Explore 1956-04-26

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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

Hirohito age 55
René Coty age 74
Elizabeth II age 30
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 65
Ho Chi Minh age 65
Carlos Castillo Armas age 41
Chiang Kai-shek age 68
Nikita Khrushchev age 62
Zhou Enlai age 58
Anthony Eden age 58
David Ben-Gurion age 69
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 38
Mao Zedong age 62
Kim Il-sung age 44
Konrad Adenauer age 80
Jawaharlal Nehru age 66
Souvanna Phouma age 54
Earl Warren age 65
Richard Nixon age 43
Zhu De age 69
John Foster Dulles age 68
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 52
John Marshall Harlan II age 56
Hubert Humphrey age 44
Lyndon B. Johnson age 47
John F. Kennedy age 38
Alben W. Barkley age 78
Winston Churchill age 81
Melvin Laird age 33
Gerald Ford age 42
Karl Dönitz age 64
James R. Schlesinger age 27
Jimmy Carter age 31
John Paul Stevens age 36
Yang Shangkun age 48
Lien Chan age 19
Deng Xiaoping age 51
Sandra Day O'Connor age 26
Byron White age 38
Jiang Zemin age 29
Liu Shaoqi age 57
Zhao Ziyang age 36
Walter Mondale age 28
Rudolf Hess age 62
James Baker age 26
J. Edgar Hoover age 61
George Wallace age 36
Clark Clifford age 49
Li Peng age 27
William J. Brennan Jr. age 50
Hua Guofeng age 35
Li Keqiang age 10 months
Ronald Reagan age 45
Herbert Hoover age 81
Condoleezza Rice age 1
Henry Kissinger age 32
Archibald Cox age 43
Chiang Ching-kuo age 46
Lee Yuan-tsu age 32
Li Xiannian age 46
William H. Webster age 32
Sun Yun-suan age 42
Arthur Goldberg age 47
Dong Biwu age 70
George H. W. Bush age 31
Hillary Clinton age 8
Bill Clinton age 9
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 48
Wang Zhen (general) age 48
David Souter age 16
John Lewis age 16
Dick Cheney age 15
Rong Yiren age 40
Daniel Inouye age 31
Wen Jiabao age 13
Joe Biden age 13
Hu Jintao age 13
Thurgood Marshall age 47
Tôn Đức Thắng age 67
John Kerry age 12
Hu Yaobang age 40
Potter Stewart age 41
Douglas MacArthur age 76
Jacques Chirac age 23
Juan José Arévalo age 51
Albert Speer age 51
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 50
Puyi age 50
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 50
Leonid Brezhnev age 49
Lê Duẩn age 49
Baldur von Schirach age 49
Warren E. Burger age 48
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 47
Nelson Rockefeller age 47
Dean Rusk age 47
Souphanouvong age 46
Abe Fortas age 45
He Yingqin age 66
Kingorō Hashimoto age 66
Henry A. Wallace age 67
Erich von Manstein age 68
Courtney Hodges age 69
Raymond A. Spruance age 69
Francis Biddle age 70
Frank Jack Fletcher age 71
Chester W. Nimitz age 71
Vincent Auriol age 71
Harry S. Truman age 72
Clement Attlee age 73
James F. Byrnes age 74
Kliment Voroshilov age 75
George C. Marshall age 75
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 76
Franz von Papen age 76
Hjalmar Schacht age 79
Erich Raeder age 80
Hubert Gough age 85
John Nance Garner age 87
Thomas Gage age 238
Georges Pompidou age 44
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 52
Alec Douglas-Home age 52
Ruhollah Khomeini age 53
Tom C. Clark age 56
Rodion Malinovsky age 57
Peng Dehuai age 57
Ludwig Erhard age 59
Otto Hofmann age 60
Robert A. Lovett age 60
Lázaro Cárdenas age 60
Christian Herter age 61
Semyon Timoshenko age 61
Edward VIII age 61
Harold Macmillan age 62
Dean Acheson age 63
Omar Bradley age 63
Soong Ching-ling age 63
Francisco Franco age 63
Naoki Hoshino age 64
Charles de Gaulle age 65
Walther Funk age 65
Ellison Onizuka age 9
Donald Trump age 9
Aung San Suu Kyi age 10
Robert Mueller age 11
Gerhard Schröder age 12
Mohammad Khatami age 12
John Major age 13
John Ashcroft age 13
Muhammad Ali age 14
Kim Jong-il age 15
Zeng Qinghong age 16
Ali Khamenei age 17
Stephen Breyer age 17
Janet Reno age 17
Gennady Yanayev age 18
Madeleine Albright age 18
Saddam Hussein age 19
Colin Powell age 19
Anthony Kennedy age 19
Antonin Scalia age 20
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 21
Yuri Gagarin age 22
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 22
Abolhassan Banisadr age 23
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 23
Friedrich Merz age 5 months
Tim Berners-Lee age 10 months
Nicolas Sarkozy age 1
John Roberts age 1
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 1
Masoud Pezeshkian age 1
François Hollande age 1
Angela Merkel age 1
Xi Jinping age 2
Tony Blair age 2
Merrick Garland age 3
Vladimir Putin age 3
Rex Tillerson age 4
Mohamed Morsi age 4
Gordon Brown age 5
Eric Holder age 5
Ronald McNair age 5
Narendra Modi age 5
Louis Freeh age 6
Charles III age 7
Hassan Rouhani age 7
Clarence Thomas age 7
Al Gore age 8
Dan Quayle age 9
George Shultz age 35
Elliot Richardson age 35
Anwar Sadat age 37
Helmut Schmidt age 37
Spiro Agnew age 37
Nelson Mandela age 37
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 37
Cyrus Vance age 39
John Connally age 39
François Mitterrand age 39
Edward Heath age 39
Robert McNamara age 39
Harold Wilson age 40
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 40
Yuri Andropov age 41
Edmund Muskie age 42
Willy Brandt age 42
John N. Mitchell age 42
Jacobo Árbenz age 42
William P. Rogers age 42
Rosa Parks age 43
Jo Ann Robinson age 44
James Callaghan age 44
Clarence M. Kelley age 44
Konstantin Chernenko age 44
George W. Bush age 9
Raúl Castro age 24
Mikhail Gorbachev age 25
Boris Yeltsin age 25
Hafez al-Assad age 25
Neil Armstrong age 25
Lawrence Eagleburger age 25
William S. Sessions age 25
Helmut Kohl age 26
Yasser Arafat age 26
Martin Luther King Jr. age 27
Zhu Rongji age 27
Hosni Mubarak age 27
Ramsey Clark age 28
Fidel Castro age 29
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 30
Robert F. Kennedy age 30
Warren Christopher age 30
Margaret Thatcher age 30
Pol Pot age 30
Malcolm X age 30
Alexander Haig age 31
William Rehnquist age 31
Lee Teng-hui age 33
Nicholas Katzenbach age 34