title: 1950
text: .
  
  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 an agreement that says 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 
   January 3 – Victoria Principal, Japanese-American actress
   January 17 – Richard L. Anderson, American sound editor
   February 25 - Neil Jordan, Irish director
   March 20 - Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
   March 27 - Tony Banks, English keyboardist (Genesis)
   April 5 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (ABBA)
   April 12 – Maia Danziger, American actress
   April 12 - Larry Kemp, American sound editor
   May 9 - Tom Petersson, American bass guitarist (Cheap Trick)
   May 10 - Emeric-László Kiss, Hungarian Musician
   May 13 – Stevie Wonder, American musician
   May 13 - Danny Kirwan, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2018)
   May 17 - Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (d. 1991)
   May 22 – Bernie Taupin
   June 19 - Ann Wilson, American singer (Heart)
   June 21 - Joey Kramer, American drummer (Aerosmith)
   July 28 - Tom Cotcher, Scottish actor
   September 10 - Joe Perry, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
   September 28 - John Sayles, American filmmaker
   October 1 – Randy Quaid, American actor
   October 2 - Mike Rutherford, English singer-songwriter and musician (Genesis)
   October 2 - Lucas Fuego, Slovak politician and doctor
   October 3 - John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (d. 1988)
   October 31 – John Candy, Canadian actor (d. 1994)
   December 18 - Gillian Armstrong‏‎, Australian director
   December 29 - László-Braun Rátót, Hungarian politician of German ethnicity
  
  Deaths 
   January 21 – George Orwell, English writer (b. 1903)
   April 7 - Walter Huston, Canadian actor (b. 1883)
   November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1856)
   December 30 – Arthur Davidson, American business man (b. 1881)
   June 22 – Lonnie Moon
  
  Awards
  
  Movies released 
   All About Eve
   Annie Get Your Gun
   Cinderella
   King Solomon's Mines
   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