Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Thomas William Cahill was one of the founding fathers of soccer in the United States, and is considered the most important administrator in U.S. Soccer before World War II. Cahill…
Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (born 1864)
Peter McWilliam was a Scottish footballer who played at left-half for Inverness Thistle, Newcastle United and Scotland. He won every domestic trophy during his nine years with Newc…
Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager (born 1878)
Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lin…
Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (born 1920)
Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
Anton Frederik Philips was a Dutch businessman. He is one of the co-founders of the Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in 1912 with his older brother Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, Nethe…
Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (born 1874)
Will Keith Kellogg was an American industrialist in food manufacturing, who founded the Kellogg Company, which produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals. He was a member…
Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (born 1860)
Liaquat Ali Khan was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. He played a key role…
Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1895)
Robert Grant Aitken was an American astronomer.
Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (born 1864)
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
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,…
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.
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league in North America composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), …
In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning…
The First Battle of Maryang-san, also known as the Defensive Battle of Maliangshan, was fought during the Korean War between United Nations Command (UN) forces—primarily Australian…
The First Battle of Maryang-san, widely regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest accomplishments during the…
College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football…
African-American college football player Johnny Bright was the victim of an on-field assault, eventually leading to…
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