American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

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

* 1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.

The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works ( IIC ) was incorporated under British law in 1950 as " a permanent organization to co-ordinate and improve the knowledge, methods, and working standards needed to protect and preserve precious materials of all kinds.

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.

The British Railways Mark 1 coach brought into production in 1950 used the BR1 bogie, which was rated to run at.

* Lord Beginner's song " General Election " was inspired by Attlee's victory in the 1950 British general election.

Upon independence from the British rule, the Indian Constitution listed 1, 108 castes across the country as Scheduled Castes in 1950, for affirmative action.

In the absence of agreement amongst the Allies concerning the status of Eritrea, British administration continued for the remainder of World War II and until 1950.

* 1950 – Andy Powell, British musician ( Wishbone Ash )

* 1950 – Jane Gordon-Cumming, British writer

* 1950 – Peter Hain, British politician

In 1950 Eric Gairy founded the Grenada United Labour Party, initially as a trades union, which led the 1951 general strike for better working conditions, this sparked great unrest-so many buildings were set ablaze that the disturbances became known as the ' red sky ' days-and the British authorities had to call in military reinforcements to help regain control of the situation.

* In 1950, King George VI of the United Kingdom awarded Hoover an honorary knighthood in the Order of the British Empire.

The constitution of 1950 distinguished between three main types of states: Part A states, which were the former governors ' provinces of British India, were ruled by an elected governor and state legislature.

Under the London Declaration, India agreed that, when it became a republic in January 1950, it would join the Commonwealth of Nations and accept the British monarch as a " symbol of the free association of its independent member nations and as such the Head of the Commonwealth ".

Meanwhile, the investigation into the British Embassy leak was still ongoing, and the stress of it was exacerbated by the arrival in Washington, in October 1950, of Guy Burgess – Philby's unstable, dangerously alcoholic, and flamboyantly homosexual Cambridge colleague and fellow Soviet spy.

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( 29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988 ) was a German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research ( the Manhattan Project ) to the USSR during and shortly after World War II.

In December 1950 he was stripped of his British citizenship.

By 1950 systems based on this early research started to reach operational service, including the US Army's Nike Ajax, the Navy's " 3T's " ( Talos, Terrier, Tartar ), and soon followed by the Soviet S-25 Berkut and S-75 Dvina and French and British systems.

Her third and longest-lasting marriage ( 1936 – 1950 ) was to the British Anthropologist Gregory Bateson with whom she had a daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, who would also become an anthropologist.

* 1950 – Mary Tamm, British actress ( d. 2012 )

* 1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.

The navy was established in September 1950 by consolidating regional naval forces under General Staff Department command in Jiangyan, now in Taizhou, Jiangsu province.

In 1950 the Syrian Arab Navy was established following the procurement of a few naval craft from France.

Beginning in 1950, Soviet naval officers helped to establish the Hauptverwaltung Seepolizei ( Main Administration Sea Police ), which was renamed Volkspolizei-See ( VP-See ) ( People's Police-Sea ) on 1 July 1952.

Shortages of crystals during World War 2 caused by the demand for accurate frequency control of military and naval radios and radars spurred postwar research into culturing synthetic quartz, and by 1950 a hydrothermal process for growing quartz crystals on a commercial scale was developed at Bell Laboratories.

* Blackburn B-88 ( Y. B. 1 ) ( 1950 )-single-turboprop-engine, two-seat contra-rotating propeller naval anti-submarine aircraft

Fleming also knew of the story of Eugene Karp and his journey on the Orient Express: Karp was a US naval attaché and intelligence agent based in Budapest who, in February 1950, took the Orient Express from Budapest to Paris, carrying a number of papers about blown US spy networks in the Eastern Bloc.

The first test of national doctrine came on 25 June 1950 when the Korean War broke out, and the national command authority decided that nuclear strategic bombing would not be used to defeat North Korea — rather, the use of conventional ground forces, supported by naval assets along with amphibious assault, would be used to engage North Korea — DPRK armed forces.

Following his naval career, he stood for election to the Houses of Commons as the Conservative Party candidate for Merton and Morden at the 1950 general election.

The Soviet Navy colours had the 1935 official design with them ( it was later revised in 1950 ), with additions for units honoured with the Order of the Red Banner, but in 1964 the Supreme Commander's and Defense Minister's own naval colour and the colours of the Navy Commander-in-Chief ( formerly the Minister for the Navy ) and Chief of Naval Operations were issued with different designs used, with the addition of the Armed Forces General Staff's own naval colour.

It was requisitioned as a naval training establishment during World War II and, in 1950, the London County Council took it over as a boys ' boarding school -- Woolverstone Hall School.

The NSWCDD was founded as the U. S. Naval Proving Ground on October 16, 1918, as a result of the expanded range on large caliber naval guns brought about by the launching of the British battleship HMS Dreadnought that revolutionized seapower, but was renamed some time after 1950 to the U. S. Naval Weapons Laboratory.

The author Sea Lion ( the Pseudonym of Geoffrey Bennett, a career naval officer ), based his 1950 novel The Diamond Rock on the 1804 event.

There were attempts at designing and using these for diving and for industrial use before the Cousteau-type aqualung started to be a common commercialized device ( circa 1950 ).

The Amberjack gained the nickname " Anglejack " because of its pioneering use of steep diving and surfacing angles, which was immortalized in the January 1950 edition of the National Geographic magazine.

* around 1950: Peak production of standard diving dress.

* 1950: Boys ' swimming and diving

Compounding the confusion, in 1950 the editor of the New York State Legislative Manual, seeking to simplify the organization of that year's manual, requested a listing of state post offices from the United States Postal Service.

By contrast, the St. John manual advocated turning the head to the side, but it was not until the 1950 40th edition of the St John Manual that it was added " if breathing is noisy ( bubbling through secretions ), turn the patient into the three-quarters prone position ", which is very similar to a modern recovery position.

This idea was again considered by the Central Advisory Board of Education ( CABE ) at its meeting in January, 1950 ; after examining the idea and the experiences of other countries in this field, the board recommended that students and teachers should devote time to voluntary manual work.

In 1950, more new features were added as the 3-speed manual shift lever was relocated to the steering column instead of on the floor.