1950

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

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Events of 1950

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January

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January 15: Mount Lamington erupts in New Guinea.

January 1 - Sir Adrian Boult is appointed principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra
January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the U.S.
January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
January 9 - The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China.
January 11 - Huk guerrillas manhandle the town of Hermosa in Bataan, Philippines.

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January 26: India forms a republic.

January 12
- Huk guerrillas attack the town of Tuyn, kill two and torch the city of Staingnacan.
- British submarine Truculent collides with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames Estuary and sinks - 64 dead.
January 13 - Finland forms diplomatic relations to People's Republic of China
January 15 - Volcanic cloud kills 5000 in Mount Lamington, New Guinea
January 17 - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts
January 21 - Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury
January 23 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
January 24 - 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;<ref>"Year by Year 1950" -- History Channel International</ref> formally charged February 2.
January 26 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president.
January 28 - Somaliland is put under Italian mandate
January 29 - Lord Balfour criticizes the fact that rationing is still in force in Britain
January 31
- President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb in response to the detonation the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949<ref>"Year by Year 1950" -- History Channel International</ref>
- Last Kuomintang troops surrender in continental China

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February

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

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March

March 1
- Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by giving them top secret atomic bomb data.
- Acting Chinese President Li Tsung-jen ends his term in office
- Chiang Kai-shek resumes his duties as Chinese president after moving his government to Taipei, Taiwan.
March 3 - Poland states that it intends to exile all Germans.
March 8
- The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
- The first Volkswagen Type 2 van - also known as the Volkswagen Microbus - rolls off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.
March 12 - A plane carrying returning rugby fans from Ireland to Wales crashes near Llandow with the loss of 80 lives.
March 12-March 13 - In Belgium, the referendum over the monarchy shows 57.7% support the return of king Léopold III, 42.3% against.
March 14
- Ship Cygnet hits mine off the Dutch coast.
- Governor Shlipp Concow's born at 7:02 AM.
March 17 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98 which they have named "californium".
March 20 - Government of Poland decides to confiscate the property of Polish church.
March 22 - Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops in Suez Canal.

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April

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

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May

May 6
- "Cazin uprising" in town of Cazin (Bosnia) against Communist and their agrarian reforms.
- Tollund Man is found.
May 9
- Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
- L. Ron Hubbard publishes "Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health".
May 11 - Kefauver Committee hearings about US organized crime begin.
May 14 - The Huntsville Times runs the headline, "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon."
May 25 - Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic.
May 29 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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June

June 3 - First ascent of Annapurna I, 10th highest mountain in the world.
June 6 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
June 8 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
June 24 - 58 persons were killed when a commercial airliner crashed into Lake Michigan. The reason for the disaster is unknown. Only fragments of the plane and the bodies of passengers were ever found.
June 25 - Beginning of Korean War: Americans begin hoarding supplies in case of rationing and shortages.
June 28 - Korean War - North Korean forces capture Seoul.
June 29 - United States defeats England 1-0 in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. For more details, see England v United States (1950).

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July

July 16 - Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 to win the 1950 World Cup.

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August

August 5
- Florence Chadwick swims across English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes.
- A bomb-laden B-29 Superfortress crashes into a residential area in California: 17 dead, 68 injured.
August 6 - Riot in Brussels in monarchist demonstrations.
August 8 - Winston Churchill supports idea of pan-European army allied with Canada and USA.
August 12 - In his Encyclical Humani Generis, Pope Pius XII declares evolution to be a serious hypothesis that did not contradict essential Catholic teachings.
August 15 - Earthquake and floods in Assam, India: 574 deaths, 5,000,000 believed homeless.
August 22 - Foundation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary, Tagbilaran City, Philippines.
August 23 - 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.

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September

September 1 - Hungarian major general Laszlo Viragen defects to Austria and applies for political asylum
September 4 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. Beetle Bailey comic strip started.
September 7
- Coal mine collapses in New Cumnock, Scotland - 13 miners dead. 116 rescued.
- The gameshow Truth or Consequences debuts on television.
September 8 - The Defense Production Act is enacted into law in the U.S., shaping American military contracting for the next 60 years.
September 9 - The U.S. state of California celebrates its centennial anniversary.
September 12 - Communist riots in Berlin.
September 13 - First main-line diesel-electric locomotives run in Australia.
September 15 - Allied troops land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin the Battle of Inchon.
September 19 - West Germany decides to purge communist officials.
September 26 - Indonesia admitted to the United Nations.
September 30 - NSC-68 enacted by President Truman, setting US foreign policy for the next twenty years.

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October

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

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November

November 1
- Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" at the Vatican<ref>Joseph Pelletier "The Sun Danced at Fatima", Doubleday, New York (1983),pp150,151</ref> and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism: that God assumed Mary's body into Heaven after her death.
- 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.
November 4 - United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain.
November 8 - 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.
November 10 - A US Air Force B-50 bomber, experiencing an in-flight emergency, jettisoned and detonated a Mark 4 nuclear bomb over Quebec, Canada. The device lacked its plutonium core.
November 11 - The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles as the first Gay-liberation organization.
November 13 - Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is kidnapped and murdered in Caracas.
November 18 - United Nations accepts the formation of Libyan national council
November 20 - T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK.
November 22
- Anti-British riots in Egypt.
- Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show business.
November 25 - Phenomenal winter storm ravages the Northeast United States, brings 30 to 50 inches of snow, temperatures below zero, and kills 323 people.
November 26 - 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.
November 28 - Greece and Yugoslavia reform diplomatic relations.
November 29
- Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force a desperate retreat of United Nations forces from North Korea.
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA founded.
November 30 - Douglas MacArthur threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea.

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December

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

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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.
Japanese soldier Yuichi Akitsu surrenders in the Philippines.
President Harry Truman sends United States military advisers to Vietnam to aid French forces.
France institutes a government guaranteed minimum wage.

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Ongoing

Cold War

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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.

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