Today in History for July 1950
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 43 of 43
1st - "Lost in the Stars" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 perfs
1st - 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea
1st - NYC bus fare rises to 10 cents equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15 cents
1st - WHBF TV channel 4 in Rock Island, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
2nd - Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit
2nd - Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
2nd - Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic.
3rd - 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War
3rd - Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances)
4th - Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4
4th - Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
4th - The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
5th - Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
6th - German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
7th - 1st Farnborough airshow held
7th - 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)
7th - 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
8th - 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record)
8th - 57th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61)
8th - Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea
8th - Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
9th - 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)
10th - "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
11th - 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
12th - ILTF re-admit Germany & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws
12th - Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten & F Fischer to death
13th - Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
13th - René Pleven forms French govt
14th - RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
16th - Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
16th - Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
17th - Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
19th - French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
19th - NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard & Frank Barnes
19th - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
20th - "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
22nd - Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
22nd - King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium
24th - V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
26th - Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
26th - KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
27th - Pres Truman promises aid to Taiwan
29th - Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 68 of 68
1st - David Duke, American politician, K.K.K. member
2nd - Johnny Colla, Calif, rock sax (Huey Lewis & The News-Need a New Drug)
3rd - Damon Harris, Balt Md, rocker (Temptations-My Girl)
3rd - Ewen Chatfield, NZ cricketer pace bowler (1975-89)
3rd - James Hahn, American politician
4th - David Jensen, rock British DJ
5th - Gary Matthews, baseball player (1973 NL rookie of year)
5th - Huey Lewis, rocker
5th - Michael Monarch, LA Calif, rock guitarist (Steppenwolf)
6th - Phyllis Hyman, jazz Singer
6th - Ramon Guzman, jockey
6th - Sultan Rakhmanov, Super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1980)
6th - John Byrne, American comic book author & artist
6th - Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
10th - Willie Ford, US R&B-singer (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
10th - Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
11th - Bonnie Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-Jump, I'm So Excited)
11th - Jim Higgs, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1978-81)
11th - Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist
11th - Bruce McGill, American actor
12th - Eric Carr, rock drummer (Kiss-Beth)
13th - George D "Pinky" Nelson, Iowa, PhD/astro (STS 41C, STS 61-C, STS-26)
13th - Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT)
14th - Bruce Oldfield, British mode-designer
14th - Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)
15th - Alan Hurst, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1974-79)
15th - Colin Barnett, Australian politician
15th - Arianna Huffington, Greek-born newspaper columnist
16th - Camille Saviola, Bronx NY, actress (Nightlife)
16th - Valery Yevgenyevich Maksimenko, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
16th - Tom Terrell, musicologist, deejay
16th - Pierre Paradis, Quebec politician
16th - Dennis Priestley, English darts player
17th - Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
17th - P.J. Soles, German-born American actress
18th - Richard Branson, British music enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic)
18th - Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
18th - Jack Layton, Canadian politician
18th - Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
19th - Simon Cadell, English actor (Hi-Di-Hi, Pride & Extreme Prejudice)
19th - Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
19th - Freddy Moore, American songwriter
20th - Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
20th - Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
21st - Larry Tolbert, rock drummer (Raydio)
21st - Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer
23rd - Alan Turner, Aussie cricket left-handed opener (World Cup ton 1975)
23rd - Belinda J Montgomery, Winnipeg, actress (Man From Atlantis)
23rd - Blair Thornton, rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
23rd - Ian Thomas, rocker
23rd - Kaity Tong, news anchor (WABC-TV NYC)
23rd - Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
24th - Dan Hedaya, actor (Cheers, Marvin's Room, Clueless)
24th - Goutam Ghose, director (Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar)
24th - Sam Behrens, actor (Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law)
25th - Mark Clarke, rocker (Uriah Heep)
26th - Paul McHale, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
26th - Susan George, London England, actress (Straw Dogs, Mandingo)
26th - Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
26th - Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
27th - Michael Vaughn, rocker (Paper Lace)
27th - Simon Jones, Willshire England, comedian (News is the News)
28th - Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
29th - Maricica Puica, Romania, 2K runner (world record)
29th - Radu Voina, Romania, team handball (Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80)
30th - Frank Stallone, NYC, Sylvestor's brother/actor (Barfly, Outlaw Force)
30th - Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer
31st - Lane Davies, actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 14 of 14
1st - Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77
1st - Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76
1st - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
5th - Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st US fatality in Korean War
5th - Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police
6th - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
8th - Othmar Spann, Austrian economist/sociologist (Wahre State), dies at 71
11th - Timotei Popovici, composer, dies at 79
12th - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
17th - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
18th - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), dies at 64
21st - Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71
22nd - William LM King, premier of Canada (1921-30, 35-48), dies at 75
29th - Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
