February 1950 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland.
• 02 Feb 1950 Arms & the Girl opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 134 performances
• 03 Feb 1950 American Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges.
• 04 Feb 1950 Ingrid Bergman's illegitimate child arouses ire in the U.S.
• 06 Feb 1950 First Cabinet Secretary N.R.Pillai appointed in India.
• 07 Feb 1950 Georges Bidault forms French government.
• 08 Feb 1950 Payment first made by Diners Club card, in New York, first use of a charge card.
• 09 Feb 1950 Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists
• 12 Feb 1950 US Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees.
• 14 Feb 1950 USSR and China sign peace treaty.
• 15 Feb 1950 KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 17 Feb 1950 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center, New York.
• 18 Feb 1950 Dance Me a Song closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances
• 19 Feb 1950 Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany to begin unification.
• 20 Feb 1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
• 21 Feb 1950 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC / PBS) begins broadcasting
• 22 Feb 1950 Brockway and Weinstock publish Men of Music
• 23 Feb 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 : The Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee remains in office but the Tories, led by Winston Churchill increase their seats in the House of Commons.
• 24 Feb 1950 Labour wins British parliamentary election.
• 25 Feb 1950 Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen
• 27 Feb 1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China.
• 28 Feb 1950 Alive & Kicking closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 performances

Famous Birthday

• Peter Gabriel

  British musician and rock star, the lead singer with "Genesis" January 1967 to May 1975.

• Miou-Miou

  French actress, best known for her roles in "La Dérobade" and "César".

• Cybill Shepherd

  American actress, a Beauty Queen at 16 as Miss Teenage Memphis.

• Martine Barbault

  French astrologer and member of a noted French astrology family, the niece of Andre and Armand Barbault and sister of Robert Barbault.

• Robertino Rossellini

  Italian real estate advisor living in Monaco, a friend and frequent escort of Princess Caroline with whom he skis in Austria.

• Richard Tarnas

  American psychologist, intellectual historian, and astrologer.

• Morgan Fairchild

  American actress best known for good underwear and bad intentions playing seductive roles in various TV series, "Search for Tomorrow," 1971,...

• Julius Erving

  American basketball player, known popularly as "Dr. J." He played in the ABA with the Virginia Squires (1971–1973) and New York Nets...

• Natalie Cole

  American singer and noted family, the daughter of popular music entertainer of the '50s, Nat "King" Cole.

• Mark Spitz

  American professional swimmer who, at the age of two, learned to swim when his family moved to Hawaii.

• Julie Walters

  British actress who won acclaim for her performance in "Educating Rita" winning a Tony Award for the stage performance.

• Anne-Marie Couderc
• Michael Ironside

  Canadian actor director and screenwriter.

• Richard Bandler
• Nestor Kirchner

  Argentine politician (Born 1950).

• John Hughes

  Director.

• John Hughes

  Director.

• Franco Moschino

  Italian fashion designer whose styles are avant-garde and popular with the rebellious pop-culture.

• Angelo Branduardi

  Italian folk/folk rock singer-songwriter and composer who scored relative success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany,...

• Gérard Zerbi
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Famous Deaths

• Eduard Hermann

  German linguist (Homer), dies at 80.

• Voranc Prezikov [Lovro Kuhar]

  Slavic Author (Jamnica), dies at 56.

• Ivan Goll

  Writer, dies at 58.

• Armen Tigran Tigranyan

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Edyth Walker

  US singer, dies at 82.

• Constantin Caratheodory

  Greek mathematician (Born 1873).

• Karl Seitz

  President of Austria, dies at age 80.

• Karl G Jansky

  Czechoslovakian discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at age 44.

• Harry Lauder (Maclennan)

  Scottish comic/singer, dies at about age 75.

• Karl Guthe Jansky

  American Discoverer of cosmic radio waves (Born 1905).

• Sir Harry Lauder

  Scottish Music Hall Entertainer, Knighted for WWI War Work (Born 1870).

• Marcel Mauss

  French anthropologist who established his fame with "The Gift," one of his short essays that planted a seed core of ideas.

• Rafael Sabatini

  Italian writer, one of the most widely read novelists of the 20th century; also a playwright.

• Georges Imbert

  French chemical engineer and inventor (d. 1950).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra (Vocal Don Cornell) - It Isn't Fair
2. Johnnie Lee Wills - Rag Mop
3. Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - Rag Mop
4. Teresa Brewer - (Put Another Nickel In) Music! Music! Music!
5. Bing Crosby - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy