Explore 1956-11-08

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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
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

Souvanna Phouma age 55
Carlos Castillo Armas age 42
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 38
Ho Chi Minh age 66
Anthony Eden age 59
Hirohito age 55
Nikita Khrushchev age 62
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 66
Chiang Kai-shek age 69
Mao Zedong age 62
Elizabeth II age 30
Kim Il-sung age 44
Konrad Adenauer age 80
Richard Nixon age 43
Zhou Enlai age 58
Hubert Humphrey age 45
Lyndon B. Johnson age 48
John F. Kennedy age 39
Gerald Ford age 43
Melvin Laird age 34
Earl Warren age 65
John Foster Dulles age 68
Zhu De age 69
Winston Churchill age 81
Deng Xiaoping age 52
William J. Brennan Jr. age 50
John Marshall Harlan II age 57
Rudolf Hess age 62
Jiang Zemin age 30
Walter Mondale age 28
Li Peng age 28
Rong Yiren age 40
Liu Shaoqi age 57
Byron White age 39
Hu Yaobang age 40
George Wallace age 37
Zhao Ziyang age 37
John Paul Stevens age 36
Hua Guofeng age 35
Potter Stewart age 41
Henry Kissinger age 33
Lee Yuan-tsu age 33
William H. Webster age 32
George H. W. Bush age 32
Daniel Inouye age 32
Jimmy Carter age 32
J. Edgar Hoover age 61
Sun Yun-suan age 43
James R. Schlesinger age 27
Wang Zhen (general) age 48
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 49
Thurgood Marshall age 48
Douglas MacArthur age 76
Arthur Goldberg age 48
Hillary Clinton age 9
Bill Clinton age 10
Li Xiannian age 47
Condoleezza Rice age 1
Chiang Ching-kuo age 46
Dong Biwu age 70
John Kerry age 12
Herbert Hoover age 82
Hu Jintao age 13
Joe Biden age 13
Wen Jiabao age 14
Ronald Reagan age 45
Dick Cheney age 15
John Lewis age 16
David Souter age 17
Tôn Đức Thắng age 68
Clark Clifford age 49
Lien Chan age 20
Yang Shangkun age 49
Li Keqiang age 1
Jacques Chirac age 23
Archibald Cox age 44
James Baker age 26
Sandra Day O'Connor age 26
Karl Dönitz age 65
Lê Duẩn age 49
Leonid Brezhnev age 49
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 50
Puyi age 50
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 51
Ruhollah Khomeini age 54
Albert Speer age 51
Juan José Arévalo age 52
Thomas Gage age 238
John Nance Garner age 88
Hubert Gough age 86
Erich Raeder age 80
Hjalmar Schacht age 79
Franz von Papen age 77
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 76
George C. Marshall age 75
Kliment Voroshilov age 75
Clement Attlee age 73
Harry S. Truman age 72
Chester W. Nimitz age 71
Frank Jack Fletcher age 71
Raymond A. Spruance age 70
Courtney Hodges age 69
Erich von Manstein age 69
Henry A. Wallace age 68
Kingorō Hashimoto age 66
He Yingqin age 66
Walther Funk age 66
Charles de Gaulle age 66
Naoki Hoshino age 64
Francisco Franco age 63
Soong Ching-ling age 63
Omar Bradley age 63
Edward VIII age 62
Semyon Timoshenko age 61
Robert A. Lovett age 61
Otto Hofmann age 60
Peng Dehuai age 58
Rodion Malinovsky age 57
Donald Trump age 10
Aung San Suu Kyi age 11
John Major age 13
Muhammad Ali age 14
Kim Jong-il age 15
Zeng Qinghong age 17
Stephen Breyer age 18
Gennady Yanayev age 19
Saddam Hussein age 19
Colin Powell age 19
Anthony Kennedy age 20
Antonin Scalia age 20
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 23
Mikhail Gorbachev age 25
Boris Yeltsin age 25
Hafez al-Assad age 26
Theresa May age 1 month
Tim Berners-Lee age 1
Nicolas Sarkozy age 1
John Roberts age 1
François Hollande age 2
Xi Jinping age 3
Tony Blair age 3
Gordon Brown age 5
Ronald McNair age 6
Narendra Modi age 6
Charles III age 7
Clarence Thomas age 8
Al Gore age 8
Dan Quayle age 9
George W. Bush age 10
Ellison Onizuka age 10
Nelson Mandela age 38
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 38
John Connally age 39
Robert McNamara age 40
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 40
Yuri Andropov age 42
Jacobo Árbenz age 43
Rosa Parks age 43
Jo Ann Robinson age 44
Clarence M. Kelley age 45
Konstantin Chernenko age 45
Abe Fortas age 46
Souphanouvong age 47
Nelson Rockefeller age 48
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 48
Warren E. Burger age 49
Lawrence Eagleburger age 26
Yasser Arafat age 27
Martin Luther King Jr. age 27
Zhu Rongji age 28
Ramsey Clark age 28
Fidel Castro age 30
Robert F. Kennedy age 30
Warren Christopher age 31
Margaret Thatcher age 31
Malcolm X age 31
Pol Pot age 31
William Rehnquist age 32
Lee Teng-hui age 33
Nicholas Katzenbach age 34
George Shultz age 35
Spiro Agnew age 38
Baldur von Schirach age 49