FEARSOME 50SBy Jesse Rudolph and Bryon Daniels

1950s overviewKorean war beginsColor TV introduced Seat belts introducedDNA discovered Report Says Cigarettes Cause CancerDisneyland opensT.V. Remote Control Invented Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter OrbitLEGO Toy Bricks First Introduced Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states.

1950s timeline1950First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip Korean War Begins

1951Color TV Introduced 1952Car Seat Belts Introduced 1953 DNA Discovered 1954Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer

1955Disneyland Opens Emmett Till MurderedMcDonald's Corporation Founded1956T.V. Remote Control Invented Velcro Introduced

1957 Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter Orbit

1958 Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian Hula Hoops Become Popular LEGO Toy Bricks First Introduced NASA Founded Peace Symbol Created

1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states. 

1950• Korean war begins• First peanuts comic strip• First modern credit card• Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt

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 1952Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship Polio Vaccine Created Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25

1953DNA 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 Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer

1955

Disneyland Opens Emmett Till MurderedMcDonald's Corporation Founded

1956Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show

Velcro Introduced

T.V. Remote Control Invented

1957

Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter Orbit

1958Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian Hula Hoops Become Popular LEGO Toy Bricks First Introduced NASA Founded Peace Symbol Created

1959

U.S. Quiz Shows Found to be Fixed

Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states.

References

http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/1950timeline.htm