Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Wayne Morris was an American film and television actor, as well as a decorated World War II fighter ace. He appeared in many films, including Paths of Glory (1957), The Bushwackers…
Wayne Morris, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1914)
Benjamin Péret was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist, and founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism.
Benjamin Péret, French poet and journalist (born 1899)
Abdul Muis, was an Indonesian writer, journalist and nationalist. He advocated for Indonesia's independence from the Netherlands. He was the first person to be named an Indonesian …
Writer and politician Abdul Muis became the first person to be awarded the posthumous title of National Hero of…
The Tritons’ Fountain is a fountain located in Floriana, Malta. It consists of three bronze Tritons holding up a large basin, balanced on a concentric base built out of concrete an…
The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, one of Malta's most important Modernist landmarks, was turned on for the first time
The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane motorway bridge over Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It joins St Marys Bay on the Auckland city side with Northcote on the …
The Auckland Harbour Bridge, spanning Waitematā Harbour between the Saint Marys Bay and Northcote suburbs of Auckland, N
The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane motorway bridge over Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It joins St Marys Bay on the Auckland city side with Northcote on the …
The Auckland Harbour Bridge officially opened, connecting the suburbs of Saint Marys Bay and Northcote in Auckland, New
Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones are low-pressure areas which, along with anticyclones, drive the weather over much of the mid-latitu…
The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St
B. Anthony Stewart was an American photographer with National Geographic. Stewart is known for having the first image featured on the cover of the magazine, that of the 49-star fla…
B. Anthony Stewart is credited with the first image on the cover of National Geographic featuring the 49-star flag of…
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. It is widely regarde…
The inaugural International Mathematical Olympiad, the leading mathematical competition for pre-university students,…
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. A…
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. vice president Richard Nixon held an impromptu debate (pictured) at the…
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and painter. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century m…
American musician Miles Davis released Kind of Blue, which became one of the best-selling and most critically…
The 1959 Coatzacoalcos earthquake occurred at 02:25 local time on August 26 near the Mexican state of Veracruz. The earthquake measured 6.4 Mw at a depth of 21 km (13 mi), and had …
The Coatzacoalcos earthquake struck near the Mexican state of Veracruz, killing 25 people.
Alice Mona Best was a British music club proprietor, best known as the owner of The Casbah Coffee Club, a club in Liverpool which served as a venue for rock and roll music during t…
Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.
The Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as South Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated St…
South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Đán was elected to the National Assembly, despite soldiers being bussed…
A letter bomb is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened. They have been used in terrorist atta…
A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu (pictured), younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô…
Luna 2, originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media, was the sixth of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to t…
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (model pictured) struck the Moon, the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body.
Aeroméxico Flight 111 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tijuana to Acapulco with stopovers in Mazatlán, Guadalajara, and Mexico City. On June 2, 1958, the Lockheed L-749 Const…
Aeronaves de México Flight 111 crashes on approach to Guadalajara International Airport, killing 45
Aeroflot Flight 105 was an aviation accident involving an Ilyushin Il-12P aircraft operated by Aeroflot, which occurred on June 9, 1958 near Magadan, Russia, resulting in the death…
Aeroflot Flight 105 crashes on approach to Magdan-13 Airport, killing 24
United Air Lines Flight 736 was a scheduled American transcontinental passenger service flown daily by United Airlines between Los Angeles and New York City. On April 21, 1958, the…
United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterp
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam-operated common carrier. Construction of the line began in 1828, and it operated as…
Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D
Dwight David Eisenhower, also known as Ike, was the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. In his previously military career, he led the Allied Expeditionary Force …
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
The African Regroupment Party was a political party in the French African colonies.
The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
The Explorers Program is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space. Launched i…
Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas. Caracas is located along …
During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, the US Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrato