Events Date 1950 September | History by KabAstro

Sep 1 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
Sep 1 West Berlin granted a constitution

Farina 1st Formula 1 Champion

Sep 3 Giuseppe "Nino" Farina wins inaugural Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by taking out the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in an Alfa Romeo; wins by 3 points from Juan Manuel Fangio

Sep 4 "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts in twelve newspapers
Sep 4 D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna
Sep 4 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
Sep 4 Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
Sep 4 NASCAR’s first paved super speedway, Darlington Raceway hosts Southern 500, first 500-mile event in NASCAR history; winner Johnny Mantz in a Plymouth

Intimations of Immortality

Sep 5 1st performance of Gerald Finzi's setting of William Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" at Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester (England) Cathedral; Eric Greene as solo tenor with Herbert Sumsion conducting orchestra and choir

Sep 5 38.7 inches (98.3 cm) rainfall - over several days - at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)
Sep 5 US National Championship Men's Tennis: American Art Larsen beats countryman Herb Flam 6-3, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 for his only Grand Slam title

US Open Women's Tennis

Sep 5 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final Margaret Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart 6-3, 6-3 for her third consecutive US singles crown

Sep 7 Monasteries shut down in Hungary
Sep 9 "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" musical closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 performances
Sep 9 "Where's Chartev?" closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 performances
Sep 9 1st use of TV laugh track by "The Hank McCune Show" in the US
Sep 9 Mass arrests of communists in France

DiMaggio's Three Home Runs

Sep 10 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium

Sep 11 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
Sep 11 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton, Ohio
Sep 11 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
Sep 12 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
Sep 14 Western allies rearm West Germany
Sep 15 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea
Sep 15 East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
Sep 15 For a record 6th time, NY Yankees' first baseman Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game
Sep 15 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
Sep 15 US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
Sep 16 Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Philadelphia 35-10)
Sep 16 Viet Minh offensive against French bases in Vietnam
Sep 17 San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17
Sep 18 Nakagawa Soen, Japanese Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
Sep 19 European Payment Union forms in Paris
Sep 19 Great Three (England, US, and France) acknowledge Bonn Government as the only German government
Sep 19 UN reject membership of China's People Republic
Sep 21 George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of the United States