1950

Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It is also the index year, or year 0, that scientists use for before present figures.

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Events of 1950

January 1 - The International Police Association (IPA) - the largest police organization in the world - is formed.
January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of organized crime in the U.S.
January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China; the Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
January 9 - The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China.
January 9 - Jarl Hjalmarson becomes new Rightist leader in Sweden after Fritiof Domö.
January 11 - Huk guerrillas manhandle the town of Hermosa, Bataan in the Philippines.

January 12 - The British submarine Truculent collides with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames Estuary and sinks; 64 die.
January 12 - Cold War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson delivers his 'Perimeter Speech', outlining the boundary of U.S. security guarantees.
January 13 - Finland forms diplomatic relations to People's Republic of China.
January 17 - Great Brinks Robbery: 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts.
January 21 - Accused communist spy 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, German émigré and physicist, walks into London's War Office and confesses 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]
January 31 - The last Kuomintang troops surrender in mainland China.

February 1 - Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected as a president of the Republic of China.
February 4 - Ingrid Bergman's illegitimate child arouses ire in the U.S.
February 9 - Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hote in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.
February 11 - Two Viet Minh battalions attack a French base in French Indochina.
February 11 - Finland recognizes Indonesia.
February 12 - Pro-communist riots erupt in Paris.
February 12 - The European Broadcasting Union is founded.
February 12 - Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.
February 13 - The U.S. Army begins to deploy anti-aircraft cannons to protect nuclear stations and military targets.
February 13 - The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried an Mk-4 atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada, and produces the world's first Broken Arrow.
February 14 - The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.
February 15 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi is re-elected president of Finland.
February 19 - Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany to begin unification.

March 1 - Klaus Fuchs is convicted in London of spying against both Britain and the United States for the Soviet Union, by giving to the latter top secret atomic bomb data.
March 1 - Acting Chinese President Li Tsung-jen ends his term in office.
March 1 - Chiang Kai-shek resumes his duties as Chinese president after moving his government to Taipei, Taiwan.
March 3 - Poland states that it intends to exile all Germans.
March 8 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
March 8 - The first Volkswagen Type 2 van (also known as the Volkswagen Microbus) rolls off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.
March 12 - A plane carrying returning rugby fans from Ireland to Wales crashes near Llandow, with the loss of 80 lives.
March 12-March 13 - In Belgium, the referendum over the monarchy shows 57.7% support the return of King Léopold III, 42.3% against.
March 14 - The ship Cygnet hits a mine off the Dutch coast.
March 17 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they have named "californium".
March 20 - The Polish government decides to confiscate the property of the Polish Catholic Church.
March 22 - Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops in the Suez Canal.
March 23 - The 22nd Academy Awards ceremony is held.