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1950




Events

   * January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the Peoples Republic of
     China.
   * January 11 - Huk guerilla attack the town of Hermosa in Bataan,
     Philippines
   * January 12 - Huk guerilla attack the town of Tuyn, kill two and torch
     the city of Staingnacan
   * January 12 - British submarine Truculent collides with a Swedish ship
     in River Thames - 65 dead
   * 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 confesses his wartime espionage at
     Los Alamos to British interrogators - formally charged February 2
   * January 26 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and
     Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president.
   * January 29 - Lord Balfour criticizes the fact that rationing is still
     in force in Britain
   * January 31 - President Harry S Truman announces a program to develop
     the hydrogen bomb
   * 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 12 - Pro-communist riots in Paris
   * February 12 - European Broadcasting Union founded
   * February 13 - In 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 19 - Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with
     East Germany to begin unification
   * February 22 - Albert Einstein warns that the nuclear war could lead to
     mutual destruction
   * February - British Labour Party forms a new government
   * March 1 - West South Baptist Church in Bestridge, Nebraska blows up
   * March 1 - Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by
     giving them top secret atomic bomb data.
   * March 3 - Poland states that it intends to exile all the Germans
   * March 8 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
   * March 12 - March 13 - In Belgium, the referendum about the monarchy
     shows 57.7% support the return of the king, 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 22 - Egypt demand that Britain remove all its troops in Suez
     Canal
   * April 15 - King Leopold III of Belgium announces that he is ready to
     abdicate in favor of his son Baudoin
   * April 24 - Jordania formally annexes West Bank
   * April 27 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed
     formally segregating races.
   * 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 29 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America arrives
     in Halifax Nova Scotia.
   * June 25 - beginning of Korean War. In the USA, people begun to hoard
     supplies in case of rationing and shortages.
   * July 4 - July 5 - Sicilian bandit leader Salvatore Giuliano killed in a
     shootout with carabinieri
   * July 5 - Korean War: Task Force Smith - First clash between American
     and North Korean forces.
   * July 5 - Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all
     Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
   * July 6 - East Germany agrees with Poland on the Oder-Neisse line - West
     Germany does not at this time
   * July 17 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg arrested
   * July 19 - 15 SS-men sentenced to death in East Germany
   * July 20 - Tydings committee report to US senate denounces Joe McCarthy
     - he begins a public attack on members of the committee standing for
     election in 1950
   * July 23 - Leopold III of Belgium returns to Brussels
   * July 25 - Walter Ulbricht elected the general secretary of the
     communist party of East Germany
   * July 31 - First battle between North Korean and US troops in Korean War
   * August 1 - Leopold III of Belgium formally abdicates for crown prince
     Baudoin
   * August 5 - Florence Chadwick swims over English Channel in 13 hours, 22
     minutes
   * August 6 - Riot in Brussels in monarchist demonstrations
   * August 7 - Flying fortress crashes into a residential area in
     California
   * August 8 - Winston Churchill supports idea of pan-European army allied
     with Canada and USA
   * August 11 - Baudouin of Belgium sworn in as a king - communists protest
     and one right-wing extremist throws a smoke grenade.
   * August 15 - Earthquake in Assam, India - 20.000-30.000 believed dead
   * September 1 - Hungarian major general Laszlo Viragen defects to Austria
     and applies for political asylum
   * September 8 - Coal mine collapses in Scotland - 128 dead
   * September 12 - Communist riots in Berlin
   * September 15 - US and South Korean troops land in Inchon, then occupied
     by North Korea
   * September 19 - West Germany decides to fire all its communist officials
   * September 26 - Indonesia admitted to the United Nations
   * October 5 - Indonesian government quells riots in the Moluccas
   * October 15 - In East Germany, communist win 99.7% of the vote
   * October 20 - Australia declares communist party illegal
   * November 1 -- Pope Pius XII defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism:
     that God assumed Mary's body into Heaven after her death
   * November 2 - Oscar Collazzo and Griselio Torresola try to assassinate
     US president Truman
   * November 4 - United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain
   * November 18 - United Nations accepts the formation of Libyan national
     council
   * November 22 - Anti-British riots in Egypt
   * November 20 - T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK
   * November 22 - Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show
     business
   * November 30 - Truman threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea
   * December 25 - Scottish nationalists take the Stone of Scone from
     Westminster Abbey
   * December 28 - The Peak District becomes Great Britain's first National
     Park.

   * Ralph Schneider founds Diner's Club - first it works only in 27
     restaurants in New York City
   * United Nations building finished
   * First pagers
   * Antihihistamin

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1950 in film
        o All About Eve
        o Father of the Bride
        o John Ford's Rio Grande starring John Wayne
        o Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart
   * 1950 in literature
        o Thor Heyerdahl - Kon Tiki
   * 1950 in music
        o January 3 - Sam Phillips opened Sun Records
   * 1950 in television
        o February 2 - What's My Line debuts on CBS.
        o February 25 - Your Show of Shows premieres on NBC.
        o July 10 - Your Hit Parade premieres on NBC.
        o October 5 - First television bordcast of You Bet Your Life on NBC
        o October 10 - The FCC approves CBS color TV system, effective Nov.
          20.
        o The Burns and Allen Show
        o Truth or Consequences
        o The number of homes in the U.S. that own a television set reaches
          the one million mark.

Births

   * January 16 - Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer
   * January 21 - Billy Ocean, musician
   * February 2 - Barbara Sukowa, actress
   * February 3 - Morgan Fairchild, actress
   * February 6 - Natalie Cole, singer
   * February 10 - Mark Spitz, Olympic Games swimming gold medalist
   * February 11 - Earnest Jim Istook, US-American politician
   * February 11 - Johanna E. Beerens, actress
   * February 11 - Rochelle Fleming, soul music vocalist
   * February 12 - Michael Ironside, US actor
   * February 13 - Peter Gabriel, British musician
   * February 16 - Peter Hain, British politician
   * February 18 - John Hughes, director, producer, writer
   * February 22 - Julius Erving, Basketball Hall of Famer
   * February 22 - Julie Walters, actress
   * February 22 - Miou-Miou, actress
   * February 25 - Neil Jordan, director, writer, producer
   * February 26 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
   * March 2 - Karen Carpenter, singer and drummer (+ 1983)
   * March 9 - Danny Sullivan, automobile racer
   * March 11 - Bobby McFerrin, US singer
   * March 11 - Jery Zucker, producer, director, writer
   * March 13 - William H. Macy, actor
   * March 18 - Brad Dourif, actor
   * March 20 - William Hurt, US actor
   * March 26 - Teddy Pendergras, singer
   * March 29 - Bud Cort, actor
   * March 30 - Robbie Coltrane, British actor, comedian
   * April 4 - Christine Lahti, US actress
   * April 22 - Peter Frampton, musician
   * May 7 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb, boxer, actor
   * May 13 - Stevie Wonder, singer, pianist, bassist, drummer
   * May 16 - J. Georg Bednorz, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize
     in physics 1987
   * May 17 - Janez Drnovsek, Slovene politician
   * May 18 - Mark Mothersbaugh, composer & musician
   * May 18 - Thomas Gottschalk, show master
   * May 22 - Bernie Taupin, songwriter
   * July 17 - Michel Lotito, Frenchman who eats everything
   * August 15 - Anne Elizabeth Alice Windsor, daughter of Queen Elizabeth
     II
   * September 21 - Charles Clarke, British politician
   * September 28 - John Sayles director, screenwriter
   * October 31 - John Candy, US comedian and actor
   * December 1 - Keith Thibodeaux, US drummer and actor ("Little Ricky" on
     I Love Lucy)
   * December 13 - Tom Vilsack, Iowa Governor

Deaths

   * January 3 - Emil Jannings, actor
   * January 21 - George Orwell, British writer (tuberculosis)
   * March 19 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, US author

   * April 1 - Charles R. Drew, physician
   * April 3 - Kurt Weill, composer
   * April 7 - Walter Huston, Academy Award winning actor
   * April 8 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer
   * July 5 - Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit leader (shot by police)
   * September 11 - Jan Christian Smuts
   * September 21 - Arthur Milse, British space physicist
   * October 23 - Al Jolson, US movie musician
   * October 29 - Gustav V of Sweden
   * November 2 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born playwright
   * December 5 - Shri Aurobindo, guru
   * December 27 - Max Beckmann, painter

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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