Historical Events for July 1950
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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
