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1950s timeline
1950
US state department official Alger Hiss is sentenced to a five-year prison sentence, after being convicted of perjury in a second trial
1950
French dramatist Eugène Ionesco's play
The Bald Prima Donna
launches the Theatre of the Absurd
1950
In response to the Soviet atom bomb, President Truman announces a crash programme to develop a hydrogen bomb
1950
A witch hunt begins when Senator Joseph McCarthy says he knows the names of 205 Communists in the US State Department
1950
US evangelist Billy Graham forms the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, to take the Christian message to the world
1950
A prehistoric victim of strangling is found in Tollund Moss in Denmark, with part of the noose still round his neck
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