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The following events occurred in May 1950: ==May 1, 1950 (Monday)== *At a May Day rally in South Africa to protest apartheid, police fired into a crowd of black demonstrators at Johannesburg, killing 19 people and injuring 38.〔Philip S. Foner, ''May Day: A Short History of the International Workers' Holiday, 1886-1986'' (International Publishers Company, 1986) p142〕 *The town of Mosinee, Wisconsin, was the site of a mock Communist takeover, staged by the local American Legion outpost to illustrate what life under Soviet conquest might be like. Benjamin Gitlow, who had twice been the vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA (in 1924 and 1928), before renouncing Communism, played the role of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the "United Soviet States of America", while another former Communist, Joseph Zack Kornfeder, assisted as the new Commissar of the town, renamed "Moskva" in the exercise. A Soviet flag flew in front of the American Legion outpost.〔("Mosinee in Hands of 'Reds' After a Make Believe Coup", ''Milwaukee Journal'', May 1, 1950 )〕 Tragically, Mayor Ralph E. Kronenwetter, who had participated in the mock coup by allowing himself to be "arrested", suffered a cerebral hemorrhage that evening, and died six days later at the age of 49, while another participant, Reverend William L. Bennett, died the a day after Kronenwetter.〔"Mayor, Pastor Die at Mosinee", ''Milwaukee Journal'', May 8, 1950, p3; ("D-Day in Mosinee" ), by Carl Weinberg, ''OAH Magazine of History'' (October 2010)〕 *Operations began for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).〔Edmund Jan Osmanczyk and Anthony Mango, ''Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements'', Volume 4 (Taylor & Francis, 2003)〕 *Springbok Radio was launched as the first commercial radio station in South Africa, broadcasting programming in both English and Afrikaans.〔Pieter J. Fourie, ''Media Studies Volume 1: Institutions, Theories and Issues'' (Juta and Company Ltd, 2001) pp9-10〕 *Died: Lothrop Stoddard, 66, American eugenecist 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「May 1950」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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