1950

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Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It is also the index year, or year 0, that scientists use for before present figures.

Events of 1950

January

1 January - The International Police Association (IPA) - the largest police organization in the World - was formed.
5 January - U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the U.S.
6 January - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
9 January - The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China.
11 January - Huk guerrillas manhandle the town of Hermosa in Bataan, Philippines.

15 January: Mount Lamington erupts in New Guinea.

26 January: India forms a republic.

12 January - British submarine Truculent collides with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames Estuary and sinks - 64 dead.
13 January - Finland forms diplomatic relations to People's Republic of China.
15 January - Volcanic cloud kills 5000 in Mount Lamington, New Guinea.
17 January - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts.
21 January - Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
23 January - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
24 January - Cold War: Klaus Fuchs, a German émigré and physicist, walked into London's War Office and confessed to being a Soviet spy: for 7 years, he passed top secret data on U.S. and British nuclear weapons research to the Soviet Union; formally charged 2 February.
26 January - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president.
28 January - Somaliland is put under Italian mandate
29 January - Lord Balfour criticizes the fact that rationing is still in force in Britain.
31 January - President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949.
31 January - Last Kuomintang troops surrender in mainland China.

February

1 February - Chiang Kai-shek re-elected as a president of the Republic of China.
4 February - Ingrid Bergman's illegitimate child arouses ire in USA
9 February - Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hote in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.
11 February - Two Viet Minh battalions attack a French base in French Indochina.
11 February - Finland recognizes Indonesia.
12 February - Pro-communist riots in Paris.
12 February - European Broadcasting Union founded.
12 February - Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.
13 February - The US Army begins to deploy anti-aircraft cannons to protect nuclear stations and military targets.
13 February - The US Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried an Mk-4 atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada, and produced the world's first Broken Arrow.
14 February - The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.
15 February - Juho Kusti Paasikivi re-elected president of Finland
19 February - Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany to begin unification.
23 February - British General Election. Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee vs Conservative Leader of the Opposition Winston Churchill.
24 February - British Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee, having won the General Election, forms a new government.

March

1 March - Klaus Fuchs is convicted in London of spying against both Britain and the United States for the Soviet Union by giving to the latter top secret atomic bomb data.
1 March - Acting Chinese President Li Tsung-jen ends his term in office
1 March - Chiang Kai-shek resumes his duties as Chinese president after moving his government to Taipei, Taiwan.
3 March - Poland states that it intends to exile all Germans.
8 March - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
8 March - The first Volkswagen Type 2 van - also known as the Volkswagen Microbus - rolls off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.
12 March - A plane carrying returning rugby fans from Ireland to Wales crashes near Llandow with the loss of 80 lives.
12 March- 13 March - In Belgium, the referendum over the monarchy shows 57.7% support the return of King Léopold III, 42.3% against.
14 March - Ship Cygnet hits mine off the Dutch coast.
17 March - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98 which they have named "californium".
20 March - Government of Poland decides to confiscate the property of the Polish church.
22 March - Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops in Suez Canal.
23 March - 22nd Academy Awards ceremony

April

15 April - Belgian King Leopold III announces that he is ready to abdicate in favour of his son Baudouin.
24 April - Jordan formally annexes the West Bank.
27 April - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
27 April - Britain formally recognises Israel.

May

6 May - "Cazin uprising" in town of Cazin (Bosnia) against Communist agrarian reforms.
6 May - Tollund Man is found.
9 May - Robert Schuman presents his proposal for the creation of a pan-European organisation which he believes to be indispensable to the maintenance of permanently peaceful relations between the different nations of the continent. This proposal, known as the " Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
9 May - L. Ron Hubbard publishes Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
11 May - Kefauver Committee hearings about US organized crime begin.
13 May - The first race in the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship was held at Silverstone, England.
14 May - The Huntsville Times runs the headline, "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon."
25 May - Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic.
27 May - Linnanmäki in Finland is open.
29 May - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

June

1 June - Mauna Loa starts erupting.
3 June - First ascent of Annapurna I, 10th highest mountain in the world.
6 June - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
8 June - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
23 June - Mauna Loa stops erupting
25 June - Beginning of Korean War: Americans begin hoarding supplies in case of rationing and shortages.
26 June - The South African Parliament passes the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950.
28 June - Korean War - North Korean forces capture Seoul.
29 June - United States defeats England 1-0 in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

July

16 July - Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 to win the 1950 World Cup.
17 July - The Suppression of Communism Act, passed on June 26, comes into force in South Africa.

August

5 August - Florence Chadwick swims across English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes.
5 August - A bomb-laden B-29 Superfortress crashes into a residential area in California: 17 dead, 68 injured.
6 August - Riot in Brussels in monarchist demonstrations.
8 August - Winston Churchill supports idea of pan-European army allied with Canada and USA.
12 August - In his Encyclical ' Humani Generis', Pope Pius XII declares evolution to be a serious hypothesis that did not contradict essential Catholic teachings.
15 August - Earthquake and floods in Assam, India: 574 deaths, 5,000,000 believed homeless.
22 August - Foundation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary, Tagbilaran City, Philippines.
23 August - Legendary singer-actor Paul Robeson, whose passport has recently been revoked because of his alleged Communist affiliations, meets with U.S. officials in an effort to get it reinstated. He is unsuccessful, and it is not reinstated until 1958.

September

4 September - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
4 September - Beetle Bailey comic strip started.
7 September - Coal mine collapses in New Cumnock, Scotland - 13 miners dead. 116 rescued.
7 September - The gameshow Truth or Consequences debuts on television.
8 September - The Defense Production Act is enacted into law in the U.S., shaping American military contracting for the next 60 years.
9 September - The U.S. state of California celebrates its centennial anniversary.
12 September - Communist riots in Berlin.
15 September - Allied troops land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin the Battle of Inchon.
19 September - West Germany decides to purge communist officials.
26 September - Indonesia admitted to the United Nations.
28 September - Ray Bradbury releases famous short story "The Veldt"
30 September - NSC-68 enacted by President Truman, setting US foreign policy for the next twenty years.

October

2 October - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers.
3 October - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, elected president of Brazil, for a five-year term.
5 October - Indonesian government quells riots in the Moluccas.
7 October - The 1950-1951 invasion of Tibet by China begins.
7 October - Agate Pass Bridge opens for traffic.
11 October - The Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in colour, to CBS ( RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
15 October The second Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens.
15 October - In East Germany, communists win 99.7% of the vote.
20 October - Australia passes the Communist Party Dissolution Act, later struck down by the High Court.
26 October - Sister Mary Teresa begins her charity work in Calcutta and becomes known as Mother Teresa.
28 October - Torcida Split was founded.
30 October - The Jayuya Uprising/revolt is started by Puerto Rican Nationalists against the United States.

November

1 November - Pope Pius XII witnesses the " Miracle of the Sun" at the Vatican and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism: that God assumed Mary's body into Heaven after her death.
1 November - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman, who is staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs.
4 November - United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain.
8 November - Korean War: While in an F-80, United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown intercepts two North Korean MiG-15s near the Yalu River and shoots them down in the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.
10 November - A US Air Force B-50 Superfortress bomber, experiencing an in-flight emergency, jettisoned and detonated a Mark 4 nuclear bomb over Quebec, Canada. The device lacked its plutonium core.
11 November - The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles as the first Gay-liberation organization.
13 November - Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is kidnapped and murdered in Caracas.
13 November - A Curtiss Reid Flying Services plane crashes while enroute to Paris from Rome killing all 52 on board.
18 November - The United Nations accepts the formation of Libyan national council
20 November - T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK.
22 November - Anti-British riots in Egypt.
22 November - Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show business.
25 November - Phenomenal winter storm ravages the Northeastern United States, brings 30 to 50 inches of snow, temperatures below zero, and kills 323 people.
26 November - Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China move into North Korea and launch a massive counterattack against South Korean and American forces at Chosin, ending any thought of a quick end to the conflict.
28 November - Greece and Yugoslavia reform diplomatic relations.
29 November - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force a retreat of United Nations forces from North Korea.
29 November - National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA founded.
30 November - Douglas MacArthur threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea.

December

3 December - Mt Etna erupts in Sicily.
11 December- 13 December - The Maria Hertogh riots occur in Singapore, leaving 18 dead and 173 injured.
12 December - Paula Ackerman becomes the first woman in the United States to serve a congregation as a Rabbi.
16 December - The Office of Defense Mobilization is established in the United States.
24 December- 25 December - Scottish nationalists take the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey.
28 December - The Peak District becomes Britain's first National Park.

Undated

Ralph Schneider founds Diners Club - it initially only works in 27 restaurants in New York City.
United Nations building is finished.
First pagers are developed.
First TV remote control, Zenith Radio's Lazy Bones is marketed.
Myxomatosis is introduced into Australia in an attempt to control the escalating rabbit population.
IBM Israel begins operating in Tel Aviv.
President Harry Truman sends United States military advisers to Vietnam to aid French forces.
France institutes a government-guaranteed minimum wage.

