Explore 3918 historical events from 1950–1959.
Mary McLeod Bethune was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and pr…
Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (born 1875)
James Rufus Agee was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the Un…
James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(born 1909)
Alberto Ascari was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1955. Ascari won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1952 and …
Alberto Ascari, Italian racing driver (born 1918)
William Vukovich was an American racing driver. He won the 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500s, plus two more American Automobile Association National Championship races, and died whil…
Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (born 1918)
Duncan Max Meldrum was a Scottish-born Australian artist and art teacher, best known as the founder of Australian tonalism, a representational painting style that became popular in…
Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter and educator (born 1875)
Margaret Ives Abbott was an American amateur golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (born 1876)
Pierre Eugène Alfred Bouillin was a French sportsman and racing driver. He took the racing name Pierre Levegh in memory of his uncle Alfred Velghe, a pioneering driver who died in …
Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (born 1905)
Ozias Leduc was a Canadian painter who was an early painter in Quebec. He produced portraits and landscapes. According to Laurier Lacroix, he was the first Canadian artist who can …
Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter (born 1864)
Engelbert Zaschka was a German chief engineer, chief designer and inventor. Zaschka is one of the first German helicopter pioneers and he is a pioneer of flying with muscle power a…
Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (born 1895)
Hermann Max Pechstein was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and a member of the Die Brücke group. He fought on the Western Front during World War I and his art was clas…
Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (born 1881)
Edward Lawson VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Co…
Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1873)
Ali Naci Karacan was a Turkish journalist and publisher. He was involved in founding the Turkish daily newspapers Akşam (1918) and Milliyet (1955), and his family, including grands…
Ali Naci Karacan, Turkish journalist and publisher (born 1896)
Donald Bentley Beauman was a British racing driver who took part in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix.
Don Beauman, English race car driver (born 1928)
Felipe Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor was a Mexican politician, the 45th President of Mexico from 1 June to 30 November 1920, following the assassination of President Venustiano Carran…
Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican politician and provisional president, 1920 (born 1881)
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western developme…
Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (born 1869)
Cordell Hull was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States secretary of state for nearly twelve years under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 to …
Cordell Hull, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate…
Joseph Alfred Pierre Hormisdas "Pit" Lépine was a Canadian ice hockey forward and coach. He was born in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.
Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1901)
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an exe…
Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (born 1879)
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, known professionally as Carmen Miranda, was a Portuguese-Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress. Nicknamed "the Brazilian Bombshell," she was known …
Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (born 1909)
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic…
Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)
James Batcheller Sumner was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northr…
James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
George Herbert Putnam was an American librarian. He was the eighth Librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939. He implemented his vision of a universal collection with strengths in ma…
Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (born 1861)
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American boy who, at 14 years old, was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers dr…
Emmett Till, African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (born 1941)
Haydn William Bunton was an Australian rules footballer who represented Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and P…
Haydn Bunton Sr., Australian footballer and coach (born 1911)