1950 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1950?
- January 7, 1950 – A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
- January 17, 1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company’s offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
- January 21, 1950 – Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
- January 23, 1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
- February 17, 1950 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 7, 1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
- March 16, 1950 – Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
- April 19, 1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- May 9, 1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the “Schuman declaration”, is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
- May 13, 1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
- May 19, 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
- June 25, 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
- June 27, 1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
- July 11, 1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
- August 24, 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
- September 26, 1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
- September 28, 1950 – Indonesia joins the United Nations.
- October 11, 1950 – Television: CBS’s mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
- November 8, 1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
- November 25, 1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, otherwise known at the time as the “Storm of the Century”, strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City. This storm also brings blizzard conditions to the Appalachian Mountains and Ohio Valley, becoming one of the worst storms of all time. 353 people die in the event.
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