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| 1950 |
| | | US state department official Alger Hiss is sentenced to a five-year prison sentence, after being convicted of perjury in a second trial | |
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| 1950 |
| | | French dramatist Eugène Ionesco's play The Bald Prima Donna launches the Theatre of the Absurd | |
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| 1950 |
| | | In response to the Soviet atom bomb, President Truman announces a crash programme to develop a hydrogen bomb | |
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| 1950 |
| | | A witch hunt begins when Senator Joseph McCarthy says he knows the names of 205 Communists in the US State Department | |
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| 1950 |
| | | US evangelist Billy Graham forms the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, to take the Christian message to the world | |
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| 1950 |
| | | A prehistoric victim of strangling is found in Tollund Moss in Denmark, with part of the noose still round his neck | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The Family Moskat, about a Jewish family in Warsaw, is the first of Isaac Bashevis Singer's books to be published in English | |
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| 1950 |
| | | C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Anton Dolin and Alicia Markova form the Festival Ballet, in time for next year's Festival of Britain | |
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| 1950 |
| | | British author Doris Lessing publishes her first novel, The Grass is Singing | |
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