Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running…
Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color, is launched in the United States.
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
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
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. A…
Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
The Xerox 914 was the first successful commercial plain paper copier. Introduced in 1959 by the Haloid/Xerox company, it revolutionized the document-copying industry. The culminati…
The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
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
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
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
Brian Douglas Williams is an American journalist and television news anchor. He was a correspondent for NBC Nightly News starting in 1993, before his promotion to anchor and managi…
Brian Williams, American journalist
Charles Hendry, is a British Conservative Party politician. Formerly the Member of Parliament (MP) for High Peak between the 1992 and 1997 general elections, he was elected as the …
Charles Hendry, English politician
Ronald Mandel Lott is an American former professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons from 1981 to 1994.
Ronnie Lott, American football player and sportscaster
Victoria Lynn Rowell is an American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. She began her career as a ballet dancer and model before making her acting debut in the 1987 come…
Victoria Rowell, American actress
Cindy Hyde-Smith is an American politician and lobbyist serving since 2018 as the junior United States senator from Mississippi. A member of the Republican Party, she served from 2…
Cindy Hyde-Smith, American politician, United States Senator from Mississippi
Irving Rameses Rhames is an American actor. Born and raised in Harlem, New York City, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase before transferring to the Juilliard School, graduating with…
Ving Rhames, American actor
Carlisle Alonza Best is a Barbadian former cricketer who played eight Tests and 24 One Day Internationals for the West Indies. He represented the West Indies at the 1987 World Cup.
Carlisle Best, Barbadian cricketer
Patrick Benguigui, better known by his stage name Patrick Bruel, is a French singer-songwriter, actor and professional poker player. In 2026, he was accused of sexual assault by ei…
Patrick Bruel, French actor, singer, and poker player
Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written seven international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction…
Robert Greene, American author and translator
Richard Claude Vaive is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in the final season of the World Hockey Association (WHA) and played in the National Hockey Leag…
Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Heather Kay Wheeler is a British Conservative Party politician, who was first elected at the 2010 general election as the member of Parliament (MP) for South Derbyshire, taking the…
Heather Wheeler, English politician