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1950 – NBC airs Broadway Open House a late-night comedy, variety, talk show through 1951. Hosted by Morey Amsterdam and Jerry Lester and Dagmar, it serves as the prototype for The Tonight Show; 1950 – Failed assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican nationals on President Harry S. Truman while he was living at Blair House.
An American family watching television together in 1958. 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.
Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles that featured the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Satire and humor during the 1950s were popular and abundant. MAD, the American humor magazine, was founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952.
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II , aided by the post-World War II economic expansion .
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Robin Quivers, African American radio personality (The Howard Stern Show) August 9 – Vicki Morgan, model (died 1983) August 10 Daniel Hugh Kelly, actor; Brison Manor, American football player (died 2023) August 11 – Bob Mothersbaugh, rock composer and guitarist ; August 12 – Daniel Biles, associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court ...
1950s American radio programs (5 C, 287 P) S. Silver Age of Comic Books (7 C, 3 P) ... Timeline of the history of the United States (1950–1969) 0–9.
September 29 – Leroy Jones, American footballer (d. 2021) [17] October 3 Pamela Hensley, actress; Phyllis Nelson, singer-songwriter (d. 1998) October 5 Jeff Conaway, actor (d. 2011) Dick Jauron, American football player and coach (d. 2025) October 9 Everett Peck, illustrator, comics artist, cartoonist and animator (d. 2022)