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•  February 17, 1950 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  March 17, 1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name “Californium”.
•  June 28, 1950 – Bodo League massacre: Korean War.
•  July 16, 1950 – Chaplain-Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
•  August 22, 1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
•  November 1, 1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
•  November 8, 1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
•  December 9, 1950 – Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
•  December 17, 1950 – The F-86 Sabre’s first mission over Korea.
•  December 25, 1950 – The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.

•  February 2, 1950 – Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese professional wrestler
•  May 17, 1950 – Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian politician (d. 2008)
•  June 9, 1950 – Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player
•  June 30, 1950 – Leonard Whiting, British actor
•  July 13, 1950 – George Nelson, American astronaut
•  July 18, 1950 – Jerome Barkum, American football player
•  September 30, 1950 – Renato Zero, Italian musician
•  October 12, 1950 – Caroline Ellis, English actress
•  December 18, 1950 – Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne) (d. 2002)
•  December 25, 1950 – Peter Boardman, British mountaineer (d. 1982)