Explore 2486 historical events from 1950–1959.
Vilhelm Kiviniemi was a Finnish farmer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Lapla…
Ville Kiviniemi, Finnish politician (born 1877)
Yrjö Erik Mikael Saarela was a Finnish wrestler who won Olympic gold and a world championship.
Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (born 1884)
Tadeusz Borowski was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish lit…
Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, novelist and journalist (born 1922)
Charles Dillon Perrine was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argent…
Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (born 1867)
Harry Edwin Heilmann, nicknamed "Slug", was an American baseball player and radio announcer. He played professional baseball for 19 years between 1913 and 1932, including 17 season…
Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1894)
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, and teacher associated with developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance…
Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (born 1874)
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…
Abdullah I, king of Jordan (born 1882)
Robert Joseph Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922). The film m…
Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (born 1884)
Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain, better known as Marshal Pétain, was a French military officer who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of th…
Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (born 1856)
Sir James Mitchell, was an Australian politician. He served as premier of Western Australia from 1919 to 1924 and from 1930 to 1933, as leader of the Nationalist Party. He then hel…
James Mitchell, Australian politician, 13th Premier of Western Australia (born 1866)
Paul Nikolai Kogerman was an Estonian chemist and founder of modern research in oil shale.
Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Education (born 1891)
Ali Sami Yen, born Ali Sami Frashëri was a Turkish Albanian sports official best known as the founder of the Galatasaray Sports Club.
Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded Galatasaray S.K. (born 1886)
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 Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 American coming-of-age novel by American author J. D. Salinger. It was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951…
The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published (cover pictured).
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
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
William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were j…
William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser…
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…
Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated while visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 American coming-of-age novel by American author J. D. Salinger. It was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951…
The Catcher in the Rye (cover pictured), an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was published by Little,…
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