Notable Historical Events - 1950
1950 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Dutch government raises all wages 5%, minimally fl. 5 per week |
Jan 1 |
Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China |
Jan 1 |
The state of Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India. |
Jan 5 |
Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in NYC |
Jan 6 |
"Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances |
Jan 6 |
Britain recognizes Communist government of China |
Jan 7 |
"Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 3 performances |
Jan 7 |
Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry" |
Jan 7 |
Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia) |
Jan 12 |
Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die |
Jan 12 |
USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage |
Jan 14 |
"As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 420 perfs |
Jan 14 |
US recalls all consular officials from China |
Jan 15 |
4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC |
Jan 16 |
Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel |
Jan 17 |
"Alive & Kicking" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 46 perfs |
Jan 17 |
The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 men rob $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities from armored car company Brink's offices in Boston, Massachusetts |
Jan 18 |
Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London |
Jan 18 |
Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion |
Jan 19 |
Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane |
Jan 20 |
"Dance Me a Song" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 35 performances |
Jan 20 |
Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands |
Jan 21 |
"Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater NYC after 460 performances |
Jan 21 |
NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury |
Jan 21 |
T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in NYC |
Jan 22 |
Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
Jan 23 |
3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published |
Jan 23 |
AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset |
Jan 23 |
Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel |
Jan 23 |
NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense & defense) |
Jan 23 |
Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung |
Jan 24 |
Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history |
Jan 25 |
73°F (23°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January |
Jan 26 |
India becomes a republic, ceasing to be a British dominion |
Jan 27 |
2nd Emmy Awards: Ed Wynn Show & Texaco Star Theater win |
Jan 28 |
Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud |
Jan 30 |
"Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV |
Jan 31 |
President Harry Truman publicly announces support for development of Hydogen bomb |
Feb 1 |
USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes |
Feb 1 |
Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland |
Feb 2 |
"Arms & the Girl" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances |
Feb 2 |
1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV |
Feb 3 |
Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spying charges |
Feb 7 |
Georges Bidault forms French government |
Feb 7 |
Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Feb 7 |
US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime |
Feb 9 |
Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists |
Feb 11 |
"Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1 |
Feb 12 |
Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb |
Feb 12 |
Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees |
Feb 14 |
Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg |
Feb 14 |
USSR & China sign peace treaty |
Feb 15 |
KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 15 |
WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in NYC |
Feb 15 |
WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 15 |
Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released |
Feb 16 |
Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS |
Feb 16 |
Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
Feb 17 |
31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center NY |
Feb 18 |
"Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances |
Feb 20 |
Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour |
Feb 20 |
WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC |
Feb 21 |
WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 22 |
Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed) |
Feb 24 |
Labour wins British parliamentary election |
Feb 25 |
"Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen |
Feb 26 |
Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in NYC |
Feb 27 |
General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China |
Feb 28 |
"Alive & Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 perfs |
Mar 1 |
Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa |
Mar 1 |
Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) |
Mar 1 |
USSR issues golden rubles |
Mar 3 |
3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name |
Mar 6 |
Silly Putty invented |
Mar 7 |
Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy & P Kennedy (USA) |
Mar 7 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE |
Mar 7 |
Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA) |
Mar 8 |
1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters) |
Mar 9 |
Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC |
Mar 12 |
Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III |
Mar 12 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda" |
Mar 13 |
General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record) |
Mar 14 |
FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins |
Mar 15 |
Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances |
Mar 15 |
NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker" |
Mar 16 |
1st annual National Book Awards |
Mar 17 |
Belgian government of Eyskens resigns |
Mar 17 |
Element 98 (Californium) announced |
Mar 18 |
"Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances |
Mar 18 |
CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship |
Mar 19 |
5th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias |
Mar 19 |
City College of NY defeats Bradley to win the NIT |
Mar 23 |
"Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs |
Mar 23 |
22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford & De Havilland win |
Mar 23 |
Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government |
Mar 23 |
UN World Meteorological Org established |
Mar 24 |
Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship |
Mar 24 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman |
Mar 24 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
Mar 27 |
Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH) |
Mar 27 |
Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China |
Mar 27 |
WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 28 |
12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 NYC college becomes 1st to win NCAA & Natl Inv Basketball in same year |
Mar 30 |
Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ |
Apr 2 |
WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 4 |
Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES |
Apr 5 |
Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins |
Apr 6 |
John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Sect of State Acheson |
Apr 8 |
"Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances |
Apr 9 |
14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283 |
Apr 9 |
4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party & South Pacific win |
Apr 9 |
Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance |
Apr 11 |
Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco |
Apr 11 |
US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia |
Apr 14 |
1st edition of British comic "Eagle" |
Apr 14 |
Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands |
Apr 18 |
1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2 |
Apr 18 |
1st transatlantic jet passenger trip |
Apr 18 |
Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations |
Apr 18 |
Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves |
Apr 18 |
Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th |
Apr 19 |
54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of Korea in 2:32:39 |
Apr 20 |
Balt's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League |
Apr 23 |
1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5) |
Apr 23 |
4th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2 |
Apr 23 |
Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island |
Apr 23 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 24 |
"Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances |
Apr 24 |
Independent republic of South Molukkas declared |
Apr 24 |
Pres Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government |
Apr 24 |
Jordan formally annexes the West Bank |
Apr 25 |
Ambon (proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan) |
Apr 25 |
Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA |
Apr 26 |
Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run |
Apr 26 |
U of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82 |
Apr 27 |
"Tickets, Please" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances |
Apr 27 |
South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races |
Apr 30 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane |
May 1 |
Gwendolyn Brooks is 1st African American awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry |
May 1 |
Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade |
May 1 |
New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic of China |
May 1 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific) |
May 1 |
WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
May 2 |
Carlo Terrons "Giuditta" premieres in Milan |
May 2 |
Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration |
May 2 |
Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China People's Republic |
May 5 |
Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand |
May 6 |
"Great to Be Alive" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 52 perfs |
May 6 |
76th Kentucky Derby: William Boland on Middleground wins in 2:01.6 |
May 8 |
Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons |
May 9 |
French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS |
May 9 |
Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville |
May 10 |
1st Netherlands-US telex sent |
May 11 |
Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die |
May 11 |
Eugene Ionesco's "La Cantatrice Chauve" premieres in Paris |
May 12 |
Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar" premieres in Paris |
May 13 |
Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards |
May 13 |
The first round of the Formula 1 World Championship is held at Silverstone. |
May 14 |
Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs |
May 18 |
"Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances |
May 18 |
Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders |
May 19 |
NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain |
May 20 |
76th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Prince wins in 1:59.2 |
May 21 |
Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia |
May 22 |
Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey |
May 22 |
Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize |
May 22 |
Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London |
May 25 |
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opens in NYC |
May 27 |
"Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances |
May 27 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens |
May 30 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
May 31 |
Indianapolis 500: Due to rain, race shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins |
May 31 |
Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial |
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 Wash Senators |
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 beat St Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs) |
Jun 8 |
Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier |
Jun 8 |
Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin & Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England |
Jun 8 |
Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history. |
Jun 10 |
50th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA |
Jun 10 |
82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6 |
Jun 10 |
Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens |
Jun 11 |
Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament |
Jun 12 |
2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die |
Jun 12 |
Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the 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 |
Cleve Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2 |
Jun 20 |
Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia |
Jun 20 |
Joe DiMaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2 |
Jun 21 |
Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit |
Jun 23 |
Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women |
Jun 23 |
Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9 |
Jun 23 |
Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4 |
Jun 24 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open |
Jun 24 |
French government of Bidault resigns |
Jun 24 |
NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple |
Jun 25 |
Israeli airline El Al begins service |
Jun 25 |
Johnny Pramesa (Reds) & Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park HRs |
Jun 25 |
Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea |
Jun 25 |
UN member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea |
Jun 26 |
Pres Gottwald of Czech confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence |
Jun 27 |
"Liar" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 12 performances |
Jun 27 |
32nd PGA Championship: Chandler Harper at Scioto CC Columbus Ohio |
Jun 27 |
US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam |
Jun 27 |
North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict |
Jun 27 |
South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea |
Jun 28 |
"Michael Todd's Peep Show" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 278 perfs |
Jun 28 |
North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War |
Jun 29 |
US beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994) |
Jun 29 |
West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks to Ramadhin & Valentine |
Jun 30 |
US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops |
Jul 1 |
"Lost in the Stars" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 perfs |
Jul 1 |
1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea |
Jul 1 |
NYC bus fare rises to 10 cents equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15 cents |
Jul 1 |
WHBF TV channel 4 in Rock Island, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 2 |
Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit |
Jul 2 |
Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, burns down. |
Jul 2 |
Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic. |
Jul 3 |
1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War |
Jul 3 |
Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances) |
Jul 4 |
Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4 |
Jul 4 |
Harry Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution) |
Jul 4 |
The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe. |
Jul 5 |
Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel |
Jul 6 |
German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland |
Jul 7 |
1st Farnborough airshow held |
