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1950 Calendar

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•  January 17, 1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company’s offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
•  February 17, 1950 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  March 7, 1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
•  April 8, 1950 – India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
•  August 25, 1950 – President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.
•  October 3, 1950 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
•  November 5, 1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
•  November 8, 1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
•  November 13, 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
•  November 19, 1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe

•  February 20, 1950 – Walter Becker, American guitarist (Steely Dan)
•  March 18, 1950 – Brad Dourif, American actor
•  May 1, 1950 – Dann Florek, American actor
•  May 15, 1950 – Nicholas Hammond, American actor
•  June 13, 1950 – Michael Stark, Australian actor
•  July 25, 1950 – Mark Clarke (musician), British musician, bass player and singer
•  August 8, 1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer
•  September 14, 1950 – Michael Nifong, American attorney
•  September 18, 1950 – Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
•  September 23, 1950 – George Garzone, saxophonist and jazz educator