1950
- First Modern Credit Card Introduced
- First Organ Transplant
- First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
- Korean War Begins
- Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
- U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb
1951
- Color TV Introduced
- South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race
- Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII
- Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister of Great Britain
1952
- Car Seat Belts Introduced
- The Great Smog of 1952
- Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship
- Polio Vaccine Created
- Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25
1953
- DNA Discovered
- Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest
- Joseph Stalin Dies
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage
1954
- Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman
- First Atomic Submarine Launched
- Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer
- Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile
- Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
1955
- Disneyland Opens
- Emmett Till Murdered
- James Dean Dies in Car Accident
- McDonald's Corporation Founded
- Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus
- Warsaw Pact Signed
1956
- Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show
- Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco
- Hungarian Revolution
- Khrushchev Denounces Stalin
- Suez Crisis
- T.V. Remote Control Invented
- Velcro Introduced 19
1957
- Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat
- European Economic Community Established
- Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age
- Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter Orbit
1958
- Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize
- Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward"
- Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian
- Hula Hoops Become Popular
- LEGO Toy Bricks First Introduced
- NASA Founded
- Peace Symbol Created
