Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Timeline 1950 BC to 1950 AD

1950 BC

Institutions
  • Hebrew Civilization began with their migration under the leadership of Abraham to Palestine

Governance
  • Sumer was overrun by two new groups of Semitic nomads, the Amorites and Elamites
  • Age of the Patriarchs
  • The Amorite or Old Babylonian Era
  • A sudden urbanization of Crete

Commerce
  • Heqanakht papyri

Technology
  • Babylonians solve quadratic equations.
  • Bronze Age
  • Akhmim Wooden Tablet

http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/lecture_ancient_civ.htm



1950 AD


Institutions
  • National Council of Churches formed
  • European Economic Community (Common Market) formed
  • First Dunkin' Donuts was opened
  • Independent Workers' Party of Germany and Deutsche Reichspartei founded
  • Institute of Biology founded
  • NASA Founded
Governance
  • Korean War begins when Communist North Korea invades the South
  • Congress passes laws that restrict communists and communist parties in the U.S.
  • Communist Chinese forces occupy Tibet
  • USSR and China sign a Thirty Year Pact
  • Peace Treaty between Japan and Allies
  • U.S. Supreme Court unanimously bans racial segregation in public schools
  • Soviet Union grants sovereignty to East Germany
  • Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
  • Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba

Commerce
  • Truman announces national emergency due to economic strain from Korean War
  • The Schuman Plan proposed
  • The Korean War brings a boom to the Japanese economy, lifting it out of recession
  • The Revenue Act passed by Congress increases income and corporation taxes

Technology
  • Antihistamines become popular as cold relief medications
  • New York's Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens
  • Color TV Introduced
  • US Airforce Orders B- 52 Bomber
  • First Electronic Computer
  • Hydrogen bomb invented
  • First atomic submarine Nautilus launched
  • Dr. Jonas Salk starts inoculating children against polio
  • James Watson and Francis Crick publish their discovery of the molecular model of DNA and its structure
  • First Organ Transplant
  • First Atomic Submarine Launched

Other Facts
  • Assassination attempt on President Truman by Puerto Rican nationalists
  • Flying Saucer Working Party was founded
  • Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest
  • Disneyland Opens

http://www.babyboomers.com/years/1950.htm
http://www.historycentral.com/dates/1950.html#Anchor-announced-49575
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0005250.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950
http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/bltime1950.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/1950

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