 Arts & Crafts Events  Births, Deaths and Marriages
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| 1952 | Feb 06 | Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne. |
| Apr 23 | George Grant Elmslie died in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1953 | Jan 07 | President Harry Truman announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.1 |
| Jan 20 | Dwight David Eisenhower inaugurated President of the United States. |
| Apr 24 | British statesman Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.1 |
| 1954 | Oct 02 | Henry Mather Greene died in Pasadena, California. |
| 1955 | Dec 01 | Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, defied the law by refusing to give up her seat to a white man aboard a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Mrs. Parks was arrested, sparking a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks.1 |
| 1956 | Oct 18 | Grosvenor Atterbury died in Southampton, New York. |
| 1957 | --- | Ernest Batchelder died in Pasadena, California. |
| Feb 02 | Julia Morgan died.1 |
| Jun 11 | Charles Sumner Greene died in Carmel, California. |
| Oct 03 | Bernard Maybeck died in Berkeley, California. |
| 1958 | Jan 01 | Treaties establishing the European Economic Community went into effect.1 |
| Dec 10 | The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the United States as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flew 111 passengers from New York City to Miami.1 |
| 1959 | Apr 09 | Frank Lloyd Wright died in the hospital after an operation. He was buried in the Unity Chapel graveyard at Taliesin in Wisconsin. In 1985, his body was disinterred, cremated and reburied with his wife at Taliesin West. |
