This page relates to the year 1950 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

  • the population of the Ground rises to some 2,515 billion men.

Africa

  • January: Beginning of “positive” action the campaign of the Convention People' S Party in Gold Coast. General strike.
  • April 1st: The Somalia is placed by UNO under provisional administration Italy (fine in 1960).
  • June 9th: Public statement of Robert Schuman with Thionville admitting the independence of the Tunisia like ultimate objective.
  • December 5th: Election of an National Assembly in Libya to work out a constitution and to set up a government for independence (resolution 289 of UNO of the November 21st 1949). The National Assembly offers the crown to the king Idriss.
  • December 30th: Constitution in Gold Coast introducing a ministerial system.

  • Refusal of the South Africa to yield to UNO its mandate on the South-western African.

  • General strike with the Kenya (Nairobi).
  • Riots in Ivory Coast to claim the release of the leaders of GDR. General strike in Guinea and with the Dahomey.
  • the British South Africa Chartered Company yields its mineral rights to the Rhodesia of North with one transitional period 36 years.
  • Freedom of press and of association to the Belgian Congo.
  • Creation of the Federation of the Students of Black Africa in France (FEANF), adherent of the International union of the Students, near of the communist movement.
  • Algerian Consciences , re-examined founded by Andre Mandouze and François Châtelet, to the committee of which belongs two Arabs, Abd El-Kader Mahdad and Abd El-Kader Mimouni and a pied-noir Jew, Jean Cohen. In its Call, the review decides “against colonization and racism, for a Algérie free, democratic and social”. Such a program involves its prohibition.

  • 200 million inhabitants in Africa (8% of the world population).

  • Angola: 78  000 White for 4 million Blacks.
  • 140  000 Jews live in Algérie.

Americas

Canada

  • June 15th: Creation of the company F.Dufresne/EKO.
  • November 12th: Marguerite Bourgeoys is béatifiée by the pope Pie XII - founder of the Congrégation of the sisters of Notre-Dame in Montreal.

the United States

  • January 21st: Disputed judgment of the president of the Equipment Carnegie for International Peace, Algiers Hiss, shown in 1948 to have transmitted secret documents to the Soviets at the time of the New Deal.
  • January 31st: The US president Harry Truman orders at the commission with atomic energy ( Atomic Energy Commission ) to build a Bombe H (with hydrogen).
  • February 9th: First charges of the senator of the Wisconsin Joseph McCarthy, showing in a speech the State Department to be infiltrated by 205 Communists. It is the beginning of “hunting with the witches”.
  • April 14th: Truman approves the recommendations of the report “NSC-68” of the National council of Safety preaching a very marked growth of the military expenditure.
  • May: McCarran Act, intended to put outlaw the Communist party. The chief of the Communist party is stopped the May 12th.

  • the Nobel Prize of peace is allotted to American Ralph Bunche.

  • GNP of the United States accounts for 40% of the world GNP.
  • the expenditure for defense passes from 13 billion dollars in 1949 -1950 for a total budjet of 40 billion to 22 billion in 1950 - 1951 and 44 billion in 1951 - 1952. GDP increases by 264 billion in 1950 to 339 in 1952.
  • 11,8 billion dollars are invested abroad.

Latin America

  • the population of the Latin America passes from 95 million inhabitant in 1925 to 157 million in 1950. The urban population, which accounted for 30% of the total in 1929, is of 45% in 1950.

  • the Argentine, the Brésil and the Mexico accounts for 72,4% of the total industrial production of the Latin America. In these three countries, industry counts for more than 20% of GDP.

Brazil
  • October: The former president Getúlio Vargas, supported by the Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro and the social Partido Progressista , is re-elected president of the Republic of the Brésil to one crushing majority, while profiting from a large patriotic current, in reaction on the one hand to the Soviet threat and on the other hand with the American economic interference (beginning of mandate the January 31st 1951, end in 1954). João Fernandes Campos Coffee Filho, vice-president.

  • Thanks to important American help, one long period of economic progress and enrichment will open for the Brésil. Between 1950 and 1980, GDP will be multiplied by seven, however the income per capita will be multiplied only by three and the social inequalities will be accentuated.

  • the government intervenes to accelerate the process of industrialization. Brazil has 20  000 weaving looms (cotton). The national production of steel accounts for 66% of national consumption in 1951.
  • Brazil counts 52 million inhabitants.

Asia

  • May 5th: Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned king of Thailand under the name of Rama IX. Without real capacity, it is constrained to accept a situation of political agitation and a succession of military coups d'etat. There remains a symbol of unit and stability main roads.

