Historical Events in 1950
133 curated events dated to this year, and 80 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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Aimé Césaire Publishes 'Discourse on Colonialism'
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Chinese Warnings Misread Before Intervention in Korea
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Enactment of the New Marriage Law in Communist China
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Hughes's Activism in the Civil Rights Movement
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Publication of 'The Auroras of Autumn'
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The Agonizing Retreat from Chosin Reservoir
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Awarded the National Book Award
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Charles Olson Publishes 'Projective Verse'
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Death of William Rose Benét
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Final Years and Legacy
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Final Years in New York City
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First American reading tour
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Global Fleet Motorization
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Industrial Pig Farming Emergence in the US
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Islamic Revivalism Post-Colonial Era
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Massive Wetland Loss in the Florida Everglades
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McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare (1950–1954)
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Octavio Paz Publishes 'The Labyrinth of Solitude'
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Pablo Neruda's 'Canto General' Denounces Imperialism
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People's Republic of China Land Reform Campaign
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Peruvian Anchoveta Fishery Boom
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Pincus and Rock Begin Oral Contraceptive Research (1950)
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Post-WWII Boom in Central Air Conditioning for Homes
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Publication of 'The Lost Lunar Baedecker'
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Publication of 'The Private Life'
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The Great Earthquake of 1950 in Assam-Tibet
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The Korean War
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Allen Ginsberg and Beat Poets Experiment with Psychedelics and Opioids
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Antibiotic Use in Pig Feed Post-WWII
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Beatnik Style and Black Turtlenecks
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C4 Explosive Standardized by US Military
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Cheese in the Poetry of Pablo Neruda's 'Odes to Common Things'
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Collier's Encyclopedia Launches First Edition
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Continuous Casting of Steel
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Death of his wife, Nina Gomer
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Denim Jacket Becomes Iconic Garment of the 20th Century
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Echo Sounders in Commercial Fishing
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Final Years in Aberystwyth
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Final Years in Ohio
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First Numerical Weather Prediction
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Friendship with Georgia O'Keeffe
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High-Rise Public Housing Projects Expansion
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Industrial Diamond Tools Development
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Japanese Distant-Water Fishing Expansion
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Loss of Madagascar's Endemic Species from Slash-and-Burn
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Madagascar Lemur Habitat Fragmentation
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Oort Cloud Hypothesis
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Post-WWII poetry movements and little magazines
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Power Block for Purse Seines
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Publication of 'The Complete Poems of Fenton Johnson'
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Relocation to Bearsville, New York
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Retirement from Teaching
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Rise of Fast Fashion and Reactive Dyes
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Rise of Window Air Conditioners in Postwar America
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Romanian Orthodox Persecutions under Communist Rule
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Service's Final Years in France
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Television Advertising Transforms Consumer Culture
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Television Becomes Mass Medium
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Temperate Grassland Conversion in Eurasia
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The Homosexual Panic (1950s–1990s)
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Wetland Drainage in Europe Peak Impact
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Widespread Adoption of Wall-to-Wall Carpeting in Post-War Homes
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Adoption of Ranch-Style Homes in Postwar Suburbs
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Bollywood-Inspired Arranged-to-Love Courtship in Post-Independence India
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Cabbage Soup Diet Popularity
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California Coastal Sage Scrub Habitat Loss
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Chinese in Xinjiang
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Chinese Language Policies in Tibet
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Creation of Eurocurrency Markets
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Dengue Fever Control Programs Expand
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Derek Barton Develops Conformational Analysis
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Development of Heat Pumps for Year-Round Climate Control
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Development of High-Density Kowloon Walled City
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Development of Vertical Integration in US Poultry
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Drum Seining Innovation
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Final Years and Decline
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Final Years and Literary Reflection
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Final Years in Devon
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First Fish Meal Plant Established in Peru
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Formula One's Rise and Safety Reforms
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Indian Ocean Tuna Longlining
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Introduction of Alkaline Papermaking
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Jean Toomer's Later Years in Isolation
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Kraft Foods Introduces Processed Cheese Slices
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Kreymborg's Later Years in New York City
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Kreymborg's Literary Contributions in the 1950s
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Launch of First Shopping Malls
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Loss of Peat Bogs in Northern Europe
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Mevlana Festival and Sema in Modern Turkey
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Military Surveillance Balloons in Cold War
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Mimeograph machines in underground publishing
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Paul Flory Advances Polymer Theory
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Post-WWII Chocolate Boom in Consumer Culture
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Post-WWII Synthetic Boom in Perfumery
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PVC Pipes Revolution in Plumbing
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Quinacridone Pigments Development
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Radar Adoption on Fishing Vessels
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Rural Sanitation Programs in Developing Nations
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Satellite Town Planning in Soviet Union
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Sorghum Drought-Resistant Breeding
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Supermarket Expansion Post-WWII
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The 1950s US Food Safety Concerns
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The Lavender Scare (1950s)
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UNESCO Metrology Initiatives
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Vacuum Arc Remelting for High-Purity Alloys
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Vatican Recognition of New Marian Dogmas
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Vladimir Prelog Contributes to Stereochemistry
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Widespread Adoption of Home Freezers Post-WWII
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Yakuza Full-Body Irezumi Becomes Iconic Image of Japanese Organised Crime
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20th Century Porcelain Revival
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Absinthe Depicted in Belle Époque Literature Retrospectives
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Advances in Thermal Insulation Materials
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AK Bayonet Adaptations in Cold War Conflicts
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Cat-Eye Sunglasses Popularized
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Chickens as Model Organisms in Science
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Final Years in Harlem
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First Credit Card Issued
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Fore People Funerary Cannibalism
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Great Lakes Lamprey Control
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Insulating Glass Unit Standardization
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Inuit Snow Goggles Influence Modern Designs
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Modern Conservation of Gilded Artifacts
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Synthetic Fabrics Replace Natural Materials
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The American Poet Frank O'Hara Writes About Cheese
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The Development of the First Felt-Tip Pen with a Nylon Tip
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The English Poet John Betjeman Writes About Cheese
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The Poisoned Candy Myths (1950s–1990s)
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Filipino Aswang Lore Panics
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Korean Mudang Shamanic Hysterias
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Post-WWII Revival of Interest in Eastern Textiles
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Preservation and Heritage Steam Railways
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Soviet-Era Newspaper Reuse in Shortages
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Vietnamese Spirit Medium Panics
Poets alive in 1950
80 poets
Poets in 1950
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