Explore 4242 historical events from 1950–1959.
Kathleen Norris "Koo" Stark is an American photographer and actress, known for her relationship with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and her roles in erotic films. She is a patron of th…
Koo Stark, American actress and photographer
Bryan Taber Harvey was an American musician noted for his fronting role in House of Freaks.
Bryan Harvey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006)
Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter.
Lars von Trier, Danish director and screenwriter
Régis Labeaume is a Canadian businessman, writer and politician. He served as mayor of Quebec City from 2007 to 2021. He was first elected on December 2, 2007, after the death of f…
Régis Labeaume, Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Quebec City
Nantucket is an island in Massachusetts, United States, about 30 miles (48 km) south of the Cape Cod peninsula. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it const…
Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in…
The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. The group is the largest development bank in the world…
Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the…
In the United States Congress, a joint resolution is a legislative measure that requires passage by the Senate and the House of Representatives and is presented to the President …
A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as…
1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1955th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 955th year of the 2nd m…
After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing…
Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station is a former Magnox nuclear power station on the Sellafield site in Cumbria in North West England. Calder Hall was the first full-scale nuclear pow…
The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the…
Kenneth Ray Oberkfell is an American former third baseman. He played from 1977 to 1992 for six different teams. Oberkfell primarily played third base but he also played over 400 ca…
Ken Oberkfell, American baseball player and coach
Steve Scott is an American former track athlete who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Track & Field News ranked Scott #1 in the U.S. on ten occasio…
Steve Scott, American runner and coach
Jan Pieter Balkenende Jr., commonly known as Jan Peter Balkenende, is a Dutch jurist and politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who served as Prime Minister of the Net…
Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch jurist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20t…
Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive for secondary storage. The system was publicly announced on September 14, 1956, with tes…
The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms …
A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean passes into the Gulf of Mexico and is upgraded and named…
TAT-1 was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. It was laid between Kerrera, Oban, Scotland, and Clarenville, Newfoundland. Two cables were laid between 1955 an…
TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
Milburn Grant "Mel" Apt was a U.S. Air Force test pilot, and the first man to attain speeds faster than Mach 3. He was killed after separating from the Bell X-2 in his escape capsu…
USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of…
Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner is an English theatre and film director, and film producer. He was previously the Artistic Director of London's National Theatre. His major successes as …
Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer
Jean-Charles Lapierre was a Canadian politician and television and radio broadcaster. After retiring from the government in 2007, he served as a political analyst in a variety of v…
Jean Lapierre, Canadian talk show host and politician (died 2016)
Jeffrey Wincott is a Canadian actor and martial artist best known for his lead role in the television series Night Heat.
Jeff Wincott, Canadian actor and martial artist
Wendy Jane Crewson is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in the 1991 dramatic film The Doctor.
Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress and producer
Mickey Mae Faerch, also known as Mickey Mae and Yung Mae, is a Danish-Canadian burlesque dancer, actress, and rapper who appeared in the films Sincerely Saul (2024), Josie (2018), …
Mickey Faerch, Danish-Canadian burlesque dancer and actress
James Dixon Barnes is an Australian rock singer. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular …
Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Anne Jennifer Dudley is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in t…
Anne Dudley, English pianist and composer