Vietnam

  • January 18th: Recognition by the China of the government Vietnam IEN of Ho Chi Minh.
  • January 30th: The Democratic republic of Vietnam is recognized by the Soviet Union.
  • February 7th: Recognition by the the United States and the the United Kingdom of the Vietnamese government of Bảo Đại. After the victory of the Communists in China, British and Americans worry about the support brought by the Chinese to the Vietnamese soldier-minh and increase their assistance in military material in France.
  • September: Installation of a Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) by the United States with Saigon. It provides to the French task force for several hundreds of million dollars of free military material taken on the surpluses of the Pacific.
  • 3 - October 8th: French defeat with the Battle of Caobang.
  • October: Evacuation the Top Tonkin by the French troops and reprocesses CAD Bang and of Length-Sound.
  • December 6th: The general of Lattre de Tassigny is named Haut-Commissaire in Indo-China.

  • Conference of Pau, which reorganizes the relations between France and the associated States in Indo-China.

Burma

  • In January, 200 men of the Kuomintang (nationalist Chinese supported by the American CIA) settle in Burma in the hope of a reconquest of the China. They will be joined, in March, by 1  500 another Chinese of the Kuomintang with an aim of recruiting among the Chinese of Burma, Shan and Kachin.
  • In February, new strategy of the Communists: a popular democratic Face is established with Prome with an aim of gathering the opponents.
  • In May, the governmental army invests Prome and drives out the Burmese white Drapeau which takes refuge in the area of Pégou.
  • In November, 1  000 Chinese “volunteers” of the popular Armée with release (APL) enter to Burma to help the Burmese Communists, and as of December, the White Drapeau , folded up to Katha (Kachin), launches out in the conquest of the central plain.

  • During Years 1950, a revolt of the Karen S is drawn aside and the communist insurrectionists are forced to withdraw itself in the hills. Burma sets up a rigorously non-aligned foreign politics. The country knows thereafter a period of relative economic prosperity. The domination of AFPFL ( Anti-Fascist People' S Freedom League ) is reinforced at the time of the national elections of 1951-1952 and 1956.

Indonesia

  • January: The captain Raymond Westerling, former officer of the army Dutchwoman, tries a takeover by force on Bandung. He fails and must fled with Singapore then in Holland.
  • May 25th: A République of Moluques Southerners is proclaimed with Amboine. After the failure of the negotiations, the republican government breaks the insurrection in November.
  • August 15th: Soekarno, vis-a-vis the attempts secessionists supported by the Netherlanders in the west of Java and with Aceh, Célèbes and in the Moluques, restores a unit State in Indonesia.

  • Indonesia asserts the totality of the territories of Malayan language and enters in conflict with Malaysia (1950-1960).

  • Creation of the councils of villages in Papua.
  • In the middle of the XXe century, 13% of the families have 82% of the grounds and have each one more than one hectare; 87% do not have grounds or have exploitations of less than one hectare.

India S

  • January 26th: Promulgation of the Constitution of the Indian Union, made up of 395 articles. It is based on the principles of democracy, of secularity and of equality, the last principle aiming at abolishing the system of the Caste S. India is a parliamentary and republican democracy of federal type, but centralization is reinforced. The government holds all the capacities as regards defenses, foreign relations, communication, currency and economic development. In the event of urgency, the central capacity can exert the direct government of a State ( president' S rule ). The executive power belongs to the president of the Republic elected for five years by the regional Parliaments and the central Parliament. It names the Prime Minister, who is the chief of the parliamentary majority, then on his council, the other members of the government. The central Parliament is composed of two rooms: the Room of the People ( Lok Sabha ) and the Room of the States ( Rajya Sabha ). The 525 deputies of the first are elected by the vote for all for five years. They can censure the government and make it fall while refusing their confidence to him. The 250 members of the second are elected for six years by the provincial assemblies in proportion to the population of the States. The Prime Minister ensures the connection between the government and the President, the government and the Parliament, and exerts the essence of the executive while directing the various departments of the government and by working out the policy of the country.
  • January 30th: Rajendra Prasad becomes the first president of the Indian Union.
  • October 7th, in India, Mère Teresa founds the order of the Missionnaires of Charity.
  • November 6th: The king of the Nepal Tribhuvana Bir Bikram is reversed by the Prime Minister Maharaja Mohan Shumsher Rana. He takes refuge with Delhi (November 11th) and foments a revolt against the Rânâ, with the support of the PCN and the support of Indian the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

  • the nizâm of Hyderabad is imprisoned and its States annexed to the Indian and divided Union.

  • Treated between the India and the Sikkim, which obtains a total internal autonomy.

Tibet

  • After having invaded the provinces Tibetans of the Kham and the Amdo in 1949, the Chinese occupy the province of the U-Tsang, which will become later the Autonomous region of Tibet.
    • October 7th: continuation of the occupation of Tibet by the Chinese Communists.
    • October 21st: a Chinese army corps comes to shoulder the first battalions in Tibet.
    • October 25th: with the call of the young person Panchen Lama and his entourage, the popular Armée with release invades Tibet. The troops Tibetans are relaxed and neither the Great Britain nor the India offer their assistance.
    • November: the El Salvador carries the case of Tibet in front of UNO, but without success.

