Explore 1065 historical events from 1950–1959.
Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius af…
Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (born 1870)
Jules Berry was a French actor.
Jules Berry, French actor and director (born 1883)
Charles Gates Dawes was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under President Calvin Coolidge. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for h…
Charles G
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in both atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students fo…
Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (born 1868)
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1889)
Élie Joseph Cartan was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems, and differential geometry. He also made signi…
Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (born 1869)
Warner Leroy Baxter was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film In Old Arizona, for which he won the Acad…
Warner Baxter, American actor (born 1889)
Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood was a senior and highly decorated and distinguished British Indian Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer…
William Birdwood, Anglo-Indian field marshal (born 1865)
Thomas N. Heffron was a screenwriter, actor, and a director. He was born in Nevada, He worked as an attorney and danced in vaudeville before he began his career in film with Thanho…
Thomas N
Paula Preradović, known professionally as Paula von Preradović or by her married name as Paula Molden, was an Austrian writer and poet of Croatian and Serbian descent.
Paula von Preradović, Croatian poet and author (born 1887)
Lincoln Ellsworth was an American polar explorer, engineer, surveyor, and writer. He led the first Arctic and Antarctic air crossings.
Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer (born 1880)
Fania Borach, known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedian, illustrated song model, singer, and actress who made many stage, radio, and film appear…
Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (born 1891)
Dimitrios Levidis was a Greek composer, later naturalized French (1929).
Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier and composer (born 1885)
Hermann Broch was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil.
Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author (born 1886)
Serge Koussevitzky was a Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 194…
Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (born 1874)
The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire, it extends into Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordsh…
The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom
The Korean War was an armed conflict the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, whil…
Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army attacked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces, st
William Nathan Oatis was an American journalist who gained international attention when he was charged with espionage by the communist Czechoslovakia in 1951. He was subsequently j…
American journalist William N
The Talyllyn Railway is a narrow-gauge railway in Wales running for 7+1⁄4 miles (12 km) from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. The line…
Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in th
This is a list of mass stabbings that took place before 2010. It includes incidents in which there were at least three casualties.
The Nainital wedding massacre occurs, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste
The Tollund Man is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 5th century BC, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found…
The Tollund Man was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a re…
Robert Schuman presents the "Schuman Declaration", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now
The 1950 British Grand Prix, formally known as The Royal Automobile Club Grand Prix d'Europe Incorporating The British Grand Prix, was a Formula One motor race held on 13 May 1950 …
The inaugural Formula One World Championship race takes place at Silverstone Circuit
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second…
A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the ci