October 1950 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1950 Browns lose to Giants, setting club record for fewest points scored by both teams (tied in 1979), New York 6, Cleveland 0
• 02 Oct 1950 Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea
• 03 Oct 1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV
• 04 Oct 1950 French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam
• 05 Oct 1950 Pardon Our French opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 performances
• 07 Oct 1950 Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
• 08 Oct 1950 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
• 09 Oct 1950 Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre started.
• 11 Oct 1950 Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
• 12 Oct 1950 Call Me Madam opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 644 performances
• 19 Oct 1950 Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
• 20 Oct 1950 Australia passes the Communist Party Dissolution Act, which is later struck down by the High Court.
• 21 Oct 1950 Death penality abolished in Belgium
• 25 Oct 1950 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
• 26 Oct 1950 630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea
• 28 Oct 1950 Torcida Split is founded.
• 29 Oct 1950 British Minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns
• 30 Oct 1950 The Jayuya Uprising is started by Puerto Rican Nationalists against the United States.
• 31 Oct 1950 Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC

Famous Birthday

• Tom Petty

  American musician.

• Jeane Manson

  American model, singer, and actress, living in France.

• Catherine Barma
• Claude Sérillon

  French journalist and television personality who presented the programmes "Le journal de 20 heures" (France 2 plus TF1), "Géopolis" (France...

• Márcia Tabone

  Brazilian transpersonal psychologist and author.

• Zaha Hadid

  British architect.

• John Candy

  American actor and comedian, extremely overweight with the face of a sweet, wicked baby.

• Randy Quaid

  American actor and producer.

• Abdullah Gül

  Turkish academic and politician 11th President of Turkey.

• Mike Rutherford

  British rock musician on bass guitar, cello and organ; a songwriter.

• Jeff Conaway

  American actor from age ten in the Broadway production of "All the Way Home.

• Philippe Barbarin

  Italian ecclesiastic; Roman Catholic cardinal.

• Om Puri

  Indian actor and singer.

• Alda d'Eusanio
• Nathalie Nell
• Amos Gitaï
• Jane Pauley

  News Anchor.

• Susan Anton

  American actress, singer, dancer and beauty queen.

• Christian Noyer
• Shui-bian Chen
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Famous Deaths

• Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson]

  Singer / actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64.

• Henry Lewsis Stimson

  US Minister of War / Governor-General.

• Gustav V

  King of Sweden, dies at 92.

• Carel T Scharten

  Dutch Poet / writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72.

• Jozef C Bittremieux

  Flemish theologist, dies at 72.

• Frederic Lewy

  German neurologist (Born 1885).

• Edna St Vincent Millay

  American poet (Born 1892).

• King Gustaf

  V of Sweden (Born 1858).

• George Hainsworth

  Canadian ice hockey player and politician (d. 1950).

• Ernest Haycox

  American writer (Born 1899).

• Al Jolson

  Russian singer and actor most noted for being in the first full-length talking picture, "The Jazz Singer.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ray Anthony - Harbor Lights
2. Perry Como - Patricia
3. King Cole Trio (Stan Kenton & His Orchestra) - Orange Colored Sky
4. Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra - Mr. Touchdown, U.S.A.
5. Paul Weston & His Orchestra - Nevertheless (I'm In Love with You)