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1950
March 14 - The FBI's "Most Wanted List" is established.
March 16 - The heaviest element, Californium, is discovered by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley.
May 11 - The Grand Coulee Dam is dedicated in Washington.
May 25 - The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is opened in New York City and is the longest tunnel in the U.S.
June 11 - Ben Hogan defies odds by winning U.S. Open golf championship just sixteen months after near fatal automobile accident.
June 26 - President Harry Truman authorizes U.S. troops to aid South Korean troops.
July 5 - Kenneth Shadrick is the first U.S. soldier killed in the Korean War.
July 8 - General Douglas MacArthur becomes commander of the United Nations troops in South Korea.
August 1 - The first garbage collection in the U.S. takes place in Jasper, Indiana.
August 1 - Guam becomes a U.S. Territory.
August 21 - The representatives and staff of the United Nations move into their brand new headquarters
building in New York City.
August 27 - All U.S. railroads are seized by the Army to prevent a strike.
November 1 - C. H. Cooper of Fort Wayne, Indiana becomes the first African American National Basketball Association player.
November 1 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists fail at assassinating President Truman.
December 8 - A ban on U.S. goods to Communist China begins.
December 19 - General Eisenhower is named Supreme Commander of Western European defense forces.