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'''1950''' ('''MCML''') was a Common_year_starting_on_Sunday.
==Events==
===January===
* 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 attack the town of Hermosa in Bataan, Philippines.
* January_12 - Huk guerillas attack the town of Tuyn, kill two and torch the city of Staingnacan.
* January_12 - British Submarine ''Truculent'' collides with a Swedish Oil_tanker in River_Thames - 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 seven years, he had passed Top_secret information on U.S. and British Nuclear_weapons research to the Soviet_Union["Year by Year 1950" -- History_Channel_International]. - 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["Year by Year 1950" -- History_Channel_International]
* January_31 - Last Kuomintang troops Surrender in continental China
===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 - 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
* February_11 - Finland recognizes Indonesia
* February_12 - Pro-communist riots in Paris
* February_12 - European_Broadcasting_Union founded
* February_12 - 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
* 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.
===March-April===
* March_1 - Klaus_Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet_Union by giving them 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-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.
* 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
* April_15 - King Léopold_III_of_Belgium 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.
* April_27 - Britain formally recognizes Israel
===May===
* May_6 - "Cazin uprising" in town of Cazin (Bosnia)against Communist and their agrar reforms
* May_6 - Tollund_Man 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.
* May_9 - L._Ron_Hubbard publishes "Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health". The book quickly becomes a bestseller, selling out of its first two editions immediately.
* May_11 - Kefauver_Committee hearings about US Organized_crime begin
* 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.
===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_10 - French police capture escaped murderer Emile_Buisson in Paris restaurant
* 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. In the USA, people began to hoard supplies in case of Rationing and Shortages.
* June_25 - NSC-68 enacted by President Truman, setting US foreign policy for the next twenty years.
* 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).
===July===
* July_16 - Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 to win the 1950 World Cup.
===August-September===
* August_5 - Florence_Chadwick swims across English_Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes
* August_5 - 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_15 - Earthquake and floods in Assam, India - 574 deaths, 5,000,000 believed homeless
* September_1 - Hungarian major general Laszlo_Viragen defects to Austria and applies for political asylum
* September_3 - Beetle_Bailey comic strip started.
* September_4 - Darlington_Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern_500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
* September_7 - Coal_mine collapses in New_Cumnock, Scotland - 13 miners dead. 116 rescued.''
* September_7 - The gameshow Truth_or_Consequences debuts on television.
* September_12 - Communist riots in Berlin
* September_12 - Dallas_Christian_College opened for classes
* 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 fire all its communist officials
* September_26 - Indonesia admitted to the United_Nations
===October===
* October_1 - 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 Chinese_invasion_of_Tibet begins.
* 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
===November===
* November_1 - Pope Pius_XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" at the Vatican"[Joseph Pelletier "The Sun Danced at Fatima", Doubleday, New York (1983),pp150,151]
* November_1 - Pope_Pius_XII 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 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_11 - The Mattachine_Society 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
* November_22 - 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, 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.
* November_29 - National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA founded.
* November_30 - Truman threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea
===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_24-December_25 - Scottish nationalists take the Stone_of_Scone from Westminster_Abbey
* December_28 - The Peak_District becomes Britain's first National Park.
===Unknown date===
*Ralph Schneider founds Diners_Club - it initially only works in 27 restaurants in New_York_City.
*United_Nations_building finished.
*First Pagers developed.
*Antihistamine discovered.
*First TV Remote_control, Zenith Radio's ''Lazy Bones'' is marketed.
*IBM Israel begins operating in Tel_Aviv
*Japanese soldier Yuichi_Akitsu surrenders in the Philippines
*President Harry_Truman sends United_States military personnel to Vietnam to aid French forces.
