Explore 1426 historical events from 1950–1959.
Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. He is considered the pioneer of Ba…
Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (born 1907)
John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (born 1881)
Bhaurao Patil, was a social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India. A strong advocate of mass education, he founded the Rayat Education Society. Bhaurao played an important ro…
Bhaurao Patil, Indian activist and educator (born 1887)
Sidney Joseph Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trump…
Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (born 1897)
Infanta Maria Antónia of Portugal was the seventh and last child of Miguel I of Portugal and Adelaide of Löwenstein.
Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (born 1862)
John Foster Dulles was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignat…
John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (born 1888)
Philip Kassel was an American gymnast and track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in the German Empire. In 1904 he won the gold medal in the t…
Philip Kassel, American gymnast (born 1876)
Lyda Cini, Countess of Monselice was an Italian actress of cinema and theatre. Her career in theatre started when she was a child, acting on stage with Paola Pezzaglia in the Frenc…
Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (born 1884)
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of A…
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
Zoltán Meskó de Széplak was a leading Hungarian Nazi during the 1930s. He led his own Nazi movement during the early 1930s but faded from the political scene when Hungary became a …
Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (born 1883)
George Reeves was an American actor. He was best known for portraying Clark Kent/Superman in the television series Adventures of Superman (1952–1958).
George Reeves, American actor and director (born 1914)
Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore-Drew family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and w…
Ethel Barrymore, American actress (born 1879)
The Tritons’ Fountain is a fountain located in Floriana, Malta. It consists of three bronze Tritons holding up a large basin, balanced on a concentric base built out of concrete an…
The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, one of Malta's most important Modernist landmarks, was turned on for the first time
The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane motorway bridge over Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It joins St Marys Bay on the Auckland city side with Northcote on the …
The Auckland Harbour Bridge, spanning Waitematā Harbour between the Saint Marys Bay and Northcote suburbs of Auckland, N
The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane motorway bridge over Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It joins St Marys Bay on the Auckland city side with Northcote on the …
The Auckland Harbour Bridge officially opened, connecting the suburbs of Saint Marys Bay and Northcote in Auckland, New
Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones are low-pressure areas which, along with anticyclones, drive the weather over much of the mid-latitu…
The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St
Aeroméxico Flight 111 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tijuana to Acapulco with stopovers in Mazatlán, Guadalajara, and Mexico City. On June 2, 1958, the Lockheed L-749 Const…
Aeronaves de México Flight 111 crashes on approach to Guadalajara International Airport, killing 45
Aeroflot Flight 105 was an aviation accident involving an Ilyushin Il-12P aircraft operated by Aeroflot, which occurred on June 9, 1958 near Magadan, Russia, resulting in the death…
Aeroflot Flight 105 crashes on approach to Magdan-13 Airport, killing 24
Tim Flach is a British photographer who specialises in studio photography of animals. He has published several books of photographs.
Tim Flach, English photographer and director
Ulf Karl Erik Wakenius is a Swedish jazz guitarist, known as a member of Oscar Peterson's last quartet from 1997. He was also a member of the Ray Brown trio.
Ulf Wakenius, Swedish guitarist
Laslo Babits was a male javelin thrower from Canada. He competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, finishing in 8th place. He set his p…
Laslo Babits, Canadian javelin thrower (died 2013)
Gabriel Delgado-López, commonly known as Gabi Delgado, was a Spanish-born German composer, lyricist and producer, best known as singer and co-founder, with Robert Görl, of the Germ…
Gabi Delgado-López, Spanish-German singer, co-founder of D
Malcolm Denzil Marshall was a Barbadian cricketer. Primarily a fast bowler, Marshall is widely regarded as one of the greatest and one of the most accomplished fast bowlers of the …
Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (died 1999)
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 Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterp