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Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Also, 1950 is the index year, or year 0, that scientists use for before present figures.
Events of 1950
January
- 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]
February
March
April
May
June
July
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- August 23 - Legendary singer-actor Paul Robeson, whose passport has recently been revoked because of his alleged Communist affiliations, meets with U.S. officials in an effort to get it reinstated.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.
September
October
November
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