Explore 3254 historical events from 1950–1959.
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
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second…
A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the ci
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country predominantly in Africa, with a land bridge into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is a transcontinental country. It is bo…
Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce
Linnanmäki is an amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. It was opened on 27 May 1950 and is owned by the non-profit Children's Day Foundation, which operates the park to raise funds …
The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki
RCMPV St. Roch is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America, and the second vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. She w…
The St
"Declaration of Conscience" was a Cold War speech made by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950, less than four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy's "Whee…
The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U
The Chinchaga fire, also known as the Wisp fire, Chinchaga River fire and Fire 19, was a forest fire that burned in northern British Columbia and Alberta in the summer and early fa…
The Chinchaga fire ignites
Maurice André Raymond Herzog was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led the 1950 French Annapurna expedition that first climbed a peak over 800…
Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre p
Two Air France Douglas DC-4 aircraft crashed two days apart in June 1950 within a few miles of each other and under similar circumstances. These two accidents, on 12 and 14 June, o…
An Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes near Bahrain International Airport, killing 46 people
Two Air France Douglas DC-4 aircraft crashed two days apart in June 1950 within a few miles of each other and under similar circumstances. These two accidents, on 12 and 14 June, o…
An Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes near Bahrain International Airport, killing 40 people
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an authorita…
Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races
The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel.
The Knesset of Israel passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to the Land of Israel.
The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, w…
Korean War: beginning of the Battle of Taejon.
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
Edith Spurlock Sampson was an American lawyer, diplomat and civil rights advocate known for being the first African American to officially represent the United States at the United…
Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, w…
The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea
The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, w…
The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War
The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, w…
Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre
The Hangang Bridge bombing was a demolition operation conducted by the South Korean Army to destroy the Hangang Bridge in Seoul, South Korea, on 28 June 1950, to delay the rapid No…
Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow
The Korean People's Army encompasses the combined military forces of North Korea and the armed wing of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). The KPA consists of five branches: the Gro…
Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers i
Frank Pace Jr. was the 3rd United States Secretary of the Army and a business executive.
To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to seize…