* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.

Throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had been developing a series of missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads.

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

Developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s, it was deployed in the 1960s, updated in the 1990s, and eventually installed on over 200 USN surface ships, specifically cruisers, destroyers, and frigates.

Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who was against caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal ( literally, United Maharashtra Movement ) in the 1950s to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra with Mumbai as its capital.

In the 1950s, the United States had a field trial with hog cholera.

The United Nations considered adopting such a reformed calendar for a while in the 1950s, but these proposals have lost most of their popularity.

Computational linguistics originated with efforts in the United States in the 1950s to use computers to automatically translate texts from foreign languages, particularly Russian scientific journals, into English.

In the 1950s, Cuba's gross domestic product ( GDP ) per capita was roughly equal to that of contemporary Italy, and significantly higher than that of countries such as Japan, although Cuba's GDP per capita was still only a sixth as large as that of the United States.

Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, have, since the 1950s, celebrated both Dominion or Canada Day and the United States ' Independence Day with the International Freedom Festival ; a massive fireworks display over the Detroit River, the strait separating the two cities, is held annually with hundreds of thousands of spectators attending.

" Since the 1950s conservatism in the United States has been chiefly associated with the Republican Party.

The Free Cinema movement in the United Kingdom during the 1950s, the Direct Cinema in North America in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the Candid Eye series in Canada in the 1950s, all essentially owed a debt to Vertov.

In the United States, the 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of several large popular encyclopedias, often sold on installment plans.

* Since the 1950s, the United States Atomic Energy Commission has named its highest honor, the Fermi Award, after him.

Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain and subsequently into Australia and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The homophile movement began in the late 1940s with groups in the Netherlands and Denmark, and continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s with groups in Sweden, Norway, the United States, France, Britain and elsewhere.

The nuclear weapons trials carried out by the United Kingdom at Maralinga and Emu Field in the 1950s and early 1960s have left areas contaminated with plutonium-239 and other radioactive material.

A collection of 1950s and 1960s ballads, Only You, went Top Ten on both sides of the Atlantic and was certified gold in the United States in March 2004.

The advent of the interstate highway system and television brought many previously isolated communities into mainstream United States culture in the 1950s and 1960s.

The 1950s were a period of racial segregation in parts of the United States, especially the southeastern portion of the country.

The strict M ' Naghten standard for the insanity defense was used until the 1950s and the Durham v. United States case.

In the 1950s the primary destination was to the United Kingdom ; but since the United Kingdom restricted emigration in 1962, major flow has been to the United States and Canada.

Nuclear tests were conducted in the region around Christmas Island by the United Kingdom in the late 1950s, and by the United States in 1962.

Thus, because of Klaus Fuchs, leaders of the Soviet Union knew the United States was not prepared for a nuclear war at the end of the 1940s, or even in the early 1950s.

The United States was known to have at least experimented with the concept in the 1950s.

Brando then took a variety of roles in the 1950s: portraying Napoleon in Désirée, Sky Masterson in the musical Guys and Dolls ; Sakini, a Japanese interpreter for the U. S. Army in postwar Japan in The Teahouse of the August Moon ; as a United States Air Force officer in Sayonara, and a German officer in The Young Lions.

Through the years, Mobil was among the largest sellers of gasoline and motor oils in the United States and even held the top spot during the 1940s and much of the 1950s.

" He returned to England in 1936 but did not return to the United States again until the early 1950s.

For much of the 1950s the threat of Communist invasion of Taiwan was very real, and required the U. S. Navy to safe guard the Taiwan Straits.

The U. S. Navy began experiments with hydrofoils in the mid 1950s by funding a sailing vessel that used hydrofoils to reach speeds in the 30 mph range.

Kvikkalkul is an esoteric programming language ostensibly developed by the Swedish Navy in the 1950s and used on the SABINA computer.

The US Navy and U. S. Air Force began deploying guided missiles in the early 1950s, most famous being the US Navy's AIM-9 Sidewinder and USAF's AIM-4 Falcon.

As Nancy Davis, she was an actress in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in films such as Donovan's Brain, Night into Morning, and Hellcats of the Navy.

Through the upheavals of the late 1950s and 1960s the Navy remained relatively undisturbed.

From that time on until the 1950s the Royal Dutch East Indies Army, Royal Dutch Army, Royal Dutch Navy and Dutch police used these cutlasses called Klewang.

Twentieth-Century Fox made a succession of war films realistically filmed in black-and-white in the early 1950s that highlighted little-known aspects of World War II, among them The Frogmen, Go For Broke !, You're in the Navy Now, and Decision Before Dawn.

During the mid-late 1950s, Rickover revealed the source of his obsession with safety in a personal conversation with a fellow Navy captain:

In the early 1950s a minor political debate broke out in Congress about the Navy essentially " owning " ERA, and the ensuing debates and legal wrangling left the company drained of both capital and spirit.

SOSUS hydrophones, laid on the seabed and connected by underwater cables, were used, beginning in the 1950s, by the U. S. Navy to track movement of Soviet submarines during the Cold War along a line from Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom known as the GIUK gap.

A 1950s Royal Navy diving manual also said that the Aqua-Lung was only for bottom-walking diving.

A pick-up truck version was used by the British Royal Navy for pioneering Royal Marine helicopter carrier amphibious operations aboard HMS Bulwark and Albion in the late 1950s and early 1960s, because of the payload limitations of their first large helicopters.

The physical facilities were significantly improved in the late 1950s with a new dining hall ( constructed by Fall River ( Building ) Trades Council with site work provided by the Navy SeabeesReservists ) and an in-ground pool.

It was later leased to the Navy for an airfield, and served as a reserve Squantum Naval Air Station into the 1950s.

ERA was fairly successful, but in the early 1950s a lengthy series of government probes into " Navy funding " drained the company and it was sold to Remington Rand.

By the late 1950s, the US Navy replaced guns with guided missiles on its ships.

By the 1950s, the Marshallese population coming to work at the base at Kwajalein had grown, and the conditions in the makeshift labor camp on Kwajalein islet were such that the U. S. Navy administering the atoll at the time decided to relocate these Islanders to nearby Ebeye, an islet only three islands to the north of Kwajalein and accessible by a short boat ride or walk over the reef at low tide.

First developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s, it is commonly used in conjunction with the critical path method ( CPM ).

From the early 1950s to the mid-1990s, NRF supported the U. S. Navy's nuclear-powered fleet by testing reactor designs, receiving spent nuclear fuel for processing and storage, and training nearly 40, 000 Navy personnel to operate surface and submarine nuclear power plants.

The Columbus, Ohio division of North American Aviation was instrumental in the exclusive development and production of North American's A-5 Vigilante, an advanced high speed bomber that would see significant use as a Naval reconnaissance aircraft during the Vietnam War, the OV-10 Bronco, the first aircraft specifically designed for forward air control ( FAC ), and counter-insurgency ( COIN ) duties, and the T-2 Buckeye Naval trainer, which would serve from the late 1950s until 2008 and be flown in training by virtually every Naval Aviator and Naval Flight Officer in the US Navy and US Marine Corps for four decades.

It not only severely hampered a generation of U. S. Navy jets when the project had to be abandoned, but led to leaving the aircraft engine business in the 1950s.

From the early 1950s, the United States Navy ( USN ) had a facility on the north-east edge of the airport which frequently handled visiting naval aircraft.