The population of the United States as reported by the 1950 Census is 150,697,361.

There are 1,667,231 marriages to 385,144 divorces

Median age for 1st marriage is 22.8 years old for men and 20.3 for women.

In the News

North Korea invades South Korea. Truman orders the U.S. into the war.

3 million soldiers and civilians will be killed or wounded before it ends in 1953.

Albert Einstein warns against the hydrogen bomb, which President Truman okays building.

USSR announces they have developed the atomic bomb.

The Brink's armored car depot in Boston is robbed of $2.7 million, the largest amount stolen in a robbery to date.

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, claims to have a list containing the names of 205 known Communists in the State Department.

In Other News

Mother Teresa founded the first mission of Charity in Culcutta, India.

The FBI institutes the 10 most wanted list.

Smokey the Bear, an orphaned cub found after a forest fire in New Mexico, becomes the living symbol of the U.S. Forestry Service.

Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast.