Born in 1950

A selection from Wikipedia's '1950 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

• February 9 – Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the U.S. State Department of being filled with 205 Communists.
• February 15 – Walt Disney releases his twelfth animated feature film, Cinderella, in Hollywood.
• March 17 – University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they have named "californium".
• March 23 – The 22nd Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Paul Douglas, is held at RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Robert Rossen's All The King's Men wins Best Picture, while Joseph L. Mankiewicz wins Best Director for A Letter to Three Wives.
• May 25 – The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic in New York City.
• June 25 – Korean War: North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into South Korea.
• September 15 – Korean War: Battle of Inchon – Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive.
• October 2 – The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven U.S. newspapers.

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