Ongoing

Computer Age, and Cold War
First Indochina War

World population

Total world population: 2,518,629,000
- Africa: 221,214,000
- Asia: 1,398,488,000
- Europe: 547,403,000
- Latin-America: 167,097,000
- Northern America: 171,616,000
- Oceania: 12,812,000.

Births

**1950 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1950 MCML
Ab urbe condita	2703
Armenian calendar	1399 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԹ
Bahá'í calendar	106 – 107
Berber calendar	2900
Buddhist calendar	2494
Burmese calendar	1312
Byzantine calendar	7458 – 7459
Chinese calendar	己丑年十一月十三日 (4586/4646-11-13) — to — 庚寅年十一月廿三日 (4587/4647-11-23)
Coptic calendar	1666 – 1667
Ethiopian calendar	1942 – 1943
Hebrew calendar	5710 – 5711
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2005 – 2006
- Shaka Samvat	1872 – 1873
- Kali Yuga	5051 – 5052
Holocene calendar	11950
Iranian calendar	1328 – 1329
Islamic calendar	1369 – 1370
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 25 (昭和25年)
Korean calendar	4283
Thai solar calendar	2493

January-February

5 January - John Manley, Canadian politician
5 January - Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur and inventor
12 January - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
12 January - Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
16 January - Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
17 January - Cristina Galbó, Spanish actress
17 January - Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican writer
18 January - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
20 January - Edward Hirsch, American poet
21 January - Billy Ocean, West Indian-born musician
23 January - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
24 January - Gennifer Flowers, Accused President Clinton of sexual misconduct
24 January - Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadoran author and scholar
26 January - Janet Lupo, American model
27 January - Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born obstetrician and gynecologist
27 January - Derek Acorah, Spiritualist medium
29 January - Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
30 January - Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
1 February - Kazimierz Nycz, Polish clergyman
3 February - Morgan Fairchild, American actress
4 February - Pamela Franklin, British actress
6 February - Natalie Cole, American singer
10 February - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
12 February - Michael Ironside, Canadian actor
12 February - Steve Hackett, British songwriter and guitarist
13 February - Peter Gabriel, British musician
15 February - Tsui Hark, Hong Kong film director
16 February - Peter Hain, British politician
18 February - Cybill Shepherd American Actress, Singer and Former Fashion Model
18 February - John Hughes, American film director, producer, and writer
19 February - Andy Powell, British musician ( Wishbone Ash)
20 February - Ken Shimura, Japanese television performer and actor
20 February - Tony Wilson, English impresario (d. 2007)
22 February - Julius Erving, American basketball player
22 February - Julie Walters, English actress
22 February - Miou-Miou, French actress
22 February - Ellen Greene, American actress
25 February - Neil Jordan, Irish film director, writer, and producer
25 February - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
26 February - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
26 February - Bill Ritter, ABC TV News Anchor

March-April

2 March - Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (d. 1983)
4 March - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
9 March - Doug Ault, baseball player (d. 2004)
9 March - Danny Sullivan, American race car driver
11 March - Bobby McFerrin, American singer
11 March - Jerry Zucker, American film producer, director, and writer
13 March - William H. Macy, American actor
18 March - Brad Dourif, American actor
18 March - Richard Kretchmer, English artist and historian
20 March - William Hurt, American actor
22 March - Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player
26 March - Teddy Pendergrass, American singer
26 March - Martin Short, Canadian-born comedian
29 March - Bud Cort, American actor
30 March - Robbie Coltrane, British actor and comedian
3 April - Sally Thomsett, British actress
4 April - Christine Lahti, American actress
5 April - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer and songwriter ( ABBA)
5 April - Harpo, Swedish pop musician
10 April - Ken Griffey, Sr., baseball player
12 April - Kari Palaste, Finnish architect
20 April - Steve Erickson, American novelist
22 April - Peter Frampton, English musician
25 April - Lenora Branch Fulani, American Presidential candidate
28 April - Jay Leno, American comedian and talk show host
29 April - Paul Holmes, New Zealand radio and television broadcaster

May-June

7 May - Tim Russert American journalist (d. 2008)
13 May - Stevie Wonder, American musician
5 June - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and political activist (d. 1977)
25 June - Nitza Saul, Israeli actress