*France institutes a government guaranteed Minimum_wage
==Births==
===January===
* January_5 - John_Manley, Canadian politician
* January_5 - Charlie_Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur and inventor
* January_12 - Sheila_Jackson_Lee, American politician
* January_16 - Debbie_Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
* January_17 - Cristina_Galbo, Spanish actress
* January_17 - Luis_López_Nieves, Puerto Rican writer
* January_18 - Gilles_Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver
* January_21 - Billy_Ocean, West Indian-born musician
* January_23 - Richard_Dean_Anderson, American actor
* January_24 - Benjamin_Urrutia, Ecuadoran author and scholar
* January_26 - Janet_Lupo, American model
* January_27 - Amos_Grunebaum, Israeli-born obstetrician and gynecologist
* January_29 - Jody_Scheckter, South African race car driver
===February===
* February_3 - Morgan_Fairchild, American actress
* February_4 - Pamela_Franklin, British actress
* February_6 - Natalie_Cole, American singer
* February_10 - Mark_Spitz, American swimmer
* February_12 - Michael_Ironside, American actor
* February_13 - Peter_Gabriel, British musician
* February_16 - Peter_Hain, British politician
* February_18 - John Hughes, American film director, producer, and writer
* February_19 - Andy_Powell, British musician (Wishbone_Ash)
* February_20 - Ken_Shimura, Japanese television performer and actor
* February_22 - Julius_Erving, American basketball player
* February_22 - Julie_Walters, English actress
* February_22 - Miou-Miou, French actress
* February_22 - Ellen_Greene, American actress
* February_25 - Neil_Jordan, Irish film director, writer, and producer
* February_25 - Néstor_Kirchner, President_of_Argentina
* February_26 - Helen_Clark, Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand
===March===
* March_2 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (d. 1983)
* March_4 - Rick_Perry, Governor of Texas
* March_9 - Doug_Ault, baseball player (d. 2004)
* March_9 - Danny_Sullivan, American race car driver
* March_11 - Bobby_McFerrin, American singer
* March_11 - Jerry Zucker, American film producer, director, and writer
* March_13 - William_H._Macy, American actor
* March_18 - Brad_Dourif, American actor
* March_20 - William_Hurt, American actor
* March_26 - Teddy_Pendergrass, American singer
* March_29 - Bud_Cort, American actor
* March_30 - Robbie_Coltrane, British actor and comedian
===April===
*April_3 - Sally_Thomsett, British actress
*April_4 - Christine_Lahti, American actress
*April_5 - Agnetha_Fältskog, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
*April_10 - Steven_Seagal, American actor
*April_10 - Ken_Griffey,_Sr., baseball player
*April_12 - Kari_Palaste, Finnish architect
*April_20 - Steve_Erickson, American novelist
*April_22 - Peter_Frampton, English musician
*April_25 - Lenora Branch Fulani, American Presidential candidate
*April_28 - Jay_Leno, American comedian and talk show host
*April_29 - Paul Holmes, New Zealand radio and television broadcaster
===May===
* May_1 - Danny_McGrain, Scottish footballer
* May_1 - Dann_Florek, American actor
* May_3 - Howard_Ashman, American lyricist (d. 1991)
* May_7 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb, American boxer and actor
* May_12 - Bruce_Boxleitner, American actor
* May_12 - Gabriel_Byrne, Irish actor
* May_13 - Stevie_Wonder, American singer and musician
* May_16 - Johannes_Georg_Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* May_16 - Ray_Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician (d. 2004)
* May_17 - Janez_Drnovšek, Slovene politician
* May_17 - Valeria_Novodvorskaya, Russian politician and dissident
* May_18 - Thomas_Gottschalk, German television host
* May_18 - Rodney_Milburn, American athlete (d. 1997)
* May_18 - Mark_Mothersbaugh, American composer and musician (Devo)
* May_22 - Bernie_Taupin, English songwriter
* May_22 - Mary_Tamm, British actress
* May_28 - Jim Harris, American professional wrestler
* May_30 - Bertrand_Delanoë, French politician
===June===
* June_1 - Tom_Robinson, English singer and musician
* June_3 - Suzi_Quatro, American singer and actress
* June_6 - John_Byrne, American comic book creator
===July===
* July_18 - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
* July_18 - Glenn Hughes, American vocalist (d. 2001)
* July_19 - Per-Kristian_Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
* July_19 - Simon_Cadell, British actor.