Jul 7 |
64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (6-1 8-10 6-2 6-3) |
Jul 7 |
79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon |
Jul 8 |
33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record) |
Jul 8 |
57th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (6-1 3-6 6-1) |
Jul 8 |
Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea |
Jul 8 |
Leroy Deans awarded 1st 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 (later CBS) TV |
Jul 11 |
17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chic Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game |
Jul 12 |
ILTF re-admit Germany & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws |
Jul 12 |
Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten & F Fischer to death |
Jul 13 |
Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams' elbow |
Jul 13 |
René Pleven forms French government |
Jul 14 |
RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea |
Jul 16 |
Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12) |
Jul 16 |
Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro |
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 19 |
NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard & Frank Barnes |
Jul 19 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris |
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 |
Pres Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan |
Jul 29 |
Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run |
Aug 1 |
1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons) |
Aug 1 |
American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule |
Aug 1 |
Guam Organic Act by establishes Guam as US territory |
Aug 1 |
King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King |
Aug 5 |
Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title |
Aug 7 |
Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, & Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League |
Aug 8 |
Florence Chadwick swims English Channel (13:23) |
Aug 8 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open |
Aug 9 |
Lusty Song wins Hambletonian |
Aug 10 |
"Sunset Boulevard", starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, premieres at Radio City Music Hall |
Aug 11 |
17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885) |
Aug 11 |
Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodger, 7-0 |
Aug 11 |
Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time |
Aug 11 |
King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium |
Aug 12 |
NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa |
Aug 12 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis |
Aug 13 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
Aug 13 |
US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai |
Aug 15 |
8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000 |
Aug 15 |
Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title |
Aug 15 |
Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium |
Aug 15 |
Constitution of India goes into effect |
Aug 15 |
Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier |
Aug 15 |
Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia |
Aug 15 |
Rotterdam harbor 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 |
Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in a US national tennis competition |
Aug 22 |
Rotterdam dock strike ends |
Aug 23 |
Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12) |
Aug 23 |
West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation |
Aug 24 |
Edith Sampson named 1st African American US delegate to UN |
Aug 24 |
Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews |
Aug 25 |
US President Harry Truman orders army to take control of railroad to avert a strike |
Aug 25 |
Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title |
Aug 26 |
39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1) |
Aug 27 |
1st transmission of a TV programme from continental Europe shown on BBC |
Aug 27 |
General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist |
Aug 28 |
Earle & Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr |
Aug 29 |
International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952 |
Aug 31 |
Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves |
Sep 1 |
13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines |
Sep 1 |
West Berlin granted a constitution |
Sep 3 |
"Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix. |
Sep 4 |
First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines |
Sep 4 |
D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna |
Sep 4 |
Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250 |
Sep 4 |
Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. |
Sep 5 |
64th US Women's Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (6-3 6-3) |
Sep 5 |
70th US Men's Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (6-3 4-6 5-7 6-4 6-3) |
Sep 5 |
98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record) |
Sep 7 |
Monasteries shut down in Hungary |
Sep 9 |
"Texas, Li'l Darlin'" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 perfs |
Sep 9 |
"Where's Chartev?" closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 perfs |
Sep 9 |
1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune |
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 |
"Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts |
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 Yankee 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 |
UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south |
Sep 15 |
US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul |
Sep 16 |
Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Phila 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, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission |
Sep 19 |
European Payment Union forms in Paris |
Sep 19 |
Great Three acknowledge Bond government as 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 United States. |
Sep 22 |
Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) |
Sep 22 |
Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general |
Sep 23 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open |
Sep 23 |
Phila A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) |
Sep 23 |
US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed |
Sep 24 |
"Operation Magic Carpet" - all Jews from Yemen move to Israel |
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 |
Dr Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize |
Sep 27 |
Ezzard Charles beats Joe Louis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 27 |
Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in 15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx NY. |
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 29 |
Yanks clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel |
Sep 30 |
1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris |
Sep 30 |
Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcasted on TV for 1st time |
Sep 30 |
WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning HR) |
Oct 1 |
Browns lose to Giants, setting club record for fewest points scored by both teams (tied in 1979), NY 6, Cleveland 0 |
Oct 1 |
South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea |
Oct 2 |
1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks", later "Peanuts", by Charles M. Schulz published in 9 papers |
Oct 2 |
Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases |
Oct 2 |
Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions |
Oct 2 |
Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13) |
Oct 3 |
1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah) |
Oct 3 |
Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas |
Oct 3 |
Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army |
Oct 4 |
French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam |
Oct 5 |
"Pardon Our French" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 perfs |
Oct 7 |
NY Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series |
Oct 7 |
US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel |
Oct 7 |
Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head |
Oct 7 |
Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game 5-2 |
Oct 7 |
William H Jackson becomes deputy director of CIA |
Oct 7 |
Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies |
Oct 8 |
4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit |
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 |
"Call Me Madam" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 644 performances |
Oct 14 |
Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison |
Oct 16 |
The first edition of C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is released in London |
Oct 18 |
Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years |
Oct 19 |
Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated |
Oct 19 |
UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea |
Oct 20 |
Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and James Lovelock give the first demonstration of gas chromatography at a meeting of the Biochemical Society. The technique is rapidly adopted by the petrochemical industry. |
Oct 21 |
Chinese forces occupy Tibet |
Oct 21 |
Death penalty abolished in Belgium |
Oct 21 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation |
Oct 21 |
Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns |
Oct 22 |
LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27 |
Oct 23 |
President Elpidio Quirino issued Executive Order No. 355 which replaced the National Land Settlement Administration with Land Settlement Development Corporation (LASEDECO) which takes over the responsibilities of the Agricultural Machinery Equipment Corporation and the Rice and Corn Production Administration |
Oct 25 |
Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life |
Oct 25 |
Jean Anouilh's "La Repetition, ou L'Amour Pani" premieres in Paris |
Oct 25 |
Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia |
Oct 26 |
Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time (from Banks Island towards Melville Island) |
Oct 26 |
630 Dutch volunteers depart for Korea |
Oct 26 |
Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president |
Oct 26 |
Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India |
Oct 26 |
South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary |
Oct 27 |
Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St Joan" premieres |
Oct 29 |
British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance) Stafford Cripps resigns |
Oct 29 |
Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns |
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 30 |
David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
Oct 30 |
Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican. |
Oct 31 |
Collazo & Torresola attempt to kill Harry Truman in Washington, DC |
Nov 1 |
1st negro player in NBA, (Celtic's Charles Cooper) Ft Wayne Ind |
Nov 1 |
82°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov |
Nov 1 |
Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House |
Nov 1 |
Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican. |
Nov 1 |
Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. |
Nov 2 |
"Barrier" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances |
Nov 2 |
Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty wins NL MVP |
Nov 2 |
The Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware |
Nov 4 |
"Barrier" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances |
Nov 4 |
"Consul" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 269 performances |
Nov 4 |
Indonesian troops reconquer Ambonese capital Ambon |
Nov 4 |
US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea |
Nov 5 |
Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record |
Nov 5 |
Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis |
Nov 6 |
Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates |
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 |
1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War |
Nov 8 |
Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 8 |
Walt Dropo 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, Cleve Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau |
Nov 10 |
Clifford Odet's "Country Girl" premieres in NYC |
Nov 10 |
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected president of Guatemala |
Nov 10 |
Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner |
Nov 12 |
Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards |
Nov 13 |
US win 1st world championship bridge contest |
Nov 13 |
General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas. |
Nov 15 |
Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed (Atl 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 18 |
South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions |
Nov 19 |
US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe |
Nov 22 |
7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18 |
Nov 22 |
79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY |
Nov 23 |
Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony" premieres |
Nov 24 |
"Guys & Dolls" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1200 performances |
Nov 24 |
UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas |
Nov 24 |
US infantry division conquerors Chonju Korea |
Nov 25 |
"Tickets, Please" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 245 performances |
Nov 25 |
38th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 13-0 |
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 |
Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight |
Dec 3 |
Cleveland Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7) |
Dec 3 |
Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast |
Dec 3 |
Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts |
Dec 5 |
Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
Dec 5 |
Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India |
Dec 6 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud |
Dec 10 |
Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize |
Dec 11 |
Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract |
Dec 11 |
Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres |
Dec 12 |
16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB) |
Dec 12 |
Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule |
Dec 13 |
"Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs |
Dec 13 |
James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial |
Dec 14 |
"Bless You All" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 perfs |
Dec 14 |
UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954) |
Dec 14 |
Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), & Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner |
Dec 15 |
NYC's Port Authority opens |
Dec 16 |
"Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 perfs |
Dec 16 |
Harry Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism" |
Dec 19 |
Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander |
Dec 19 |
Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion |
Dec 20 |
"Harvey" starring James Stewart premieres in NY |
Dec 21 |
Cole Porte's musical "Out of this World" premieres at New Century Theater NYC for 157 perfs |
Dec 22 |
2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77 |
Dec 24 |
Cleveland Browns win NFL championship, beat LA 30-28 |
Dec 25 |
Cleveland Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game |
Dec 25 |
Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland |
Dec 26 |
Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs) |
Dec 28 |
Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea |
Dec 28 |
The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park. |
Dec 30 |
Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union |
Dec 31 |
Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year |
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