Explore 3255 historical events from 1950–1959.
Pradeep Sarkar was an Indian director and screenwriter, best known for directing Parineeta (2005). He was a recipient of the Abby Award, Rapa Award, and the National Film Award. Hi…
Pradeep Sarkar, Indian director and screenwriter (died 2023)
El Al Flight 402 was an international passenger flight from London to Tel Aviv via Vienna and Istanbul. On 27 July 1955, the flight, operated by a Lockheed Constellation registered…
El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people on board are…
Hurricane Diane was the first Atlantic hurricane to cause more than an estimated $1 billion in damage, including direct costs and the loss of business and personal revenue. It form…
Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than…
The Battle of Philippeville, also known as the Philippeville massacre or the August Offensive, was a series of raids launched on 20 August 1955 on various cities and towns of the C…
Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural…
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is…
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.
Zlatko Topčić is a Bosnian screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He has written a number of films, including: Remake, The Abandoned, Miracle in Bosnia; theater plays: Time Out, I …
Zlatko Topčić, Bosnian writer and screenwriter
Alexander Cunningham is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton North from 2010 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he was Shadow Minister for …
Alex Cunningham, Scottish politician
Martin O'Donnell is an American composer, audio director, and sound designer best known for his work on video game developer Bungie's titles, such as the Myth series, Oni, the Halo…
Martin O'Donnell, American composer
William Ferguson Miller MBE is a Scottish former professional football player and manager, who made a club record 560 league appearances for Aberdeen. Sir Alex Ferguson described M…
Willie Miller, Scottish footballer
Donatella Francesca Versace, is an Italian fashion designer, businesswoman, socialite, and model. She is the sister of Gianni Versace, founder of the luxury fashion company Versace…
Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
African Americans or Black Americans, also formerly called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group. As defined by the United States census, they are Americans who h…
Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil…
Olivia Twenty Dahl was the oldest child of the author Roald Dahl and the American actress Patricia Neal. She died at the age of seven from encephalitis caused by measles, before a …
Olivia Dahl (died 1962), daughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal
Donald Roy Pettit is an American astronaut and chemical engineer best known for his orbital astrophotography and in-space inventions such as the Space Cup, which received the first…
Donald Pettit, American engineer and astronaut
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on…
Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate
Judith Davis is an Australian actress. In a career spanning over four decades of both screen and stage, she is known for portraying brittle, neurotic women in independent film. She…
Judy Davis, Australian actress
Eamon Gilmore is an Irish diplomat and former Labour Party politician. He has served as European Union Special Representative for Human Rights since February 2019. He has also been…
Eamon Gilmore, Irish trade union leader and politician, 25th Tánaiste of Ireland
Steve David Macleod Brown is a British geneticist and director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC Harwell at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, …
Stephen D
Jon Butcher is an American rock, blues songwriter, guitarist and freelance multimedia producer.
Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer
Thomas Raymond Bergeron is an American television personality, comedian, and game show host. He hosted Breakfast Time from 1994 to 1997, Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2004, Americ…
Tom Bergeron, American television host
John Matthew Patrick Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, is a British politician who served in several offices in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. He was Work and Pensions Secretary…
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the secretary general of the executive committee of the PLO from 2015 until his death in 2020. He serve…
Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian negotiator (died 2020)
Edwin Jobson is an English musician who has been a member of several rock bands including Curved Air, Roxy Music, U.K., and Jethro Tull. He was also part of Frank Zappa's band in 1…
Eddie Jobson, English keyboard player and violinist
Leslie Allen Jordan was an American actor, comedian, writer, and singer. His television roles include Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace, several characters in the American Horror Sto…
Leslie Jordan, American actor, comedian, writer and singer (died 2022)
David William Hookes was an Australian cricket player and coach. He played for the Australia national cricket team and domestic cricket for South Australia, later coaching Victoria…
David Hookes, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (died 2004)