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1950 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2034. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1950 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1950
- January 14, 1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
- January 21, 1950 – American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
- January 26, 1950 – The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
- February 17, 1950 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- July 2, 1950 – The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
- August 24, 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
- September 4, 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
- September 24, 1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe.
- 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.
Who Were Born On 1950?
- January 5, 1950 – Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian, philosopher, and author (d. 1991)
- February 25, 1950 – Emitt Rhodes, American singer-songwriter (The Merry-Go-Round)
- March 22, 1950 – Goran Bregović, Bosnian guitarist and songwriter (Bijelo Dugme and Jutro)
- June 13, 1950 – Nick Brown, English politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
- June 28, 1950 – David Lanz, American pianist
- August 2, 1950 – Sue Rodriguez, Canadian activist (d. 1994)
- September 7, 1950 – Johann Friedrich, German-Australian engineer (d. 1991)
- September 15, 1950 – Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Pakistani-English caliph and scholar
- December 2, 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian political scientist and academic
- December 7, 1950 – Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist