Russell wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
1950 · Event
Honoured for writings 'in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought'.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Arts and Thoughts
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- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- The Last Supper (1495)
Around 1950
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)