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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

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.

Events[edit]

January[edit]

January 14: Mount Lamington erupts in New Guinea.

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

May[edit]

June[edit]

June 25: Korean War begins.

July[edit]

August[edit]

September[edit]

October[edit]

November[edit]

December[edit]

Date unknown[edit]

Births[edit]

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

January[edit]

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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