1950

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Years :	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 - 1950 - 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955

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1950 is a year in the 20th century. It was a common year.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Awards 5 Films released 6 Hit songs 7 New books

[edit] 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 a agreement that say's 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

[edit] Births

• May 13 - Stevie Wonder, American musician
• May 22 - Bernie Taupin
• October 1 - Randy Quaid, American actor
• October 31 - John Candy, American actor

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 - George Orwell, English author (b. 1903)
• November 2 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1856)

[edit] Awards

[edit] Films released

• All About Eve
• Sunset Boulevard

[edit] 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

[edit] 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