1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.

Clockwise from top left: A Convair B-36 Peacemaker from the 7th Bombardment Wing crashed in northwestern British Columbia on Mount Kologet after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb; PLA soldiers marching toward Tibet in the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China; Puerto Rican flag removed by a member of the National Guard after the 1950 Jayuya Uprising; Bhumibol Adulyadej at his coronation, on a royal procession; Memorials to the miners who died in the Knockshinnoch disaster; Bodies of the Hill 303 massacre victims gathered near Waegwan, South Korea.; Summary execution of South Korean political prisoners by the South Korean military after the Bodo League massacre; refugees during the Korean War.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1950 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1950
MCML
Ab urbe condita2703
Armenian calendar1399
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԹ
Assyrian calendar6700
Baháʼí calendar106–107
Balinese saka calendar1871–1872
Bengali calendar1357
Berber calendar2900
British Regnal year14 Geo. 6 – 15 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2494
Burmese calendar1312
Byzantine calendar7458–7459
Chinese calendar己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4647 or 4440
    — to —
庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4648 or 4441
Coptic calendar1666–1667
Discordian calendar3116
Ethiopian calendar1942–1943
Hebrew calendar5710–5711
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2006–2007
 - Shaka Samvat1871–1872
 - Kali Yuga5050–5051
Holocene calendar11950
Igbo calendar950–951
Iranian calendar1328–1329
Islamic calendar1369–1370
Japanese calendarShōwa 25
(昭和25年)
Javanese calendar1881–1882
Juche calendar39
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4283
Minguo calendarROC 39
民國39年
Nanakshahi calendar482
Thai solar calendar2493
Tibetan calendar阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
2076 or 1695 or 923
    — to —
阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
2077 or 1696 or 924

Events edit

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January 14: Mount Lamington erupts in New Guinea.

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April edit

May edit

June edit

 
June 25: Korean War begins.

July edit

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Date unknown edit

Births edit

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

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Victoria Principal
 
Jörg Haider

February edit

 
Peter Gabriel

March edit

 
Karen Carpenter
 
William Hurt
 
Martin Short

April edit

 
Joyce Banda
 
Agnetha Fältskog
 
David Cassidy
 
Jay Leno

May edit

 
Googoosh
 
Stevie Wonder
 
Jill Stein
 
Janez Drnovšek

June edit

 
Nouri al-Maliki
 
Sonia Manzano

July edit

 
Viktor Yanukovych
 
Richard Branson

August edit

 
Ernesto Samper
 
Steve Wozniak
 
Anne, Princess Royal

September edit

 
Phil McGraw
 
Julie Kavner
 
Bill Murray

October edit

 
Jakaya Kikwete
 
Tom Petty
 
Rino Gaetano
 
John Candy

November edit

 
Ed Harris

December edit

 
Joan Armatrading
 
Rajinikanth
 
María Antonieta de las Nieves

Date unknown edit

Deaths edit

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January edit

 
George Orwell
 
Alan Hale, Sr.
 
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

February edit

 
Karl Seitz

March edit

 
Albert François Lebrun
 
Heinrich Mann
 
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
 
Leon Blum

April edit

 
Recep Peker
 
Reverend Franciscus Janssens

May edit

 
Gavrilo V, Serbian Patriarch
 
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina

June edit

 
Kazys Grinius
 
Melitta Bentz
 
Metropolitan Theophilus Pashkovsky

July edit

 
Antonie Nedošinská
 
William Lyon Mackenzie King

August edit

 
Tadeusz Tomaszewski
 
Arturo Alessandri

September edit

 
Jan Smuts

October edit

 
Al Jolson
 
Miguel Mariano Gómez
 
King Gustaf V of Sweden

November edit

 
Kuniaki Koiso
 
Hryhorij Lakota
 
Abdul Hamid Karami

December edit

 
Peter Fraser
 
Enrico Mizzi
 
Karl Renner

Nobel Prizes edit

 

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