1950s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture; Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1950s was the decade that started on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.

Events

1950–1953 Korean War.
1953 – Structure of DNA published by James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins.
1953 – Edmund Hillary is the first man on Mount Everest.
1954 – Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends France's colonization of Vietnam and leads to division of Vietnam into North and South.
1956 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956
1956 – Suez Crisis
1958 – Treaty of Rome
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes the Prime Minister of Cuba.
1957 – Sputnik launched.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments