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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.
February 12 – Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction. February 13 The U.S. Army begins to deploy anti-aircraft cannons to protect nuclear stations and military targets. The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber carrying an Mk-4 atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada, producing the world's first Broken ...
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 .
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.
March 9 – Matthew Henson, African-American explorer (b. 1866) March 11 – Oscar F. Mayer, German-American entrepreneur (b. 1859) March 12 – Charlie Parker, African-American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920) March 21 – Walter White, civil rights activist (b. 1893) March 24 – John W. Davis, politician and presidential candidate (b. 1873)
Forum for the Future founder Jonathon Porritt is really excited about how upbeat and dynamic the world could be in 2050 -- if we play our cards right. Porritt feels that a move away from a ...
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.