1950

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1920s  1930s  1940s  – 1950s –  1960s  1970s  1980s
Years:	1947 1948 1949 – 1950 – 1951 1952 1953

1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar.

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
• October 2 – Charles M. Schulz publishes the first Peanuts comic strip.

Births

• April 12 – Maia Danziger, American actress
• May 13 – Stevie Wonder, American musician
• May 22 – Bernie Taupin
• October 1 – Randy Quaid, American actor
• October 31 – John Candy, American actor

Deaths

• January 21  – George Orwell, English author (b. 1903)
• November 2  – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1856)
• December 30  – Arthur Davidson, American business man (b. 1881)

Films released

• All About Eve
• Cinderella
• 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)" – 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

• 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