Explore 2486 historical events from 1950–1959.
Robert August Varsha is an American broadcast journalist who specializes in covering motorsports. He is best known for being the lap-by-lap commentator for Formula 1 and CART serie…
Bob Varsha, American sportscaster
Stephen James Vickers is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers from 1972 to 1982. He…
Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player
Aivars Kalējs is a Latvian composer, organist and pianist.
Aivars Kalējs, Latvian organist, composer, and pianist
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 run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the wo
A transatlantic flight (TATL) is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, South America, or vice ve…
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Air
The 9th Street Art Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture is the official title artist Franz Kline hand-lettered onto the poster he designed for the Ninth Street Show. Now considere…
The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notab
Tibet is a region in the southwestern part of China, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau. It is the homeland of the Tibetans. Other ethnic groups also reside on the plateau, inclu…
Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China
Washington State Ferries (WSF) is a public ferry system in the U.S. state of Washington that carries passengers and vehicles. A division of the Washington State Department of Trans…
Washington State Ferries, the largest ferry system in the United States, begins operation under state ownership after a
Ana María Shua is an Argentine writer. She is particularly well known for her work in microfiction.
Ana María Shua, Argentinian author and poet
Martin Gerard Bayerle is an American treasure hunter and author, best known for discovering the wreck of the RMS Republic, a White Star Line passenger ship that sank in 1909. He wa…
Martin Bayerle, American treasure hunter
Ron Arad is a British-Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architectural designer. He is best known for his furniture designs, including the postmodern chair Rover.
Ron Arad, Israeli architect and academic
Christian Bobin was a French author and poet.
Christian Bobin, French author and poet (died 2022)
The UNIVAC I was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer for business applications produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and…
UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U
SS United States is a retired American ocean liner that was built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the Uni…
The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic, Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, or simply Czechoslovakia, was the Czechoslovak state from 1…
Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges…
Vuoristorata is a wooden roller coaster located at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. It was built in the winter of 1950 by Linnanmäki's staff on the basis of draw…
Vuoristorata, one of the oldest still-operating wooden roller coasters in Europe, is opened at the Linnanmäki…
Ferrari S.p.A, currently competing as Scuderia Ferrari HP, is the racing division of luxury Italian auto manufacturer Ferrari and the racing team that competes in Formula One racin…
Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Abdullah I was the ruler of Jordan from 11 April 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was the Emir of Transjordan, a British protectorate, until 25 May 1946, after which he was…
King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
Nigel Harrison is an English musician. Harrison spent several years as the bassist of the American rock band Blondie during the 1970s and 1980s.
Nigel Harrison, English bass player and songwriter
Enda Kenny is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 2011 to 2017, Leader of Fine Gael from 2002 to 2017, Minister for Defence from May to July 2014 and …
Enda Kenny, Irish educator and politician, 13th Taoiseach of Ireland
Sir Ian McCartney is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Makerfield from 1987 to 2010. McCartney served in Tony Blair's Cabinet from 2003 …
Ian McCartney, Scottish politician, Minister of State for Trade
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet space program used dogs for suborbital and orbital space flights as proof-of-concept to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. The Sov…
Soviet space dogs: Dezik and Tsygan were launched into a sub-orbital spaceflight from Kapustin Yar and became the…
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the …
Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
Jóannes Dan Eidesgaard is a former Faroese politician. He was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands from 2004, starting shortly after the general election of 20 January 2004, unt…
Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands