Bonnie Adams' Birthday! She's 60!!!!!

Today is my birthday. So I thought I would do something different today for the blog. I was looking for what happened in 1950 and I found this blog. I know it is lengthy but scan through what interests you.

What Was Happening in 1950

I love some of the movie posters from 1950. The one above is a perfect example of the trashy B-Movies that were churned out back then.

World Events
Korean War begins when North Korean Communist forces invadeSouth Korea.
Sino-Soviet friendship treaty signed.
Communist Chinese forces invade Tibet.

British atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Background: The Cold War
World Statistics
Population: 2.556 billion population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: Ralph J. Bunche (US) More World Statistics...
U.S. Events
Truman orders development ofhydrogen bomb (Jan. 31).
Assassination attempt on PresidentTruman by Puerto Rican nationalists (Nov. 1).
Era of McCarthyism begins.
U.S. Statistics
President: Harry S Truman Vice President: Alben W. Barkley Population: 152,271,417 Life expectancy: 68.2 years Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 5.3 More U.S. Statistics...
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $294.6 billion Federal spending: $42.56 billion Federal debt: $256.9 billion Consumer Price Index: 24.1 Unemployment: 5.9% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
More Economics...
Sports
World SeriesNY Yankees d. Philadelphia Phillies (4-0)
NBA ChampionshipMinneapolis Lakers d. Syracuse (4-2) No wonder I’m a Laker fan. It was destiny!
Stanley CupDetroit d. NY Rangers (4-3)
WimbledonWomen: Louise Brough d. M. duPont (6-1 3-6 6-1) Men: Budge Patty d. F. Sedgman (6-1 8-10 6-2 6-3)
Kentucky Derby ChampionMiddleground
NCAA Basketball Championship CCNY d. Bradley (71-68)
NCAA Football ChampionsOklahoma (10-1-0)
World Cup
Uruguay d. Brazil (2-1)
Entertainment
Events
Saturday morning children's programming begins.
Phonevision, the first pay-per-view service, becomes available.
Broadway classic Guys and Dollsdebuts at the 46th Street Theatre and becomes an instant hit. The show ran for three years and became one of the Great White Way's longest-running shows, with 1,200 performances.
Charles Schulz introduces thePeanuts comic strip.
Movies
Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Born Yesterday, The Third Man
Books
Paul Bowles, The Delicate Prey
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and Into the Trees
Mary McCarthy, Cast a Cold Eye
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat
Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn
Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: The Way West, A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Music: The Consul, Gian Carlo Menotti Drama: South Pacific, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan
Oscars awarded in 1950 Academy Award, Best Picture: All the King's Men (Robert Rossen Productions; Columbia)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Bertrand Russell (UK)
1950 Emmy Awards
1950 Tony Awards
More Entertainment Awards...
Science
Col. David C. Schilling (USAF) makes the first nonstop transatlantic jet flight in 10 hours and 1 minute (Sept. 22). Background: Famous Firsts in Aviation
The first Xerox machine is produced.
The first self-service elevator is installed by Otis Elevator in Dallas.
Richard Lawler (US) performs the first successful kidney transplant at Loyola University. Background:Health & Nutrition
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Otto Diels and Kurt Alder (both Germany), for discovery of diene synthesis enabling scientists to study structure of organic matter
Physics: Cecil Frank Powell (UK), for method of photographic study of atom nucleus, and for discoveries about mesons
Physiology or Medicine: Philip S. Hench, Edward C. Kendall (both US), and Tadeus Reichstein (Switzerland), for discoveries about hormones of adrenal cortex
Deaths
Al Jolson
George Orwell
George Bernard Shaw

Here’s what was happening in 1950 – the year I was born If you would like to check out what happened in the year you were born go to infoplease.com