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March 8, 1950
On March 8, 1950, the iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production. Grigory Sokolov, Peter Frampton, Jancis Robinson would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · March 8, 1950
The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production.
The Volkswagen Transporter, initially the Type 2, is a range of light commercial vehicles, built as vans, pickups, and cab-and-chassis variants, introduced in 1950 by the German automaker Volkswagen as their second mass-production light motor vehicle series, and inspired by an idea and request from then-Netherlands-VW-importer Ben Pon.
Around 1950
The year in brief
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade.
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On March 8, 1950
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1950 The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production. Volkswagen panel van
The Volkswagen Transporter, initially the Type 2, is a range of light commercial vehicles, built as vans, pickups, and cab-and-chassis variants, introduced in 1950 by the German automaker Volkswagen as their second mass-production light motor vehicle series, and inspired by an idea and request from then-Netherlands-VW-importer Ben Pon.
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Other moments from 1950
- April 21 The Nainital wedding massacre occurs, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste.
- August 1 Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
- August 12 Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: Seventy-five American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.
- August 15 Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.
- August 17 Korean War: Forty-two American prisoners of war were massacred by the Korean People's Army on a hill above Waegwan, South Korea.
- August 18 Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium, is assassinated. The Party newspaper blames royalists and Rexists.
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