Missionaries of Charity founded
1950 · Event
After a 'call within a call' on a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa leaves her convent school and founds an order to serve 'the poorest of the poor' in Calcutta's slums.
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- Saint Paul (5)
- Paul's missionary journeys (48)
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- Council of Chalcedon (451)
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- Council of Trent (1545)
- Second Vatican Council (1962)
Around 1950
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- 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)