1950s
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Years: | 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 1950s was the decade that started on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.
Events
- 1950–1953 Korean War.
- 1953 – Structure of DNA published by James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins.
- 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 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956 – Suez Crisis
- 1958 – Treaty of Rome
- 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes the Prime Minister of Cuba.
- 1957 – Sputnik launched.
Important people
- James Dean, American actor
- Paul Newman, American actor
- Ava Gardner, American Actress
- Gene Tierney, American actress
- Marilyn Monroe, American actress
- Alfred Hitchcock, American movie director
- Chuck Berry, American rock & roll musician
- Bo Diddley, American rock & roll musician
- Elvis Presley, American singer
- Buddy Holly, American singer
- Juan Perón, President of Argentina
- U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma
- Ba Swe, Prime Minister of Burma
- Ne Win, Prime Minister of Burma
- Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China
- Fidel Castro, President of Cuba
- Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt
- René Coty, President of France
- Charles de Gaulle, President of France
- Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany
- Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
- David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel
- Monica Vitti, Italian actress
- Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
- Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister of Japan
- Ichirō Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan
- Tanzan Ishibashi, Prime Minister of Japan
- Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan
- Kim Il-Sung, Supreme Leader of North Korea
- Pope Pius XII, Pope (until 1958)
- Pope John XXIII, Pope from 1958
- Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Soviet Union (until 1953)
- Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union
- Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain
- Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress
- Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
- George VI, British king (until 1952)
- Elizabeth II, British queen (since 1952)
- Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of United Kingdom
- Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (until 1953)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States
- Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia