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  1950s timeline
     
1950
 
   
US state department official Alger Hiss is sentenced to a five-year prison sentence, after being convicted of perjury in a second trial      
1950
 
    
French dramatist Eugène Ionesco's play The Bald Prima Donna launches the Theatre of the Absurd       
1950
 
    
In response to the Soviet atom bomb, President Truman announces a crash programme to develop a hydrogen bomb       
1950
 
   
A witch hunt begins when Senator Joseph McCarthy says he knows the names of 205 Communists in the US State Department      
1950
 
    
US evangelist Billy Graham forms the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, to take the Christian message to the world       
1950
 
   
A prehistoric victim of strangling is found in Tollund Moss in Denmark, with part of the noose still round his neck