Explore 3254 historical events from 1950–1959.
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)
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)
Cho Ki-chon was a Soviet-born North Korean poet. He is regarded as a national poet and "founding father of North Korean poetry" whose distinct Soviet-influenced style of lyrical ep…
Cho Ki-chon, North Korean poet (born 1913)
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He laid the foundation for the Hearst family's mass media empire via his control of the Hearst Corporati…
William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (born 1863)
Artur Schnabel was an Austrian-born classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. A…
Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (born 1882)
İzzettin Çalışlar was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. He is known for his achievements in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. He later joined t…
İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (born 1882)
Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founding music director of the Royal Ballet, and he was a major figure in the establishment of th…
Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (born 1905)
John Paris Bickell was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and sports team owner. He is best known for his long-time association with the Toronto Maple Leafs professional ice h…
Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1884)
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,…