Rajendra Prasad sworn in as India's first president
1950 · Event
The Constitution comes into force and the Bihari lawyer who chaired the Constituent Assembly becomes head of state.
On these timelines: Master, India
Around 1950
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)