Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

13, No. 1 ( Feb., 1950 ), pp. 76 – 77.

* 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian actor ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer

* 1950 – Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman

* 1950 – David Cassidy, American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist ( The Partridge Family )

* 1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor

* 1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

* 1950 – Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author

* 1950 – Kathryn Harrold, American actress

* 1950 – Lance Ito, American judge

* 1950 – Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate ( d. 1994 )

* 1950 – Charles R. Drew, American physician ( b. 1904 )

* Nedelkovh, Aleksandar B. British and American Science Fiction Novel 1950 – 1980 with the Theme of Alternative History ( an Axiological Approach ).

* 1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American wrestler

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach

* 1950 – John Landis, American director

* 1950 – Jo Marie Payton, American actress

Spanish historiography was influenced by the " Annales School " starting in 1950 with Jaime Vincens Vives ( 1910 – 1960 ).

* 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer ( The Bar-Kays )

The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII: The Roman Catholic Church and the Division of Europe, 1943 – 1950.

This led to the Cold War and proxy wars with the West, including wars in Korea ( 1950 – 1953 ) and Vietnam ( 1957 – 1975 ).

In 1950 during the Cold War, the participating member states of the Council of Europe signed the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Cold War as Rhetoric: The Beginnings, 1945 – 1950 ( 1991 ) online edition

The years between the conclusion of World War II and 1950, when the Korean War started and the Cold War mindset became dominant in international politics, were the " golden age " of the world federalist movement.

By 1950, with the Cold War at its height, Steele's association with the communists was a crucial electoral liability.

* North Korea and South Korea have been in a fluctuating Hot war / Cold war relationship since the Korean War began in 1950.

This new form of technological race only intensified the Cold War, which had begun in June 1950 with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, eventually becoming an arms race.

Titled A Little Stone ( John Lehmann, London, August 1950 ), which excluded two of Bowles ' most famous short stories, " Pages From Cold Point " and " The Delicate Prey ", on the advice of Cyril Connolly and Somerset Maugham, that if they were included in the collection distribution and / or censorship difficulties might ensue.

The base briefly came under Danish control in 1950, but following mounting concerns about the Cold War threat, a new agreement saw the United States reopen Bluie West-8 under the name of Sondrestrom Air Base on 27 April 1951.

The Korean War ( 1950 – 53 ) left the two Koreas separated by the Korean Demilitarized Zone through the Cold War to the present day.

* Bardos, Phil, Cold War Warriors: The Story of the Achievements and Leadership of the Men of the West Point Class of 1950, ( United States, 2000 )

In 1950, as a result of the beginning of the Cold War, the airfield was transferred to the U. S. Air Force for strategic bomber operations.

From 1950 on, Israeli-Soviet relations were an inextricable part of the Cold War — with ominous implications for Soviet Jews supporting Israel, or perceived as supporting it.

This colonial war between the French Union's Expeditionary Corps and Hồ Chí Minh's Việt Minh guerrillas turned into a Cold War crisis in January 1950.

Falling victim to Cold War tensions, JDC was expelled from Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria in 1949, from Czechoslovakia in 1950, and from Hungary in 1953.

The failure of the campaign and the onset of the Cold War contributed to a disastrous situation for the unions and union leaders associated with the Party within the CIO, which expelled most of them by 1950.

In 1950 the site was subleased to the United States Air Force serving as the base of the 6940th radio Squadron, responsible for continued communications and SIGINT operation through the Cold War.

Dover Airfield was reactivated on 1 August 1950 as a result of the Korean War and the expansion of the United States Air Force in response to the Soviet threat in the Cold War.

In 1950 the Air Ministry offered to provide the wartime air base to NATO as part of the Cold War development of the alliance, and the need for additional air bases in the face of the Warsaw Pact threat to Western Europe.

He moved with his assistant Martha to Cold Spring Harbor, New York, in 1950 to join the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Genetics, where he performed the famous Hershey-Chase experiment with Martha Chase in 1952.

* Ben Isitt, " Confronting the Cold War: The 1950 Vancouver Convention of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ," Canadian Historical Review, 91: 3 ( September 2010 )

Major U. S. events during the decade included: the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ); the 1952 election of Second World War hero and retired Army General ( United States ) Dwight D. Eisenhower as President and his subsequent re-election in 1956 ; the Red Scare and anti-communist concerns of the McCarthy-era ; and the U. S. reaction to the 1957 launch by the Soviet Union of the Sputnik satellite, a major milestone in the Cold War.

With the outbreak of the Cold War in 1948 and active combat in the Korean War in June, 1950, the United States began building up its defenses.