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1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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)
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.
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 .
Timeline of United States history (1950–1969) ... Pete Henry, American football player and coach (born 1897) February 14. Molly Malone, silent film actress ...
Just look at any recent red carpet and you'll note the prevalence of opera gloves, so popular in 1950s women's fashion, now back in style on everyone from Ariana Grande to Pam Anderson to Kerry ...
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.
Some pundits worry that the Oscar ceremony won’t feel like the real thing, because the late date (April 25) is disorienting and because the show will be divided between two venues, L.A.’s ...