July 1950 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1950 Lost in the Stars closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 performances
• 02 Jul 1950 Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit
• 03 Jul 1950 Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base
• 04 Jul 1950 Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4
• 05 Jul 1950 Private Kenneth Shadrick of West Virginia becomes first US fatality in Korean War.
• 06 Jul 1950 German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
• 07 Jul 1950 1st Farnborough airshow held
• 08 Jul 1950 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska
• 09 Jul 1950 13.15 inches (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record).
• 10 Jul 1950 Your Hit Parade premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
• 11 Jul 1950 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chicago Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game
• 12 Jul 1950 ILTF re-admits Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraw.
• 13 Jul 1950 Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
• 14 Jul 1950 RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea.
• 16 Jul 1950 Single day 16-team home run record set at 37 (National League-25, American League-12).
• 17 Jul 1950 Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
• 19 Jul 1950 French / Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
• 20 Jul 1950 Arthur Murray Party premieres on ABC TV
• 22 Jul 1950 Frank Worrell completes 261 vs. England at Trent Bridge
• 24 Jul 1950 V-2 / WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
• 26 Jul 1950 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
• 27 Jul 1950 President Truman promises aid to Taiwan
• 29 Jul 1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run

Famous Birthday

• Richard Branson

  British entrepreneur who is the founder of Virgin Records and, by 1994, was the owner of Virgin-Atlantic Airways.

• Richard Berry (actor)
• Arianna Huffington

  Greek-American web entrepreneur, syndicated columnist, author of seven books, lecturer, TV and radio guest also known as a debater, and...

• Barrigue (artist)
• Béatrice Agenin
• Viktor Yanukovych

  Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister from November 21, 2002 who became embroiled in a bitter battle for election to the Presidency in late...

• Huey Lewis

  American singer ( and the News).

• Christian Spitz

  French physician, well known radio counselor for young people and consultant in many TV shows of TF1 under the popular name of "Doc.

• Drew Lawrence

  Canadian pro Vedic astrologer and Sanskrit translator.

• Jan Zajíc
• Elie Chouraqui
• David Ernest Duke
• Jack Layton

  Canadian politician, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.

• Susan George

  British actress, in films from childhood.

• Dannion Brinkley

  American author and a prime example of the near-death-experience, a superstar on the lecture circuit of occult devotees and the author of...

• Jean-Louis Léonard
• Bernard Marie Collet
• Naseeruddin Shah

  Indian actor and director.

• Serge Pey
• André Chassaigne
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Famous Deaths

• Salvatore Giuliano

  Italian bandit chief, one of the most romantic figures of the 20th century, a strikingly handsome mixture of Robin Hood and Pancho Villa,...

• Carl Clinton Van Doren

  US literary (The Nation), dies at 64.

• Edward Faber Schneider

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Kenneth Shadrick

  Pvt from WV becomes 1st US fatality in Korean War.

• Albert Riemenschneider

  Composer, dies at 71.

• William LM King

  Premier of Canada (1921-30, 35-48), dies at 75.

• William Lyon Mackenzie King

  10th Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1874).

• Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  Swiss composer and music educator (Born 1865).

• Eliel Saarinen

  Finnish architect and academic co-designed the National Museum of Finland (d. 1950).

• Fats Navarro

  American trumpet player and composer (d. 1950).

• Othmar Spann

  Austrian economist / sociologist (Wahre State), dies at 71.

• Joe Fry

  British racing driver (Born 1915).

• Timotei Popovici

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Elsie de Wolfe

  American socialite and interior decorator (Born 1865).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Weavers (Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra) - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
2. Victor Young & His Orchestra (Vocal Don Cherry) - Mona Lisa
3. Weavers (Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra) - Goodnight, Irene
4. Tony Martin - La Vie En Rose
5. Mitch Miller & His Orchestra - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena