Title: 1950 Content: . == 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 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