Portal:1950s

The 1950s Portal Top, L-R: U.S. Marines engaged in street fighting during the Korean War, circa late September 1950; The first polio vaccine is developed by Jonas Salk. Centre, L-R: US tests its first thermonuclear bomb with code name Ivy Mike in 1952. A 1954 thermonuclear test, code named Castle Romeo, is shown here; In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista in the Cuban Revolution, resulting in the creation of the first communist government in the Western hemisphere; Elvis Presley becomes the leading figure of rock and roll in the mid-1950s. Bottom, L-R: Smoke rises from oil tanks on Port Said following the invasion of Egypt as part of the Suez Crisis in late 1956; French paratroopers march in Algiers in the beginning of the Algerian War, 1957; The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth, in October 1957. The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the " '50s") (among other variants) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. By its end, the world had largely recovered from World War II and the Cold War developed from its modest beginning in the late-1940s to a hot competition between the United States and the Soviet Union by the early-1960s. Selected article - What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, originally in black and white (except for the last season being in color), with subsequent U.S. revivals. The game uses celebrity panelists to question contestants in order to determine their occupation, i.e. "line [of work]", with panelists being called on to question and identify a weekly celebrity "mystery guest" while blindfolded. It is on the list of longest-running U.S. primetime network television game-shows. Originally hosted by John Charles Daly and with regular panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf, What's My Line? won three Emmy Award for "Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show" in 1952, 1953, and 1958 and the Golden Globe Awards for Best TV Show in 1962. Since the program had celebrities in every episode, almost all of its kinescope recordings have been preserved in the archive of producers Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Read more... List of selected articles Hurricane Hazel 1952 Winter Olympics Battle of Dien Bien Phu Hungarian Revolution of 1956 McCarthyism Great Leap Forward Korean War Rock and roll Hurricane Connie Satellite Science Fiction The Colossus of Rhodes (Dalí) Sputnik 1 Cold War (1947–1953) Thomas White (Australian politician) Doo-wop Lou Spence United States in the 1950s Cold War 1956 United States presidential election Hairstyles in the 1950s War in Vietnam (1954–1959) 1950s in Hong Kong Greaser (subculture) Color television Warsaw Pact Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 Alaska Antarctic Treaty System Vietnam War Vertigo (film) Sunset Boulevard (film) Rebel Without a Cause 12 Angry Men (1957 film) The Drifters The Three Stooges Suez Crisis NASA Cuban Revolution 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état Treaty of Rome Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Polio vaccine Transistor computer CERN Algerian War Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant 1950s American automobile culture European Broadcasting Union The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) Little Anthony and the Imperials Did you know... ... that the Polish publishing house WSiP had a monopoly on textbook publishing from the 1950s to 1989? ... that the British government experimented on Berkshire residents in the 1950s? ... that Ideal Records was the predominant Tejano music label of the 1940s and 1950s? ... that Kessler R. Cannon, who later became an Oregon state representative, interviewed Oregon pioneers for his popular 15 Minute Histories radio program broadcast on KBND in the 1950s? ... that interest in network synthesis research is now greater than at any time since the 1950s due to its new applications in mechanics, particularly in Formula One? ... that Baya Jurquet organized demonstrations by female prisoners in France in the 1950s? List articles Select [►] to view subcategories ▼ 1950s-related lists ► 1950-related lists ► 1951-related lists ► 1952-related lists ► 1953-related lists ► 1954-related lists ► 1955-related lists ► 1956-related lists ► 1957-related lists ► 1958-related lists ► 1959-related lists ► Lists of 1950s ballet premieres ► Lists of 1950s films ► 1950s politics-related lists ► 1950s record charts ► 1950s television-related lists Related portals History LGBT Religion Human sexuality Society Fashion 1920s 1960s 1980s 