Explore 1426 historical events from 1950–1959.
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was a German army general and military theorist. A pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in the development of the panz…
Heinz Guderian, Prussian-German general (born 1888)
William March was an American writer of psychological fiction and a highly decorated U.S. Marine. The author of six novels and four short-story collections, March was praised by cr…
William March, American soldier and author (born 1893)
Clemens Heinrich Krauss was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss and Richard Wagner. He founded the…
Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (born 1893)
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. H…
Charles Ives, American composer and educator (born 1874)
Charles Albert "Chief" Bender was a Native American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball during the 1900s and 1910s. In 1911, Bender tied a record by p…
Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1884)
Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
Robert Capa, Hungarian photographer and journalist (born 1913)
Antonis Benakis (1873–1954) was a Greek art collector and the founder of the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, the son of politician and magnate Emmanuel Benakis and the brother of …
Antonis Benakis, Greek art collector and philanthropist, founded the Benaki Museum (born 1873)
Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and dur…
Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish-German journalist and author (born 1869)
Donato Joseph "Danny" Cedrone was an American guitarist and bandleader, best known for his work with Bill Haley & His Comets on their epochal "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954.
Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and bandleader (born 1920)
Oxford is a cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.
At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minu
Lionel Pretoria Conacher, nicknamed "the Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championsh…
Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (born 1900)
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development o…
Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912)
In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. Th…
Batting for the Milwaukee Braves against Vic Raschi of the St
Dungannon is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the historic county and had a population of 16,282 at the 2021 Census. Since 2015, the town…
A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the …
The security clearance of American nuclear physicist J
Diane Susan Leather Charles, née Leather, was an English athlete who was the first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile.
Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes
The United States Army is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is designated as the army of the United States in the United States Constitution. As a part …
During hearings investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy, Army l
Dominic Savio was a 19th-century Italian teenager who was a student of John Bosco and became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age…
Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at his death in 1857, was canonized by Pope Pius XII, making him one of the youngest
Carlos Castillo Armas was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who was the 28th president of Guatemala, serving from 1954 to 1957 after taking power in a coup d'état. A mem…
Carlos Castillo Armas led a CIA-sponsored invasion force across the Guatemalan border, beginning the 1954 Guatemalan cou
3D television (3DTV) is a type of television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, or any other form…
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World …
Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
The crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 318 was an accident involving a Douglas DC-3 of the American airline Delta Air Lines 13 miles (21 km) east of Marshall, Texas, United States on …
Delta Air Lines Flight 318 crashes near Marshall, Texas, killing 19
Peter Robert Garrett is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician.
Peter Garrett, Australian singer-songwriter and politician