1950

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Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s
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1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January 5 – U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a law asking for the government to study crime in the U.S.
January 9 – The Israeli government say's that the People's Republic of China is a country
January 11 – Huk guerrillas attack the town of Hermosa in Bataan, Philippines.
January 12 – British submarine Truculent crashes into a Swedish oil tanker in River Thames – 64 people died.
January 13 – Finland is friendly with the 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 23 – The Knesset passes an agreement that says Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
January 24 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs tells about his wartime espionage at Los Alamos to British interrogators – formally charged February 2
January 28 – Somaliland is put under Italian rule
January 29 – Lord Balfour disagrees with the fact that rationing is still in force in Britain
January 31 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb
January 31 – Last Kuomintang troops surrender in continental China
June 5- The Korean War begins
October 2 – Charles M. Schulz publishes the first Peanuts comic strip.

Births

January 3 – Victoria Principal, Japanese-American actress
January 17 – Richard L. Anderson, American sound editor
February 25 - Neil Jordan, Irish director
March 20 - Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
March 27 - Tony Banks, English keyboardist (Genesis)
April 5 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (ABBA)
April 12 – Maia Danziger, American actress
April 12 - Larry Kemp, American sound editor
May 9 - Tom Petersson, American bass guitarist (Cheap Trick)
May 10 - Emeric-László Kiss, Hungarian Musician
May 13 – Stevie Wonder, American musician
May 13 - Danny Kirwan, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2018)
May 17 - Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (d. 1991)
May 22 – Bernie Taupin
June 19 - Ann Wilson, American singer (Heart)
June 21 - Joey Kramer, American drummer (Aerosmith)
July 28 - Tom Cotcher, Scottish actor
September 10 - Joe Perry, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
September 28 - John Sayles, American filmmaker
October 1 – Randy Quaid, American actor
October 2 - Mike Rutherford, English singer-songwriter and musician (Genesis)
October 2 - Lucas Fuego, Slovak politician and doctor
October 3 - John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (d. 1988)
October 31 – John Candy, Canadian actor (d. 1994)
December 18 - Gillian Armstrong, Australian director
December 29 - László-Braun Rátót, Hungarian politician of German ethnicity

Deaths

January 21 – George Orwell, English writer (b. 1903)
April 7 - Walter Huston, Canadian actor (b. 1883)
November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1856)
December 30 – Arthur Davidson, American business man (b. 1881)
June 22 – Lonnie Moon

Awards

Movies released

Hit songs

"A-Razz-A-Ma-Tazz" – Georgia Gibbs
"All My Love (Bolero)" – Patti Page
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" – Al Jolson
"Ballin' The Jack" – Georgia Gibbs
"Ballin' The Jack" – Danny Kaye
"Be My Love" – Mario Lanza
"Bewitched" – Doris Day
"Black Lace" – Frankie Laine
"Boo-Hoo" – Guy Lombardo & The Lombardo Trio
"A Bushel And A Peck" – Perry Como & Betty Hutton
"Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No!)" – The Ames Brothers
"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" – Red Foley
"Cry Of The Wild Goose" – Frankie Laine
"Daddy's Little Girl" – The Mills Brothers
"Dear, Dear, Dear" – Frankie Laine
"Dream A Little Dream Of Me" – Frankie Laine
"A Dreamer's Holiday" – Buddy Clark & The Girlfriends
"Enjoy Yourself" – Guy Lombardo (Kenny Gardner& The Lombardo Trio vocals)
"Goodnight, Irene" – The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins
"Harbor Lights" – Sammy Kaye
"Here Comes Santa Claus" – Andrews Sisters
"L'Hymne A L'Amour (Hymn To Love)" – Édith Piaf
"I Can Dream, Can't I?" – The Andrews Sisters
"I Love You For That" – Patti Page & Frankie Laine
"I Wanna Be Loved" – The Andrews Sisters
"If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" – Eileen Barton
"I'm Moving On" – Hank Snow
"It Isn't Fair" – Sammy Kaye (Don Cornell vocal)
"Let's Go West Again" – Al Jolson
"A Man Gets Awfully Lonesome" – Frankie Laine
"Mona Lisa" – Nat King Cole
"Music, Maestro, Please" – Frankie Laine
"Music! Music! Music!" – Teresa Brewer
"My Heart Cries For You" – Guy Mitchell
"Nevertheless" – The Mills Brothers
"No Other Love" – Jo Stafford
"The Old Piano Roll Blues" Al Jolson & The Andrews Sisters
"Patricia" – Perry Como
"Play A Simple Melody" – Gary Crosby & Friend (Bing Crosby)
"Rag Mop" – The Ames Brothers
"Red Hot Mama" – Georgia Gibbs
"The Roving Kind" – Guy Mitchell
"Sentimental Me" – The Ames Brothers
"Sleepy Ol' River" – Frankie Laine
"Someday" – The Mills Brothers
"Someday" – Vaughn Monroe
"Sometime" – The Mariners
"Stars & Stripes Forever" – Frankie Laine
"Swingin' In A Hammock" – Guy Lombardo (Don Rodney & The Lombardo Trio vocals)
"The Tennessee Waltz" – Patti Page
"There's No Tomorrow" – Tony Martin
"The Thing" – Phil Harris
"The Third Man Theme" – Anton Karas
"The Third Man Theme" – Guy Lombardo
"With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" – Patti Page

New books

Across the River and Into the Trees – Ernest Hemingway
The Adventurer – Mika Waltari
Beetlecreek – William Demby
Cabbagetown – Hugh Garner
The Cardinal – Henry Morton Robinson
The Child Who Never Grew – Pearl S. Buck
The Disenchanted – Budd Schulberg
The Door in the Wall – Marguerite de Angeli
The Town and the City – Jack Kerouac
Floodtide – Frank Yerby
Florence Nightingale – Cecil Woodham-Smith
The Grass Is Singing – Doris Lessing
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Joy Street – Frances Parkinson Keyes
Jubilee Trail – Gwen Bristow
Kon-Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl
The Liberal Imagination – Lionel Trilling
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
The Little World of Don Camillo – Giovanni Guareschi
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Parade's End – Ford Madox Ford
The Parasites – Daphne du Maurier
Reading and Criticism – Raymond Williams
Scenes from Provincial Life – William Cooper
Star Money – Kathleen Winsor
Summer In The Country – Edith Templeton
La vida breve (A Brief Life) – Juan Carlos Onetti
The Voyage of the Space Beagle – A. E. van Vogt
The Wall – John Hersey

1950 Media

January 14: Mount Lamington erupts in New Guinea.
June 25: Korean War begins.
Victoria Principal on the red carpet at the 39th Annual Emmy Awards 9/20/87
Actress Erin Gray at the 2013 Wizard World New York Experience Comic Con at Pier 36 in Manhattan, June 28, 2013. This photo was created by Luigi Novi. It is not in the public domain, and use of this file outside
Sir Alec Jeffreys
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Singer and songwriter Billy Ocean live in New York
Jörg Haider, Landeshauptmann von Kärnten / Governor of Carinthia, Pressefoto / Press Photo Sep. 2007
Ann Jillian on the red carpet at the 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, 8/28/88

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