September 1950 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1950 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
• 03 Sep 1950 ''Nino'' Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
• 04 Sep 1950 D McI Hodgson of St. Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna
• 05 Sep 1950 64th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart
• 07 Sep 1950 Monasteries shut down in Hungary
• 08 Sep 1950 The Defense Production Act is enacted into law in the U.S., shaping American military contracting for the next 60 years.
• 09 Sep 1950 Massive arrests of communists in France
• 10 Sep 1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes first to hit three home runs in a game at Griffith Stadium.
• 11 Sep 1950 Beetle Bailey comic strip debuts
• 12 Sep 1950 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
• 14 Sep 1950 Western allies rearm West Germany
• 15 Sep 1950 East German Premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
• 16 Sep 1950 Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam
• 17 Sep 1950 San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play first NFL game, lose 21-17.
• 18 Sep 1950 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
• 19 Sep 1950 European Payment Union forms in Paris
• 20 Sep 1950 In Murray, Kentucky, USA, several buildings are struck by falling meteorites.
• 22 Sep 1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche
• 23 Sep 1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open
• 24 Sep 1950 Operation Magic Carpet - 45,000 Jews from Yemen move to Israel.
• 26 Sep 1950 Australia wins Davis Cup tennis tournament
• 27 Sep 1950 Dr Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize
• 28 Sep 1950 Indonesia joins the United Nations.
• 29 Sep 1950 Tin Pan Alley TV, last airs on ABC-TV
• 30 Sep 1950 WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthday

• Bill Murray

  American actor and comedian, deceptively sincere and deadpan while delivering acerbic sarcastic wit.

• Dr Phil
• Joe Perry

  American musician, the lead guitarist with "Aerosmith.

• Tracy Marks

  American psychotherapist, astrologer, lecturer and teacher who is the author of 15 books and pamphlets which have been translated into...

• Bernard Le Coq

  French actor who has appeared in more than one hundred and fifty films since 1967.

• Narendra Modi

  Indian politician and is the incumbent and 14th Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat.

• Patrick Simpson-Jones
• Shabana Azmi

  Indian actress and singer.

• Luciano Teodori

  Italian writer and journalist.

• Scott Newman

  American noted family, the son of Paul Newman and first wife, Jacqueline, a skydiving instructor with 500 jumps to his credit, as well as a...

• Barry Sheene

  British motorcycle champion who sustained terrible injuries in a crash on 7/28/1982.

• Philippe Caubère
• Julie Kavner

  American comedy actress of stage, screen, and TV series.

• Alexandre Adler

  French historian, journalist and expert of contemporary geopolitics, the former USSR, and the Middle East.

• St Augustine (Florida)
• Darryl Sittler

  Canadian ice hockey player.

• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Japan -- Actor (Lt A J Shimamura-Nash Bridges).

• Cathy Guisewite

  American comic writer of the syndicated cartoon strip "Cathy," published in more than 500 papers.

• Palden Jenkins

  British astrologer, author, book-editor, webmaster and publisher, teacher and international lecturer living in Glastonbury, England on the...

• Christian Vigouroux

  French politician, the director of the cabinet of Philippe Marchand.

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Famous Deaths

• Balthazar H Verhagen

  Neth / South African dramatist / writer.

• Pedro De Cordoba

  Actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire), dies at 68.

• John C Smuts

  Co-found British RAF / South African Prime Minister (1919.

• Vojtech Rihovsky

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Olaf Stapledon

  British writer and philosopher (Born 1886).

• Princess Victoria

  of Hesse and by Rhine (Born 1863).

• Jan Smuts

  South African statesman and lawyer, the State Attorney of the Transvaal Republic and a General in the Boer War.

• Sam Barry

  American basketball player and coach (Born 1892).

• Sara Allgood

  Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ray Anthony - Can Anyone Explain
2. Red Foley - Cincinatti Dancing Pig
3. Percy Faith & His Orchestra - All My Love
4. Kitty Kallen & Richard Hayes - Our Lady of Fatima
5. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra - Harbor Lights