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Natural: 1. On August 15, 1950, the 8.6 Mw Assam–Tibet earthquake shakes the region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 1,500 and 3,300 people. 2. On January 18, 1951, Mount Lamington erupted in Papua New Guinea, killing 3,000 people. 3. On January 31, 1953, the North Sea flood of 1953 killed 1,835 people in the south...

The United States was the most influential economic power in the world after World War II under the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Technology

The recently invented bipolar transistor, though initially quite feeble, had clear potential and was rapidly improved and developed at the beginning of the 1950s by companies such as GE, RCA, and Philco. The first commercial transistor production started at the Western Electric plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in October, 1951 with the point contact germanium transistor. It wasn't until around 1954 that transistor products began to achieve real commercial success with small portable radios....

Science

1. Francis Crick and James Watson discover the double-helix structure of DNA. Rosalind Franklincontributed to the discovery of the double-helix structure. 2. An immunization vaccine is produced for polio. 3. The first successful ultrasound testof the heart activity. 4. CERNis established. 5. The world's first nuclear power plant is opened in Obninsknear Moscow. 6. NASAis organized. 7. The first human cervical cancer cells were cultured outside a body in 1951, from Henrietta Lacks. The cells a...

Music

Popular music in the early 1950s was essentially a continuation of the crooner sound of the previous decade, with less emphasis on the jazz-influenced big band style and more emphasis on a conservative, operatic, symphonic style of music. Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Judy Garland, Johnnie Ray, Kay Starr, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Georgia Gibbs, Eddie Fisher, Teresa Brewer, Dinah Shore, Kitty Kallen, Joni James, Peggy Lee, Julie London,...

Television

The 1950s are known as The Golden Age of Television by some people. Sales of TV sets rose tremendously in the 1950s and by 1950 4.4 million families in America had a television set. Americans devoted most of their free time to watching television broadcasts. People spent so much time watching TV, that movie attendance dropped and so did the number of radio listeners.Television revolutionized the way Americans see themselves and the world around them. TV affects all aspects of American culture...

Film

European cinema experienced a renaissance in the 1950s following the deprivations of World War II. Italian director Federico Fellini won the first foreign language film Academy Award with La Strada and garnered another Academy Award with Nights of Cabiria. In 1955, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman earned a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with Smiles of a Summer Night and followed the film with masterpieces The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries. Jean Cocteau's Orphée, a film central to...

Politics

1. Aleksey Innokentevich Antonov, Chief of General Staff of the Unified Armed Forces Warsaw Treaty Organization 2. Eugene R. Black, President World Bank 3. William Sterling Cole, Director-general International Atomic Energy Agency 4. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Secretary-general Latin Union 5. André François-Poncet, Chairman of the Standing Commission International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement 6. Louis Goffin, Secretary-general Western European Union 7. Walter Hallstein, President of the Eu...

Actors and entertainers

1. Marilyn Monroe 2. James Dean 3. Marlon Brando 4. Humphrey Bogart 5. Sophia Loren

Musicians

1. Bill Haley and the Cometsc. 1954 2. Fats Dominoc. 1956 3. Jerry Lee Lewisc. 1957 4. Everly Brothersc. 1958