1950

1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). It corresponds to 5710/5711 in the Hebrew Calendar.

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 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 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 15 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi re-elected president of Finland
February 19 - Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany to begin unification.
February 12 - Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction
February - British Labour Party forms a new government.

March-April

March 1 - 7.25 p.m. West South Baptist Church(negro) in Bestridge, Nebraska blows up - all the choir is late for rehearsals
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 - 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 - 585 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 dog fight 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 23 - George Robb was born in Aylth, Scotland
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 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 - 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, the biggest breasted Playmate, Miss November 1975
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
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, a radio and television broadcaster in New Zealand

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, Wrestler known as Kamala

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, Former Norwegian Minister of Finance

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 14 - Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
September 14 - Masami Kuwashima, Japanese Formula One driver
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 9 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 12 - Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
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 10 - "Cowboy" Bob Orton, American retired professional wrestler
November 13 - Mary Lou Metzger, American singer and dancer, The Lawrence Welk Show
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 18 - Leonard Maltin, American film critic
December 23 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
December 19 - Manny Trillo, baseball player

Unknown date

Charles Lee Ray, American serial killer (d. 1988)

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, U.S. 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, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
July 22 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian politician (b. 1874)
August 26 - Ransom E. Olds, 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 space 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 27 - Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)

Date unknown

Ernest Cherrington, American temperance movement leader (b. 1877)
William E. Johnson, American Anti-Saloon League leader (b. 1862)

Nobel prizes

Fields Medalists

Laurent Schwartz, Atle Selberg

References

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References