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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. 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 British ...
1950s: 1960s: 1970s: 1980s: 1990s: 3rd millennium · AD 2001–3000 21st century: 2000s: 2010s: ... See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years ...
Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative to the origin of practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s. Because the "present" time changes, standard practice is to use 1 January 1950 as the commencement date ...
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 .
1950. Adjusted: $141,354 Non-adjusted: $12,788 GDP: 8.7% The “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers for the first time. The first credit card is patented in the United States by Ralph ...
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The table starts counting approximately 10,000 years before present, or around 8,000 BC, during the middle Greenlandian, about 1,700 years after the end of the Younger Dryas and 1,800 years before the 8.2-kiloyear event. From the beginning of the early modern period until the 20th century, world population has been characterized by a rapid growth.
Year Census households ... 1950 546,815,000 552,000,000 22% PRC 1975 916,395,000 ... Chinese emigration first occurred thousands of years ago. The mass emigration ...