Events Date 1950 June | History by KabAstro

Jun 1 WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
Jun 2 St Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators

Patty French Men's Champion

Jun 3 French Championships Men's Tennis: Budge Patty wins first of 2 Grand Sam titles that year; beats Jaroslav Drobný 6-1, 6-2, 3-6, 5-7, 7-5

Ice Hockey and Tennis Star Jaroslav Drobný

Hart French Women's Champion

Jun 3 French Championships Women's Tennis: Doris Hart beats fellow American Patricia Todd 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 for her 1st of 2 French singles titles

Jun 3 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
Jun 4 CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
Jun 4 Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
Jun 5 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
Jun 6 German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
Jun 6 Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
Jun 8 Boston Red Sox rout St Louis Browns, 29-4 at Fenway Park; set 6 MLB records including runs scored and most total bases, 60
Jun 8 Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
Jun 8 Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.

Alf Valentine and Sonny Ramadhin Debut

Jun 8 Test Cricket debut of famous West Indian spin twins Alf Valentine and Sonny Ramadhin in 1st Test v England at Manchester; Valentine takes 8-104 on Day 1 but WI lose by 202 runs

Jun 10 82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6
Jun 10 Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens

Jun 11 50th US Open Men's Golf, Merion GC: 16 months after being severely injured in an auto accident, Ben Hogan beats Lloyd Mangrum by 4 shots and George Fazio by 6 in an 18-hole playoff; the "Miracle at Merion"

Jun 12 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die

Connie Mack Honored

Jun 12 Following his retirement announcement after 49 years as Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack is named Honorary Manager of the MLB All-Star Game

Jun 13 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
Jun 15 Dutch police seize condoms
Jun 17 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
Jun 17 Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact
Jun 18 Cleveland Indians score an American League record 14 runs in 1st inning; beat Philadelphia A's, 21-2 at Cleveland Stadium
Jun 20 Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia

DiMaggio's 2,000th Hit

Jun 21 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off Chick Pieretti, in a 8-2 victory over Cleveland

Jun 23 Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4
Jun 23 New York Yankees (6) & Detroit Tigers (5) hit record 11 HRs at Briggs Stadium; Tigers win, 10-9
Jun 23 Swiss parliament refuses voting rights for women
Jun 24 French government led by prime Minister Georges Bidault resigns

LPGA Western Open

Jun 24 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins her 4th Western Open; beats Peggy Kirk, 5 & 3

All-Round Athlete and Golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Jun 24 New York Giants outfielder Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple in a 12-2 rout of the Cincinnati Reds at the Polo Grounds V
Jun 25 Israeli airline El Al begins service
Jun 25 Johnny Pramesa of the Cincinnati Reds and Hank Thompson of the New York Giants each hit inside the park homeruns in 6-4 Reds win at the Polo Grounds, NYC

Korean War Begins

Jun 25 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War

Max Desfor's photograph of refugees fleeing across a destroyed bridge over the Taedong River a few months after the invasion

Jun 26 President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence
Jun 27 "Liar" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 12 performances

US Enters Korean War

Jun 27 North Korean troops reach Seoul, causing the UN to ask member states to aid South Korea. Harry Truman orders the US Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict.

Jun 27 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Scioto CC: American Chandler Harper wins his only major title; beats Harry Williams Jr., 4 & 3 in the final
Jun 27 South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
Jun 27 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
Jun 28 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 278 performances
Jun 28 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War
Jun 29 Striker Joe Gaetjens heads US to an upset, 1-0 win over England in a FIFA World Cup group match in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Americans next win over England: 1994
Jun 29 West Indies dismiss England for 274 to win 2nd cricket Test at Lord's by 326 runs thanks to rookie spinners Sonny Ramadhin (6/86) & Alf Valentine (3/79)