China

  • February 14th: Treaty of friendship soviéto-Chinese. Russia offers its assistance to Mao Tsé Toung.
  • May 3rd: Proclamation of the equality of the sexes in China
  • In June, Beginning of the land reform in China: forced collectivization of the grounds which causes a Famine making from 2 to 5 million deaths.

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Korea S

  • June 25th: In Korea, the crossing of the 38 {{E}} parallel by the army North-Korean marks the beginning of the Guerre of Korea (fine of the conflict in 1953).
  • June 26th: Harry Truman neutralizes Formosa while interposing between it and the continent its VIIe floats.
  • June 27th: Resolution of the safety advice condemning the Korean northern aggression, taken in the absence of the Soviet Union. Constitution of an army formed by sixteen nations of which France.
  • June 30th: Harry Truman, with the downstream of the Safety advice, gives the order to MacArthur then with the Japan to intervene in Korea (VIIIe armed). Until the August 6th, the army of UNO is forced with the retirement.
  • September 15th: Unloading of the troops of the United Nations (American body) with Inchon (70  000 men). MacArthur reconquers South Korea. UNO authorizes it to cross the parallel 38e.
  • October 7th: The forces of UNO enter to North Korea.
  • October 16th: First quotas of Chinese “volunteers” in Korea.
  • October 18th: Catch of Pyongyang by the forces of UNO.
  • November 24th: Maximum advance of the troops of UNO in North Korea.
  • November 26th: Against massive Chinese offensive in Korea. At the edge of the river Yalou, thirty-three Chinese divisions reject the forces of UNO in the South of the parallel 38e. The Truman administration refuses to attack the China.
  • December 4th: The Communists occupy Pyongyang again.

Europe

Eastern Europe

  • February 14th: Signature with Moscow of the treaty of thirty years friendship between the China and the Soviet Union which envisages the granting by the Soviets of loans in China at the rate of 1%.
  • February: The Albania joined the CMEA, which it will leave in 1961.
  • April 26th, Hungary: Arrest of leaders of the Party of the Hungarian workers of which György Marosán and the Head of the State Árpád Szakasits.
  • June 30th: The Hungarian Communist party prohibited the teaching of theology in the universities.
  • July 23rd: In GDR, Walter Ulbricht is elected general secretary of SED.
  • September: The German Democratic republic (GDR) joined CMEA.

  • Bulgaria:

    • There is 1  600 Turkish schools which accommodate close to 80  000 pupils.
    • the government authorizes more 150  000 Turks to emigrate towards the Turkey.
  • Romania:
    • a new Labor regulation prohibits the strike and envisages of it stress measurements in the achievement of the tasks.
    • Elimination of 192  000 member of the Rumanian Communist party, judged little on, is 20% of manpower which fall to 600  000 members (1950 - 1951).
  • Decentralization of the economic centers of capacities in Yugoslavia. Moreover greater responsibilities are given to the trade unions, authorized to manage their production. This self-management socialism does not give any result because of the economic disparities between the provinces.
  • Optimum of the estival temperatures in Central Europe (1950, 1952).

Western Europe

  • Raised sanctions of UNO against the Spain.

  • American Decision to rearm Germany following the war of Korea.
  • the Portuguese Communist leader Alvaro Cunhal is imprisoned with Peniche (escape in 1960).
  • Spain: Beginning of the rural migration. 50% of the credits work in the primary sector.
  • Creation of Seat by FIAT close to Barcelona.
  • 70  000 tourists visit the Portugal.
The United Kingdom
  • February: The members of the Labor Party lose the absolute majority with the elections, but can remain with the capacity.
  • March 9th: Execution of Timothy Evans, condemned for the murder of its family. Three years later, he is rehabilitated after the consents of a neighbor. The business leads to a proposal for an abolition of the capital punishment, pushed back in 1954.

  • the Guerre of Korea causes the increase in the raw materials and revival inflation. The military expenditure increases by 4,7 billion £ in 1950, and the government must proceed to a train of budgetary economies.

  • consumption finds its level of pre-war period. The industrial production increased by 5,5% per annum since 1945, while the objective of full employment is achieved with an unemployment rate from 1,5 to 3,1%. The rise of the prices reached 23% since 1945. The State controls 80% of the economy. The welfare expenditures rise to 1,5 billion £. 54% of the richness remain with the hands of 1,5% of the population, and 60% of the British have an inheritance lower than 100£ (75% in 1939). The redistribution supports mainly the middle-class which holds 43% of the richnesses compared with 39% in 1939.

