Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Stephen James Vickers is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers from 1972 to 1982. He…
Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player
Aivars Kalējs is a Latvian composer, organist and pianist.
Aivars Kalējs, Latvian organist, composer, and pianist
Ana María Shua is an Argentine writer. She is particularly well known for her work in microfiction.
Ana María Shua, Argentinian author and poet
Martin Gerard Bayerle is an American treasure hunter and author, best known for discovering the wreck of the RMS Republic, a White Star Line passenger ship that sank in 1909. He wa…
Martin Bayerle, American treasure hunter
Ron Arad is a British-Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architectural designer. He is best known for his furniture designs, including the postmodern chair Rover.
Ron Arad, Israeli architect and academic
Christian Bobin was a French author and poet.
Christian Bobin, French author and poet (died 2022)
The Committee on Armed Services, sometimes abbreviated SASC for Senate Armed Services Committee, is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of …
The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their
The Talyllyn Railway is a narrow-gauge railway in Wales running for 7+1⁄4 miles (12 km) from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. The line…
Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the wo
A transatlantic flight (TATL) is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, South America, or vice ve…
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Air
The 9th Street Art Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture is the official title artist Franz Kline hand-lettered onto the poster he designed for the Ninth Street Show. Now considere…
The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notab
Nigel Harrison is an English musician. Harrison spent several years as the bassist of the American rock band Blondie during the 1970s and 1980s.
Nigel Harrison, English bass player and songwriter
Enda Kenny is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 2011 to 2017, Leader of Fine Gael from 2002 to 2017, Minister for Defence from May to July 2014 and …
Enda Kenny, Irish educator and politician, 13th Taoiseach of Ireland
Sir Ian McCartney is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Makerfield from 1987 to 2010. McCartney served in Tony Blair's Cabinet from 2003 …
Ian McCartney, Scottish politician, Minister of State for Trade
Sir John Dominic Battle, is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds West from 1987 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he served in government…
John Battle, English politician
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley was an American musician who was the original lead guitarist, occasional vocalist, and a founding member of the rock band Kiss. He invented the persona o…
Ace Frehley, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2025)
Tibet is a region in the southwestern part of China, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau. It is the homeland of the Tibetans. Other ethnic groups also reside on the plateau, inclu…
Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China
Washington State Ferries (WSF) is a public ferry system in the U.S. state of Washington that carries passengers and vehicles. A division of the Washington State Department of Trans…
Washington State Ferries, the largest ferry system in the United States, begins operation under state ownership after a
The UNIVAC I was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer for business applications produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and…
UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U
SS United States is a retired American ocean liner that was built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the Uni…
The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic, Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, or simply Czechoslovakia, was the Czechoslovak state from 1…
Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges…
Vuoristorata is a wooden roller coaster located at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. It was built in the winter of 1950 by Linnanmäki's staff on the basis of draw…
Vuoristorata, one of the oldest still-operating wooden roller coasters in Europe, is opened at the Linnanmäki…
Timothy George Congdon CBE is a British economist.
Tim Congdon, English economist and politician
Larry W. Smith, CQ is a Canadian athlete, businessperson and member of the Senate of Canada. He served as Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from April 2017 until November 2019…
Larry Smith, Canadian football player and politician
Jonathan Donald Stanhope is a former Australian politician who was Labor Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2001 to 2011. Stanhope represented the Ginninderra …
Jon Stanhope, Australian politician