Today in History for May 1950

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 35 of 35

1st - Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)
1st - Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
1st - New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
1st - Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1st - WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
2nd - Carlo Terrons "Giuditta," premieres in Milan
2nd - Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
2nd - Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR
5th - Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand
6th - "Great to Be Alive" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 52 perfs
6th - 76th Kentucky Derby: William Boland on Middleground wins in 2:01.6
8th - Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
9th - French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
9th - Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville
10th - 1st Neth-US telex sent
11th - Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
11th - Eugene Ionesco's "La Cantatrice Chauve," premieres in Paris
12th - Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar," premieres in Paris
13th - Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
13th - The first round of the Formula 1 World Championship is held at Silverstone.
14th - Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
18th - "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances
18th - Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
19th - NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
20th - 76th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Prince wins in 1:59.2
21st - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
22nd - Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
22nd - Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
22nd - Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London
25th - Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
27th - "Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances
27th - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
30th - Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
31st - Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins
31st - Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 56 of 56

1st - Marina Stepanova, Russian hurdler (world record 1986)
1st - Dann Florek, American actor
1st - Danny McGrain, Scottish footballer
2nd - Lou Gramm, Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love Is)
2nd - Duncan Gay, Australian politician
3rd - Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
4th - Darryl Hunt, English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes)
4th - Hilly Hicks, LA California, actor (Roll Out, Roots)
4th - René CM van Asten, Dutch actor (Herenstraat 10)
5th - Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star)
5th - Googoosh, Faegheh Atashin (فائقه آتشین), Iranian, Persian Singer & actress
6th - Robbie McIntosh, drummer (Avg White Band-Show your Hand)
7th - Prairie Prince, rocker (Tubes)
7th - Randall 'Tex' Cobb, American boxer and actor
7th - Tim Russert, Buffalo NY, American television journalist and host of NBC's Meet the Press, (d. 2008)
9th - James A Butts, LA California, triple jumper (Olympic-silver-1976)
9th - Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host (Holding the Fort, Relative Strangers)
9th - Tom Petersson, Rockford Il, rock bassist (Cheap Trick)
11th - Dane Iorg, baseball player (Philles, Cards)
Television Journalist Tim Russert (7th) 11th - Jeremy Paxman, broadcaster
12th - Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don't Say No)
12th - Bruce Boxleitner, Elgin Ill, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King, Babylon 5)
12th - Gabriel Byrne, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hello Again, Cool World)
12th - Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na)
12th - Renate Stecher-Meissner, German DR, sprinter (Oly-gold-72)
12th - Shozo Fujii, judoka
13th - Danny Kirwan, London, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
13th - John "Jocko" Marcellino, rocker/actor (Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man)
13th - Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, Michigan, American singer-songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My Love)
14th - Mark Blum, Newark NJ, actor (Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio)
15th - Nicholas Hammond, American actor
16th - Jock Bartley, rocker (Firefall)
16th - Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
16th - Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician
Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder (13th) 17th - A A Johnson, MP
17th - Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills)
17th - Keith Bradley, MP
17th - Howard Ashman, American lyricist (d. 1991)
17th - Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian politician
18th - Rodney Milburn Jr, USA, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
18th - Thomas Gottschalk, Bamberg Germany, (Telespiele)
20th - Yvon Lambert, French Canadian ice hockey player
20th - Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
22nd - Bernie Taupin, lyricist (writes with Elton John)
22nd - Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician
23rd - Linda Thompson, Memphis Tn, actress (Hee Haw)
24th - Jo Ann Washam, LPGA golfer
24th - Larry Seidlin, American judge
28th - Ian Bradley, British writer and academic
28th - Jim Harris, American professional wrestler
29th - Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (R U Tuff Enuff)
29th - Talat Ali, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in ten Tests 1972-80)
30th - Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
30th - Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
31st - Edward Barker, cartoonist
31st - Gregory Harrison, Catalina California, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

6th - Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

6th - Agnes Smedley, writer, dies
8th - Franklin Dyall, dies at 76
8th - Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865)
9th - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
10th - John G Fletcher, US poet (Burning Mountain), dies
10th - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)
17th - Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67
24th - Archibald Wavell, British general (b. 1883)
26th - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies