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Events of 1950

January

• January 1 - Sir Adrian Boult is appointed principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
• January 1 - The International Police Association (IPA) - the largest police organisation in the World - was formed.
• 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.

January 1: Adrian Boult heads LPO.

January 15: Mount Lamington erupts in New Guinea.

January 26: India forms a republic.

• January 12 - 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;^[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 - Last Kuomintang troops surrender in mainland 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 Hote 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 French 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 US 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.
• 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 - 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 the Polish church.
• March 22 - Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops in Suez Canal.
• March 23 - 22nd Academy Awards ceremony

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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 races.
• April 27 - Britain formally recognizes Israel.

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May

• May 6 - "Cazin uprising" in town of Cazin (Bosnia) against Communist agrarian reforms.
• May 6 - 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.
• May 9 - L. Ron Hubbard publishes Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
• May 11 - Kefauver Committee hearings about US organized crime begin.
• May 13 - The first race in the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship was held at Silverstone, England.
• 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 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.

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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.
• 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 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 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 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 28 - Ray Bradbury releases famous short story "The Veldt"
• 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 - Torcida Split was founded.
• October 30 - The Jayuya Uprising/revolt is started by Puerto Rican Nationalists against the United States.

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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.
  • 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, experiencin