1950 facts for kids

1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.

The year 1950 was a time of many important events around the world. New countries were recognized, and big changes happened in politics and technology. It was also a year when many famous people were born and some well-known figures passed away.

Key Events of 1950

• January 5 – A U.S. Senator named Estes Kefauver suggested a law to study crime in the United States.
• January 9 – The Israeli government officially recognized the People's Republic of China as a country.
• January 11 – Huk fighters attacked the town of Hermosa in Bataan, Philippines.
• January 12 – A British submarine called Truculent crashed into a Swedish oil tanker in the River Thames. Sadly, 64 people lost their lives.
• January 13 – Finland became friends with the People's Republic of China.
• January 15 – A cloud from a volcano killed about 5,000 people near Mount Lamington in New Guinea.
• January 17 – A large amount of money, over $2 million, was stolen from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts. This event became known as the Great Brinks Robbery.
• January 23 – The Knesset, which is Israel's parliament, passed an agreement stating that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
• January 24 – During the Cold War, a scientist named Klaus Fuchs admitted to sharing secret information during the war. He was formally charged on February 2.
• January 28 – Somaliland was placed under Italian rule.
• January 29 – Lord Balfour disagreed with the fact that rationing was still happening in Britain.
• January 31 – President Harry S. Truman announced a plan to create the hydrogen bomb, a very powerful weapon.
• January 31 – The last Kuomintang troops gave up in mainland China.
• June 5 – The Korean War began.
• October 2 – Charles M. Schulz published the very first Peanuts comic strip.

Famous People Born in 1950

• January 3 – Victoria Principal, a Japanese-American actress.
• April 12 – Maia Danziger, an American actress.
• May 13 – Stevie Wonder, a famous American musician.
• May 22 – Bernie Taupin, a British lyricist.
• October 1 – Randy Quaid, an American actor.
• October 31 – John Candy, an American actor who passed away in 1994.

Famous People Who Died in 1950

• January 21 – George Orwell, a well-known English writer (born in 1903).
• November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, a famous Irish writer (born in 1856).
• December 30 – Arthur Davidson, an American businessman (born in 1881).
• June 22 – Lonnie Moon.

Movies Released in 1950

• All About Eve
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Cinderella
• King Solomon's Mines
• Sunset Boulevard

Hit Songs of 1950

• "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" – The 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 of 1950

• 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

Images for kids

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  January 14: Mount Lamington erupts in New Guinea.

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  June 25: Korean War begins.

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  Victoria Principal

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  Stevie Wonder

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  John Candy

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  George Orwell

See also

In Spanish: 1950 para niños