Top News Stories from 1950

World Events

• Korean War begins when North Korean Communist forces invade South Korea.
• Sino-Soviet friendship treaty signed.
• Communist Chinese forces invade Tibet.
• British atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Background: The Cold War

U.S. Events

• Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb (Jan. 31).
• Assassination attempt on President Truman by Puerto Rican nationalists (Nov. 1).
• Era of McCarthyism begins.

Economics

Sports

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

World Cup

Entertainment

Events

• Saturday morning children's programming begins.
• Phonevision, the first pay-per-view service, becomes available.
• Broadway classic Guys and Dolls debuts at the 46th Street Theatre and becomes an instant hit. The show ran for three years and became one of the Great White Way's longest-running shows, with 1,200 performances.
• Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip.

Movies

• Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Born Yesterday, The Third Man

Books

• Paul Bowles, The Delicate Prey
• Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
• Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and Into the Trees
• Mary McCarthy, Cast a Cold Eye
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat
• Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn
• Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination

Science

• Col. David C. Schilling (USAF) makes the first nonstop transatlantic jet flight in 10 hours and 1 minute (Sept. 22). Background: Famous Firsts in Aviation
• The first Xerox machine is produced.
• The first self-service elevator is installed by Otis Elevator in Dallas.
• Richard Lawler (US) performs the first successful kidney transplant at Loyola University. Background: Health & Nutrition

Death

• Al Jolson
• George Orwell
• George Bernard Shaw

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