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| 01 - Radio Beijing
announces that Tibet will shortly be "liberated" |
| 03 - Wafd Party wins
Egyptian elections |
| 04 - Britain asks the US
for a stockpile of atomic bombs |
| 06 - Britain formally recognizes Maoist China |
| 12 - Death penalty is
reintroduced in USSR |
| 19 - Chinese leader
Mao Tse-tung recognizes the North Vietnamese regime of Ho Chi Minh |
| 21 - British author George
Orwell (born Eric Blair in 1903) dies |
| 21 - US scientists at
Berkeley announce the discovery of berkelium, the 93rd element |
| 24 - American Joey Maxim
knocks out Britain's Freddie Mills for the world light-heavyweight
boxing title |
| 26 - India is proclaimed a
republic |
| 27 - Eight nations sign the
NATO defense plan in Washington, USA |
| 29 - 1,500 are reported
dead in three earthquakes in Iran |
| 29 - Birth of South African
motor racing champion Jody Sheckter |
| 29 - Racial policy causes
riots in Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 31 - President Truman
instructs US scientists to make H-bomb |
| 31 - Soviet leader Stalin recognizes Ho Chi Minh's regime in North Vietnam. France protests |
| 01 - The USSR calls for
Japanese Emperor Hirohito to be tried as a war criminal |
| 08 - The French National
Assembly approves a bill to legalize strikes and reintroduce
collective bargaining |
| 09 - US Senator Joseph
McCarthy alleges that he knows the names of 205 Communists working in
the State Department |
| 10 - American
swimmer Mark Spitz born in Modesto, California |
| 11 - New York Academy
of Science announces there is no cure for baldness |
| 13 - A record 1,866
candidates are set to stand in the upcoming British general election |
| 14 - USSR and China sign
30-year pact in Moscow |
| 17 - British businessman
Edgar Sanders and American Robert Vogeler go on trial in Budapest for
spying |
| 20 - USA severs relations
with Bulgaria |
| 21 - Sanders and Vogeler
are jailed for 13 years in Budapest |
| 22 - British actress Julie
Walters (Educating Rita) is born |
| 23 - Election returns are
televised in Britain for the first time |
| 23 - Labour wins the
British general election with a majority of only five seats |
| 24 - Eugene Karp (US naval
attaché in Rumania and a friend of Robert Vogeler) is murdered on the
Orient Express in Austria |
| 26 - Scottish comedian Sir
Harry Lauder dies |
| 28 - Attlee forms new
Labour government in Britain |
| 28 - The French Assembly
pass a bill curbing the sale of Coca-Cola |
| 01 - Chiang Kai-shek
becomes president in Formosa |
| 02 - American vocalist
Karen Carpenter is born |
| 03 - The US House of
Representatives votes to admit Alaska as the 49th American state |
| 03 - Saar autonomy
guaranteed by France |
| 08 - British car
manufacturer Rover produces the first gas-turbine car |
| 08 - The USSR claim to
possess the atomic bomb |
| 08 - The RAF retires the
last Lancaster bomber |
| 12 - 80 people die when a
charter aircraft crashes near Cardiff, Wales. The aircraft is
carrying rugby fans home from the Wales v Ireland international. The
death toll is higher than any previous civil aircraft disaster in the
world |
| 12 - German author Heinrich
Mann dies (born 27/03/1871) |
| 18 - British athlete Roger
Bannister runs the mile in a record four minutes 1.48 seconds |
| 19 - Tarzan author Edgar
Rice Burroughs (b. 01/09/1875) dies |
| 21 - A study shows that
only 46% of all British households have a bathroom |
| 25 - In the UK,
'Freebooter' wins the Grand National |
| 26 - People's Front Party
led by Tito wins 93.2% of vote in Yugoslavia |
| 30 - French statesman Leon
Blum (b. 09/04/1872) dies |
| 01 - Italy takes over
Somaliland trusteeship from Britain |
| 01 - The UN adopts a plan
to divide Jerusalem |
| 03 - German composer Kurt
Weill (b. 02/03/1900) dies |
| 04 - £80,000 worth of
smuggled nylon stockings are seized at Liverpool docks in the UK |
| 04 - British government
reveals plans for the UK's sixth atomic center at Aldermaston in
Berkshire |
| 05 - Police clash with more
than 3,000 Communist demonstrators in Paris |
| 08 - Russian ballet dancer
Vaslav Nijinsky (b. 12/03/1890) dies |
| 08 - Pact of Minorities
