This page contains a timeline of major events related to the Lost Generation between 1950 and 1959, with U.S. and world events to provide context.
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1950
January 21 – George Orwell dies in London, England
June 25 – North Korea invades South Korea, starting the Korean War
June 27 – United Nations declares war on North Korea
September 6 – Olaf Stapledon dies in Cheshire, England
October 19 – Edna St. Vincent Millay dies in Austerlitz, New York
1951
January 10 – Sinclair Lewis dies near Rome, Italy
September 27 – Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner’s fifteenth novel, is published
1952
May 26 – Eugene Jolas dies in Paris, France
November 1 – U.S. detonates the first thermonuclear device
1953
January 20 – Dwight Eisenhower sworn in as the 34th U.S. President
1954
May 17 – Supreme Court declares segregated schools violate the 14th Amendment
August 2 – A Fable, William Faulkner’s sixteenth novel, is published
1956
January 29 – H.L. Mencken dies in Baltimore, Maryland
March 18 – Louis Bromfield dies in Columbus, Ohio
1957
January 21 – Dwight Eisenhower sworn in for a second term
May 1 – The Town, William Faulkner’s seventeenth novel, is published
1959
January 3 – Alaska becomes the 49th state
August 21 – Hawaii becomes the 50th state
November 13 – The Mansion, William Faulkner’s eighteenth novel, is published
See also: 1870s-80s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
