1950 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1950?
- January 7, 1950 – A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
- January 21, 1950 – Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
- February 14, 1950 – Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People’s Liberation Army.
- February 17, 1950 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
- March 16, 1950 – Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
- April 8, 1950 – India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
- April 27, 1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
- May 29, 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- June 28, 1950 – Bodo League massacre: Korean War.
- July 24, 1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
- September 4, 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
- September 24, 1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
- September 26, 1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
- November 1, 1950 – Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
- 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 21, 1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash. Twenty-one people are killed, seventeen of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
- November 26, 1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People’s Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
- November 29, 1950 – Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
- December 16, 1950 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.
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