Historical Events In 1950

Nov 22 Greg The Bull' Luzinzki (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox)

Nov 08 The first jet-plane battle of Korean War

Nov 25 The 2nd Batallion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry sails for the Korean War

Nov 08 In the first jet plane battle of the Korean War, U.S. Air Force Lt. Russel J. Brown shoots down a North Korean MiG-15.

Nov 29 National Council of the Church of Christ in US established

Nov 20 In the Korean war advancing allied troops reach the Manchurian Chinese border

Nov 29 Three weeks after U.S. General Douglas MacArthur first reported Chinese Communist troops in action in North Korea, U.N. troops begin a desperate retreat out of North Korea under heavy fire from the Chinese

Nov 16 UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps

Sep 01 West Berlin granted a constitution

Sep 27 Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis

Sep 26 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul

Sep 21 The birth of Bill Murray, US comedy film actor; 'Ghostbusters'

Sep 26 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England

Sep 28 3 RAR arrives in Korea

Sep 11 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence

Sep 11 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio

Sep 13 Sara Allgood actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56

Sep 15 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in the south

Sep 11 First typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited

Sep 24 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel

Sep 30 First congress of Internat'l Astronautical Federation opens in Paris

Sep 04 D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna

Sep 04 The first helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines (Korea)

Sep 22 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general

Sep 09 The first use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune

Jun 05 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation

Jun 19 A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1980 Tezcatlipoca

Jun 27 Pres Truman orders Air Force &Navy into Korean conflict

Jun 28 North Korean forces capture Seoul

Jun 25 Korean conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea

Jun 08 General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area, World War Two, made a Field Marshal, the only Australian appointment to this rank in Australian military history

Jun 27 RAAF bomber squadron sent to Malaya to assist the British in counter insurgency work against communist guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency

Jun 25 North Korean troops move into South Korea

Jun 27 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam

Jun 30 US President allows American troops deployement in Korea

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