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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. This article is about the year 1950. For the song by King Princess, see 1950 (song). 1950 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise from top left: A Convair B-36 Peacemaker from the 7th Bombardment Wing crashed in northwestern ...
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II , aided by the post-World War II economic expansion .
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1945 to 1989 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989.Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber carrying an Mk-4 atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada, producing the world's first Broken Arrow. February 15 – Walt Disney releases his twelfth animated feature film, Cinderella , in Hollywood.
The second referendum was an extension of the income taxes that had originally been put in place while the rest of Europe had been fighting World War II, with the voters rejecting a tax cut in favor of avoiding a deficit. [18] Conservative American radio broadcaster Paul Harvey began his six days a week radio commentary, Paul Harvey News and ...
1964 – The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, mark the start of the British Invasion (or, an increased number of rock and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular around the world, including the U.S.) 1964 – Tonkin Gulf incident; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.
January 10, 1950: Soviet Union delegation leaves UN Security Council January 24, 1950: Dr. Fuchs confesses giving the Soviets the means to make the atomic bomb January 17, 1950: USS Missouri gets stuck January 31, 1950: U.S. President Truman announces that U.S. will develop the hydrogen bomb. The following events occurred in January 1950: