1950

• War in Korea.

• Confirmation of Hydrogen Bomb Program by President Truman.

• Credit card system introduced in America.

• Mass production of computers began.

• First organ transplant takes place.*

• The world population numbers 2.52 billion.

• USA average annual salary $2992

• *In June 1950, a Chicago surgeon removed one of a woman's two failing cystic kidneys and gave her a healthy organ that functioned for at least 53 days. But the organ was rejected sometime in the next months.

• Still, the woman lived five more years, probably because the donor organ survived long enough to allow her damaged kidney to recover partial function,