31 events found for 1950
At the height of a political crisis known as the royal question, four workers were shot dead by the Belgian…
The 766th Independent Infantry Regiment of North Korea was disbanded after fighting for less than two months in the…
Korean War: United Nations forces repelled an attempt by North Korea to capture the city of Taegu.
American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National…
Korean War: The Korean People's Army retreated from the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter after six weeks of fighting,…
Korean War: A North Korean attack was repelled by Allied forces at the Battle of Nam River.
The "Great Smoke Pall", generated by the Chinchaga fire, the largest recorded fire in North American history, was…
A field-sequential color system developed by Hungarian-American engineer Peter Goldmark became the first color…
CBS's field-sequential color system for television was the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal…
The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was…
The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st…