Editing 1950s (section)

==Disasters==
[[File:Watersnoodramp 1953.jpg|thumb|[[North Sea flood of 1953]]]]

'''Natural:'''
* On August 15, 1950, the 8.6 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1950 Assam–Tibet earthquake|Assam–Tibet earthquake]] shakes the region with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of XI (''Extreme''), killing between 1,500 and 3,300 people.
* On January 18, 1951, [[Mount Lamington]] erupted in [[Papua New Guinea]], killing 3,000 people.
* On January 31, 1953, the [[North Sea flood of 1953]] killed 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially [[Zeeland]]) and 307 in the United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite book|title=Agricultural Records|last=Stratton|first=J. M.|publisher=John Baker|year=1969|isbn=978-0-212-97022-3}}</ref>
* On September 9, 1954, the 6.7 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1954 Chlef earthquake|Chlef earthquake]] shakes northern [[Algeria]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of XI (''Extreme''). The shock destroyed [[Orléansville]], left 1,243–1,409 dead, and 5,000 injured.
* On October 11, 1954, [[Hurricane Hazel]] crossed over [[Haiti]], killing 1,000.
* On August 19, 1955, [[Hurricane Diane]] hit the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people, and causing over $1.0 billion in damage.
* On June 27, 1957, [[Hurricane Audrey]] demolished [[Cameron, Louisiana]], US, killing 400 people.
* In April 1959, the [[1959 flood in Uruguay|Río Negro flooded central Uruguay]].
* [[Typhoon Vera (1959)|Typhoon Vera]] hit central [[Honshū]] on September 26, 1959, killing an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and leaving 1,533,000 homeless. Most of the damage was centered in the [[Nagoya]] area.
* On December 2, 1959, [[Malpasset|Malpasset Dam]] in southern France collapsed and water flowed over the town of [[Fréjus]], killing 412.

'''Non-natural:'''
* On March 12, 1950, an [[Avro Tudor]] plane carrying a [[Rugby football|rugby]] team [[Llandow air disaster|crashed]] in [[Wales]], killing 80 people.
*In early December 1952, the [[Great Smog of London]] caused major disruption by reducing visibility and even penetrating indoor areas, far more severely than previous smog events, called "[[Pea soup fog|pea-soupers]]". Government medical reports in the weeks following the event estimated that up to 4,000 people had died as a direct result of the smog and 100,000 more were made ill by the smog's effects on the human [[respiratory tract]]. 
* On June 18, 1953, a [[United States Air Force|USAF]] [[Douglas C-124 Globemaster II]] [[Tachikawa air disaster|crashed after takeoff]] from [[Tachikawa]], Japan, killing all 129 on board.
* On January 10, 1954, [[BOAC Flight 781]], a new [[de Havilland Comet]] jetliner, disintegrated in mid-air due to structural failure and crashed off the Italian coast, killing all 35 on board.
* On June 30, 1956, a [[United Airlines]] [[Douglas DC-7]] and a [[Trans World Airlines]] [[Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation]] [[1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision|collided]] above the [[Grand Canyon]] in [[Arizona]], killing all 128 people on board both aircraft.
* On July 25, 1956, the Italian ocean liner {{SS|Andrea Doria}} collided with the Swedish ocean liner [[MS Stockholm (1948)|MS ''Stockholm'']] off the [[Nantucket, Massachusetts]], coastline. 51 people were killed and the ''Andrea Doria'' sank the next morning.
* On February 6, 1958, in an incident known as the [[Munich air disaster]], British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at [[Munich-Riem Airport]] in [[Munich]], [[West Germany]]. 23 people on board were killed (including 8 players of the [[Manchester United F.C.]] [[soccer]] team).
* On April 21, 1958, a mid-air collision between [[United Airlines Flight 736]] and a [[United States Air Force|USAF]] fighter jet killed 49 people.
* On August 14, 1958, a [[KLM]] Lockheed Constellation [[KLM Flight 607-E|crashed]] into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland, killing all 99 people aboard.