1950

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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 Faltskog, 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-Laszlo 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 - Laszlo-Braun Ratot, 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)" - Edith 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