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On a lighter note it was also the year in which ‘Peanuts’ – perhaps the world’s most famous comic strip – penned by Charles Schultz first appeared in a number of US newspapers, and it was also in 1950 that the Peak District, a select area of Derbyshire in England, was designated a National Park, the first of its kind in the country and a precursor for many more to come.
It is perhaps of interest in relation to the current worldwide economic crisis that 1950 also saw the introduction of the very first genuine credit card, while hippies the world over will be intrigued to know that it was in this year that their favoured form of transport – the VW Type 2 camper van – first rolled off the production lines ahead of a lengthy and legendary life.
In Britain, young readers revelled in the new comic the ‘Eagle’ – soon to become staple reading for young boys in search of adventure stories – while the World Cup for soccer was won by Uruguay, who beat Brazil 2-1 in the final.
This was the early stages of the cold war, with the Soviet Union claiming to have an active atom bomb and the Americans starting work on the advanced hydrogen bomb, weapons that would define the decades to come.
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