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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.

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[edit] Events of 1950

[edit] January

• January 1 - The International Police Association (IPA) - the largest police organization in the world - is formed.
• January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for an investigation 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 9 - Jarl Hjalmarson becomes new Rightist leader in Sweden after Fritiof Domö.
• January 11 - Huk guerrillas manhandle the town of Hermosa, Bataan in the Philippines.

• January 12 - The British submarine Truculent collides with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames Estuary and sinks; 64 die.
• January 12 - Cold War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson delivers his 'Perimeter Speech', outlining the boundary of U.S. security guarantees.
• January 13 - Finland forms diplomatic relations to People's Republic of China.
• January 17 - Great Brinks Robbery: 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts.
• January 21 - Accused communist spy 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, German émigré and physicist, walks into London's War Office and confesses 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;^[1] 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 of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949.^[1]
• January 31 - The last Kuomintang troops surrender in mainland China.

[edit] February

• February 1 - Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected as a president of the Republic of China.
• February 4 - Ingrid Bergman's illegitimate child arouses ire in the U.S.
• February 9 - 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.
• February 11 - Two Viet Minh battalions attack a French base in French Indochina.
• February 11 - Finland recognizes Indonesia.
• February 12 - Pro-communist riots erupt in Paris.
• February 12 - The European Broadcasting Union is founded.
• February 12 - Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.
• February 13 - The U.S. Army begins to deploy anti-aircraft cannons to protect nuclear stations and military targets.
• February 13 - The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried an Mk-4 atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada, and produces 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 is re-elected president of Finland.
• February 19 - Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany to begin unification.

[edit] March

• March 1 - 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.
• March 1 - Acting Chinese President Li Tsung-jen ends his term in office.
• March 1 - 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.
• March 8 - 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 - The ship Cygnet hits a mine off the Dutch coast.
• March 17 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they have named "californium".
• March 20 - The Polish government decides to confiscate the property of the Polish Catholic Church.
• March 22 - Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops in the Suez Canal.
• March 23 - The 22nd Academy Awards ceremony is held.

[edit] April

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

[edit] May

• May 6 - The town of Cazin (Bosnia) rises up against Communist agrarian reforms.
• May 6 - Tollund Man is unearthed in Denmark.
• May 9 - 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.
• May 9 - L. Ron Hubbard publishes Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
• May 11 - The Kefauver Committee hearings into U.S. organized crime begin.
• May 13 - The first race in the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone, England.
• May 14 - The Huntsville Times runs the headline, "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon."
• May 25 - The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic.
• May 27 - The Linnanmäki amusement park opens in Finland.
• May 29 - St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[edit] June

• June 1 - Mauna Loa in Hawaii starts erupting.
• June 3 - Annapurna I, 10th highest mountain in the world, is first ascended.
• June 6 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
• June 8 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
• June 23 - Mauna Loa stops erupting.
• June 25 - Korean War: North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into South Korea.
• June 26 - The South African Parliament passes the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950.
• June 27 - Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman orders American military forces to aid in the defense of South Korea.
• June 28 - Korean War: North Korean forces capture Seoul.
• June 29 - United States defeats England 1-0 in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

[edit] July

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

[edit] August

• August 5 - Florence Chadwick swims across the English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes.
• August 5 - A bomb-laden B-29 Superfortress crashes into a residential area in California; 17 are killed, 68 injured.
• August 6 - Monarchist demonstrations lead to a riot in Brussels.
• August 8 - Winston Churchill supports idea of a pan-European army allied with Canada and the U.S.
• 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 - An earthquake and floods in Assam, India kill 574 and leave 5,000,000 homeless.
• August 22 - The Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary is founded in 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.

[edit] September

• September 4 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
• September 4 - The comic strip Beetle Bailey is created by Mort Walker.
• September 7 - A coal mine collapse in New Cumnock, Scotland kills 13 miners; 116 are rescued.
• September 7 - The game show 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 erupt in Berlin.
• September 15 - Korean War - Battle of Inchon: Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive.
• September 19 - West Germany decides to purge communist officials.
• September 26 - Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
• September 30 - NSC-68 is enacted by President Truman, setting U.S. foreign policy for the next 20 years.

[edit] October

• October 2 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in 7 U.S. newspapers.
• October 3 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is elected president of Brazil for a 5-year term.
• October 5 - The Indonesian government quells riots in the Moluccas.
• October 7 - The 1950-1951 invasion of Tibet by China begins.
• October 7 - The Agate Pass Bridge opens for traffic in Washington State.
• 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 The second Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens.
• October 15 - In East Germany, the Communists win 99.7% of the vote.
• October 20 - Australia passes the Communist Party Dissolution Act, which is later struck down by the High Court.
• October 28 - Torcida Split is founded.
• October 30 - The Jayuya Uprising is started by Puerto Rican Nationalists against the United States.

[edit] November

• November 1 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" at the Vatican^[2] and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism: that God assumed Mary's body into Heaven after her death.
• November 1 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who is staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs.
• November 4 - The 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 2 North Korean MiG-15s near the Yalu River and shoots them down in the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.
• November 10 - A U.S. Air Force B-50 Superfortress bomber, experiencing an in-flight emergency, jettisons and detonates 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 13 - A Curtiss Reid Flying Services plane crashes while enroute to Paris from Rome, killing all 52 on board.
• November 18 - The United Nations accepts the formation of the Libyan National Council.
• November 20 - T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK.
• November 22 - Anti-British riots erupt in Egypt.
• November 22 - Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show business.
• November 25 - A phenomenal winter storm ravages the northeastern 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, dashing any hopes for 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 retreat of United Nations forces from North Korea.
• November 29 - The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA is founded.
• November 30 - Douglas MacArthur threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea.

[edit] December

• December 3 - Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily.
• December 11-December 13 - The Maria Hertogh riots occur in Singapore, leaving