1990s Selected biography - Charles in the 1960s Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called "Brother Ray." He was often referred to as "The Genius." Charles was blinded during childhood due to glaucoma. Charles pioneered the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic. He contributed to the integration of country music, rhythm and blues, and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, notably with his two Modern Sounds albums. While he was with ABC, Charles became one of the first black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company. Read more... List of selected biographies Marilyn Monroe Nikita Khrushchev Elvis Presley Joseph McCarthy Gamal Abdel Nasser Dwight D. Eisenhower John Foster Dulles Nikita Khrushchev Frank Sinatra James Stewart Marlon Brando Alfred Hitchcock Clark Gable Gary Cooper Buddy Holly Ella Fitzgerald Patsy Cline Jerry Lee Lewis Johnny Cash Fulgencio Batista General images The following are images from various 1950s-related articles on Wikipedia. William Tubman Chuck Berry became a popular rock and roll musician during the decade Abdullah I of Jordan Farouk I Idris I Ngo Dinh Diem Alcide De Gasperi Joseph Stalin Chiang Kai-shek Lee Kuan Yew Mohammed Zahir Shah Adib Shishakli Paul Nikita Khrushchev Pope John XXIII Robert Menzies Francisco Franco Elizabeth II Sukarno Celâl Bayar Ibn Saud Hirohito Władysław Gomułka The maximum territorial extent of countries in the world under Soviet influence, after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and before the official Sino-Soviet split of 1961 Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Dwight D. Eisenhower Israeli troops preparing for combat in the Sinai peninsula during the Suez Crisis. Ahmad bin Yahya King Hussein George VI Louis St. Laurent Habib Bourguiba Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Fidel Castro Elvis Presley became a popular rock and roll musician during the decade António de Oliveira Salazar Sisavang Vong Shigeru Yoshida Winston Churchill Top, L-R: U.S. Marines engaged in street fighting during the Korean War, circa late September 1950; The first polio vaccine is developed by Jonas Salk. Centre, L-R: US tests its first thermonuclear bomb with code name Ivy Mike in 1952. A 1954 thermonuclear test, code named Castle Romeo, is shown here; In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista in the Cuban Revolution, which results in the creation of the first and only communist government in the Western hemisphere; Elvis Presley becomes the leading figure of the newly popular music genre of rock and roll in the mid-1950s. Bottom, L-R: Smoke rises from oil tanks on Port Said following the invasion of Egypt by Israel, United Kingdom and France as part of the Suez Crisis in late 1956; The Hungarian Revolution of 1956; The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth, in October 1957. Antonín Novotný Enver Hoxha Adnan Menderes Abd al-Karim Qasim Nobusuke Kishi David Ben-Gurion An American family watching television together, 1958 Todor Zhivkov North Sea flood of 1953 Pope Pius XII Willem Drees Imre Nagy Francis Crick and James Watson discover the spiral structure of DNA Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba as a result of the Cuban Revolution Korean War Ho Chi Minh Faisal II Haile Selassie Kim Il-sung Mátyás Rákosi Konrad Adenauer Rainier III Juscelino Kubitschek Paavo Nurmi and the Olympic flame in the opening ceremony of the 1952 Summer Olympics Castle Bravo: A 15 megaton hydrogen bomb experiment conducted by the United States in 1954. Photographed 78 miles (125 kilometers) from the explosion epicenter. Bolesław Bierut In 1957, the Soviet Union launches to space Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite François Duvalier Gamal Abdel Nasser The MOSFET (MOS transistor) was invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in November 1959. It is central to the Digital Revolution, and the most widely manufactured device in history. Kwame Nkrumah Jawaharlal Nehru Josip Broz Tito Alfredo Stroessner Syngman Rhee Mao Zedong Bhumibol Adulyadej Juan Perón Vincent Auriol Anastasio Somoza García Rafael Trujillo John Diefenbaker Harry S. Truman Walter Ulbricht René Coty Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill in North by Northwest (1959) Bảo Đại Norodom Sihanouk János Kádár Getulio Vargas Antonio Segni Topics Wikiprojects You are invited to participate in WikiProject Years, a WikiProject dedicated to developing and improving articles about years, decades, centuries, and millennia. 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