August 1950 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1950 Guam adopts constitution
• 05 Aug 1950 Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title
• 06 Aug 1950 Monarchist demonstrations lead to a riot in Brussels.
• 07 Aug 1950 Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League
• 08 Aug 1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
• 09 Aug 1950 Lusty Song wins Hambletonian
• 11 Aug 1950 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7
• 12 Aug 1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis
• 13 Aug 1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
• 15 Aug 1950 Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
• 16 Aug 1950 West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England
• 17 Aug 1950 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) and Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
• 19 Aug 1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch).
• 22 Aug 1950 Abdel Rehim swims English Channel
• 23 Aug 1950 Jack Holden wins marathon
• 24 Aug 1950 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
• 25 Aug 1950 Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title.
• 26 Aug 1950 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York
• 27 Aug 1950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
• 31 Aug 1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs and a single in a game vs. Braves

Famous Birthday

• Martine Aubry

  French politician.

• Steve Wozniak

  American entrepreneur, a self-taught computer engineer who designed virtually the entire product line that enabled Apple Corporation to go...

• Anémone (actress)
• Anne Princess Royal
• Luigi Delneri
• Patrick Juvet

  Swiss musician, pop singer and songwriter.

• Iris Berben

  German actress and comedienne known for TV comedies.

• Madame Heutniger
• Jim Carroll

  American writer, poet, singer and rock composer, a Pulitzer Prize nominee for his 1973 book of verse, "Living at the Movies.

• Gary Larson

  American cartoonist, noted for outrageous whimsy in "The Far Side," which appeared in more than 1,900 daily papers worldwide and is...

• Mathieu Carrière
• John Landis

  American actor director producer and screenwriter.

• Willy Deville

  NYC, New York -- Rock vocalist / guitarist (Mink Deville).

• Kid Creole (singer)
• Huguette Bello
• Nicolas de Tavernost
• Antony Gormley

  English sculptor and academic.

• Dorian Harewood

  American actor in film and TV, a strong supporting performer in many movies and miniseries, memorable as the lead in "The Jesse Owens Story"...

• Bernard Bretonnière
• Kathryn Harrold

  American actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Cesare Pavese

  Italian writer, a novelist, critic and poet with a tormented personality.

• Ernest F E Douwes Dekker

  Founder National-India Party.

• Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Ernst Wiechert

  Writer, dies at 63.

• Julien Lahaut

  the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.

• Emil Abderhalden

  Swiss physiologist / bio-chemistry, dies at 73.

• Fergus McMaster

  Australian businessman and soldier co-founded Qantas (d. 1950).

• Kirk Bryan

  American geologist and academic (d. 1950).

• Giovanni Giorgi

  Italian physicist and engineer (d. 1950).

• Earl Caddock

  professional wrestler (Born 1888).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Frank Sinatra - Goodnight Irene
2. Ames Brothers - Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No!)
3. Red Foley & Ernest Tubb - Goodnight, Irene
4. Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie Ford - I'll Never Be Free
5. Jo Stafford - No Other Love