 42
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 52
Theodor Körner age 82
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 48
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 78
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 55
José Figueres Ferrer age 49
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 85
Paul Magloire age 48
Julio Lozano Díaz age 70
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 61
Rajendra Prasad age 71
Sukarno age 54
Seán T. O'Kelly age 73
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 71
Giovanni Gronchi age 68
Camille Chamoun age 55
William Tubman age 60
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 60
Ba U age 68
Anastasio Somoza García age 59
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 61
Max Petitpierre age 56
Celâl Bayar age 72
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 41
Aleksander Zawadzki age 56
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 43
Alfredo Stroessner age 43
Manuel Odría age 58
Ramon Magsaysay age 48
Syngman Rhee age 80
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 46
Mehmet Shehu age 43
Robert Menzies age 61
Grantley Herbert Adams age 57
Achille Van Acker age 57
Jigme Palden Dorji age 36
Norodom Sihanouk age 33
Louis St. Laurent age 73
Makonnen Endelkachew age 65
Urho Kekkonen age 55
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 48
András Hegedüs age 33
Ólafur Thors age 63
Burhanuddin Harahap age 38
Nuri as-Said age 68
H. C. Hansen age 49
Willem Drees age 69
Rashid Karami age 34
Mustafa Ben Halim age 34
Alexander Frick age 45
Joseph Bech age 68
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 52
Dom Mintoff age 39
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 39
Filip Bajković age 45
Mbarek Bekkay age 48
U Nu age 48
Sidney Holland age 62
Einar Gerhardsen age 58
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 50
António de Oliveira Salazar age 66
Chivu Stoica age 47
Johan Ferrier age 45
Tage Erlander age 54
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 58
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 37
Adnan Menderes age 57
John Kotelawala age 58
Roque A. Saldías age 63
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 64
Julius Raab age 64
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 26
Norodom Suramarit age 59
Sobhuza II age 56
Hussein I of Jordan age 20
Frederik IX of Denmark age 56
Juliana of the Netherlands age 46
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 61
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 54
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 59
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 74
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 32
Mohammed V of Morocco age 46
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie age 62
Haakon VII of Norway age 83
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 45
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 64
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 73
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 28
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 55
Giuseppe Maiani age 31
Pius XII age 79
Martin Luther King Jr. age 26
Mikhail Gorbachev age 24
Harry S. Truman age 71
Robert F. Kennedy age 30
Ruhollah Khomeini age 53
Saddam Hussein age 18
Souphanouvong age 46
Pol Pot age 30
George W. Bush age 9
Donald Trump age 9
Chester W. Nimitz age 70
Albert Speer age 50
Walther Funk age 65
Erich Raeder age 79
Baldur von Schirach age 48
Hjalmar Schacht age 78
Franz von Papen age 76