As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

* Austin Stevens ( born 1950 ), South African photographer

* 1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

Some observers ( including George Kennan ) believed that the Japanese treaty led Stalin to approve a plan to invade U. S .- supported South Korea on June 25, 1950.

In June 1950, Kim Il-sung's North Korean People's Army invaded South Korea.

* The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, sometimes referred to as the South Capitol Street Bridge, just south of the US Capitol in Washington DC, was built in 1950 and named in his honor.

After various Korean border conflicts, war broke out with U. S .- allied South Korea in 1950, starting the Korean War.

The North Korean Army struck in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, 25 June 1950, crossing the 38th parallel behind a firestorm of artillery, beginning their invasion of South Korea.

* 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.

South Africa abolished the right of appeal to the Privy Council from the Appellate Division of the then Supreme Court of South Africa in 1950.

Brabham won the 1948 Australian Speedway Championship, the 1949 Australian and South Australian Speedcar championships, and the 1950 – 1951 Australian championship with the car.

North Korea and South Korea claim sovereignty over the entire Korean peninsula, which led to the start of the Korean War in 1950.

After 1945, the Soviet Union supplied the economic and military aid that enabled North Korea to mount its invasion of the South in 1950.

* 1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces ( Battle of the Ch ' ongch ' on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir ), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.

Firstly, the Population Registration Act in 1950 classified residents in South Africa into four racial groups: " black ", " white ", " colored ", and " Indian " and noted their racial identities on their identifications.

On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces invaded South Korea.

** Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ) – The war, which lasted from June 25, 1950 until the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, started as a civil war between North Korea and the Republic of Korea ( South Korea ).

The Korean War began on 25 June 1950, when the North Korean army invaded South Korea.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Labour Party's ultra-safe seat of Normanton at a by-election in 1947 ( when the Labour majority was 62 %), he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wolverhampton South West in the 1950 general election.

In 1950, for example, UP reported the invasion of South Korea by North Korea two hours and forty minutes before its archrival, the AP.

These South African actions gave rise to several rulings at the International Court of Justice, which in 1950 ruled that South Africa was not obliged to convert South-West Africa into a UN trust territory, but was still bound by the League of Nations Mandate with the United Nations General Assembly assuming the supervisory role.

In 1902, lots sold for between $ 350 – 700 for ocean-front property and by 1950, the population of Pacific Beach reached 30, 000 and the average home sold for $ 12, 000.

* John Debo Galloway ; The First Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific ( 1950 )

The USS Bryce Canyon was named for the park and served as a supply and repair ship in the U. S. Pacific Fleet from September 15, 1950, to June 30, 1981.

The racial makeup of the city was 61. 41 % African American, 34. 41 % White, down from 62. 8 % in 1950, 1. 46 % Asian, 0. 19 % Native American, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 1. 45 % from other races, and 1. 04 % from two or more races.

* 1950: South Pacific * – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan

They are: George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing ( 1932 ) ¹, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific ( 1950 ), Bock & Harnick's Fiorello!

However, by 1950 the Pulitzer committee included composer Richard Rodgers as a recipient when South Pacific won the award, in recognition of music as an integral and important part of the theatrical experience.

The team went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular of all musicals and were each made into successful films: Carousel ( 1945 ), South Pacific ( 1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ), The King and I ( 1951 ), and The Sound of Music ( 1959 ).

* Three productions, all musicals, have won all " big six " awards for their category: South Pacific ( 1950 awards ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1979 awards ) and Hairspray ( 2003 awards ); each won the Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Performance by a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Best Direction awards.

* Acting Awards: Only one production, South Pacific ( 1950 awards ), has won all four of the acting awards in a single year.

Australia was one of the founders of both the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission ( 1947 ), and in 1950, it proposed the Colombo Plan to assist developing countries in Asia.

The Chicago and Galena Railroad became the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, and later, Union Pacific Railroad, and served the community for over 150 years, though passenger service was eliminated in about 1950.

The film opens in 1950 with Pu Yi's re-entry into the just-proclaimed People's Republic of China as a political prisoner and war criminal, having been captured by the Red Army when the Soviet Union entered the Pacific War in 1945 ( see Soviet invasion of Manchuria ) and been in their custody for the past five years.

Since 1950 the Pacific Fleet has been involved in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the two Taiwan Straits Crises, and a number of other operations including the Mayaguez Incident of 1975, as well as post-Vietnam related operations such as Operation New Arrivals.

In 1950, El Toro was selected as a permanent Master Jet Station for the Fleet Marine Forces, Pacific.

The RFA performed important service to the Far East Fleet off Korea from 1950 until 1953, when sustained carrier operations were again mounted in Pacific waters.

Idaho and Montana, who were members of the Pacific Coast Conference from 1922 until 1958 and 1950 respectively, never finished near the top in the PCC football standings.

During the period from 1936 to 1950, National City Lines and Pacific City Lines — with investment from GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks, and the Federal Engineering Corporation — bought over 100 electric surface-traction systems in 45 cities including Baltimore, Newark, Los Angeles, New York City, Oakland and San Diego and converted them into bus operation.

He served as a Navy hospital corpsman ( medic ) with the Marine Corps in the Pacific during World War II, and began his writing career as a Talmudic scholar around 1950.

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He shared the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for co-writing South Pacific.

In 1949, President Truman appointed Radford to the position of Commander of the U. S. Pacific Fleet, and Radford served in this post from then until mid-1953: vital years for the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps because of their commitment to the Korean War-which began in 1950 and ended in 1953,

In 1950, the team became a founding member of the Pacific League.