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Revision as of 16:49, 28 May 2002
Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 - 1954 - 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Births
- April 17 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver
Deaths
- February 12 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker
- July 29 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater
- November 29 - Enrico Fermi, physicist
Events
- May 7 -- Construction started on Michigan's Mackinac Bridge.
- May 17 -- US Supreme Court hands down decision in Brown v. Board of Education
- May 20: Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
- First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu between French and Viet Minh forces in Indochina
Sport