Explore 3255 historical events from 1950–1959.
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been car…
Thermonuclear bomb testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4) using a…
The 1953 Ionian earthquake struck the southern Ionian Islands in Greece on August 12. In mid-August, there were over 113 recorded earthquakes in the region between Kefalonia and Za…
The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme).…
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: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah…
A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distan…
The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
Patrick Stewart Hodge, Lord Hodge, PC is a Scottish retired judge, who served as Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge, Scottish lawyer and judge
Shavarsh Vladimiri (Vladimirovich) Karapetyan is a Soviet-Armenian former finswimmer. He was best known for saving the lives of 20 people in a 1976 incident in Yerevan.
Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
Florin Marin was a Romanian professional football manager and player. Marin had a total of 456 matches as a manager in the Romanian top-division, Divizia A consisting of 166 victor…
Florin Marin, Romanian footballer and manager
Robert Keith Bennett Doyle is an Australian politician who was the 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne, elected on 30 November 2008 until he resigned on 4 February 2018 amidst allegation…
Robert Doyle, Australian educator and politician, 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Nora Cabaltera Villamayor, known professionally as Nora Aunor, was a Filipino actress, producer, and singer. Known for her leading roles with patriotic, feminist and socio-politica…
Nora Aunor, Filipino actress and recording artist (died 2025)
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
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
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
James Devine is a former Labour Party politician in Scotland. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 2005 until 2010 and chairman of the Scottish Labour Party bet…
Jim Devine, British politician
François Bon is a French writer and translator.
François Bon, French writer
Cha Bum-kun is a South Korean former football manager and player. A forward, he was nicknamed Tscha Bum or "Cha Boom" in Germany because of his name and thunderous ball striking ab…
Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and manager
Paul Mariner was an English football player and coach.
Paul Mariner, English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Alfred Molina is a British and American actor. He is known for roles on the stage and screen. Molina has received a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for two British Academy …
Alfred Molina, English actor
V, formerly Eve Ensler, is an American playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist. V is best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2006 Charles Isherwood of The N…
Eve Ensler, American playwright and producer
Kitanoumi Toshimitsu , born Toshimitsu Obata , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Sōbetsu, Hokkaido. He entered professional sumo at the age of 13 and set several youth…
Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (died 2015)
Victoria Wood was an English comedian, actress, musician, screenwriter, and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several …
Victoria Wood, English actress, singer, director, and screenwriter (died 2016)
Daniel Alberto Passarella is an Argentine former footballer and manager, who is considered one of the greatest defenders of all time. As a player for Argentina, he was part of two …
Daniel Passarella, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
Stan Masahiko Sakai is a Japanese-born American cartoonist and comic book creator. He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo.
Stan Sakai, Japanese-American author and illustrator