Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into E…
The U.S. crewed space-flight project is renamed to Project Mercury.
Pioneer 1 was an American space probe, the first under the auspices of NASA, which was launched by a Thor-Able rocket on 11 October 1958. It was intended to orbit the Moon and make…
NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
Springhill mining disaster may refer to any of three deadly Canadian mining disasters that occurred in 1891, 1956, and 1958 in different mines within the Springhill coalfield, near…
Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued.
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands …
Belgian artist Peyo's comic characters, the Smurfs, make their debut in Spirou magazine.
Eve Aline Plumb is an American actress, singer and painter. She is best known for portraying the middle daughter Jan Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch.
Eve Plumb, American actress
Charles Berling is a French actor, director and screenwriter.
Charles Berling, French actor, director, and screenwriter
Yasushi Akimoto is a Japanese record producer, lyricist, and television writer, best known for creating and producing some of Japan's top idol groups, Onyanko Club and the AKB48 f…
Yasushi Akimoto, Japanese songwriter and producer
David Anthony O'Leary is a football manager and former player. The majority of his 20-year playing career was spent as a central defender at Arsenal, where his tally of 722 appeara…
David O'Leary, English-Irish footballer and manager
Boleslav William Felix Robert Sienkiewicz is an American artist known for his work in comic books—particularly for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants, Moon Knight, and Elektra: Assassi…
Bill Sienkiewicz, American author and illustrator
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was a major airline in the United States that was the largest internationa…
Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
Iskander Ali Mirza was a Pakistani politician and military general who served as the fourth and last governor-general of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956, and as the first president of P…
Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer…
Viacheslav Alexandrovich "Slava" Fetisov MP is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman, coach, politician and sports official. He played for HC CSKA Moscow for 13 seaso…
Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
Michael Zarnock is an American writer of collector guides and articles about Hot Wheels toy cars and accessories. Zarnock is known for a massive Hot Wheels collection that earned h…
Michael Zarnock, American author
Derek William Dick, better known by his stage name Fish, is a retired Scottish singer, songwriter and occasional actor. He was the lead singer and lyricist of the neo-prog band Mar…
Fish, Scottish singer-songwriter
Sandra Birgitte Toksvig is a Danish-British broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer on British radio, stage and television. She is also a political activist, having co-founded …
Sandi Toksvig, Danish-English comedian, writer, and broadcaster
Keith Allen Haring was an American artist and activist. His bold, graphic imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language." Emerging from New York City's downtown art and g…
Keith Haring, American painter (died 1990)
Berto "Robert" DiPierdomenico is a retired Australian rules footballer who represented Hawthorn in the Australian Football League (AFL) from the 1970s to the 1990s. Popularly known…
Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer and sportscaster
Anne Marie Rafferty, Baroness Rafferty is a British nurse, academic and researcher. She is the professor of nursing policy and the former dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty o…
Anne Marie Rafferty, English nurse and academic
Dame Caroline Alice Spelman is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands from 1997 to 2019. From May 2010…
Caroline Spelman, English politician, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
William "Bill" Ridenour is an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from the 100th district.
William Ridenour, American politician
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of …
Roddy Doyle, Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Brooks Phillip Victor Newmark is a former British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament and minister. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Braintr…
Brooks Newmark, American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury
Sayuri Kume, also known as Saki Kubota, is a Japanese singer-songwriter whose song Ihojin (1979) sold more than 1.4 million copies and reached number 1 in the Japanese singles char…
Sayuri Kume, Japanese singer-songwriter
Richard John Santorum is an American politician, attorney, author, and former CNN political commentator, who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007.…
Rick Santorum, American lawyer and politician, United States Senator from Pennsylvania