* 1950 – 1957: Kansaneläkelaitos ( National Pension Institution ) office building, Helsinki, Finland

In July 1957, former Conservative President Laureano Gómez ( 1950 – 1953 ) and former Liberal President Alberto Lleras ( 1945 – 1946, 1958 – 1962 ) issued the " Declaration of Sitges ," in which they proposed a " National Front ," whereby the Liberal and Conservative parties would govern jointly.

In 1949 or 1950, DeMille was recruited by Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner to serve on the board of the anti-communist National Committee for a Free Europe, the public face of the organization that oversaw the Radio Free Europe service.

* 1950 – Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.

The Pilot ACE had binary floating point arithmetic which became operational at National Physical Laboratory, UK in 1950.

In 1950, while working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fermi had a casual conversation while walking to lunch with colleagues Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller and Herbert York.

* Blair, Eric Arthur ( George Orwell ) ( 1903 – 1950 ) at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

On 26 June 1950, the National Assembly supported a crucial bill written by Milovan Đilas and Tito about " self-management " ( samoupravljanje ): a type of independent socialism that experimented with profit sharing with workers in state-run enterprises.

* 1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash ; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

* 1950 – George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender ( b. 1895 )

The legislation creating the National Science Foundation was signed by President Harry S. Truman on May 10, 1950

* Granatstein, J. L .. " King, ( William Lyon ) Mackenzie ( 1874 – 1950 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online ed, Jan 2011 accessed 12 Sept 2011

Modern works of art depicting Yggdrasil include Die Nornen ( painting, 1888 ) by K. Ehrenberg ; Yggdrasil ( fresco, 1933 ) by Axel Revold, located in the University of Oslo library auditorium in Oslo, Norway ; Hjortene beiter i løvet på Yggdrasil asken ( wood relief carving, 1938 ) on the Oslo City Hall by Dagfin Werenskjold ; and the bronze relief on the doors of the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities ( around 1950 ) by B. Marklund in Stockholm, Sweden.

In 1947, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1950 he joined the ranks of Alpha Chi Sigma.

The monument was abolished in 1950 and most of the monument land was added to Grand Teton National Park.

Over a 50 year period from 1950 to 2010, there were 394 National Climatic Data Center reportable events causing 617 injuries, and 99 fatalities.

Soon after he returned during 1948, he was made a professor at the Institute of Archaeology, but spent part of the years 1949 and 1950 in Pakistan as Archaeological Adviser to the Government, helping to establish the Archaeological Department of Pakistan, and the National Museum of Pakistan at Karachi.

The U. S. National Book Award was reestablished in 1950 with awards by the book industry to authors of 1949 books in three categories.

* 1950 ( 11 ) Los Angeles Open, Bing Crosby Pro-Am ( tie with Jack Burke, Jr., Smiley Quick, Dave Douglas ), Texas Open, Miami Beach Open, Greater Greensboro Open, Western Open, Colonial National Invitation, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball ( with Jim Ferrier ), Reading Open, North and South Open, Miami Open

Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel () ( 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950 ) was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of India.

* The airliner Amana, victim of the 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash in Western Australia that killed 29 people

Dalyell was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Eton College and did his National Service with the Royal Scots Greys from 1950 to 1952-as an ordinary trooper, after failing his officer training.

Acheson's speech on January 12, 1950, before the National Press Club did not mention the Korea Peninsula as part of the all-important " defense perimeter " of the United States, an omission that critics subsequently took to mean that the United States would not defend the ROK from communist attack.

In 1948 the Church of the Brethren joined the World Council of Churches as a charter member and was a forming member of the National Council of Churches in 1950.

One of the famous " Whiz Kids " of the National League champion 1950 Phillies, Ashburn spent 12 of his 15 major-league seasons as the Phillies ' center fielder ( from 1948 through 1959 ).

* 1950 – Brian J. Doyle, American Deputy Press Secretary in the United States Department of Homeland Security

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1950.

The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones.

The Gnome Press edition ( 1950 – 1957 ) was the first hardcover collection of Howard's Conan stories, including all the original Howard material known to exist at the time, some left unpublished in his lifetime.

* Florence Howe ( 1950 ), founder of women's studies and founder / publisher of the Feminist Press / CUNY

In 1950, he was selected by the Associated Press as the greatest swimmer of the first half of the 20th Century.

* Brush, Stephen G., The History of Modern Science: A Guide to the Second Scientific Revolution, 1800 – 1950, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1988

UNRRA: the History of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( Columbia University Press, 1950 ), the official history

A Record of the Commemoration Held at St John ’ s College, Cambridge in April 1950 ; Cambridge University Press, 1950 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00289-9 )

Cambridge: The University Press, 1950.

In 1950 an Associated Press poll of almost 400 sportswriters and broadcasters voted Thorpe the " greatest athlete " of the first half of the 20th century.

* Grotius, De Iure Praedae Commentarius ( Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty ) ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950 ).

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950.

* Reg Groves & Philip Lindsay ( 1950 )-The Peasants Revolt 1381 ( Greenwood Press )

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1950.

* Doppelleben ( 1950 ); autobiography translated as Double Life ( edited, translated, and with a preface by Simona Draghici, Plutarch Press, 2002, ISBN 0-943045-19-3 ).

Rather began his journalism career in 1950 as an Associated Press reporter in Huntsville, Texas.

Later, he was a reporter for United Press ( 1950 – 1958 ), several Texas radio stations, and the Houston Chronicle ( 1954 – 1955 ).

* The Press Thornton Future Masters junior golf tournament has been held annually since 1950 in early July.

* Arthur Bestor, Backwoods Utopias, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1950, 2nd.