Historical Events in 1950 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 427

• Jul 7 Korean War: UN Security Council establishes the United Nations Command to combat North Korean forces
• Jul 8 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record)

• Jul 8 Leroy Deans awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea
• Jul 9 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)
• Jul 10 "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC-TV (later CBS), after being broadcast on radio from 1935
• Jul 12 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death

• Jul 13 René Pleven forms French government
• Jul 14 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
• Jul 16 FIFA World Cup Final, Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Alcides Ghiggia scores a 79th minute winner as Uruguay beats Brazil, 2-1
• Jul 16 Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
• Jul 17 Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
• Jul 17 Suppression of Communism Act comes into force in South Africa
• Jul 19 French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh

• Jul 20 "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
• Jul 22 Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
• Jul 22 King Leopold returns to Belgium after 6 years in exile
• Jul 24 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
• Jul 26 Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
• Jul 26 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
• Jul 27 US President Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan
• Jul 29 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run

• Aug 1 American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
• Aug 1 Guam Organic Act establishes Guam as an unincorporated US territory
• Aug 1 King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King
• Aug 7 Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League

• Aug 9 Lusty Song riden by Delvin Miller wins the Hambletonian in Goshen, New York

• Aug 11 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
• Aug 11 Boston Braves pitcher Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-0 at Braves Field

• Aug 11 King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium
• Aug 12 First international game by an NFL team, New York Giants beat CFL's Ottawa Roughriders, 20-6 at Ottawa's Lansdowne Stadium
• Aug 12 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis

• Aug 15 8.6 Assam-Tibet earthquake kills several thousand

• Aug 15 Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium
• Aug 15 Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
• Aug 15 Rotterdam dock strike begins
• Aug 15 Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India

• Aug 16 West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England
• Aug 17 Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
• Aug 17 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
• Aug 18 Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
• Aug 19 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
• Aug 22 Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)

• Aug 22 First patent for controlling vehicle speed (cruise control) granted to American inventor Ralph Teetor [1]
• Aug 22 Rotterdam dock strike ends
• Aug 23 West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
• Aug 24 Edith Sampson named 1st African American US delegate to UN

• Aug 25 Akira Kurosawa's film "Rashomon" premieres in Tokyo

• Aug 25 US President Harry Truman orders army to take control of railroad to avert a strike
• Aug 27 1st transmission of a TV programme from continental Europe shown on BBC
• Aug 27 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family for alleged communist sympathies
• Aug 28 Earle & Roy Mack, purchase 54% of the Philadelphia A's from Connie Mack Jr
• Aug 29 International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952

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

• 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

• Sep 5 38.7 inches (98.3 cm) rainfall - over several days - at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)
• Sep 7 Monasteries shut down in Hungary
• Sep 9 1st use of TV laugh track by "The Hank McCune Show" in the US
• Sep 9 Mass arrests of communists in France
• 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

• Sep 23 Canada's first mountain rescue by helicopter of a forestry worker from a Wells Gray Park forestry lookout

• Sep 23 US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed

• Sep 26 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
• Sep 26 Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year
• Sep 26 UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul
• Sep 27 Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in 15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
• Sep 28 Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN
• Sep 29 "Tin Pan Alley TV" last airs on ABC-TV
• Sep 29 Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories

• Sep 30 1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
• Sep 30 Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcast on TV for 1st time
• Sep 30 WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting

• Oct 1 Philadelphia Phillies clinch NL pennant on Dick Sisler's 3-run home run in a season ending 4-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers; Phillies first pennant since 1913
• Oct 1 South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea

• Oct 2 Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions in 55-13 win against Baltimore Colts; Cardinals quarterback Jim Hardy tosses 6 touchdown passes
• Oct 3 Ethel Waters becomes 1st Black lead actress on TV sit-com (Beulah)
• Oct 3 Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas

• Oct 7 US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel
• Oct 7 Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
• Oct 7 William H Jackson becomes deputy director of CIA
• Oct 8 Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
• Oct 11 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS
• Oct 12 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts on CBS television, airs until 1958

• Oct 14 Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison

• Oct 19 Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Oct 19 UN forces enter Pyongyang, capital of North Korea

• Oct 21 Chinese forces occupy Tibet
• Oct 21 Death penalty abolished in Belgium
• Oct 21 Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
• Oct 22 LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27

• Oct 25 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life

• Oct 26 630 Dutch volunteers depart for Korea

• Oct 26 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary
• Oct 27 Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony, "Three Mysteries," 1st performance with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra
• Oct 29 British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance) Stafford Cripps resigns
• Oct 29 Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10 attempts), Cleveland 45, Pittsburgh 7
• Oct 29 Detroit Lions Wally Triplett achieves a kickoff return yardage of 294 yards against the LA Rams, the second highest in a single-game in NFL history
• Oct 30 David Diamond's 3rd Symphony premieres with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch
• Oct 30 Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican

• Nov 1 82°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov
• Nov 1 Celtics' forward Chuck Cooper becomes first African American to play in the NBA in Boston's 107-84 loss at Fort Wayne Pistons; future Hall of Famer Bob Cousy also debuts for Celtics

• Nov 2 The Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware
• Nov 3 Branch Rickey signs 5-year contract as Vice-President and General Manager of MLB Pittsburgh Pirates
• Nov 4 Indonesian troops reconquer Ambon
• Nov 4 US troops vacate Pyongyang, North Korea
• Nov 5 Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record
• Nov 5 Philippines president Elpidio Quirino ends emergency crisis
• Nov 6 Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
• Nov 6 King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
• Nov 7 Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti" premieres in Milan
• Nov 7 French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
• Nov 8 A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history
• Nov 8 Walt Dropo, first baseman of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year
• Nov 9 Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 9 Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
• Nov 9 White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
• Nov 10 After 9 years, Cleveland Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
• Nov 10 Clifford Odet's "Country Girl" premieres in NYC

• Nov 12 Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
• Nov 13 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas
• Nov 13 US win 1st world championship bridge contest
• Nov 15 Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed, by Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
• Nov 16 Egyptian King Faruk demands departure of all British troops
• Nov 16 UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
• Nov 16 US President Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat

• Nov 22 7,021 see Fort Wayne Pistons edge Minneapolis Lakers, 19-18 at Minneapolis Auditorium; lowest ever NBA score of 37 combined points
• Nov 22 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills, NY
• Nov 23 Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony" premieres

• Nov 24 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
• Nov 24 US infantry division conquers Chonju Korea
• Nov 25 UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
• Nov 26 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
• Nov 27 Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract
• Nov 27 Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague
• Nov 28 Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager
• Nov 29 National Council of Church of Christ in US forms
• Nov 30 US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb

• Dec 2 South African world bantamweight boxing champion Vic Toweel sets a record for knockdowns in a title fight against Englishman Danny Sullivan in Johannesburg; Sullivan floored 14 times in 10 rounds before fight stopped

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