What are some events that happened in 1950?

Answer 1

• 25 January - The Tank Landing Ship HMAS Tarakan explodes at Garden Island in Sydney, killing 8 people.
• 8 February - Petrol rationing ends, nearly ten years after it was introduced during World War II.
• 6 May - A state election is held in Tasmania. The result is a hung parliament, but Robert Cosgrove's Labor Party remains in power with independent support.
• 13 May - A state election is held in Victoria.
• 23 June - The Parliament of Australia passes the Communist Party Dissolution Bill, effectively banning the operation of the Communist Party of Australia.
• 26 June - Australian National Airways Skymaster VH-ANA Amana crashes near Perth, Western Australia, killing 28. One passenger survived (ANA Skymaster Amana crash)
• 26 July - The government announces that Australia will send troops to fight in the Korean War. The first Australian forces land in Korea on 17 September.
• 28 October - The Smith's Weekly newspaper, founded in 1919, is published for the last time.
• New South Wales and Queensland receive extraordinary annual rainfall.

Answer 2

eisenhower was president, mccarthyism and the Korean war

Answer 3

the Korean War - June 25th 1950 to July 27 1957

The decolonization of Africa and Asia

The Suez Crisis, 1956 war in Egypt

Answer 4

The Korean War began.