Editing 1950

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== Events ==
* February 8 - The [[Stasi]] is founded to serve as the [[secret police]] of East Germany.
* February 9 - In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.
* February 14 - The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance is signed by the [[Communist Party of China]] and the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].
* April 8 - In the first shootdown of an American military aircraft by the Soviet Union during the [[Cold War]], two Soviet Lavochkin La-11 fighters intercepted and downed a U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer surveillance plane that was flying over or near the Latvian SSR with ten men on board, the first of over 350 American servicemen lost in Cold War missions.
* June 25 - North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the [[Korean War]].
* July 25 - [[Walter Ulbricht]] is named First Secretary of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]].
* July 26 to 29 - The [[No Gun Ri Massacre]] takes place.
* October 12 - The [[Pathet Lao]] is founded.
* December 1 - [[Richard Nixon]] is elected to the United States Senate.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* March 14 - [[Don Blankenship]]
* April 25 - [[Apollo Quiboloy]]
* May 23 - [[Richard Trenton Chase]]
* May 24 - [[Lorenzo Gilyard]]
* June 25 - [[Jim Adkisson]]
* July 1 - [[David Duke]]
* July 9 - [[Viktor Yanukovych]]
* August 20 - [[William Suff]]
* August 21 - [[Arthur Bremer]]
* September 17 - [[Narendra Modi]]
* September 20 - [[Eli Stutzman]]
* September 24 - [[Carlton Gary]]
* November 23 - [[Stacey Koon]]
* December 26 - [[Randall Woodfield]]
* Unknown - [[Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza]]
* Unknown - [[Willem van Spronsen]]

=== Victim births ===
*March 12 - Maria Ridulph

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* January 11 - [[James A. Colescott]]

=== Victim deaths ===

* June 16 - Veleslav Wahl
* June 27 - Milada Horáková