Explore 2486 historical events from 1950–1959.
Ryan Lee Stiles is an American-Canadian comedian and actor. His work is often associated with improvisational comedy. He is best known for his work on Whose Line Is It Anyway and f…
Ryan Stiles, American-Canadian actor and comedian
Paula Elizabeth Yates was a British television presenter and writer. She was best known for presenting the Channel 4 television programmes The Tube and The Big Breakfast. She was s…
Paula Yates, British-Australian television host and author (died 2000)
Paul Damian Madden is a retired British diplomat, who was High Commissioner to Singapore and to Australia, and Ambassador to Japan between 2017 and 2021.
Paul Madden, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to Australia
Daniel Joshua Kash is a Canadian actor and film director. He is known for his appearances in films such as Aliens, The Hunt for the BTK Killer, and The Path to 9/11, and in televis…
Daniel Kash, Canadian actor and director
The yard is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international ag…
Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are…
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Similar in size and mass to Earth, Venus has no liquid water, and its atmosphere is far thicker and denser than that of any other rocky bod…
Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the…
NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship, launched on July 21, 1959, two years after the Soviet ice-breaker Lenin, the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel. A demon…
NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's…
Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder who played with the Boston Red Sox (1959–62) and New York Mets (1963). A switch-hitter who threw …
Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to…
The American National Exhibition, held from July 25 to September 4, 1959, was an exhibition of American art, fashion, cars, capitalism, model homes and futuristic kitchens. Held at…
At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier…
Keith Anthony Phillips was an American professional baseball utility player who had an 18-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career from 1982 to 1999. He played regularly at second b…
Tony Phillips, American baseball player (died 2016)
John Corabi is an American hard rock singer and guitarist. He was the frontman of the Scream during 1989 and the frontman of Mötley Crüe between 1992 and 1996 during original front…
John Corabi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer who served as the Governor of Puerto Rico from 2021 to 2025, having previously been the de facto governor fro…
Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rican politician
The Continental League of Professional Baseball Clubs was a proposed third major league for baseball in the United States and Canada. The league was announced in 1959 and scheduled…
The Continental League is announced as baseball's "third major league" in the United States.
Unity Dow is a Motswana lawyer, author, human rights activist and Member of Parliament for Kgatleng West since November 2024. She formerly served as a judge on the High Court of Bo…
Unity Dow, Botswanan judge, author, and rights activist
Sheena Shirley Easton is a Scottish singer, songwriter and actress who rose to prominence in the reality television series The Big Time: Pop Singer (1980). Her record sales worldwi…
Sheena Easton, Scottish-American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni frequently credited simply as Marco, is a British guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with Adam Ant, Sinéad O'Connor, Siouxsie a…
Marco Pirroni, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is to date the only prime minister to have come from the modern…
Stephen Harper, Canadian economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemp…
Yasmina Reza, French actress and playwright
Anthony Charles Wakeford is a British neofolk musician, who primarily records under the name Sol Invictus. He is also a member of the punk rock band Crisis and a co-founder of Deat…
Tony Wakeford, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Uma Bharti is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. She became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age, unsuccessfully contesting her fi…
Uma Bharti, Indian activist and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
Benjamin Charles Elton is a British comedian and writer. He has written and produced for television, radio, films, novels, theatre and musicals, and has performed as a stand-up com…
Ben Elton, English actor, director, and screenwriter
Randy Bruce Traywick, known professionally as Randy Travis, is an American country and gospel music singer and songwriter, as well as a film and television actor. Active since 1979…
Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Robert Ellsworth, best known as Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of New Jersey thrash metal band Overkill. He has been the vocalist of Overki…
Bobby Ellsworth, American singer and bass player
Ian Stephen McCulloch is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Echo & the Bunnymen.
Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist