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| 1950 |
| | | The Canadian schooner St Roch becomes the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal and the Northwest Passage, thus circumnavigating North America | |
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| 1950 |
| | | US sociologist David Riesman analyzes the American character in The Lonely Crowd | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Chinese troops move into Tibet, meeting little resistance | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Julius Rosenberg is arrested on suspicion of being a Soviet spy, and his wife Ethel is arrested a few weeks later | |
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| 1950 |
| | | North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel to invade the southern half of the region | |
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| 1950 |
| | | North Korean forces press far enough south to capture the South Korean capital of Seoul | |
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| 1950 |
| | | UN troops are sent to defend South Korea, as the invasion from the north rolls on | |
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| c. 1950 |
| | | Soweto begins to be built outside Johannesburg to segregate the city's black labour force | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The British government bans hereditary ruler Seretse Khama from Bechuanaland because he has married a white woman | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Kirsten Flagstad sings the posthumous premiere, in London, of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs | |
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