1950

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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.

Contents

  1. Events of 1950
    Jan. · Feb. · March · April ·
    May · June · July · Aug. ·
    Sept. · Oct. · Nov. · Dec. ·
    Undated · Ongoing · World population
  2. Births
  3. Deaths
  4. Nobel Prizes · Fields Medalists
  5. See also · Notes · External links

[edit] Events of 1950

[edit] January

January 15: Mount Lamington erupts in New Guinea.

[edit] February

[edit] March

  • March 1
  • March 3 – Poland states that it intends to exile all Germans.
  • March 8
  • 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.
  • March 23 – World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

[edit] April

  • April 14 – Influential British comic Eagle (comic) is launched
  • April 15 – Belgian King Leopold III announces that he is ready to abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin.
  • April 24 – Jordan formally annexes the West Bank.
  • April 27

[edit] May

[edit] June

[edit] July

  • July 16 – Uruguay beat Brazil 2–1 to win the 1950 World Cup.
  • July 17 – The Suppression of Communism Act, passed on June 26, comes into force in South Africa.

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

[edit] Undated

[edit] Ongoing

[edit] World population

[edit] Births

1950 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1950
MCML
Ab urbe condita 2703
Armenian calendar 1399
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԹ
Bahá'í calendar 106 – 107
Bengali calendar 1357
Berber calendar 2900
Buddhist calendar 2494
Burmese calendar 1312
Byzantine calendar 7458 – 7459
Chinese calendar 己丑年十一月十三日
(4586/4646-11-13)
— to —
庚寅年十一月廿三日
(4587/4647-11-23)
Coptic calendar 1666 – 1667
Ethiopian calendar 1942 – 1943
Hebrew calendar 57105711
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2005 – 2006
 - Shaka Samvat 1872 – 1873
 - Kali Yuga 5051 – 5052
Holocene calendar 11950
Iranian calendar 1328 – 1329
Islamic calendar 1369 – 1370
Japanese calendar Shōwa 25
(昭和25年)
Korean calendar 4283
Thai solar calendar 2493

[edit] January–February

[edit] March–April

[edit] May–June

[edit] July–August

[edit] September–October

[edit] November–December

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January–June

[edit] July–December

Unknown August date

  • Black Elk, Wičháša Wakȟáŋ (Medicine Man or Holy Man) of the Ogala Teton Lakota (Western Sioux) (b. 1863)
 

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[edit] Nobel Prizes

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b "Year by Year 1950" – History Channel International
  2. ^ Joseph Pelletier "The Sun Danced at Fatima", Doubleday, New York (1983), pp150,151

[edit] External links

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