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1950 ( MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the " Fifties " or the " '50s ") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.
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Federal government
1. President: Harry S. Truman (D-Missouri) 2. Vice President: Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky) 3. Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson (Kentucky) 4. Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) 5. Senate Majority Leader: Scott W. Lucas (D-Illinois) 6. Congress: 81st
January–March
1. January 5 – U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of organized crimein the U.S. 2. January 7 – A fire consumes Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, killing 41 patients. 3. January 12 – Cold War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Achesondelivers his "Perimeter Speech", outlining the boundary of U.S. security guarantees. 4. January 17 – Great Brinks Robbery: 11 thieves steal more than $2,000,000 from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts. 5. January 21 –...
April–June
1. April 14 – NSC 68 is issued by the United States National Security Council, advocating the development of the hydrogen bomb, increased military aid to America's allies, and the rollback of communist expansion. 2. April 25 – The trial of alleged communist spy Judith Coploncommences in New York City. 3. May 1 – First African American winner of a Pulitzer Prize: Gwendolyn Brooks wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her 1949 volume Annie Allen. 4. May 9 – L. Ron Hubbard publishes Dianetics:...
July–September
1. July 8 – G. Mennen Williams, the Governor of Michigan, is attacked and briefly held hostage while visiting Marquette Branch Prison, as part of an inmate escape plot. 2. August 5 – A bomb-laden B-29 Superfortresscrashes into a residential area in California; 17 are killed and 68 injured. 3. August 8 – Winston Churchillexpresses support for the idea of a pan-European army allied with Canada and the United States. 4. August 23 – Legendary African American singer-actor Paul Robeson, whose pass...
January 1 – Steve Ripley, country singer (d. 2019)January 2January 4January 6January 2 – Anthony Prusinski, politician (b. 1901)January 15 – Henry H. Arnold, five-star general (b. 1886)January 22 – Alan Hale, Sr., actor (b. 1892)February 7 – William Murphy, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1885)Into Temptation is an independent drama film written and directed by Patrick Coyle. It tells the story of a prostitute—played by Kristin Chenoweth (pictured) —who confesses to a Catholic priest ( Jeremy Sisto) that she plans to kill herself. The priest attempts to find her, and in doing so involves himself in the darker side of society.
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Events. 1950 – 1953 Korean War. 1953 – Structure of DNA published by James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. 1953 – Edmund Hillary is the first man on Mount Everest. 1954 – Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends France 's colonization of Vietnam and leads to division of Vietnam into North and South. 1956 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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