# 1950

1950 in other calendars| Gregorian calendar | 1950 *MCML* |
| Ab urbe condita | 2703 |
| Armenian calendar | 1399 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6700 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 106–107 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1871–1872 |
| Bengali calendar | 1357 |
| Berber calendar | 2900 |
| British Regnal year | 14 Geo. 6 – 15 Geo. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2494 |
| Burmese calendar | 1312 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7458–7459 |
| Chinese calendar | 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4646 or 4586     *— to —* 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4647 or 4587 |
| Coptic calendar | 1666–1667 |
| Discordian calendar | 3116 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1942–1943 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5710–5711 |
| Hindu calendars |  |
|  - *Vikram Samvat* | 2006–2007 |
|  - *Shaka Samvat* | 1871–1872 |
|  - *Kali Yuga* | 5050–5051 |
| Holocene calendar | 11950 |
| Igbo calendar | 950–951 |
| Iranian calendar | 1328–1329 |
| Islamic calendar | 1369–1370 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 25 (昭和２５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1881–1882 |
| Juche calendar | 39 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4283 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 39 民國39年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 482 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2493 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 2076 or 1695 or 923     *— to —* ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 2077 or 1696 or 924 |

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

## Events

* January 5 – U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a law asking for the government to study crime in the U.S.
* January 9 – The Israeli government say's that the People's Republic of China is a country
* January 11 – Huk guerrillas attack the town of Hermosa in Bataan, Philippines.
* January 12 – British submarine *Truculent* crashes into a Swedish oil tanker in River Thames – 64 people died.
* January 13 – Finland is friendly with the People's Republic of China
* January 15 – Volcanic cloud kills 5000 in Mount Lamington, New Guinea
* January 17 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts
* January 23 – The Knesset passes an agreement that says Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
* January 24 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs tells about his wartime espionage at Los Alamos to British interrogators – formally charged February 2
* January 28 – Somaliland is put under Italian rule
* January 29 – Lord Balfour disagrees with the fact that rationing is still in force in Britain
* January 31 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb
* January 31 – Last Kuomintang troops surrender in continental China
* June 5- The Korean War begins
* October 2 – Charles M. Schulz publishes the first Peanuts comic strip.

## Births

* January 3 – Victoria Principal, Japanese-American actress
* January 17 – Richard L. Anderson, American sound editor
* February 25 - Neil Jordan, Irish director
* March 20 - Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
* March 27 - Tony Banks, English keyboardist (Genesis)
* April 5 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (ABBA)
* April 12 – Maia Danziger, American actress
* April 12 - Larry Kemp, American sound editor
* May 9 - Tom Petersson, American bass guitarist (Cheap Trick)
* May 10 - Emeric-László Kiss, Hungarian Musician
* May 13 – Stevie Wonder, American musician
* May 13 - Danny Kirwan, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2018)
* May 17 - Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (d. 1991)
* May 22 – Bernie Taupin
* June 19 - Ann Wilson, American singer (Heart)
* June 21 - Joey Kramer, American drummer (Aerosmith)
* July 28 - Tom Cotcher, Scottish actor
* September 10 - Joe Perry, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
* September 28 - John Sayles, American filmmaker
* October 1 – Randy Quaid, American actor
* October 2 - Mike Rutherford, English singer-songwriter and musician (Genesis)
* October 2 - Lucas Fuego, Slovak politician and doctor
* October 3 - John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (d. 1988)
* October 25 - David Kaye, former American rabbi and convicted sex offender
* October 31 – John Candy, Canadian actor (d. 1994)
* December 18 - Gillian Armstrong, Australian director
* December 29 - László-Braun Rátót, Hungarian politician of German ethnicity

## Deaths

* January 21 – George Orwell, English writer (b. 1903)
* April 7 - Walter Huston, Canadian actor (b. 1883)
* November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1856)
* December 30 – Arthur Davidson, American business man (b. 1881)
* 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

* *Across the River and Into the Trees* – Ernest Hemingway
* *The Adventurer* – Mika Waltari
* *Beetlecreek* – William Demby
* *Cabbagetown* – Hugh Garner
* *The Cardinal* – Henry Morton Robinson
* *The Child Who Never Grew* – Pearl S. Buck
* *The Disenchanted* – Budd Schulberg
* *The Door in the Wall* – Marguerite de Angeli
* *The Town and the City* – Jack Kerouac
* *Floodtide* – Frank Yerby
* *Florence Nightingale* – Cecil Woodham-Smith
* *The Grass Is Singing* – Doris Lessing
* *I, Robot* – Isaac Asimov
* *Joy Street* – Frances Parkinson Keyes
* *Jubilee Trail* – Gwen Bristow
* *Kon-Tiki* – Thor Heyerdahl
* *The Liberal Imagination* – Lionel Trilling
* *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe* – C. S. Lewis
* *The Little World of Don Camillo* – Giovanni Guareschi
* *The Martian Chronicles* – Ray Bradbury
* *Parade's End* – Ford Madox Ford
* *The Parasites* – Daphne du Maurier
* *Reading and Criticism* – Raymond Williams
* *Scenes from Provincial Life* – William Cooper
* *Star Money* – Kathleen Winsor
* *Summer In The Country* – Edith Templeton
* *La vida breve* (A Brief Life) – Juan Carlos Onetti
* *The Voyage of the Space Beagle* – A. E. van Vogt
* *The Wall* – John Hersey