Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
María África Gracia Vidal, known professionally as Maria Montez, was a Dominican actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor c…
Maria Montez, Dominican-French actress (born 1912)
John French Sloan was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as Th…
John French Sloan, American painter and etcher (born 1871)
Fritz Busch was a German conductor.
Fritz Busch, German conductor and director (born 1890)
James Edward Yancey was an American boogie-woogie pianist, composer, and lyricist. One reviewer described him as "one of the pioneers of this raucous, rapid-fire, eight-to-the-bar …
Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer (born 1898)
William Nathan Oatis was an American journalist who gained international attention when he was charged with espionage by the communist Czechoslovakia in 1951. He was subsequently j…
American journalist William N
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 American coming-of-age novel by American author J. D. Salinger. It was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951…
The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published (cover pictured).
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 American coming-of-age novel by American author J. D. Salinger. It was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951…
The Catcher in the Rye (cover pictured), an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was published by Little,…
Frank Gelett Burgess was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. He was an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, part…
Gelett Burgess, American author and poet (born 1866)
The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire, it extends into Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordsh…
The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom
The Korean War was an armed conflict the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, whil…
Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army attacked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces, st
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 ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in th
William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were j…
William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser…
Abdullah I was the ruler of Jordan from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was the Emir of Transjordan, a British protectorate, until 25 May 1946, after which he was…
Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated while visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
This is a list of mass stabbings that took place before 2010. It includes incidents in which there were at least three casualties.
The Nainital wedding massacre occurs, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste
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 was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a re…
Robert Schuman presents the "Schuman Declaration", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now
The 1950 British Grand Prix, formally known as The Royal Automobile Club Grand Prix d'Europe Incorporating The British Grand Prix, was a Formula One motor race held on 13 May 1950 …
The inaugural Formula One World Championship race takes place at Silverstone Circuit
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second…
A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the ci
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country predominantly in Africa, with a land bridge into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is a transcontinental country. It is bo…
Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce
Linnanmäki is an amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. It was opened on 27 May 1950 and is owned by the non-profit Children's Day Foundation, which operates the park to raise funds …
The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki
RCMPV St. Roch is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America, and the second vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. She w…
The St
"Declaration of Conscience" was a Cold War speech made by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950, less than four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy's "Whee…
The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U
The Chinchaga fire, also known as the Wisp fire, Chinchaga River fire and Fire 19, was a forest fire that burned in northern British Columbia and Alberta in the summer and early fa…
The Chinchaga fire ignites
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…
Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre p