1950s

"The precipice of the space race. It's a golden age of innovation."

- Phil Coulson

This is a timeline of events that occurred during the 1950s.

1950

 * Arnim Zola and some former HYDRA agents track down Bucky Barnes, who survived the drop and was taken into custody by Soviet Union soldiers. Since that moment, they had kept Barnes frozen and alive, but missing an arm. Once he was found by Zola and his agents, they take him into their custody.
 * While S.H.I.E.L.D. is founded, Zola begins rebuilding HYDRA from within the agency.
 * Bucky Barnes's memory is wiped and he is given a metal prosthetic arm. Barnes is kept cryogenically frozen and becomes a HYDRA assassin known as the Winter Soldier.
 * Dunkin' Donuts is founded.
 * Roger Hicks is born.

March

 * Betty and Veronica publishes its first issue.

13th

 * Stevland Judkins, later known as Stevie Wonder, is born.

4th

 * Nick Fury is born in Huntsville, Alabama.

11th

 * Steve Wozniak is born.

17th

 * Howard Stark marries Milly Taylor in a lavish ceremony in Brooklyn. Two seats are reserved for Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes.

16th

 * The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis is published.

27th

 * Ace Frehley is born.

20th

 * HYDRA discovers what Milly Taylor and Howard Stark were creating in their secret lab.
 * Attack on Stark Lab: They send the Winter Soldier to assassinate Milly Taylor, but when the Winter Soldier recognized Taylor, after having installed a bomb inside the building, he fired a warning shot close to her head, but she wasn't quick enough to get out and the lab exploded with her inside
 * Miraculously Taylor survived, instead absorbing the serum.

14th

 * Milly Taylor wakes from her coma induced from the explosion. She discovers she's three months pregnant with hers and Howard Stark's child.

18th

 * Ben Carson is born.

15th

 * I Love Lucy airs its first episode.

1952

 * Cheez Whiz debuts.
 * Jim Shaw is born.

12th

 * Walter Mosley is born.

13th

 * Geoffrey Canada is born.

February

 * Mark Fuhrman is born.

11th

 * Douglas Adams is born.

8th

 * Emma Aurora Taylor is born in Brooklyn, New York to Howard Stark and Milly Taylor.

11th

 * Singin' in The Rain is released in the United States of America.

14th

 * Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is published.

17th

 * David Hasselhof is born.

18th

 * Rick Pitino is born.

1st

 * This is Your Life airs its first episode.

13th

 * Isodyne Manufacturing Corporation transfers ownership to Roxxon Corporation.

December

 * T'Chaka is born to Azzuri of Wakanda. As Azzuri's first child, he becomes the next in line to be King of Wakanda after his father.

1953

 * Randy's Donuts is founded.

20th

 * Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United States, replacing the incumbent Harry S. Truman.

5th

 * Joseph Stalin dies.

13th

 * The CIA officially begins Project MKUltra.
 * Casino Royale by Ian Fleming is published, featuring the character of James Bond.

15th

 * Sal Blaskowski is born.

18th

 * David Deutsch is born.

20th

 * Peggy Carter is interviewed about the Strategic Scientific Reserve and the early days of the organization S.H.I.E.L.D..

21st

 * Peggy Carter is interviewed about her experiences with Captain America during World War II.

20th

 * Thomas Friedman is born.

31st

 * Don Winslow is born.

27th

 * Eugene O'Neilly dies.

1st

 * The Stark World Exposition begins and runs for the rest of the year.

February

 * Brian Jones is born.

20th

 * Patty Hearst is born.

March

 * N'Jobu is born to Azzuri of Wakanda, his second child after T'Chaka.

14th

 * The KGB is founded.

7th

 * Jackie Chan is born.

19th

 * Them! is released in the United States of America.

16th

 * Sports Illustrated publishes its first issue.

18th

 * Steven Pinker is born.

15th

 * Yondu Udonta is sold into Kree slavery as an infant.

24th

 * Steve Jobs is born.

17th

 * Tomorrow Land opens at Disneyland.

19th

 * Biff sees what he believes to be a flying saucer near Area 51.

21st

 * In the early hours, teenagers Biff and Barb lie in the back of a truck in Nevada, spending the night looking at the sky. Biff insists he saw a flying saucer there before, though Barb says she assumed he had just said that to get her to come out with him. They kiss.
 * The radio in Nevada plays an advertisement for a new car.
 * Gerald Sharpe from the Department of Defense visits the Flying Rocket Diner, loudly demanding coffee from Madge. She brings him the coffee.
 * Daniel Sousa pulls up at Area 51 and gets out of his car. Sousa enters the base, having flown in from Los Angeles, where he is head of the former SSR base.
 * Early S.H.I.E.L.D. power players arrive to attend the Project Helius trial. However, nothing on Earth is powerful enough to get Helius up to velocity.
 * Dr. Pascal Vega demonstrates a radio watch he has invented to an Area 51 visitor.
 * Daniel Sousa meets his contact at Area 51, Niles Lindmore, who gives him a package to deliver to Howard Stark.

22nd

 * Sousa boards the train to Los Angeles.
 * Wilfred Malick spends time at his office.
 * Sousa gets on his motorbike and drives off to make his drop.
 * A storm rages over the Hotel Roosevelt. Daniel Sousa rolls up on his motorbike and enters.
 * As Sousa waits for his drop, a HYDRA agent sent by Malick watches from across the room. Sousa gets his signal from the concierge for the drop.
 * It starts to rain in the Hotel Roosevelt pool.

23rd

 * Assassination of Daniel Sousa: Some minutes after his arrival, as the clock strikes 22nd July 9PM Los Angeles time, Sousa goes and walks through the hotel, and then makes the drop, passing over the case to the concierge, Howard Stark's man. Sousa is then killed by HYDRA.


 * Sousa's story begins to be told: Sousa was a noble agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., who risked his life delivering a vital piece of technology to Howard Stark, and died a hero at the hands of what seemed to be the Russians - the first fallen agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., whose story is considered inspiring to other agents. Files are written on the event.
 * Wilfred Malick stays in his office, glad to have Sousa confirmed deceased.

24th

 * Milly Taylor holds a small funeral for Agent Sousa with Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, and some colleagues from their SSR days and S.H.I.E.L.D. are in attendance.

October

 * Jackson Dillard is born.

1956

 * Pancho's Bar is founded by Pancho Huerta, in Rosamond.

February

 * A girl called Alisa Campbell, later known as Alisa Jones after marriage, is born.

June

 * Nikolai Poloznev is born.

5th

 * Nick Saviano is born.

21st

 * Michael Connelly is born.

11th

 * Jackson Pollock dies.

16th

 * David Copperfield is born.

November

 * I Put a Spell on You is released.

1957

 * Nelson's Meats opens in New York City.


 * A doctor named Jonah visits the Magistrate preacher in infectious diseases quarantine, where he has grey flakes overcoming his body, causing him to grow weaker. The Magistrate announces that what he is about to do will cause Dr. Jonah to struggle for personality dominance, but that he will ultimately win, confusing Jonah. The Magistrate, however, grabs Jonah and transfers his essence to Jonah's body, causing a flash of light.

18th

 * John Pelecanos is born.

12th

 * The Cat in the Hat is published.

28th

 * Ai Weiwei is born.

September

 * Arthur Walsh is born.

10th

 * Zorro airs its first episode.

1958

 * Around this time, Jay and the Americans are formed.
 * Around this time, Parliament are formed.
 * Mr. Clean is introduced.
 * He Needs Me by Nina Simone is released.
 * BankAmericard, later known as Visa Inc., is founded.
 * The Bee Gees are formed.
 * The Smurfs characters debut.
 * A Bear Called Paddington is published, debuting the character of Paddington Bear.

25th

 * The Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" is established.

7th

 * Prince Rogers Nelson, later known as Prince, is born.

8th

 * Kevin Bacon is born.

16th

 * Madonna Louise Ciccone, later known as Madonna, is born.

25th

 * Tim Burton is born.

29th

 * Michael Jackson is born.

22nd

 * Joan Jett is born.

29th

 * Knowing that Howard Stark and Milly Taylor made a mistake, trying to recreate the serum, they pay the price when they discover that Milly wont age, and that coming up with a cure would take time they didn't have. Taylor decides to go into hiding, so Stark could keep be of service which S.H.I.E.L.D. needed.

1st

 * Milly Taylor goes into hiding with her six year old daughter, Emma.
 * Peggy Carter deletes all information about "Milly Taylor" and "Emma Taylor", and Taylor becomes a ghost story at S.H.I.E.L.D. known as Agent 01.

23rd

 * The Smurfs debuts in the TV Show Johan and Peewit, including Papa Smurf and Smurfette.

22nd

 * Jamie Lee Curtis is born.

1959

 * Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is founded.
 * The Chevrolet El Camino is introduced.

10th

 * Psycho is released, including the Bates Motel.

25th

 * The Winter Soldier conducts an operation in this year, and it is cataloged by the KGB.

27th

 * The Manchurian Candidate is published.

22nd

 * Steven Patrick Morrissey, later known simply as Morrissey, is born.

September

 * Howard "Pappy" Mason is born.

23rd

 * Alfred Matthew Yankovic, later known as ""Weird Al" Yankovic", is born.