Explore 1426 historical events from 1950–1959.
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian-American actress and model. The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini,…
Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
Lee Soo-man is a South Korean business executive and record producer who is best known for being the founder of SM Entertainment, a multinational entertainment company based in Seo…
Lee Soo-man, South Korean singer and businessman, founded S
Robert William Ainsworth is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North East from 1992 to 2015, and was the Secretary of State for De…
Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
John Stephen Goodman is an American actor. He rose to prominence in television before becoming an acclaimed and popular film actor. Goodman has received various accolades including…
John Goodman, American actor
Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet. The author of three novels and several collections of poetry, he is a recipient of the Padma Shri, a Sahitya Akademi Award, the Pravasi …
Vikram Seth, Indian author and poet
Steve Conway was a British singer who rose to fame in the 1940s, following the end of the Second World War. Known for romantic ballads, he made dozens of recordings for EMI's Colum…
Steve Conway, British singer (born 1921)
Leslie James Banks CBE was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930…
Leslie Banks, American actor, director and producer (born 1890)
Guido Castelnuovo was an Italian mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry. He is also renowned for his contributions to the study of statis…
Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and statistician (born 1865)
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessor…
Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (born 1870)
Vilmos Fried, known professionally as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres cha…
William Fox, Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres (born 1879)
John Garfield was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters. He grew up in poverty in New York City. In the early 1930s, he became a member of the…
John Garfield, American actor (born 1913)
Philippe-Servulo Desranleau was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and the Archbishop of Sherbrooke from 1951 to 1952.
Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (born 1882)
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (born 1859)
Naum Torbov was a Bulgarian architect.
Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall (born 1880)
Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer.
Adolf Busch, German-Austrian violinist and composer (born 1891)
Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson KCMG, was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Victoria from 1918 to 1924. He later entered federal politics, serving as a Senator…
Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (born 1875)
John Whiteside Parsons was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and …
Jack Parsons, American chemist and engineer (born 1914)
Luigi Cristiano Fagioli was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Grand Prix motor racing from 1928 to 1949, and Formula One from 1950 to 1951. Nicknamed "the Abruzzi Robber", …
Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (born 1898)
Andrew Cowper Lawson was a Scots-born Canadian geologist who became professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the editor and co-author of the 1908 repo…
Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist and academic (born 1861)
The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty, formally the Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China and Japan and commonly known as the Treaty of Taipei, was a peace treaty between Japan an…
Japan and the Republic of China signed the Treaty of Taipei, officially ending the Second Sino-Japanese War seven years
The First Indochina War, known alternatively internationally as the French Indochina War, was fought in French Indochina between France and the Viet Minh and their respective allie…
First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors
The Catalina affair was a military confrontation and Cold War-era diplomatic crisis in June 1952, in which Soviet Air Force fighter jets shot down two Swedish aircraft over interna…
Soviet aircraft shot down a Swedish military plane carrying out signals-intelligence gathering operations, followed thre
The period in the history of Guatemala between the coups against Jorge Ubico in 1944 and Jacobo Árbenz in 1954 is known locally as the Revolution. It has also been called the Ten Y…
Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London, England. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far fro…
London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain