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

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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

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