Explore 1065 historical events from 1950–1959.
Dennis Dexter Haysbert is an American actor and voice actor. He is known for his roles as President David Palmer on the first five seasons of 24, baseball player Pedro Cerrano in t…
Dennis Haysbert, American actor and producer
Daniel Grafton Hill IV is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major international hits with his songs "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda S…
Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter
Raphael Ravenscroft was a British musician, composer and author. He is best known for playing the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song "Baker Street".
Raphael Ravenscroft, English saxophonist and composer (died 2014)
Kazuhiro Yamaji is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. He has been married to Romi Park since 2020.
Kazuhiro Yamaji, Japanese actor and voice actor
Emil Leon Post was an American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory.
Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (born 1897)
Guy Mairesse was a French racing driver. He participated in three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 3 September 1950. He scored no championship points.
Guy Mairesse, French racing driver (born 1910)
Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu was a Romanian communist politician and leading member of the Communist Party of Romania (PCR), also noted for his activities as a lawyer, sociologist and econo…
Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian lawyer and politician, Romanian Minister of Justice (born 1900)
Léon Jouhaux was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951.
Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was a German army general and military theorist. A pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in the development of the panz…
Heinz Guderian, Prussian-German general (born 1888)
William March was an American writer of psychological fiction and a highly decorated U.S. Marine. The author of six novels and four short-story collections, March was praised by cr…
William March, American soldier and author (born 1893)
Clemens Heinrich Krauss was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss and Richard Wagner. He founded the…
Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (born 1893)
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. H…
Charles Ives, American composer and educator (born 1874)
Charles Albert "Chief" Bender was a Native American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball during the 1900s and 1910s. In 1911, Bender tied a record by p…
Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1884)
Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
Robert Capa, Hungarian photographer and journalist (born 1913)
Lionel Pretoria Conacher, nicknamed "the Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championsh…
Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (born 1900)
Antonis Benakis (1873–1954) was a Greek art collector and the founder of the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, the son of politician and magnate Emmanuel Benakis and the brother of …
Antonis Benakis, Greek art collector and philanthropist, founded the Benaki Museum (born 1873)
Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and dur…
Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish-German journalist and author (born 1869)
Oxford is a cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.
At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minu
In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. Th…
Batting for the Milwaukee Braves against Vic Raschi of the St
Dungannon is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the historic county and had a population of 16,282 at the 2021 Census. Since 2015, the town…
A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in
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…
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the …
The security clearance of American nuclear physicist J
Diane Susan Leather Charles, née Leather, was an English athlete who was the first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile.
Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes
3D television (3DTV) is a type of television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, or any other form…
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