Today in History for Year 1950 (Part 6)

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Historical Events

Results 501 - 508 of 508

Dec 25th - Cleve Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
Dec 25th - Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart
Dec 25th - Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland
Dec 26th - Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
Dec 28th - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
Dec 28th - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
Dec 30th - Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
Dec 31st - Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year

Famous Birthdays

Results 501 - 600 of 749

Aug 22nd - Ray Burris, baseball player
Aug 22nd - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff
Aug 24th - Frank Murray, Australian field hockey national coach (Oly-sil-92, 96)
Aug 24th - Tim White, American anthropologist
Aug 25th - Willy Deville, NYC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Mink Deville)
Aug 25th - Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician
Aug 26th - Richard Cowsill, Newport RI, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly)
Aug 26th - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006)
Aug 27th - Charles Fleischer, Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)
Aug 27th - Cynthia Potter, US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)
Aug 28th - Ron "Louisiana Lightning" Guidry, Yankee pitcher (Cy Young 1978)
Aug 29th - Mark McHale, WLAF offensive line coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
Aug 29th - Dave Reichert, American politician and sheriff
Aug 30th - John Landis, Chicago IL, actor (American Werewolf in London)
Sep 1st - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
Sep 2nd - Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
Sep 2nd - Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster)
Sep 2nd - Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
Sep 3rd - Aaron Smith, rocker (Romeo Void)
Sep 3rd - Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King's X)
Sep 4th - Doyle Alexander, American baseball player
Sep 4th - Ehteshamuddin, Pakistani cricketer
Sep 5th - Cathy Guisewite, US cartoonist (Cathy)
Sep 5th - Kathy Cronkite, actress (Annie-Hizzonner)
Sep 5th - Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer
Sep 6th - Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Dutch MP (CDA)
Sep 7th - Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star (French 1976, Italian 1976)
Sep 7th - Peggy Noonan, author (What I Saw at the Revolution)
Sep 8th - Daniel Victor Starr, composer
Sep 8th - Will Lee, rock guitarist (Late Show with David Letterman)
Sep 8th - Mike Simpson, American politician
Sep 9th - Tom Wopat, Lodi WI, actor (Durning Rage, Christmas Comes to Willow)
Sep 10th - Don Powell, England, rock drummer (Slade)
Sep 10th - Joe Perry, Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Walk this Way)
Sep 10th - Joe Perry, American musician
Sep 11th - Amy Madigan, Chicago Ill, actress (Uncle Buck, Twice in a Lifetime)
Sep 11th - Barry Sheene, British auto maker
Sep 12th - Cynthia Meyers, playmate (Dec 1968)/actress (Beyond Valley of Dolls)
Sep 12th - Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
Sep 13th - Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish politician
Sep 14th - Paul Kossoff, London England, rock guitarist (Free)
Sep 14th - Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
Sep 14th - Michael Nifong, American attorney
Sep 16th - David Bellamy, Darby Fla, singer (Bellamy Bros-Let Your Love Flow))
Sep 16th - Loyd Grossman, American television presenter
Sep 17th - Fee Waybill, Ohaha Neb, rocker (Tubes)
Sep 17th - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
Sep 17th - Chris Heister, Swedish politician
Sep 18th - Helene Weijel, author (In the Street Without a Coat)
Sep 18th - Mike Hossack, Patterson NJ, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers)
Sep 18th - Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
Sep 18th - Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
Sep 19th - Joan Lunden, Fair Oaks Calif, news host (Good Morning America)
Sep 19th - Rudy Ramos, Lawton Okla, actor (Wind-High Chaparral)
Sep 20th - Debi Morgan, Dunn NC, actress (Angie-All My Children, Cry Uncle)
Sep 20th - James P[aul] Blaylock, US, sci-fi author (Elfin Ship, Homunculus)
Sep 20th - Loredana Berte, Milan Italy, singer/2nd ex wife of Bjorn Borg
Sep 21st - Bill Murray, Evanston Ill, comedian (SNL, What About Bob, Stripes)
Sep 21st - Charles Clarke, British politician
Sep 22nd - Meryl Streep, actress (Silkwood)
Sep 22nd - Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
Sep 24th - Mohinder Amarnath, cricketer (son of Lala Indian batsman of 70's/80's)
Sep 24th - Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
Sep 27th - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japan, actor (Lt A J Shimamura-Nash Bridges)
Sep 28th - John Sayles, Schenetady NY, actor (Brother from Another Planet)
Sep 28th - Paul Burgess, British drummer (10cc-Not Alone)
Sep 28th - Laurie Lewis, American musician
Sep 30th - Victoria Tennant, London England (All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War)
Sep 30th - Renato Zero, Italian musician
Oct 1st - Boris Vladimirovich Morukov, Russian cosmonaut
Oct 1st - Randy Quaid, Houston Tx, actor (Midnight Express, Vacation, SNL)
Oct 1st - Jeane Manson, American singer and actress
Oct 2nd - Michael Rutherford, English pop bassist (Genesis-Silent Sun)
Oct 2nd - Persis Khambatta, Bombay India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce)
Oct 2nd - Ian McNeice, English actor
Oct 3rd - Laureen Ford, Gympie Queensland, golfer (1992 Alpine Aust Ladies)
Oct 3rd - Pamela Hensley, Glendale Calif, actress (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
Oct 3rd - Ronnie Laws, US saxophonist/guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
Oct 4th - Meg Bennett, Los Angeles CA, actress (Young & Restless)
Oct 5th - Jeff Conaway, NYC, actor (Bobby-Taxi, Loving)
Oct 5th - Edward P. Jones, American writer
Oct 6th - David Brin, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Sundiver, Postman)
Oct 6th - Thomas McClary, US soul guitarist (Commodores-Still)
Oct 7th - Maartje van Weegen, [Walet], Dutch TV hostess
Oct 7th - Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
Oct 8th - Robert "Kool" Bell, Youngstown Oh, rocker (Kool & the Gang-Joanna)
Oct 9th - Gary Frank, Spokane WA, actor (Enemy Territory, Deadly Weapon)
Oct 9th - Mick Malone, cricketer (WA seamer, Test 1977, made 46 took 5-63, 1-14)
Oct 9th - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 9th - Brian Downing, former baseball player
Oct 10th - Dennis Holmes, actor (Mike-Laramie)
Oct 10th - Peter Jan Rens, Dutch actor/director (Mister Cactus, Passion)
Oct 10th - Nora Roberts, American novelist
Oct 11th - Amos Gitai, actor (Neo-Fascist Trilogy, Golem, Arena of Murder)
Oct 11th - Andrew Woolfolk, US pop musician (Earth, Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
Oct 11th - Catlin Adams, LA Calif, actress (Ms Loomis-Square Pegs)
Oct 11th - Patty Murry, (Sen-D Washington)
Oct 11th - Thomas J Tauke, (Rep-R-IA, 1979- )
Oct 12th - Susan Anton, Oak Glen Calif, actress (Golden Girl, Spring Fever)
Oct 12th - Robin Askwith, English actor

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