Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

Years: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

The most important events

• 1953 - Edmund Hillary is the first man on Mount Everest.
• 1954 - battle of Dien Bien Phu ends France's colonization of Vietnam and leads to division of Vietnam into North and South
• 1956 - Suez Crisis
• 1959 - Fidel Castro becomes the president of Cuba
• Korean War
• Sputnik

Important people

• Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor
• James Dean, American actor
• Elizabeth II, British queen since 1953
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the USA since 1953
• George VI, British king until 1953
• Hirohito
• Alfred Hitchcock, writer
• Pope John XXIII, Pope since 1958
• Marilyn Monroe, American actress
• Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India
• Pope Pius XII, Pope until 1958
• Elvis Presley, American singer
• Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR
• Harry S. Truman, President of the USA until 1953
• Mao Zedong, leader of the Communist Party of China

1950s

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