Explore 3254 historical events from 1950–1959.
Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciat…
Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (born 1883)
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis was an American children's writer. She received the Newbery Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (born 1892)
Joseph Franklin Demaree was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played all or part of twelve seasons in the majors for the Chicago Cubs, New York Giants (1939–41), Bos…
Frank Demaree, American baseball player and manager (born 1910)
Francis J. "Mickey" McCormick was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at St. Norbert College from 1934 to 1942 and at Carroll…
Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (born 1903)
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radio…
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
Jacob Mironovich Lomakin was a Soviet diplomat, journalist and economist.
Jacob M. Lomakin, Soviet Consul General in New York City, journalist and economist (born 1904)
Arthur George Fox was an English-American fencer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (born 1878)
Roger Martin du Gard was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
Paul Henry was an Irish artist noted for depicting the West of Ireland landscape in a spare Post-Impressionist style.
Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (born 1876)
Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symp…
Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (born 1872)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope se…
Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during Wo…
Controversial American poet Ezra Pound (pictured) was released from St
United Air Lines Flight 736 was a scheduled American transcontinental passenger service flown daily by United Airlines between Los Angeles and New York City. On April 21, 1958, the…
United Airlines Flight 736 collided with a U
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam-operated common carrier. Construction of the line began in 1828, and it operated as…
Service ended on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue Line, one of the first major electrified train lines in th
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in b…
US vice president Richard Nixon's motorcade was attacked by a mob in Caracas, Venezuela
Frederick Benjamin Carlin was an Australian adventurer who was the first person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle. Born in Northam, Western Australia, Carlin att…
The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin (pictured) became the only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehi
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic interceptor. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the "Century Series" of fighter aircraft for the…
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor aircraft, set a world flight airspeed record of 1,404
The 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom and riots in Ceylon, also known as the 58 riots, refer to the first island-wide ethnic riots and pogrom to target the minority Tamils in the Dominion of …
Ethnic riots mostly targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils broke out in Ceylon, resulting in at least 158 deaths over
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber that was developed by McDonn…
The F-4 Phantom II, the principal air superiority jet fighter for both the U
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera…
English composer Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde was premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival
The 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake occurred on July 9, 1958, at 22:15:58 PST with a moment magnitude of 7.8 to 8.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The strike-slip ear…
An earthquake struck Lituya Bay, Alaska; the subsequent megatsunami, the largest in modern times, reached an elevation…
Ngô Đình Diệm was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 until …
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor
Ellen Louks Fairclough was a Canadian politician. A Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1950 to 1963, she was the first woman ever to serve in th…
Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister
The Suez Crisis, also known as the second Arab–Israeli war, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt …
Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region