signed at Delhi by India and Pakistan |
| 11 - The USSR claim to have
shot down a US bomber over Soviet-occupied Latvia |
| 25 - First fashion display
by Christian Dior in London |
| 27 - Britain officially recognizes
the state of Israel |
| 27 - Australian Prime
Minister Robert Menzies introduces a bill to ban the Communist Party
and seize its assets |
| 29 - Arsenal beat Liverpool
2-0 in the FA Cup Final at Wembley (England) |
| 30 - Atomic Energy
Commission in Britain confiscate 30,000 copies of Scientific
American magazine reported to contain information on how to make
an H-bomb |
| 30 - Five million Americans
march in anti-Communist 'Loyalty Day' parades across the USA |
| 01 - A new Chinese law bans
polygamy, infanticide and the marriage of children |
| 01 - The musical South
Pacific wins the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for best original American
play |
| 02 - Italian wartime army
chief Rodolfo Graziani is jailed for collaboration with Germany |
| 03 - The new 36,800 ton
HMS Ark Royal is launched in Birkenhead, England |
| 07 - 81 people die in a
rail crash at Patna, India. Sabotage is suspected |
| 12 - Czechoslovakia
renounces its 1947 cultural agreement with Britain |
| 13 - American
singer/musician Stevie Wonder is born |
| 24 - British commander
Field Marshall Lord Archibald Wavell dies (b. 05/05/1883) |
| 25 - French troops are
attacked by Viet Minh in Dong Khe, Vietnam |
| 26 - Petrol rationing ends
in Great Britain after 10 years |
| 27 - 'Galcador' wins the
Derby in England |
| 30 - Yugoslavia and Albania
sever relations |
| 08 - BBC radio serial
The Archers is first broadcast |
| 14 - In South Africa, Field
Marshall Jan Smuts resigns as leader of the United Party due to ill
health |
| 15 - West Germany is admitted
to Council of Europe |
| 17 - The first kidney
transplant takes place in the USA |
| 18 - Egypt signs a security
pact with Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Saudi Arabia |
| 22 - Penal codes based on
the USSR are introduced in Hungary and Czechoslovakia |
| 25 - The Communist People's
Republic of North Korea invades the Republic of South Korea starting
the Korean War |
| 26 - US President Truman
dispatches US troops to support South Korea |
| 27 - The United Nations
(UN) votes to support the US action against North Korea |
| 29 - Stalin turns down a
request from the US to use Soviet influence to halt the North Korean
invasion |
| 30 - Theology departments
in Hungarian universities are closed by the government |
| 01 - Ford launches its
Zephyr and Consul ranges in Britain |
| 05 - US troops fight their
first major engagement in Korea when 40 Communist tanks overrun their
forward positions south of Suwon |
| 07 - Bobby Locke wins his
second British Open Golf Championship in a row with a record
aggregate of 279 |
| 08 - General Douglas Macarthur is
appointed Commander of UN forces in Korea |
| 10 - Soap rationing ends in
Britain |
| 10 -
Frank Sinatra makes
his London debut to an ovation at the London Palladium |
| 11 - UK children's
television program Andy Pandy first transmitted by BBC |
| 16 - Uruguay beat Brazil in
Rio to win the World Cup |
| 18 - Britain bans the sale
of oil to China |
| 22 - After six years in
exile, King Leopold III returns to throne in Belgium |
| 22 - Death of ex-Canadian
PM William Mackenzie King |
| 23 - Riots against King
Leopold in streets of Brussels |
| 26 - Britain decides to
send troops to Korea |
| 31 - J Sainsbury's first
self-service store opens in Croydon, London |
| 01 - King Leopold III of
Belgium abdicates in favor of son Baudouin |
| 01 - Australian Prime
Minister Menzies commits 3,000 Aussie troops to fight in Korea |
| 05 - American swimmer
Florence Chadwick swims across the English Channel in 13 hours and 23
minutes, breaking the woman's record |
| 07 - The US launches its
biggest attack on the North Koreans so far, at Chinju |
| 15 - Princess Elizabeth
gives birth to her second child, a daughter - Princess Anne Elizabeth
Alice Louise |
| 16 - Birth of Australian
cricketer Jeff Thompson |
| 27 - Britain wins eight
gold medals in the European Games |
| 27 - The BBC transmit TV
pictures live across the Channel from France. The two-hour program is
