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1950 Calendar

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•  February 17, 1950 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  March 1, 1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
•  March 16, 1950 – Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
•  May 19, 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
•  August 24, 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
•  August 25, 1950 – President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.
•  September 4, 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
•  September 26, 1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
•  October 30, 1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses “The Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
•  November 21, 1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash. Twenty-one people are killed, seventeen of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

•  January 19, 1950 – Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
•  March 9, 1950 – Doug Ault, American baseball player (d. 2004)
•  May 20, 1950 – Yvon Lambert, Canadian ice hockey player
•  May 30, 1950 – Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
•  June 10, 1950 – Elías Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball pitcher
•  August 22, 1950 – Lewis Libby, American White House Chief of Staff for George W. Bush
•  September 7, 1950 – Julie Kavner, American actress
•  September 14, 1950 – Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
•  September 28, 1950 – John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
•  November 11, 1950 – Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet