Explore 1426 historical events from 1950–1959.
An extremely devastating and deadly tornado outbreak impacted the Midwestern and Northeastern United States at the beginning of June 1953. It included two tornadoes that caused at …
The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin
On 23 July 1952, a revolution began in Egypt with the toppling of King Farouk in a coup d'état by the Free Officers Movement, a group of army officers led by Mohamed Naguib and Gam…
The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic
Merrill Davis Osmond is an American musician. He is best known for being the lead vocalist and bassist of the family music group The Osmonds and The Osmond Brothers, as well as an …
Merrill Osmond, American singer and bass player
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is currently general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and of the Bolshoi The…
Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor and director
Jamaal Abdul-Lateef, better known as Jamaal Wilkes, is an American former basketball player who was a small forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A three-time NBA A…
Jamaal Wilkes, American basketball player
Pia Zadora is an American actress and singer. She debuted as a child actress on Broadway, in regional theater, and in the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). She came to…
Pia Zadora, American actress and singer
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is a part of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and is one of the six …
A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York
John Mansfield Brumby is the current Chancellor of La Trobe University and former Victorian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became leader o…
John Brumby, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Victoria
Arielle Dombasle is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's …
Arielle Dombasle, French-American actress and model
Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New Yor…
Kim Gordon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Akimov was a Soviet engineer who was the supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl…
Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (died 1986)
Graeme James Souness is a Scottish former professional football player, manager and television pundit.
Graeme Souness, Scottish international footballer and manager
Alexander Arthur Van Halen is an American musician who was the drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Van Halen, which was formed in 1972 by Van Halen and his younger brother Ed…
Alex Van Halen, Dutch-American drummer
Thomas William Cochrane is a Canadian musician best known as the frontman of rock band Red Rider and for his work as a solo singer-songwriter. Cochrane has won eight Juno Awards. H…
Tom Cochrane, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He w…
Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
George Howard Brett is an American former professional baseball third baseman, designated hitter, and first baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kan…
George Brett, American baseball player and coach
Dame Athene Margaret Donald is a British physicist. She was Professor Emerita of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, and former Master of Churchill College, Cambri…
Athene Donald, English physicist and academic
Michael Gordon Oldfield is a retired English musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commerci…
Mike Oldfield, English-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Alan Kupperberg was an American comics artist known for working in both comic books and newspaper strips.
Alan Kupperberg, American author and illustrator (died 2015)
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor. He achieved worldwide fame playing the lead role in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is …
Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and producer
Peter Onorati is an American actor. He is known for his TV roles as Charlie Howell on Civil Wars (1991–1993), Mr. Scotto on Murder One (1995–1997), Stanley Pearson on This Is Us (2…
Peter Onorati, American actor
Richard James Page is an American musician who is best known as the lead singer and bassist of 1980s band Mr. Mister. The band's hits include "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie". Page has a…
Richard Page, American singer-songwriter and bass player