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October 19, 1950
On October 19, 1950, china defeats the Tibetan Army at Chambo. Grigory Sokolov, Peter Frampton, Jancis Robinson would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · October 19, 1950
China defeats the Tibetan Army at Chambo.
The Battle of Chamdo occurred from 6 to 24 October 1950. It was a military campaign by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to capture the Chamdo Region from a de facto independent Tibetan state. PRC victory led to the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China.
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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 October 19, 1950
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1950 China defeats the Tibetan Army at Chambo. Battle between Chinese and Tibetan forces
The Battle of Chamdo occurred from 6 to 24 October 1950. It was a military campaign by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to capture the Chamdo Region from a de facto independent Tibetan state. PRC victory led to the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China.
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1950 Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea. 1950–1953 conflict in Korean Peninsula
The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations led by the United States under the auspices of the United Nations Command (UNC). 5 to 3 million civilians were killed during the war.
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1950 Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program. Foreign aid program established by U.S. President Harry Truman in 1949
The Point Four Program was a technical assistance program for "developing countries" announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address on January 20, 1949. It took its name from the fact that it was the fourth foreign policy objective mentioned in the speech.
Elsewhere that year
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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