Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Robert James Smith is an English musician who is the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, a post-punk band formed in 19…
Robert Smith, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Terry Jon Francona, nicknamed "Tito", is an American professional baseball manager and former player who is the manager of the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). He pr…
Terry Francona, American baseball player and manager
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
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…
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.
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 International and State Defense Police was a Portuguese security agency that existed during the Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Formally, the main roles of t…
Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
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 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Alexander S. Pushkin Sheremetyevo International Airport, more commonly known as Sheremetyevo International Airport or simply Sheremetyevo is the busiest of the four international a…
Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Foot…
Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
American Airlines Flight 514 was a training flight from Idlewild International Airport in Queens, New York, to the Grumman Aircraft Corporation airfield in Calverton, New York. On …
American Airlines Flight 514, a Boeing 707, crashes near the Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, New York,…
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
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
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government an…
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.…
Phan Quang Đán was a Vietnamese political opposition figure who was one of only two non-government politicians who won a seat in the 1959 South Vietnamese election for the National…
South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan is elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in…
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, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm,…
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissol…
The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon.