August 1950

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The following events occurred in August 1950:

August 1, 1950 (Tuesday)

August 2, 1950 (Wednesday)

August 3, 1950 (Thursday)

August 4, 1950 (Friday)

August 5, 1950 (Saturday)

August 6, 1950 (Sunday)

August 7, 1950 (Monday)

August 8, 1950 (Tuesday)

August 9, 1950 (Wednesday)

August 10, 1950 (Thursday)

August 11, 1950 (Friday)

August 12, 1950 (Saturday)

August 13, 1950 (Sunday)

On August 13, 1950 the steamer Mayakovsky (named for Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky) sank at around 12:00pm local time due overloading the vessel with too many people. Mayakovsky sank in the center of Riga, just 12–15 meters from the present day site of the Stone Bridge. A total of 147 people died, including 48 children. It was the deadliest peacetime disaster in Soviet Latvian history.

August 14, 1950 (Monday)

August 15, 1950 (Tuesday)

August 16, 1950 (Wednesday)

August 17, 1950 (Thursday)

August 18, 1950 (Friday)

August 19, 1950 (Saturday)

August 20, 1950 (Sunday)

August 21, 1950 (Monday)

August 22, 1950 (Tuesday)

August 23, 1950 (Wednesday)

August 24, 1950 (Thursday)

August 25, 1950 (Friday)

August 26, 1950 (Saturday)

August 27, 1950 (Sunday)

August 28, 1950 (Monday)

August 29, 1950 (Tuesday)

August 30, 1950 (Wednesday)

August 31, 1950 (Thursday)

