1950
Communism, Color TV and Cinderella!
January
· January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
· January 17 – Great Brinks Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, Massachusetts.
· January 23 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
· January 31-- President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949.[1]
February
· February 8 – Payment first made by Diners Club card, in New York, first use of a charge card.
o Pro-communist riots erupt in Paris.
o Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.
· February 14 – Cold War:
o The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.
· February 15- Walt Disney releases his 12th animated film, Cinderella in Hollywood.
March
· March 8
o The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
o The first Volkswagen Type 2 (also known as the Microbus) rolls off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.
April
· April 27-- Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating the races.
May
· May 25 – The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic.
· May 29 – St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
June
· June 27 – Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman orders American military forces to aid in the defense of South Korea.
August
· August 5
o Florence Chadwick swims across the English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes.
September
o Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
· September 9 – The U.S. state of California celebrates its centennial anniversary.
· September 12 – Communist riots erupt in Berlin.
· September 19 – West Germany decides to purge communist officials.
· September 26 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
October
· October 2 – The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven U.S. newspapers.
· October 11 – The Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
o The second Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens.
November
· November 8 – Korean War: While in an F-80, United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown intercepts 2 North Korean MiG-15s near the Yalu River and shoots them down in the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.
· November 20 – T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK.
o Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show business.
· November 29 – The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA is founded.
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· The first pagers are developed.
· The first TV remote control, Zenith Radio's Lazy Bones, is marketed.
France institutes a government-guaranteed minimum wage.
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