Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa, born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje (now North Macedonia), was a Roman Catholic nun…
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31 August 1950
TWA Flight 903 crashes near Itay El Barud, Egypt, killing all 55 aboard. Trans World Airlines Flight 903 was a scheduled passenger service that tragically…
1 June 1950
Chinchaga ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America. The Chinchaga fire of 1950, often dubbed the “Great…
8 March 1950
The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 “Bus” begins production. The Volkswagen Type 2, affectionately known as the “Bus,” “Microbus,” or “Kombi,” is one of the most…
8 February 1950
The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. The Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit or MfS) was the notorious secret police agency of East…
19 October 1950
Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program. The Point Four Program was a major…
7 October 1950
Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire)…
8 February 1950
The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. The Stasi, short for “Ministry for State Security” (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit), was the official…
27 June 1950
The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. The Korean War was a conflict that took place on the Korean…