Events 201 - 360 of 360
Musial Aids St Louis Victory
Jul 25 St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1
- Jul 26 WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Jul 27 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
- Jul 29 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin
- Jul 30 British warship HMS Amethyst escapes down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
- Aug 3 Basketball Association of America (BAA) & National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form National Basketball Association (NBA), Maurice Podoloff elected head of new league
- Aug 3 Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire
- Aug 5 6.4 Earthquake strikes Tungurahua Province, Ecuador, killing 5,000 people
- Aug 6 Future Hall of Famer Luke Appling appears in a MLB record 2,154th (en route to 2,218) game at shortstop for the Chicago White Sox
- Aug 8 Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy
Charles vs Lesnevich
Aug 10 Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
- Aug 10 US National Military Establishment renamed Depertment of Defense
- Aug 11 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
Gaston Eyskens Prime Minister
Aug 11 Gaston Eyskens forms Belgian government
- Aug 12 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
- Aug 14 Military coup in Syria under colonel Sami Hinnawi
- Aug 15 WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Aug 18 Hungary adopts constitution
- Aug 18 Ralph Flanagan & his Orchestra records "You're Breaking My Heart"
- Aug 20 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
- Aug 20 Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
- Aug 20 Las Lajas Sanctuary, a basilica built inside the Guáitara River in Colombia, is completed after 33 years
- Aug 21 Canada's largest earthquake since 1700 strikes the Queen Charlotte Fault below Haida Gwaii, at 8.1 magnitude it knocks cows off their feet [1]
- Aug 21 Philadelphia fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners
- Aug 24 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
Riot Stops Robeson Singing
Aug 28 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York
- Aug 29 USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR
- Aug 30 Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
- Aug 30 WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 1 1st network detective series "Martin Kane, Private Eye" debuts on NBC, airing live
- Sep 1 Finnish long distance runner Viljo Heino runs 10,000m world record 29:27.2 in Kouvola, Finland
- Sep 1 KMTV TV channel 3 in Omaha, Nebraska (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
The Third Man
Sep 2 "The Third Man", directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)
- Sep 2 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 in Chongqing, China
- Sep 3 Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives
- Sep 4 Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook)
- Sep 6 America's first mass killiung - Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes in Camden, New Jersey [1]
- Sep 9 Pacific Airlines flight explodes en route to Baie-Comeau, killing 23 people. A passenger's husband Albert Guay later sentenced and hanged along with two others for first bombing of a Canadian plane [1]
First West German Elections
Sep 12 Theodor Heuss elected 1st President of the German Federal Republic (West Germany) with Konrad Adenauer the 1st Prime Minister
- Sep 13 Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC
- Sep 14 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language. Celebrated today as Hindi Day.
- Sep 15 "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV. Hi-yo, Silver! Away!
- Sep 15 WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 15 WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 16 KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 17 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto
- Sep 17 3rd Cannes Film Festival: "The Third Man" directed by Carol Reed wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
- Sep 17 North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time
- Sep 17 WFAA TV channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 18 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
- Sep 19 "Late Spring", Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara and Haruko Sugimura, is released in Japan
- Sep 20 Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
- Sep 20 Top American tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
- Sep 21 Chinese Communist leaders proclaim the People's Republic of China
- Sep 22 WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast
Indians Bury Pennant
Sep 23 MLB Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant
Soviet Atomic Bomb
Sep 23 US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation
- Sep 25 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place
Billy Graham's Crusade
Sep 25 Evangelist Billy Graham begins his "Los Angeles Crusade" in a circus tent erected in a parking lot
Hollywoodland
Sep 26 Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
My Friend Irma
Sep 28 "My Friend Irma" premieres, 1st of 16 films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
- Sep 29 "Front Page" debuts on CBS-TV
- Sep 29 "Inside USA With Chevrolet" debuts on CBS-TV
Pinky
Sep 29 Elia Kazan's dramatic film "Pinky" starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, and Ethel Waters premieres at Rivoli Theater, NYC
- Sep 30 American chemist Percy L. Julian at the Glidden Company announces an improved method for producing cortisone
Ralph Kiner Record
Sep 30 Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR & NL record 16th in September
People's Republic of China
Oct 1 People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Zedong (National Day)
- Oct 1 Publication of poetry volume "Annie Allen" by Gwendolyn Books, - 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and first African American recipient of a Pulitzer [1]
- Oct 1 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa
- Oct 2 For first time in 41 years pennant races in both MLB leagues are decided on the final day of the season; (AL) Yankees upend rival Boston Red Sox, 5-3; (NL) Dodgers beat the Phillies, 9-7 for 97-57 record; Cardinals 96-58
- Oct 2 USSR recognizes People's Republic of China
- Oct 3 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
- Oct 4 American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out
- Oct 4 United Nations' permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated
Bobby Jones's Rare Disease
Oct 5 Sportswriter Robert Ruark first reports golfing great Bobby Jones's rare spinal disease (syringomyelia) which prevent him from playing any form of golf again
- Oct 5 WBNS TV channel 10 in Columbus, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 5 WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, NY (IND) begins
- Oct 6 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
- Oct 6 US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
- Oct 7 German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl 1st premier
- Oct 9 English ballerina Margot Fonteyn debuts in America with her performance in Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
- Oct 11 Costa Rica abolishes its army (decree 249)
- Oct 14 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
- Oct 14 Chinese Red army occupies Canton
- Oct 14 Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
- Oct 15 Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government
- Oct 15 Tripura accedes to Indian union
- Oct 16 WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Oct 19 A's trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton
- Oct 20 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
Huxley Congratulates Orwell
Oct 21 Author of "Brave New World" Aldous Huxley writes to congratulate George Orwell on his new novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
- Oct 22 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
- Oct 22 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2)
- Oct 24 Construction begins on the United Nations headquarters in New York
- Oct 26 US President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents
- Oct 28 Georges Bidault elected president of France
- Oct 29 White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A's for Nellie Fox
- Oct 31 Dutch Nazi Henri 'Hakkie' Holdert, director of Amsterdam paper De Telegraaf and member of the SS, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment
- Oct 31 WOC (now KWQC) TV channel 6 in Davenport, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
- Nov 2 Netherlands ends rationing programs started during WWII for distribution of textiles, meat, and cheese
- Nov 2 The Netherlands recognizes its former colony Indonesia as a sovereign state at conclusion of the Round Table Conference at the Hague, Netherlands
- Nov 4 "One Man's Family" premieres on TV in the US, after running as a radio show since 1932
- Nov 6 Greek civil war ends after 3 years with defeat of communist factions
- Nov 7 King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
All The King's Men
Nov 8 "All The King's Men" based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer winning novel, directed by Robert Rossen and starring Broderick Crawford premieres in New York (Best Picture 1950)
Song of the Forests
Nov 15 Dmitri Shostakovich' oratorio "Song of the Forests" premieres in Leningrad, USSR
- Nov 15 KRON-TV channel 4 in San Francisco, California (NBC) begins broadcasting; call letters a nod to the owners other business, The San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
Robinson NL MVP
Nov 18 NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP
- Nov 18 The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days
Prince Rainier III
Nov 19 Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco
- Nov 20 Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
- Nov 21 Bill Veeck sells MLB Cleveland Indians for $22 million, to fund his divorce settlement
- Nov 24 British steel & iron industry nationalised
- Nov 24 Syracuse Nationals beat Anderson Packers, 125-123 in 5 OTs
- Nov 25 Gene Autry's single "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts; songwriter Johnny Marks adapted poem written by his brother-in-law Robert L. May for Montgomery Ward department stores
Williams AL MVP
Nov 25 Ted Williams wins AL MVP
- Nov 26 The Constituent Assembly of India formally adopts a new constitution
- Nov 29 Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa
- Nov 29 Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
- Nov 30 Chinese Communists capture Chongqing
- Nov 30 KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma (CBS) begins broadcasting
Sidney Holland
Nov 30 New Zealand general election won by Sidney Holland's National party, ousting Peter Fraser's Labour government
- Dec 1 MLB announces attendance for the season is 20.2 million, down from 20.9 in 1948; New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians each finish with over 2.2 million, but the St. Louis Browns fall to 270,000
- Dec 1 WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Dec 1 WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Dec 3 KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Dec 4 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
- Dec 4 Duncan Stewart, 2nd British Governor of Sarawak is fatally stabbed in the streets of Sibu by Malay student Rosli Dhoby with help from Morshidi Sidek with the goal of helping neighbouring Indonesia to take over British Sarawak
- Dec 7 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart (end), Notre Dame
Chiang Kai-shek Flees
Dec 7 Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
On the Town
Dec 8 "On the Town", the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller and Vera-Ellen, premieres
- Dec 8 Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
- Dec 9 House of Representatives of The Netherlands accepts Indonesian sovereignty
- Dec 9 NFL merges with AAFC; Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers & Baltimore Colts join league intact, other teams in New York and Los Angeles are merged with existing units
- Dec 11 Chicago Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chicago Cards (52-29)
- Dec 11 WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
- Dec 12 AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball
- Dec 13 AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
- Dec 13 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
The Just Assassins
Dec 15 Albert Camus' play "The Just Assassins (Les Justes)" premieres in Paris
"Beauty And The Beast"
Dec 20 Maurice Ravel and John Cranko's ballet "Beauty And The Beast" premieres
"Samson and Delilah"
Dec 21 "Samson and Delilah", directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, premieres in New York
- Dec 21 Dutch 1st Chamber accept sovereignty of Indonesia
Event of Interest
Dec 27 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia
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