Explore 5191 historical events from 1950–1959.
Edward Belden Greene was an American banking, mining, and steel company executive. He joined the Cleveland Trust Company in 1900, and by 1914 was a vice president. He later was a d…
Edward B. Greene, American banking, mining, and steel company executive (born 1878)
Gerty Theresa Cori was a Czech and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiol…
Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Li…
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (born 1883)
Ernst Gräfenberg was a German-born physician and medical researcher. He developed the intrauterine device (IUD), and studied the role of the woman's urethra in orgasm. The G-spot i…
Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (born 1881)
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was an Italian-American mobster who was one of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organizatio…
Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. He published more than 90 books during his lifetime,…
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, English-Irish author, poet, and playwright (born 1878)
James McGirr was an Australian politician. He served as premier of New South Wales from 1947 to 1952, holding office as leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He led the party…
James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (born 1890)
Louis Burt Mayer was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most pr…
Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American production manager and producer (born 1885)
Frederick Leonard Beebe was an American professional baseball player. He played for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indi…
Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (born 1880)
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated State of …
South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor
Ellen Louks Fairclough was a Canadian politician. A Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1950 to 1963, she was the first woman ever to serve in th…
Ellen Fairclough (pictured) became the first woman to be appointed to the cabinet of Canada
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. In his previous military career, he led the Allied Expeditionary Force during …
U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights bill since…
François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician, dictator and physician who served as president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.
François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating…
A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H-bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon, using nuclear fusion. The most destructive weapons ever created, their yields…
The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple
John George Diefenbaker was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1935 and 1979 to lead the pa…
Led by John Diefenbaker (pictured), the Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of House of Commons seats in the
Hurricane Audrey was a catastrophic and very deadly hurricane that devastated the southwestern Louisiana coast in 1957. Along with Hurricane Alex in 2010, it was also the strongest…
Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, L
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in July 1957. It is Waugh's penultimate full-length work of fiction, which the author c…
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published.
The Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as South Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated St…
South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head…
Orval Eugene Faubus was an American politician who served as the 36th governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967, as a member of the Democratic Party. He is best known for the 1957 Lit…
Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending…
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 …
United States Army troops escorted nine students as Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated.
Nuclear reprocessing is the chemical separation of fission products and actinides from spent nuclear fuel. Originally, reprocessing was used to extract plutonium for producing nucl…
An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.
The Turia or Túria is a river in Spain, which has its source in the Montes Universales in the mountain ranges of the northwesternmost end of the Sistema Ibérico, Teruel province. F…
After three days of heavy rain, the Turia overflowed and flooded the city of Valencia, Spain, causing at least 81…
Mother India is a 1957 Indian epic drama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar. A remake of Khan's earlier film Aurat (1940)…
A screening of Mother India, one of the most influential Indian films in history, was held for President Rajendra…
Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her m…
Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco