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{{Year nav|1950}}
'''1950''' ('''[[Roman numerals|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]] [[guerrilla warfare|guerrillas]] attack the town of [[Hermosa, Bataan|Hermosa]] in [[Bataan]], [[Philippines]].
* [[January 12]] – British [[submarine]] ''Truculent'' crashes into a [[Sweden|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 [[United Kingdom|British]] [[interrogator]]s – formally charged [[February 2]]
* [[January 28]] – [[Somaliland]] is put under [[Italy|Italian]] rule
* [[January 29]] – [[Lord Balfour]] disagrees with the fact that [[rationing]] is still in force in [[United Kingdom|Britain]]
* [[January 31]] – [[President (United States)|President]] [[Harry S. Truman]] announces a program to develop the [[hydrogen bomb]]
* [[January 31]] – Last [[Kuomintang]] troops [[wikt:surrender|surrender]] in continental [[China]]
* [[June 5]]- [[The Korean War]] begins
* [[October 2]] – [[Charles M. Schulz]] publishes the first [[Peanuts]] comic strip.
== Births ==
* [[April 12]] – [[Maia Danziger]], American actress
* [[May 13]] – [[Stevie Wonder]], [[United States|American]] [[musician]]
* [[May 22]] – [[Bernie Taupin]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Randy Quaid]], [[United States|American]] [[actor]]
* [[October 31]] – [[John Candy]], [[United States|American]] [[actor]]
== Deaths ==
* [[January 21]] – [[George Orwell]], English writer (b. [[1903]])
* [[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 ==
* ''[[All About Eve]]''
* ''[[Cinderella (1950 movie)|Cinderella]]''
* ''[[Sunset Boulevard (movie)|Sunset Boulevard]]
== 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 (singer)|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 (novelist)|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 (novel)|The Wall]]'' – [[John Hersey]]
{{Commonscat|1950}}
[[Category:1950|
'''1950''' ('''[[Roman numerals|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]] [[guerrilla warfare|guerrillas]] attack the town of [[Hermosa, Bataan|Hermosa]] in [[Bataan]], [[Philippines]].
* [[January 12]] – British [[submarine]] ''Truculent'' crashes into a [[Sweden|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 [[United Kingdom|British]] [[interrogator]]s – formally charged [[February 2]]
* [[January 28]] – [[Somaliland]] is put under [[Italy|Italian]] rule
* [[January 29]] – [[Lord Balfour]] disagrees with the fact that [[rationing]] is still in force in [[United Kingdom|Britain]]
* [[January 31]] – [[President (United States)|President]] [[Harry S. Truman]] announces a program to develop the [[hydrogen bomb]]
* [[January 31]] – Last [[Kuomintang]] troops [[wikt:surrender|surrender]] in continental [[China]]
* [[June 5]]- [[The Korean War]] begins
* [[October 2]] – [[Charles M. Schulz]] publishes the first [[Peanuts]] comic strip.
== Births ==
* [[April 12]] – [[Maia Danziger]], American actress
* [[May 13]] – [[Stevie Wonder]], [[United States|American]] [[musician]]
* [[May 22]] – [[Bernie Taupin]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Randy Quaid]], [[United States|American]] [[actor]]
* [[October 31]] – [[John Candy]], [[United States|American]] [[actor]]
== Deaths ==
* [[January 21]] – [[George Orwell]], English writer (b. [[1903]])
* [[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 ==
* ''[[All About Eve]]''
* ''[[Cinderella (1950 movie)|Cinderella]]''
* ''[[Sunset Boulevard (movie)|Sunset Boulevard]]
== 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 (singer)|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 (novelist)|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 (novel)|The Wall]]'' – [[John Hersey]]
{{Commonscat|1950}}
[[Category:1950|