1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events |

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  January 5 – U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a law asking for the government to study crime in the U.S.


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  January 9 – The Israeli government say's that the People's Republic of China is a country


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  January 11 – Huk guerrillas attack the town of Hermosa in Bataan, Philippines.


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  January 12 – British submarine Truculent crashes into a Swedish oil tanker in River Thames – 64 people died.


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  January 13 – Finland is friendly with the People's Republic of China
  


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  January 15 – Volcanic cloud kills 5000 in Mount Lamington, New Guinea
  


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  January 17 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts
  


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  January 23 – The Knesset passes an agreement that says Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.


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  January 24 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs tells about his wartime espionage at Los Alamos to British interrogators – formally charged February 2
  


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  January 28 – Somaliland is put under Italian rule


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  January 29 – Lord Balfour disagrees with the fact that rationing is still in force in Britain
  


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  January 31 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb
  


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  January 31 – Last Kuomintang troops surrender in continental China
  


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  June 5- The Korean War begins


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  October 2 – Charles M. Schulz publishes the first Peanuts comic strip.

Births |

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  April 12 – Maia Danziger, American actress


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  May 13 – Stevie Wonder, American musician
  


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  May 22 – Bernie Taupin
  


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  October 1 – Randy Quaid, American actor
  


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  October 31 – John Candy, American actor
  

Deaths |

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  January 21 – George Orwell, English writer (b. 1903)


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  November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1856)


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  December 30 – Arthur Davidson, American business man (b. 1881)


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  June 22 – Lonnie Moon

Awards |

Movies released |




• All About Eve


• Annie Get Your Gun


• Cinderella


• King Solomon's Mines


• Sunset Boulevard




Hit songs |




• "A-Razz-A-Ma-Tazz" – Georgia Gibbs
  


• "All My Love (Bolero)" – Patti Page
  


• "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" – Al Jolson
  


• "Ballin' The Jack" – Georgia Gibbs
  


• "Ballin' The Jack" – Danny Kaye
  


• "Be My Love" – Mario Lanza
  


• "Bewitched" – Doris Day
  


• "Black Lace" – Frankie Laine
  


• "Boo-Hoo" – Guy Lombardo & The Lombardo Trio
  


• "A Bushel And A Peck" – Perry Como & Betty Hutton
  


• "Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No!)" – The Ames Brothers
  


• "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" – Red Foley
  


• "Cry Of The Wild Goose" – Frankie Laine
  


• "Daddy's Little Girl" – The Mills Brothers
  


• "Dear, Dear, Dear" – Frankie Laine
  


• "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" – Frankie Laine
  


• "A Dreamer's Holiday" – Buddy Clark & The Girlfriends
  


• "Enjoy Yourself" – Guy Lombardo (Kenny Gardner& The Lombardo Trio vocals)


• "Goodnight, Irene" – The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins
  


• "Harbor Lights" – Sammy Kaye
  


• "Here Comes Santa Claus" – Andrews Sisters
  


• "L'Hymne A L'Amour (Hymn To Love)" – Édith Piaf
  


• "I Can Dream, Can't I?" – The Andrews Sisters
  


• "I Love You For That" – Patti Page & Frankie Laine
  


• "I Wanna Be Loved" – The Andrews Sisters
  


• "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" – Eileen Barton
  


• "I'm Moving On" – Hank Snow
  


• "It Isn't Fair" – Sammy Kaye (Don Cornell vocal)


• "Let's Go West Again" – Al Jolson
  


• "A Man Gets Awfully Lonesome" – Frankie Laine
  


• "Mona Lisa" – Nat King Cole
  


• "Music, Maestro, Please" – Frankie Laine
  


• "Music! Music! Music!" – Teresa Brewer
  


• "My Heart Cries For You" – Guy Mitchell
  


• "Nevertheless" – The Mills Brothers
  


• "No Other Love" – Jo Stafford
  


• "The Old Piano Roll Blues" Al Jolson & The Andrews Sisters
  


• "Patricia" – Perry Como
  


• "Play A Simple Melody" – Gary Crosby & Friend (Bing Crosby)


• "Rag Mop" – The Ames Brothers
  


• "Red Hot Mama" – Georgia Gibbs
  


• "The Roving Kind" – Guy Mitchell
  


• "Sentimental Me" – The Ames Brothers
  


• "Sleepy Ol' River" – Frankie Laine
  


• "Someday" – The Mills Brothers
  


• "Someday" – Vaughn Monroe
  


• "Sometime" – The Mariners
  


• "Stars & Stripes Forever" – Frankie Laine
  


• "Swingin' In A Hammock" – Guy Lombardo (Don Rodney & The Lombardo Trio vocals)


• "The Tennessee Waltz" – Patti Page
  


• "There's No Tomorrow" – Tony Martin
  


• "The Thing" – Phil Harris
  


• "The Third Man Theme" – Anton Karas
  


• "The Third Man Theme" – Guy Lombardo
  


• "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" – Patti Page
  




New books |




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  Across the River and Into the Trees – Ernest Hemingway
  


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  The Adventurer – Mika Waltari
  


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  Beetlecreek – William Demby
  


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  Cabbagetown – Hugh Garner
  


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  The Cardinal – Henry Morton Robinson
  


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  The Child Who Never Grew – Pearl S. Buck
  


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  The Disenchanted – Budd Schulberg
  


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  The Door in the Wall – Marguerite de Angeli
  


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  The Town and the City – Jack Kerouac
  


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  Floodtide – Frank Yerby
  


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  Florence Nightingale – Cecil Woodham-Smith
  


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  The Grass Is Singing – Doris Lessing
  


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  I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  


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  Joy Street – Frances Parkinson Keyes
  


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  Jubilee Trail – Gwen Bristow
  


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  Kon-Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl
  


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  The Liberal Imagination – Lionel Trilling
  


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  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
  


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  The Little World of Don Camillo – Giovanni Guareschi
  


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  The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
  


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  Parade's End – Ford Madox Ford
  


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  The Parasites – Daphne du Maurier
  


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  Reading and Criticism – Raymond Williams
  


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  Scenes from Provincial Life – William Cooper
  


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  Star Money – Kathleen Winsor
  


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  Summer In The Country – Edith Templeton
  


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  La vida breve (A Brief Life) – Juan Carlos Onetti
  


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  The Voyage of the Space Beagle – A. E. van Vogt
  


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  The Wall – John Hersey
  






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