Explore 1065 historical events from 1950–1959.
Katherine Agnew MacDonald was an American stage and film actress, film producer, and model. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was the older sister of actresses Miriam Ma…
Katherine MacDonald, American actress and producer (born 1881)
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the d…
Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (born 1872)
Aloysius Harry Simmons was an American professional baseball outfielder who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "Bucketfoot Al", he had his best years with …
Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (born 1902)
Jean Pierre Carl Buron, known professionally as Jean Hersholt, was a Danish-American actor. He is most famous for starring on the CBS radio series Dr. Christian from 1937–1954, rep…
Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director (born 1886)
Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her m…
American actress Grace Kelly (pictured) became the princess consort of Monaco upon her marriage to Rainier III
The Eurovision Song Contest 1956, originally titled the Gran premio Eurovisione 1956 della canzone europea, was the first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 24 May 195…
The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland
Bandung is the capital city of the West Java province of Indonesia. Located on the western highland of Java island, it has one of the coolest climates compared to other provincial …
Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference
The Bonn–Paris conventions were signed in May 1952 and came into force after the 1955 ratification. The conventions put an end to the Allied occupation of West Germany.
The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into
Henri is a member of the grand ducal family of Luxembourg who reigned as Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 2000 until his abdication in 2025.
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Todd Arlan Lickliter is the former head coach of the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). He was previously the head coach of Maria…
Todd Lickliter, American basketball player and coach
Pete Shelley was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He formed early punk band Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto in 1976, and became the lead singer and guitarist in 1977 when …
Pete Shelley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018)
The first large-scale Asian–African or Afro–Asian Conference, also known as the Bandung Conference, was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent,…
The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns coloniali
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: West Germany joins NATO
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pac
Operation Passage to Freedom was a term used by the United States Navy to describe the propaganda effort and the assistance in transporting 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers a…
Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the
Michael Adrian Stroud, OBE, FRCP is a professor of medicine and nutrition at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, England. He has interests in gastroenterology and human hea…
Mike Stroud, English physician and explorer
Murathan Mungan is a Turkish author, short story writer, playwright, and poet.
Murathan Mungan, Turkish author, poet, and playwright
Anthony John Miles was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title.
Tony Miles, English chess player (died 2001)
Urmas Ott was an Estonian television and radio journalist, and talk show host in Soviet Union, Estonia and Russia.
Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (died 2008)
Rialuth Serge Vohor was a Vanuatuan politician. He hailed from the largest island of Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo, from Port Olry.
Serge Vohor, Vanuatuan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (died 2024)
The Fujita scale, or Fujita–Pearson scale, is a retired scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation…
In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas as part of a larger outbreak acros
Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit lies at 8,586 m (28,169 ft) in a section of the Himalayas, the Kangchenjunga Himal, which is bounded in the wes…
First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: On the British Kangchenjunga expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The U
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It…
The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinu