Today in History for March 1950

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 37 of 37

1st - Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa
1st - Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
1st - USSR issues golden rubles
3rd - 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
6th - Silly Putty invented
7th - Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy & P Kennedy (USA)
7th - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
7th - Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA)
8th - 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
8th - Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
9th - Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC
12th - Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
12th - Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
13th - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
14th - FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
15th - "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
15th - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in NYC
15th - NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
16th - 1st annual National Book Awards
17th - Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
17th - Element 98 (Californium) announced
18th - "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances
18th - CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
19th - 5th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
19th - City College of NY defeats Bradley to win the NIT
23rd - "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs
23rd - 22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford & De Havilland win
23rd - Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government
23rd - UN World Meteorological Org established
24th - Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
24th - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
24th - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
27th - Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH)
27th - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
27th - WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
28th - 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 NYC college becomes 1st to win NCAA & Natl Inv Basketball in same year
30th - Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 64 of 64

1st - Shahid Israr, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (in one Test v NZ 1976)
2nd - Karen Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist/drummer (We Only Just Begun)
2nd - Matthew Laurance, actor (Duet)
2nd - Mitchel Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)
2nd - Jeffrey Chodorow, American restaurateur and financier
3rd - Ed Marinaro, actor (Hill Street Blues)
3rd - Re Styles, rock vocalist (Tubes)
3rd - Tim Kazurinsky, Johnstown Pa, comedian (SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4)
4th - Emilio Estefan, Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3)
4th - Judy Dickinson, Akron OH, LPGA golfer (1985 Boston Five Classic)
4th - Rafael Canizares Poey, Alacs Mtnzs Cuba, basketballer (Oly-bronze-72)
4th - Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
4th - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
5th - Eugene Fodor, Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
5th - Harvey Jacob Alperin, Minneapolis MN, actor (Cocktail)
7th - Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
7th - Mark Pinter, Decorah Iowa, actor (Behind the Screen, Another World)
7th - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
9th - Danny Sullivan, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
10th - Ted McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
11th - Bobby McFerrin, singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989)
11th - Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun)
12th - Jon Provost, actor (Timmy-Lassie)
12th - Willie Duggan, rugby football player
12th - Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager
12th - Wheeler Winston Dixon, American filmmaker, critic and author
13th - Bernard Julien, cricketer (WI left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70's)
13th - Joe Bugner, Hungarian/British/Australian boxer (European Champ 1971)
13th - Robert S Woods, California, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons)
13th - Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
13th - William H Macy, Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
13th - Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator
14th - Michael Ford, son of pres Gerald & Betty Ford
15th - Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
18th - Brad Dourif, WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty)
18th - James Conlon, NYC, conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979)
18th - John Hartman, Falls Church Va, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers)
18th - Richard Kretchmer, English artist and historian
18th - Larry Perkins, Australian racing driver
20th - William Hurt, Wash DC, actor (Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)
21st - Peter Banks, rocker (Yes), (d. 2013)
21st - Roger Hodgson, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again)
22nd - Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (world champion 1982, 1989), (d. 2012)
23rd - Corrine Clery, Paris France, actress (Moonraker, Yor)
23rd - P R Scott, Headmaster (Bancroft's School, Woodford Green)
23rd - Anthony De Longis, American actor
25th - Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
26th - Ernest Thomas, Gary Ind, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!)
26th - Graham Barlow, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77)
26th - Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
26th - Ronnie McDowell, Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone)
26th - Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
26th - Tony Papenfuss, Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart)
26th - Alan Silvestri, American film score composer
27th - Maria Ewing, opera singer
27th - Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
27th - Vic Harris, baseball
27th - Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
30th - Dave McCurdy, (Rep-D-OK, 1981- )
30th - Eugene Bowen, composer (Wonder's Edge)
30th - Rupert Greenall, rock keyboardist (Fixx)
30th - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
31st - Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner
31st - Richard Hughes, rocker (Johnny Winter Band)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 14 of 14

2nd - M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76
4th - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
6th - Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54
6th - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
8th - Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at 67
10th - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
11th - Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
12th - L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78
19th - Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
20th - Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59
23rd - Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies
24th - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
28th - Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier), dies at 67
30th - Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77