hosted by Richard Dimbleby and Alan Adair |
| 29 - British troops arrive
in Korea to assist United Nations |
| 01 - North Korean troops
advance across Naktong River |
| 03 - A typhoon sweeps
Hokkaido (Japan) leaving 250 reported dead and 300,00 injured |
| 07 - All religious orders
are dissolved in Hungary |
| 08 - 268 foreign Communists
are deported from France |
| 11 - Birth of Barry Sheene,
motor cycling champion |
| 11 - South African
commander, statesman and philosopher Field Marshall Jan Christian
Smuts (b. 24/05/1870) dies |
| 15 - UN forces gain the
upper hand in Korea with an amphibious assault at Inchon |
| 21 - Chinese forces occupy
Tibet |
| 22 - The Allies capture
Suwon, south of Seoul |
| 25 - UN forces recapture
Seoul |
| 26 - A blue moon is visible
from South East England |
| 28 - South Korean President
Syngman Rhee returns to Seoul |
| 28 - A huge underground
fire kills 80 miners at Cresswell Colliery in Derbyshire (England) |
| 28 - China say they will
intervene if North Korea is invaded |
| 29 - UN troops in Korea
reach the 38th Parallel |
| 01 - UN forces cross the
38th parallel into North Korea |
| 01 - Diners Club introduces
the first credit card in New York City. The card gives credit at 27
restaurants |
| 02 - Legal Aid becomes
effective in Britain |
| 06 - The world's longest
pipeline is completed in Lebanon, running 1,068 miles from US oil
fields in the Gulf to Sidon |
| 07 - 30,000 Chinese troops
enter Tibet with little opposition |
| 10 - French troops are
overwhelmed by the Viet Minh at Kaobang, Vietnam |
| 16 - The French abandon 250
miles of the Chinese frontier zone to the Viet Minh |
| 17 - 28 people die when a
BEA DC-3 Dakota crashes at Mill Hill, North London |
| 17 - The Chinese take
Chamdo, opening the route to Central Tibet |
| 19 - UN forces capture the
North Korean capital, Pyongyang |
| 19 - Gaitskell becomes
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain |
| 21 - Chinese occupy Tibet |
| 23 - US singer and actor Al
Jolson (born Asa Yoelson on 28/05/1883) dies |
| 26 - The King opens the
restored House of Commons, destroyed in an air raid in 1941 |
| 29 - Swedish King Gustav V
dies (b. 16/06/1858) |
| 31 - 28 die when a BEA
Viking crashes in fog at Heathrow Airport, London |
| 01 - US President Truman
survives an assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican nationalists |
| 02 - Irish author,
playwright and politician George Bernard Shaw dies at his home in
Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, aged 94. (b. 26/07/1856) |
| 07 - A US F86 shoots down a
MIG 15 over Korea in the first ever combat between jet fighters |
| 09 - ICI announces it will
build a new factory at Redcar in Yorkshire (England) to produce a new
fabric called "terylene" |
| 14 - 58 die when a Canadian
plane crashes in the French Alps |
| 14 - Jack Gardner beats
Bruce Woodcock to become British and Empire heavyweight boxing
champion |
| 16 - King Farouk of Egypt
demands the "total and immediate" evacuation of British troops from
the Suez Canal Zone |
| 17 - The United Nations
grants independence to Libya |
| 22 - 75 die when two trains
collide on Long Island, New York |
| 22 - Vietnamese, Cambodian
and Laotian rebels meet for the first time in Indochina |
| 24 - UN forces launch an
offensive in the Yalu valley provoking China to reinforce the North
Koreans. Together they drive UN forces southwards |
| 05 - UN troops withdraw
from North Korean capital, Pyongyang |
| 13 - Marshall Aid to
Britain ceases |
| 16 - US President Truman
declares a national state of emergency as UN forces suffer further
setbacks in Korea |
| 19 - Eisenhower is
appointed head of NATO forces |
| 23 - Pope Pius XII
announces St Peter's tomb has been discovered under the Vatican |
| 25 - The Dalai Lama flees
Tibet |
| 25 - Stone of Destiny is
removed from Westminster Abbey by Scottish Nationalists |
| 27 - US and Spain resume
diplomatic relations |
| 27 - Death of German
painter Max Beckmann |
| 28 - 38th Parallel crossed
by Chinese Army |
| 28 - The Peak District is
designated as the first National Park in Britain |
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