March 1950 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1950 USSR issues golden ruble coins.
• 03 Mar 1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
• 06 Mar 1950 Silly Putty invented
• 07 Mar 1950 Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy and P Kennedy
• 08 Mar 1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel
• 09 Mar 1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of US$64,000 in New York City, New York.
• 12 Mar 1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical On combating atheistic propaganda
• 13 Mar 1950 General Motors reports 1949 net earnings of US$656,434,232 (record).
• 14 Mar 1950 American FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins.
• 15 Mar 1950 Consul opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
• 16 Mar 1950 1st annual National Book Awards
• 17 Mar 1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns.
• 18 Mar 1950 Touch & Go closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances
• 19 Mar 1950 City College of New York defeats Bradley 69-61 to win the NIT championship.
• 20 Mar 1950 The Polish government decides to confiscate the property of the Polish Catholic Church.
• 22 Mar 1950 Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops in the Suez Canal.
• 23 Mar 1950 Great to Be Alive opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
• 24 Mar 1950 Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship.
• 27 Mar 1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 30 Mar 1950 Phototransistor invention announced, in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA.

Famous Birthday

• Karen Carpenter

  American musician, a member of a popular brother-sister singing team "The Carpenters," who sold millions of hit records in the early '70s.

• William Hurt

  American actor.

• William H Macy

  American actor.

• Laure Adler

  French journalist, woman of letters, editor and producer.

• James Redfield

  American writer and therapist, the author of the "Celestine Prophecy," which was the number one international bestseller in 1996.

• Tony Banks (musician)
• Roger Hodgson

  British musician, vocalist, keyboard and guitar player who was a member of the rock group "Supertramp.

• Bobby McFerrin

  American musician, jazz and pop vocalist, and conductor.

• Martin Short

  Canadian comedian.

• Richard Nolle

  American astrologer, editor and publisher of "Star*Tech," 1987.

• Goran Bregovic
• Rick Perry

  American politician, Governor of Texas, and candidate for the 2012 Republican Party nomination in the US Presidential election to be held...

• Katia Labèque

  French international classical pianist (duo with her sister).

• Robbie Coltrane

  Scottish actor and comedian.

• Corinne Cléry

  French actress and model, also known as Corinne Piccolo.

• Bernard Giroux

  French journalist, co-pilot in Paris-Daar rally, and off-shore pilot (boating).

• Mark Lerner

  American astrologer and publisher.

• Bernadette Brady

  Australian pro astrologer, teacher, international lecturer and author of "The Eagle and The Lark.

• Mory Kanté
• Brad Dourif

  Movie Actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Lew Lehr

  Comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54.

• Jaroslav Kocian

  Composer, dies at 67.

• L Heinrich Mann

  German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at age 78.

• Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Sci-fi Author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74.

• Florence Arliss

  Actress (Disraeli), dies at 78.

• Georgine M "May" Basting

  Actress (Occupier), dies at 67.

• James Rudolph Garfield

  American politician (Born 1865).

• Rosli Dhobi

  famous Malay Sarawakian (Born 1932).

• Adam Rainer

  the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (Born 1899).

• Walter Eucken

  German economist and father of ordoliberalism.

• Albert Lebrun

  French politician, the President of France's Third Republic after the assassination of President Paul Doumer in 1932.

• Leon Blum

  French prime minister (Born 1872).

• Marguerite De La Motte

  American actress (Born 1902).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Billy Eckstine - My Foolish Heart
2. Freddy Martin & His Orchestra - Music! Music! Music!
3. Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae - Dearie
4. Phil Harris - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
5. Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - The Third Man Theme