Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Althea Neale Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became …
American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National…
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 "Great Smoke Pall", generated by the Chinchaga fire, the largest recorded fire in North American history, was…
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: The Korean People's Army retreated from the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter after six weeks of fighting,…
A field-sequential color system (FSC) is a color television system in which the primary color information is transmitted in successive images and which relies on the human vision …
A field-sequential color system developed by Hungarian-American engineer Peter Goldmark became the first color…
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American commercial broadcast television network and the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Skydance. It is one of P…
CBS's field-sequential color system for television was the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal…
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven portal fantasy novels by British author C. S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 1950 and 1956, the…
The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was…
The People's Volunteer Army (PVA), officially the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV), was the designation for the Chinese communist contingent of armed expeditionary forces deployed…
The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st…