Apartheid laws codified
1950 · Event
South Africa enacts the racial segregation system known as apartheid.
On these timelines: Master, Sub-Saharan Africa
Around 1950
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)