The Convention was opened for signature on 4 November 1950 in Rome.

Laos-United States relations officially began when the United States opened a legation in Laos in 1950, when Laos was a semi-autonomous state within French Indochina.

It opened at the Shubert Theatre on 2 November 1949 and ran for 247 performances, closing on 3 June 1950.

The first motorway was built in the environs of Wellington and opened in 1950, between Takapu Road and Johnsonville.

All other trolleybus systems in China opened after 1950.

The on-campus football facility, Rice Stadium, opened in 1950 with a capacity of 70, 000 seats.

This opened the way for his readmission to teaching at Freiburg University in the winter semester of 1950 – 51.

Sun Studio is a highly influential recording studio opened on 3 January 1950 by rock pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue.

On January 3, 1950, Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Civilian Conservation Corps constructed the facilities, and the Possum Kingdom State Park opened to the public in 1950.

In 1950 the most modern movie theatre in the South was opened by Fiske, and it is still in operation today.

Limavady railway station opened on 29 December 1852, closed for passenger traffic on 3 July 1950 and finally closed altogether on 2 May 1955.

Australia ’ s first fully operational uranium mine was opened at Rum Jungle, and underground mining occurred from 1950 to 1953.

The Sterling Highway, the road that is the artery of the Kenai Peninsula, opened in 1950 and subsequently the Seward Highway opened in 1951.

The Cromberg post office opened in 1880, closed in 1912, reopened in 1919, closed again in 1931, and reopened in 1950.

Millbrae's high school children rode the streetcar to attend Burlingame High School until Capuchino High School opened on September 11, 1950.

In 1950, a 336-bed Veteran's Administration hospital opened on the western edge of town.

In 1950 Andrew Oravec, Jr., and Martin Gavora opened a poultry dressing plant which was in operation until 1965.

In 1950, the 280-car capacity Florida Drive-In Theatre, erected at a cost of ~$ 40, 000, at the junction of Ferry Road and State Road 85, later Eglin Parkway, the main road between the air force base and Fort Walton, Florida, opened on Thursday, June 15, with an Esther Williams picture, " On an Island with You ".

The Langley Park Elementary School, now known as Langley Park-McCormick School, opened in 1950, at 15th Avenue and Merrimac Drive.

The Northern Pine Crating Co. opened a wooden box factory in the autumn of 1907, operating until the mill burned c. 1950.

* Avifauna Bird Park – the world's first dedicated bird park, opened in 1950.

) Miracle Mile shopping center, built in 1950, and Knollwood Mall, which opened in 1956, remain open today.

* 1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.

Roma finished in the lower half of Serie A for five seasons in a row, before eventually succumbing to their only ever relegation to Serie B at the end of the 1950 – 51 season ; around a decade after their championship victory.

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 Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.

" In a secret 1950 document, NSC-68, they proposed to strengthen their alliance systems, quadruple defense spending, and embark on an elaborate propaganda campaign to convince the U. S. public to fight this costly cold war.

That made the Browns ' entry into the NFL in the 1950 season the first test of whether their early supremacy could carry over into a more established league.

Behind a potent offense that featured Graham, Groza, Motley, Lavelli and running back Dub Jones, the Browns finished the 1950 regular season with a 10 – 2 record, tied for first place in their conference.

All About Eve ( 1950 ) focused on women, and their relationship with men.

In 1950 U. S. servicemen in Korea voted her their favorite star.

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

Blaine and Kaye reprise their roles from the 1950 Broadway production.

" Morrison and Franscioni ended their partnership in 1950.

Transportation and construction, for example, each accounted for between 7 and 8 percent in both 1950 and 1985, and manufacturing's share rose only from 22 to 24 percent ; however, both the commercial and the service sectors more than doubled their share of the work force, accounting, respectively, for 21 and 28 percent in 1985.

In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ) was Nicholas Ray's breakthrough ; his other noirs include his debut, They Live by Night ( 1948 ), and On Dangerous Ground ( 1952 ), noted for their unusually sympathetic treatment of characters alienated from the social mainstream.

Eastman Kodak introduced their first 35mm color negative stock, Eastman Color Negative film 5247, in 1950.

* Players still living who, though past their best in 1950, were recognised as having been world class when at their peak: Ossip Bernstein, Oldřich Duras, Ernst Grünfeld, Borislav Kostić, Grigory Levenfish, Géza Maróczy, Jacques Mieses, Viacheslav Ragozin, Akiba Rubinstein, Friedrich Sämisch, Savielly Tartakower, and Milan Vidmar.

These regional geodetic datums, such as ED50 ( European Datum 1950 ) or NAD83 ( North American Datum 1983 ) have ellipsoids associated with them that are regional ' best fits ' to the geoids within their areas of validity, minimising the deflections of the vertical over these areas.

Started as a local event in a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood in 1950 and expanded nationally in 1952, the program involves the distribution of small boxes by schools ( or in modern times, corporate sponsors like Hallmark, at their licensed stores ) to trick-or-treaters, in which they can solicit small-change donations from the houses they visit.