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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1950


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 2 - James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
  • January 2 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (b. 1884)
  • January 3 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
  • January 8 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
  • January 15 - Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
  • January 21 - George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)
  • January 22 - Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
  • January 22 - Alan Hale, Sr.
  • January 28 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
  • January 29 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
  • February 2 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)
  • February 6 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
  • February 10 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
  • February 13 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
  • February 14 - Karl Guthe Jansky, American Discoverer of cosmic radio waves (b. 1905)
  • February 25 - George Minot, American physician
  • February 26 - Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish Music Hall Entertainer
  • March 4 - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
  • March 6 - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
  • March 10 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
  • March 19 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
  • March 19 - Walter Haworth, British chemist
  • March 24 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
  • March 30 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (b. 1872)
  • April 1 - Charles R. Drew, American physician (b. 1904)
  • April 3 - Carter G. Woodson, African-American historian
  • April 3 - Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900)
  • April 7 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884)
  • April 8 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born ballet dancer (b. 1890)
  • April 14 - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
  • April 19 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
  • April 26 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
  • May 8 - Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865)
  • May 9 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician
  • May 10 - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian
  • May 24 - Archibald Wavell, British general (b. 1883)
  • July 1 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
  • July 1 - Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)
  • July 6 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
  • July 8 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
  • July 12 - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
  • July 17 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
  • July 22 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
  • July 29 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
  • August 8 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (b. 1879)
  • August 19 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
  • August 22 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
  • August 25 - Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
  • September 6 - Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
  • September 11 - Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman (b. 1870)
  • September 16 - Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
  • September 23 - Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
  • October 5 - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
  • October 9 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
  • October 13 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
  • October 19 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
  • October 23 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
  • October 29 - King Gustaf V of Sweden, (b. 1858)
  • November 2 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer
  • November 4 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
  • November 16 - Bob Smith, American doctor
  • November 20 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
  • November 25 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer
  • November 25 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
  • December 1 - E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)
  • December 2 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
  • December 5 - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
  • December 11 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
  • December 13 - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
  • December 15 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader
  • December 25 - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
  • December 27 - Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)

Events
  • January 1 - The state of Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India.
  • January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
  • January 7 - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
  • January 14 - The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
  • January 17 - The Great Brinks Robbery
  • January 21 - Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
  • January 23 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
  • January 26 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president. Republic Day.
  • January 31 - President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
  • February 9 - Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States State Department of being filled with Communists.
  • February 15 - The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.
  • March 1 - Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
  • March 7 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
  • March 16 - Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
  • March 17 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
  • April 8 - India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
  • April 19 - Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
  • April 27 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
  • April 28 - Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
  • May 1 - Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
  • May 5 - Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King Rama IX of Thailand.
  • May 9 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
  • May 9 - L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is released.
  • May 13 - The first round of the Formula 1 World Championship is held at Silverstone.
  • May 29 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia .
  • June 6 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
  • June 8 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
  • June 25 - The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
  • June 27 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
  • June 28 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
  • July 2 - Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
  • July 2 - Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic.
  • July 4 - The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
  • July 5 - Korean War: Task Force Smith
  • July 5 - Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
  • July 11 - Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
  • July 20 - Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
  • July 24 - Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
  • August 15 - Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
  • August 18 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
  • August 22 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
  • August 24 - Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.
  • August 25 - President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
  • September 3 - "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
  • September 4 - First appearance of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip.
  • September 4 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
  • September 15 - Korean War: United States forces land at Incheon, Korea.
  • September 21 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.
  • September 24 - Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
  • September 26 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
  • September 26 - Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
  • October 2 - Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
  • October 11 - Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
  • October 19 - The military of the People's Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.
  • October 30 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
  • November 1 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
  • November 1 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
  • November 1 - Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
  • November 8 - Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
  • November 13 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
  • November 17 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
  • November 19 - US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
  • November 25 - The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die due to the storm.
  • November 25 - The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
  • November 26 - Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and American forces (Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
  • November 29 - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
  • December 9 - Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
  • December 12 - Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.
  • December 16 - President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.
  • December 25 - The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
  • December 28 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.


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