Explore 2486 historical events from 1950–1959.
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina was a Salvadoran politician and physician who served as the 24th President of El Salvador from 1923 to 1927. He also served as the country's acting presiden…
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina, Salvadoran politician, physician, and three-time president of El Salvador (born 1874)
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, anglicised as Maurice O'Sullivan, was an Irish author famous for his Irish language memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island and in Dingle, County Ke…
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish police officer and author (born 1904)
Milada Horáková was a Czech politician and a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then against the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She was focu…
Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (born 1901)
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcro…
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (born 1865)
Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World W…
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (born 1883)
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating …
Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (born 1873)
Thomas William Burgess was the second person to successfully complete a swim of the English Channel after Matthew Webb, following sixteen attempts. Burgess was British but spent mo…
Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (born 1872)
Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big b…
Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (born 1923)
Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist. His radical anti-liberal and anti-socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expre…
Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (born 1878)
Richard Fontaine Maury was an American railway engineer and naturalized Argentine. He became known for the project of the Argentine "Ramal C-14" of the Ferrocarril General Manuel B…
Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer (born 1882)
Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl was an American actress who became a prominent interior designer and author. Born in New York City, de Wolfe was acutely sensitive to her surroundings fr…
Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (born 1865)
Evangeline Cory Booth OF was a British evangelist and the fourth General of The Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939. She was the first woman to hold the post.
Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (born 1865)
Antonie Nedošinská was a Czech film actress. She appeared in 89 films between 1916 and 1947.
Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (born 1885)
Carl Clinton Van Doren was an American critic and biographer. He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren.
Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (born 1885)
Shigenori Tōgō was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Pacific War. He also served as Minister of Colonial Affairs in 1941, an…
Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician and diplomat, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1882)
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won…
Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
William Lyon Mackenzie King was the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant…
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1874)
Joseph Gibson Fry was a British racing driver. He became the primary driver for the Shelsley Special "Freikaiserwagen", created by his cousin David Fry and Hugh Dunsterville, with …
Joe Fry, English race car driver (born 1915)
The Tollund Man is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 5th century BC, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found…
The Tollund Man, a naturally mummified corpse, was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark
Maurice André Raymond Herzog was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led the 1950 French Annapurna expedition that first climbed a peak over 800…
Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the su
Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars. He is the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.
Thomas Blamey became the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal
The United Nations Security Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, and is the United Nation’s Executive Branch having primary responsibility for the main…
The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea
The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, w…
The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea
The Douglas DC-4 is an American four-engined (piston), propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Military versions of the plane, the C-54 and R5D, served…
A Douglas DC-4 Skymaster aircraft (pictured) crashed after departing from Perth, becoming the worst peacetime aviation a