April 1950 calendar

Events

• 02 Apr 1950 WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 04 Apr 1950 Dirk Stikker becomes Chairman of OES
• 06 Apr 1950 John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
• 08 Apr 1950 Miss Liberty closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances
• 09 Apr 1950 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party and South Pacific win.
• 11 Apr 1950 US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia.
• 14 Apr 1950 1st edition of British strip Eagle
• 15 Apr 1950 Belgian King Leopold III announces that he is ready to abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin.
• 18 Apr 1950 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2
• 19 Apr 1950 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of Korea in 2:32:39.
• 20 Apr 1950 Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League.
• 23 Apr 1950 1st major league day game completed under lights
• 24 Apr 1950 Peter Pan opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
• 25 Apr 1950 Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA
• 26 Apr 1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Maryland is run.
• 27 Apr 1950 Tickets, Please opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances
• 30 Apr 1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane.

Famous Birthday

• Agnetha Faltskog

  Swedish singer (ABBA).

• Jay Leno

  American talk show host, comedian and commercial pitchman.

• Josiane Balasko

  French actress and film director of yougoslavian descent, daughter of Ivan Balaskovic.

• Jean-Pierre Pernaut
• Ron Perlman

  Movie Actor.

• David Cassidy

  American singer and actor from a theatrical family, the son of Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward who divorced when he was three; his step-mother...

• Peter Frampton

  British rock singer, a teen idol with many hit records.

• Flavio Briatore

  Italian race car manager of Formula One.

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• Grzegorz Lato

  Polish footballer and coach.

• Christine Lahti

  American actress and director.

• Pierre Gagnaire

  French chef, with three Michelin Stars.

• Jeannot Hoareau

  French psychiatrist, suspected of raping his female clients, 1997.

• Gérard Schivardi

  French politician.

• Daniel Bouton

  French businessman, director of cabinet in the 1980s and CEO of Société Générale (a French multinational banking and financial services...

• Bill Irwin

  American actor, dancer, choreographer, clown, mime and gymnast who combined his talents to create characters for comedy skits in performance...

• Jango Edwards
• Miki Manojlovic

  Serbian actor.

• Samuel Alito

  American lawyer and jurist whose nomination to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush was confirmed on January 31, 2006.

• David Graf

  American actor, best known for his role as the gun-totting Sgt.

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Famous Deaths

• Kurt Weill

  German-American composer, an important figure in German musical life during the period of the Weimar Republic.

• Karl Straube

  German Organist / conductor.

• Adolf Wiklund

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Kurt Julian Weill

  German Composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50.

• Charles R Drew

  American physician (Born 1904).

• Ernst Robert Curtius

  Alsatian philologist (Born 1886).

• Carter G Woodson "father of black history"

  dies in Washington DC at age 74.

• Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky

  Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London, England.

• Tyrwhitt-Wilson

  14th baron Berners/composer, dies at age 66.

• Charles H Houston

  architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at age 54.

• Carter G Woodson

  African-American historian, author, journalist and founder of Black History Month (Born 1875).

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

  Indian philosopher (Born 1879).

• Charles Hamilton Houston

  American civil rights attorney (Born 1895).

• G Murray Hulbert

  American politician (Born 1881).

• Albert Ehrenstein

  Austrian-born German Expressionist poet.

• Vaslav Nijinsky

  Russian dancer, noted for being one of the greatest male ballet dancers of all time, his style being one of spectacular high leaps.

• Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Walter Huston

  Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1950).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Gene Autry - Peter Cottontail
2. Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra - Count Every Star
3. Bill Snyder Orchestra - Bewitched
4. Russ Morgan & His Orchestra - Sentimental Me
5. Ray Anthony - Sentimental Me