WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1950
Find out what all happened February to April 1950

Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. (9. February 1950)

The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. (8. February 1950)

Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. (19. April 1950)

Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. (7. March 1950)

Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asks nuncios of Vatican to leave the country. (16. March 1950)

Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. (1. March 1950)

The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time. (12. March 1950)

Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races. (27. April 1950)

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium". (17. March 1950)

India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact. (8. April 1950)

Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army. (14. February 1950)

Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949. (28. April 1950)