What is 1950s?
{{decadebox|195}} The '''1950s''' began on January 1, 1950 and ended on December 31, 1959. It is distinct from the decade known as the 196th decade which began on January 1, 1951 and ended on December 31, 1960. == 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 [[French Indochina|colonization of Vietnam]] and leads to division of [[Vietnam]] into [[North Vietnam|North]] and [[South Vietnam|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. ==Important people== === Actor === * [[Cary Grant]], British-American actor * [[Charles Boyer]], French actor * [[Dana Andrews]], American actor * [[Fred Astaire]], American actor * [[Fred MacMurray]], American actor * [[Gene Reynolds]], American actor * [[Humphrey Bogart]], American actor * [[James Dean]], American actor * [[James Stewart]], American actor * [[Kirk Douglas]], American actor * [[Lionel Barrymore]], American actor * [[Melvyn Douglas]], American actor * [[Paul Newman]], American actor * [[Robert Taylor]], American actor * [[Spencer Tracy]], American actor * [[Toshirō Mifune]], Japanese actor * [[William Holden]], American actor * [[P. Ramlee]], Malaysian actor === Actress === * [[Anita Ekberg]], Swedish actress * [[Audrey Hepburn]], British-Belgian actress * [[Ava Gardner]], American Actress * [[Barbara Stanwyck]], American actress * [[Bibi Ferreira]], Brazilian actress * [[Deborah Kerr]], British actress * [[Donna Reed]], American actress * [[Gene Tierney]], American actress * [[Ingrid Bergman]], Swedish actress * [[Marilyn Monroe]], American actress * [[Monica Vitti]], Italian actress === Director === * [[Alfred Hitchcock]], British movie director === Mus