Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari was an Italian racing driver who first raced motorcycles and then concentrated on sports cars and Grand Prix racing, where he achieved significant success. O…
Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (born 1892)
Ludwig Prandtl was a German fluid dynamicist, physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for …
Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (born 1875)
Richard Walther Darré was one of the leading Nazi "blood and soil" ideologists and served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture. As the National leader for agricultural policy,…
Richard Walther Darré, Argentine-German agronomist and politician, convicted war criminal (born 1895)
James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, styled Marquess of Hamilton between 1885 and 1913, was a British peer and Unionist politician. He was the first Governor of Nort…
James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (born 1869)
Hugo Schmeisser was a German firearm developer.
Hugo Schmeisser, German engineer (born 1884)
Lewis Shepard Stone was an American film actor, best known for his 29 years as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and for his portrayal of Judge James Hardy in the studio's p…
Lewis Stone, American actor (born 1879)
David Curtiss Munson was an American athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
David Munson, American runner (born 1884)
Hans Feige was a German career military officer who served in the Imperial German Army, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht. He participated in both world wars and rose to the rank of…
Hans Feige, German general (Wehrmacht) (born 1880)
Mary Brewster Hazelton was an American portrait painter. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was later an instructor. Among her other achievements…
Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (born 1868)
Baron Charles Victor Raymond André Evance de Tornaco was a racing driver from Belgium. He participated in 4 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 22 June 1952. He…
Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (born 1927)
The Pinewood Derby is the wood car racing event of the Cub Scout Program of Scouting America. Pinewood derbies are often run by packs of the Cub Scouts program. With the help of ad…
Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, an event for Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America where wooden cars bu
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers con…
The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (both pictured) became the first people to reach the summit of Mount
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lif…
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers con…
The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest
The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, nicknamed "Old Shaky", is a retired American heavy-lift cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California.
A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on boar
During the evening hours of Monday, June 8, 1953, a large and extremely violent tornado struck the north side of Flint, Michigan and the northern suburb of Beecher, causing catastr…
An F5 tornado struck Flint and Beecher, Michigan, causing 116 fatalities, 844 injuries and $19 million in damage during
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American ra…
Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies for passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet
Colorado City is a town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, and is located in a region known as the Arizona Strip. The population was 2,478 at the 2020 census. The Town of Co…
In Short Creek, Arizona, police conducted a mass arrest of approximately 400 Mormon fundamentalists for polygamy.
The Battle of the Samichon River was fought during the final days of the Korean War between United Nations (UN) forces—primarily Australian and American—and the Chinese People's Vo…
The Battle of the Samichon River, the last engagement of the Korean War, ended a few hours before the signing of the…
The Korean Armistice Agreement is an armistice that brought about a cessation of hostilities of the Korean War. It was signed by United States Army Lieutenant General William Harri…
An armistice was signed (pictured) to end hostilities in the Korean War, officially making the division of Korea…
The Korean Armistice Agreement is an armistice that brought about a cessation of hostilities of the Korean War. It was signed by United States Army Lieutenant General William Harri…
An armistice was signed to end hostilities in the Korean War, officially making the division of Korea indefinite by…
Alfred Curry Glassell Jr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. He made a fortune in the oil and gas industry in Louisiana and Texas and was a co-founder of Transcontinen…
Alfred C. Glassell Jr. caught a black marlin weighing 1,560 lb (710 kg) (pictured) off the coast of Peru, setting the…
The First Indochina War, known alternatively internationally as the French Indochina War, was fought in French Indochina between France and the Viet Minh and their respective allie…
First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Việt Minh in central…
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A General of the Army, Eisenhower was the supreme commander of the Allied Expe…
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