July-August

5 July - Michael Monarch, American musician ( Steppenwolf)
5 July - Huey Lewis, American musician
11 July - Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani Nuclear physicist and social activist
11 July - J. R. Morgan, British classical scholar
18 July - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
18 July - Glenn Hughes, American vocalist (d. 2001)
19 July - Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
19 July - Simon Cadell, British actor
26 July - Susan George, British actress
1 August - Roy Williams, American basketball coach
7 August - Alan Keyes, American political activist
11 August - Erik Brann, American Musician, Guitarist (d. 2003)
11 August - Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian weapon designer
15 August - Anne, Princess Royal
15 August - Neil J. Gunther Australian/American physicist and computer scientist
16 August - Hasely Crawford, West Indian athlete
16 August - Marshall Manesh, Persian actor
26 August - Carl Deuker, American author
27 August - Charles Fleischer, American actor

September-October

1 September - Dr. Phil McGraw, TV psychologist
1 September - Mikhail Fradkov, a Russian politician, the current Prime Minister of Russia
2 September - Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
7 September - Julie Kavner, American actress
10 September - Joe Perry (musician), American guitarist Aerosmith
14 September - Paul Kossoff, British guitarist ( Free) (d. 1976)
14 September - Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
16 September - Loyd Grossman, American television presenter and chef
17 September - Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat
21 September - Charles Clarke, British politician
21 September - Bill Murray, American actor and comedian
22 September - Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
24 September - Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
27 September - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese actor
28 September - John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
1 October - Randy Quaid, American actor
5 October - Jeff Conaway, American actor
5 October - Edward P. Jones, American writer
9 October - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
10 October - Nora Roberts, American novelist
12 October - Caroline Ellis, British actress
12 October - Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
18 October - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
20 October - Tom Petty, American singer
22 October - Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado
28 October - Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
29 October - Abdullah Gül, Turkish 11th president
31 October - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
31 October - Jane Pauley, American television broadcaster and journalist

November-December

1 November - Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
3 November - Joe Queenan, American humorist and social critic
3 November - Massimo Mongai, Italian author
4 November - Charles Frazier, American author
10 November - Debra Hill, American producer (d. 2005)
10 November - Bob Orton, Jr., American professional wrestler
13 November - Mary Lou Metzger, American singer and dancer
21 November - Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete
22 November - Lyman Bostock, baseball player (d. 1978)
28 November - Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
28 November - Ed Harris, American actor
1 December - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and musician
2 December - Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
5 December - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish singer (d. 1992)
10 December - Tom Towles, American actor
13 December - Wendie Malick, American actress
15 December - Don Johnson, American actor
16 December - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006)
17 December - Laurence F. Johnson, American futurist and educator
17 December - Wendy Brown, wife of Gordon Brown
18 December - Leonard Maltin, American film critic
19 December - Manny Trillo, baseball player
23 December - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
28 December - Alex Chilton, American musician ( The Box Tops)

Deaths

January-June

17 January - Seiichi Hatano, Japanese philosopher (b. 1877)
21 January - George Orwell, English author (b. 1903)
6 February - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
7 February - D. K. Broster, British historical novelist (b. 1877)
25 February - George Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1885)
5 March - Sid Grauman, American restaurateur (b. 1895)
19 March - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
19 March - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
24 March - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
30 March - Joe Yule, Scottish-born comedian (b. 1894)
26 April - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
1 May - Lothrop Stoddard, American eugenicist (b. 1883)
9 May - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
10 May - Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer, and archivist (b. 1883)
4 June - Kazys Grinius, President of Lithuania (b. 1866)
24 June - Darwan Singh Negi, Indian VC recipient (b. 1881)

July-December

12 July - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
17 July - Evangeline Booth, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
22 July - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian politician (b. 1874)
22 August - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
23 August - Frank Phillips, American oil executive (b. 1873)
26 August - Ransom E. Olds, American automotive pioneer (b. 1864)
27 August - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (b. 1908)
6 September - Olaf Stapledon, British author and philosopher (b. 1886)
10 September - Raymond Sommer, American race car driver (b. 1906)
11 September - Rudolph Palm, Curacao born composer (b. 1880)
11 September - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1870)
21 September - Arthur Milne, British physicist (b. 1896)

13 October - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
19 October - Charles Ballantyne, Canadian politician (b. 1867)
23 October - Al Jolson, American musician (b. 1886)
29 October - King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
2 November - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
3 November - Koiso Kuniaki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880)
25 November - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
25 November - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
28 November - James Corbitt hanged for murder by Albert Pierrepoint
30 November - Werner Haase, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1900)
2 December - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
5 December - Sri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
11 December - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (b. 1893)
12 December - Peter Fraser, former Prime Minister of New Zealand(b. 1884)
15 December - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader (b.1875)
27 December - Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)

Nobel prizes

Physics - Cecil Frank Powell
Chemistry - Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
Medicine - Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench
Literature - Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
Peace - Ralph Bunche

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