Explore 1065 historical events from 1950–1959.
The crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 318 was an accident involving a Douglas DC-3 of the American airline Delta Air Lines 13 miles (21 km) east of Marshall, Texas, United States on …
Delta Air Lines Flight 318 crashes near Marshall, Texas, killing 19
Peter Robert Garrett is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician.
Peter Garrett, Australian singer-songwriter and politician
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World …
Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in d…
Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid"
Operation Moolah was a United States Air Force (USAF) effort during the Korean War to obtain through defection a fully capable Soviet MiG-15 jet fighter. Communist forces introduce…
Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South K
Frederick Allan Moranis is a Canadian actor, comedian, musician, producer, songwriter and writer.
Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the MLA of Moyna Assembly constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Asse…
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Sebastian Charles Faulks is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is most notable for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Cha…
Sebastian Faulks, English journalist and author
James Chance, also known as James White, was an American saxophonist, keyboard player, and singer.
James Chance, American musician (died 2024)
James Vincent Russo is an American film and television actor. He has appeared in over 150 films in three decades.
James Russo, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Eric Michael Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, and historian. Descended from Armenian-American immigrants, he grew up in Watertown and Woburn, Massa…
Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer
A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. The combination of a semi-trailer and a tractor truck is called a semi-trailer truck.
Two men are rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacram
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has …
Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea
Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan at the confluence of the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickin…
Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a walkout, marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery stri
Jacqueline Cochran was an American pilot and business executive. She pioneered women's aviation and was the first woman to break the sound barrier on 18 May 1953. Cochran was the w…
Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been car…
Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test
Public broadcasting is radio, television, and other electronic media whose primary mission is public service with a commitment to avoiding political and commercial influence. Publi…
The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the U
Ronald Francis Clements is an American animator and filmmaker. He often collaborates with fellow director John Musker and is best known for writing and directing the Disney animate…
Ron Clements, American animator, producer, and screenwriter
Gary John Cosier is a former Australian international cricketer who played in 18 Test matches and nine One Day Internationals between 1975 and 1979. Cosier's star shone very briefl…
Gary Cosier, Australian cricketer
Anthony James Venables, CBE,, is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
Anthony Venables, English economist, author, and academic
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers con…
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay
The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London. Elizabeth acceded to the t…
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first majo
John Mansfield Brumby is the current Chancellor of La Trobe University and former Victorian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became leader o…
John Brumby, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Victoria
Arielle Dombasle is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's …
Arielle Dombasle, French-American actress and model