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| | | North Korean forces press far enough south to capture the South Korean capital of Seoul | |
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| 1950 |
| | | UN troops are sent to defend South Korea, as the invasion from the north rolls on | |
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| c. 1950 |
| | | Soweto begins to be built outside Johannesburg to segregate the city's black labour force | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The British government bans hereditary ruler Seretse Khama from Bechuanaland because he has married a white woman | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Kirsten Flagstad sings the posthumous premiere, in London, of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes his epic account of South America and its people, Canto general | |
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| 1950 |
| | | UN troops push north across the 38th parallel in a major Korean counter-offensive | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Incursions by UN troops far into North Korea give China the pretext to enter the war | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The Medical Research Council in Britain produces a report, by Austin Hill and Richard Doll, linking smoking and lung cancer | |
|  | Tobacco and the doctor's opinion
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1950 |
| | | Le Corbusier begins a 15-year project designing Chandigarh as a new joint capital for Punjab and Hariyana | |
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