Important Historical Events of the year 1950, Year 1950 in History

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List of 1950 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1950

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Date	Event
January 5, 1950	In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
January 6, 1950	The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China.
January 13, 1950	British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
January 13, 1950	Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
January 17, 1950	The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
January 17, 1950	United Nations Security Council Resolution 79 relating to arms control is adopted.
January 21, 1950	American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
January 23, 1950	The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
January 26, 1950	The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as the first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
January 31, 1950	President Truman orders the development of thermonuclear weapons.
February 1, 1950	The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
February 8, 1950	Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
February 9, 1950	Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
March 1, 1950	Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
March 7, 1950	Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
March 8, 1950	The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production.
March 12, 1950	The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.
March 17, 1950	Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".
April 8, 1950	India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.
May 8, 1950	The Tollund Man was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark.
May 9, 1950	Robert Schuman presents the "Schuman Declaration", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
May 13, 1950	The inaugural Formula One World Championship race takes place at Silverstone Circuit. The race was won by Giuseppe Farina, who would go on to become the inaugural champion that year.
May 19, 1950	A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
May 19, 1950	Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
May 27, 1950	The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.[5]
May 29, 1950	The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
June 1, 1950	The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith: "The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny - Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear."
June 1, 1950	The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
June 3, 1950	Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.
June 24, 1950	Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
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.
June 28, 1950	Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
June 28, 1950	Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.
June 28, 1950	Korean War: North Korean Army conducts the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
June 29, 1950	Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.
July 4, 1950	Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
July 5, 1950	Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
July 5, 1950	Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
July 11, 1950	Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
July 14, 1950	Korean War: beginning of the Battle of Taejon.
July 16, 1950	Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
July 20, 1950	Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
July 20, 1950	After a month-long campaign, the majority of North Korea's Air Force was destroyed by anti-communist forces.
July 24, 1950	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
July 29, 1950	Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.
August 1, 1950	Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
August 12, 1950	Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: 75 American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.
August 15, 1950	Measuring .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.
August 18, 1950	Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium, is assassinated. The Party newspaper blames royalists and Rexists.
August 24, 1950	Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
August 25, 1950	To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to seize control of the nation's railroads.
August 29, 1950	Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
August 31, 1950	TWA Flight 903 crashes near Itay El Barud, Egypt, killing all 55 aboard.
September 3, 1950	"Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
September 4, 1950	Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
September 15, 1950	Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.
September 19, 1950	Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces was repelled at the Battle of Nam River.
September 23, 1950	Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.
September 24, 1950	The eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the Chinchaga fire in western Canada.
September 26, 1950	Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
October 7, 1950	Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
October 9, 1950	The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
October 11, 1950	CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
October 19, 1950	China defeats the Tibetan Army at Chambo.
October 19, 1950	Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea.
October 19, 1950	Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
October 21, 1950	Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces and North Koreans during the Battle of Yongju.
November 1, 1950	Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
November 3, 1950	Air India Flight 245 crashes into Mont Blanc, while on approach to Geneva Airport, killing all 48 people on board.
November 5, 1950	Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
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 13, 1950	General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
November 17, 1950	Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
November 17, 1950	United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted.
November 19, 1950	US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
November 21, 1950	Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
November 25, 1950	The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 impacts 22 American states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in damages (1950 dollars).
November 26, 1950	Korean War: People's Volunteer Army 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.
December 2, 1950	Korean War: The Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ends with a decisive Chinese victory and UN forces are completely expelled from North Korea.
December 4, 1950	Korean War: Jesse L. Brown (the 1st African-American Naval aviator) is killed in action during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
December 9, 1950	Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
December 17, 1950	The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
December 23, 1950	General Walton Walker dies in a jeep accident and is replaced by General Matthew Ridgway in the Eighth United States Army.
December 25, 1950	The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.