1950

Clockwise from top left: A Convair B-36 Peacemaker from the 7th Bombardment Wing crashed in northwestern British Columbia on Mount Kologet after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb; PLA soldiers marching toward Tibet in the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China; Puerto Rican flag removed by a member of the National Guard after the 1950 Jayuya Uprising; Bhumibol Adulyadej at his coronation, on a royal procession; Memorials to the miners who died in the Knockshinnoch disaster; Bodies of the Hill 303 massacre victims gathered near Waegwan, South Korea.; Summary execution of South Korean political prisoners by the South Korean military after the Bodo League massacre; refugees during the Korean War.
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1950 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1950
MCML
Ab urbe condita2703
Armenian calendar1399
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԹ
Assyrian calendar6700
Baháʼí calendar106–107
Balinese saka calendar1871–1872
Bengali calendar1357
Berber calendar2900
British Regnal year14 Geo. 6 – 15 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2494
Burmese calendar1312
Byzantine calendar7458–7459
Chinese calendar己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4647 or 4440
    — to —
庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4648 or 4441
Coptic calendar1666–1667
Discordian calendar3116
Ethiopian calendar1942–1943
Hebrew calendar5710–5711
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2006–2007
 - Shaka Samvat1871–1872
 - Kali Yuga5050–5051
Holocene calendar11950
Igbo calendar950–951
Iranian calendar1328–1329
Islamic calendar1369–1370
Japanese calendarShōwa 25
(昭和25年)
Javanese calendar1881–1882
Juche calendar39
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4283
Minguo calendarROC 39
民國39年
Nanakshahi calendar482
Thai solar calendar2493
Tibetan calendar阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
2076 or 1695 or 923
    — to —
阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
2077 or 1696 or 924

1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.