Belgium
  • March 11th: Popular consultation (advisory referendum), indicating to a narrow majority (58%), only acquired in Flanders (more than 70%), a support of the opinion to the resumption of its prerogatives by the King of the Belgians Léopold III whose role in the second world war was disputed.
  • July 22nd Léopold III returns to Belgium. As of the 21 the attacks start. More than one hundred attacks will be perpetrated, followed by a general strike and attempt at formation of a separatist Walloon Gouvernement, epilog of the royal Question.
  • July 31st: In front of the extent of the demonstrations caused by its return to Brussels, Léopold III decides to delegate its powers to prince Baudouin.
  • August 11th: Léopold III, king of the Belgians, transfers its prerogatives to his/her son, Baudouin, which receives the title of royal prince. At the time when this one lends sow it constitutional, a cry rises benches of the Room LIVES the REPUBLIC! allotted to Julien Lahaut which assumed it
  • August 18th assassination of Julien Lahaut in his residence of Seraing.

France

See also: 1950 in France

Italy
  • January 9th: At the time of a demonstration with Modena against the closing of a company, six workers are killed by the police force.
  • January 11th: Alcide De Gasperi resigns under the pressure of the left Christian-Democrat and reconstitutes a coalition government with the social democrats and the republicans the January 27th.
  • January 17th: UNO load the Italy to manage the Somalia until 1960.
  • July 28th: Law Sila of Land reform for the Sicily.
  • August: Constitution of the Broke per it the Mezzogiorno for the economic development of the South.
  • August 12th: Encyclical Humani Generis of the pope Pie XII. It slows down biblical research, condemns the modernism and reduced to the silence of the innovative theologists.
  • November 1st: apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus , by which Pie XII proclaims the dogma Assomption.

  • Foundation of the Italian Confederation of the trade unions of workers (CSIL) under the aegis of the Christian Democrat.

  • Project of Project of Land reform of Antonio Segni envisaging to redistribute a few hundreds of thousands of hectares of uncultivated land to small holders. The reform appears insufficient, the great landowners having generally sold the least fertile grounds and the choice of the recipients concerned with the clientelism to intend to attach to the Christian Democrat new voters. The too high number of the pieces make them nonviable, and the rural migration of the Années 1950 will make that half of the peasants who received batches will resell them.

Oceania & the Pacific

  • January 25th: Australian Harold E. Holt, Minister (preserving) for immigration, declares that its country would accommodate this year 200.000 emigrants.
  • April 26th: at the Parliament, R. Meuzies files in a bill aiming at the suppression of the Communist party as well as prohibition to the Communists to occupy certain functions (this project will be voted in May).

The Middle East & world arabo-Moslem

  • January 3rd, Egypt: The Parti Wafd gains the legislative elections.
  • April 24th: The king Abdallah Ier of Jordan announces the annexation of the the West Bank, i.e. the Arab districts located at the West of the the Jordan and the old city of Jerusalem. The Transjordanie becomes the Jordan.
    • the the West Bank knows a level of development more advanced than that of the Transjordanie. The surge of Palestinian refugees in the agglomeration of Transjordanie modifies gives it political. The latter, more educated, are sensitive to the radical ideas the such Marxisme and the Nationalisme. The transjordaniens are more preserving, and the king Hussein rests primarily on them. He rests on the other hand on Palestinian for the economic development and soldier of the country.
  • May 20th: The the United States, the France and the Great Britain sign a tripartite convention in which they are committed guaranteeing the territorial limits resulting from the Israeli-Arab war.
  • October 6th: Completion of Transarab, the the longest Pipeline of the world (more than 1700 km) which connects the Persian Gulf to the town of Sidon on the the Mediterranean.

  • the oil incomes of the Saudi Arabia are assembled to 56 million US dollars. They will be assembled to 110 million the following year.

  • the the Middle East accounts for 17% of the worldwide production of Pétrole.

Religion and Philosophy

  • Encyclical Humani Generis of Pie XII, against the innovators: critical of Darwinism, restrictions in biblical research, etc

Arts & cultures

See also: 1950 with the cinema, 1950 in music, 1950 in literature, 1950 with the theater, 1950 as a cartoon, 1950 on television

  • October 12th: With alternative Valence (Spain), of Julio Aparicio and Miguel Báez Espuny known as “Litri”, Spanish Matador S.

  • the Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins the construction of the vault of Ronchamp (fine in 1955).

  • the painter Fernand Leger introduces to the Manufacturers .
  • Foundation with the Japan of the commission on the protection of the cultural goods ( Bunkazai ).
  • Publication of Wild Conquest of the South-African writer of English language Peter Abrahams.

Sciences & technology

See also: 1950 in science, 1950 in aeronautics

Births in 1950

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Death in 1950

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