1950s By facebooker_907068879697340 Period: 1950 to 1960 Timeline of the 1950s Jun 25, 1950 Korean war Sep 4, 1951 First television broadcast Nov 4, 1952 Dwight Eisenhower elected president Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin dies 1954 Civil rights movement 1954 Beginning of Elvis Presley's music career May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board Of Education Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam war Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks 1956 Suez-crisis Sep 3, 1957 Little Rock Nine Sep 9, 1957 President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik 1 launch Oct 1, 1958 NASA founded