Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This starts the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States. 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 ...
January 20, 1969 – Nixon becomes the 37th president, Agnew becomes the 39th vice president. 1969 – "Vietnamization" begins. 1969 – Author Maya Angelou publishes I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. 1969 – Stonewall riots in New York City marks the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
1950 in various calendars. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1950. 1950 ( MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.
Here are 20 ways that show how going out to dinner has changed over the years. Tom Kelley Archive/istockphoto. 1. Women Were Expected to Be Back Home by Curfew. In the 1950s, it was common for ...
0–9. 1950 in the United States (21 C, 25 P) Occupied Japan (11 C, 46 P) 1951 in the United States (21 C, 17 P) 1952 in the United States (21 C, 18 P) 1953 in the United States (22 C, 21 P) 1954 in the United States (20 C, 27 P) 1955 in the United States (19 C, 20 P) 1956 in the United States (21 C, 23 P)
Golden Age of Radio. Girl listening to vacuum tube radio during the Great Depression. Prior to the emergence of television as the dominant entertainment medium in the 1950s, families gathered to listen to the home radio in the evening. The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio ( OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States ...
1950 Chicago streetcar crash: a collision and explosion kills 34. [ 4] June 1 – Mauna Loa in Hawaii starts erupting. June 5 – Sweatt v. Painter decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, challenging the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation in education.
In North America and Europe the 1950s were revolutionary in regards to popular music, as it started a dramatic shift from traditional pop music to modern pop music, largely in part due to the rise of Rock and roll . Rock & Roll began to dominate popular music starting in the mid-1950s with origins in a variety of genres including blues, rhythm ...