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| 1950 |
| | | The Family Moskat, about a Jewish family in Warsaw, is the first of Isaac Bashevis Singer's books to be published in English | |
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| 1956 |
| | | English poet Ted Hughes marries US poet Sylvia Plath | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Russian dancer Galina Ulanova proves a sensation on tour in Europe and the USA in her late forties | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The USA and Britain withdraw their offer of financial aid for Nasser's Aswan dam | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Fred Hoyle, William Fowler, and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge explain stellar nucleosynthesis | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris | |
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| 1958 |
| | | On his second day in power, de Gaulle visits Algiers to confront the settlers with an unwelcome message | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Vice-president Richard Nixon engages in a 'kitchen debate' with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev at a US exhibition in Moscow | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Soviet forces shoot down a US high-altitude U-2 spy plane and capture the pilot, Gary Powers | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A deal between President Kennedy and Soviet premier Khrushchev defuses the Cuban missile crisis | |
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