* July_26 - Susan_George, British actress
===August===
* August_11 - Gennidy_Nikonov, Russian weapon designer
* August_14 - Bob_Backlund, American professional wrestler
* August_15 - Anne,_Princess_Royal of England
* August_16 - Hasely_Crawford, West Indian athlete
* August_27 - Charles_Fleischer, American actor
===September===
* September_2 - Rosanna_DeSoto, American actress
* September_7 - Julie_Kavner, American actress
* September_14 - Paul_Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
* September_14 - Masami_Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
* September_16 - Loyd_Grossman, American television presenter and chef
* September_17 - Narendra_Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat
* September_21 - Charles_Clarke, British politician
* September_21 - Bill_Murray, American actor and comedian
* September_22 - Kirka, Finnish singer
* September_28 - John_Sayles, American director and screenwriter
===October===
* October_1 - Randy_Quaid, American actor
* October_5 - Jeff_Conaway, American actor
* October_5 - Edward_P._Jones, American writer
* October_9 - Jody_Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize
* October_12 - Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
* October_18 - Wendy_Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
* October_20 - Tom_Petty, American singer
* October_22 - Bill_Owens, Governor of Colorado
* October_28 - Sihem_Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
* October_31 - John_Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
* October_31 - Jane_Pauley, American television broadcaster and journalist
===November===
* November_1 - Robert_B._Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* November_3 - Joe_Queenan, American humorist and social critic
* November_4 - Charles_Frazier, American author
* November_10 - Bob_Orton,_Jr., American professional wrestler
* November_13 - Mary_Lou_Metzger, American singer and dancer
* November_21 - Alberto_Juantorena, Cuban athlete
* November_22 - Lyman_Bostock, baseball player (d. 1978)
* November_28 - Russell_Alan_Hulse, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
===December===
* December_1 - Keith_Thibodeaux, American actor and musician
* December_5 - Camarón_de_la_Isla, Spanish singer (d. 1992)
* December_15 - Don_Johnson, American actor
* December_16 - Roy_Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006)
* December_17 - Laurence_F._Johnson, American futurist and educator
* December_18 - Leonard_Maltin, American film critic
* December_23 - Michael_C._Burgess, American politician
* December_19 - Manny_Trillo, baseball player
==Deaths==
===January-June===
*January_21 - George_Orwell, English author (b. 1903)
*February_6 - Georges_Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
*February_25 - George_Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (b. 1885)
* March_5 - Sid_Grauman, American restaurateur (b. 1895)
* March_19 - Walter_Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
* March_19 - Edgar_Rice_Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
* March_24 - James_Rudolph_Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
* March_30 - Joe_Yule, Scottish-born comedian (b. 1894)
* May_1 - Lothrop_Stoddard, American eugenicist (b. 1883)
* May_9 - Esteban_Terradas_i_Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
* May_10 - Belle_da_Costa_Greene, American librarian, bibliographer, and archivist (b. 1883)
===July-December===
*July_12 - Elsie_de_Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
*July_17 - Evangeline_Booth, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
*July_22 - William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King, Canadian politician (b. 1874)
*August_23 - Frank_Phillips, American oil executive (b. 1873)
*August_26 - Ransom_E._Olds, American automotive pioneer (b. 1864)
*September_10 - Raymond_Sommer, American race car driver (b. 1906)
*September_11 - Jan Christian Smuts, Prime_Minister_of_South_Africa (b. 1870)
*September_21 - Arthur_Milne, British physicist (b. 1896)
*October_13 - Ernest_Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
*October_23 - Al_Jolson, American musician (b. 1886)
*October_29 - King Gustaf_V_of_Sweden (b. 1858)
*November_2 - George_Bernard_Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
*November_3 - Koiso_Kuniaki, Prime_Minister_of_Japan (b. 1880)
*November_25 - Johannes_Vilhelm_Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
*December_2 - Dinu_Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
*December_5 - Shri_Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
*December_5 - Osvaldo_Golijov, Argentine-born composer
*December_11 - Leslie_Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (b. 1893)
*December_12 - Peter_Fraser, former Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand b. 1884)
*December_15 - Sardar_Vallabhbhai_Patel, Indian political leader (b.1875)
*December_27 - Max_Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)
===Date unknown===
*Ernest_Cherrington, American temperance movement leader (b. 1877)
*William_E._Johnson, American temperance movement leader (b. 1862)
==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
==Fields Medalists==
*Laurent_Schwartz, Atle_Selberg
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