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Events from the year 1950 in the United States. Incumbents ... television broadcast journalist (The Today Show) November 1 Robert B. Laughlin, physicist ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 October 2024. This article is about the year 1950. For the song by King Princess, see 1950 (song). 1950 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise from top left: A Convair B-36 Peacemaker from the 7th Bombardment Wing crashed in northwestern British ...
1952 – The debut of the Today show on NBC, originally hosted by Dave Garroway is the fourth longest running talk show on television. 1952 – ANZUS Treaty enters into force; 1952 – Immigration and Nationality Act; 1952 – In the United States presidential election, Dwight D. Eisenhower elected as president, Richard Nixon elected as vice ...
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II , aided by the post-World War II economic expansion .
The 16 owners of the Major League Baseball teams approved a request by Commissioner A. B. "Happy" Chandler to the leagues' $975,000 of radio and television rights, from the 1950 World Series toward the player's pension fund. [76] Died: Dr. Robert H. Smith, 71, popularly known as "Dr. Bob" since becoming co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935.
January 10, 1950: Soviet Union delegation leaves UN Security Council January 24, 1950: Dr. Fuchs confesses giving the Soviets the means to make the atomic bomb January 17, 1950: USS Missouri gets stuck January 31, 1950: U.S. President Truman announces that U.S. will develop the hydrogen bomb. The following events occurred in January 1950:
America in the 1950s was a vastly different place than it is today. Unemployment rates were low, individual purchasing power was high, and mass production and new technologies were making everyday...
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