References

  1. "Russia Makes Red China Top Issue of UN", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 1, 1950, p1
  2. "Guam", in Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreement, Volume 2, Edmund Jan Osmanczyk and Anthony Mango, eds. (Taylor & Francis, 2003) p640
  3. "Pro Grid Aces Enshrined In Hall of Fame", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 3, 1950, p18
  4. Pro Football Hall of Fame
  5. James E. Westheider, The Vietnam War (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007) p5
  6. James Bamford, Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency (Random House Digital, 2007) p696
  7. "Red China Admission Plea Beaten", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 4, 1950, p1
  8. Jian Chen, China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation (Columbia University Press, 1994) pp142-143
  9. Paul M. Edwards, American Soldiers' Lives: The Korean War (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006) p20
  10. "Introduction to Critical Care Transport", by Crista Lenk Stathers, et al., in Critical Care Transport (Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2009) p6
  11. Walter J. Boyne, How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare (Pelican Publishing, 2011) p63
  12. Philip S. Foner, ed., Paul Robeson Speaks (Citadel Press, 1982) p553
  13. Darwin Porter, Brando Unzipped (Blood Moon Productions, 2005) p155
  14. Richard H. Cummings, Radio Free Europe's Crusade for Freedom: Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950-1960 (McFarland, 2010) p24
  15. "Gao Gang (Kao Kang)", in China at War: An Encyclopedia, by Xiaobing Li (ABC-CLIO, 2012) p133
  16. "17 DIE, 60 HURT IN B-29 CRASH!", Milwaukee Sentinel, August 7, 1950, p1
  17. Mildred Brooke Hoover, et al., Historic Spots in California (Stanford University Press, 2002) p501
  18. Bong Lee, The Unfinished War: Korea (Algora Publishing, 2003) pp123-124
  19. "Allied Nations Providing Troops", in Korean War Almanac, Paul M. Edwards, ed. (Infobase Publishing, 2006) p515
  20. Bert Ruiz, The Colombian Civil War (McFarland, 2001) pp58-59
  21. "Channel Record Broken By American Woman", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 9, 1950, p1; "Florence Chadwick", in Outstanding Women Athletes: Who They Are and How They Influenced Sports in America, Janet Woolum, ed. (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998)
  22. Steven Zaloga, Red SAM: The SA-2 Guideline Anti-Aircraft Missile (Osprey Publishing, 2011) p4
  23. "Schmitt", in The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice, Antonio Cassese, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2009) p904
  24. 1 2 Richard B. Finn, Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida and Postwar Japan (University of California Press, 1992) p265
  25. "Baudouin Becomes Belgian Ruler", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 12, 1950, p1
  26. "Baudouin", in Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia, Bernard A. Cook, ed. (Taylor & Francis, 2001) p85
  27. "United Europe Army Pushed", Milwaukee Sentinel, August 13, 1950, p1
  28. Kathleen A. O'Shea, Women and Death Penalty in the United States: 1900 - 1998 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999) p102
  29. "Hurricanes of the 1950 Season"
  30. Journal of Climate, July 1, 2012, p4452
  31. "AEC Tells Best Atom Defense for Our City", Milwaukee Sentinel, August 13, 1950, p1
  32. "If Atom Bombed, Fall and Double Up", Milwaukee Sentinel, August 13, 1950, p1
  33. Ian Linden, Global Catholicism: Pluralism and Renewal in a World Church (Columbia University Press, 2011) p25
  34. "Seoul City Sue", in An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields, Lisa Tendrich Frank, ed. (ABC-CLIO, 2013) pp504-505
  35. "Earth Shaken by One Of Heaviest Quakes", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 16, 1950, p1; "Historic Earthquakes: Assam - Tibet", USGS.gov
  36. "Six-Pound Daughter Born To Princess Elizabeth", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 16, 1950, p1
  37. "Princess Gets Name, Number, Cod Liver Oil", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 30, 1950, p1
  38. John F. Neville, The Press, the Rosenbergs, and the Cold War (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995) p25, p140
  39. "Dietrich, Otto", in Who's Who in Nazi Germany, Robert S. Wistrich, ed. pp39-40
  40. "Indonesia", in An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996, John E. Jessup, ed. (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998) pp308-309
  41. "Nearly 40 Captive Yanks Murdered by Korea Reds", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 18, 1950, p1
  42. Philip D. Chinnery, Korean Atrocity: Forgotten War Crimes 1950-1953 (Naval Institute Press, 2000) pp23-24
  43. Sasha Anawalt, The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company (University of Chicago Press, 1998) p141
  44. "So You Think the World Has Gone Upside Down?" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 19, 1950, p1
  45. Charles M. Solley and Gardner Murphy, Development of the Perceptual World, (Basic Books, 1960)
  46. Patrick Robertson, Robertson's Book of Firsts: Who Did What for the First Time (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011)
  47. Plummer Alston Jones, Still Struggling For Equality: American Public Library Services With Minorities (Libraries Unlimited, 2004) p33
  48. James Toth, Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual (Oxford University Press, 2013) p69
  49. Walter John Raymond, Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms (Brunswick Publishing Corp, 1992) p289
  50. Pedro A. Malavet, America's Colony: The Political and Cultural Conflict Between the United States and Puerto Rico (New York University Press, 2004) p43
  51. Old Channel Record Falls", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 23, 1950, p5
  52. "Negro Netter in Grass Court Meet", San Antonio Light, August 22, 1950, p14-A
  53. "Lightning Halts Near Net Upset— Louise Brough On Brink of Losing Title", Logansport (IN) Press, August 30, 1950, p8
  54. "Louise Brough Beats Althea Gibson in Delayed Match", Syracuse Post Standard, August 31, 1950, p17
  55. "UN Envoy Gives Up On Kashmir Dispute", Pacific Stars And Stripes, August 23, 1950, p4
  56. "Justice Dixon— mediator and Judge" Archived October 21, 2006, at the Wayback Machine., by A.G. Noorani, Frontline Magazine, July 05–18, 2003
  57. "Historic Earthquakes: Assam - Tibet", USGS.gov
  58. 1 2 3 Michael Varhola, Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950-1953 (Basic Books, 2000) pp127-147
  59. "U.S. Rail Seizure Ordered; Unions Call Off Strike". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. August 26, 1950. p. 1.
  60. "Chinese Reds Massed Along Korean Border", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 26, 1950, p1
  61. "Dean, William F.", in The Korean War: An Encyclopedia, Stanley Sandler, ed. (Taylor & Francis, 1995) p96
  62. "U.S. HOSPITAL SHIP SINKS; 479 OF 500 REPORTED SAVED", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 26, 1950, p1; "13 Missing in Ship Crash", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 28, 1950, p1
  63. "Navy Chief Urges U.S. Willingness To Start a War", Berkshire (MA) Evening Eagle, August 26, 1950, p1
  64. "Acheson 'Spanks' Navy Head For Unauthorized Speech", Pittsburgh Press, August 27, 1950, p1
  65. Nina Tannenwald, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) p107
  66. "Truman Clamps Gag On MacArthur's Formosa Statement", Pittsburgh Press, August 28, 1950, p1; James F. Schnabel, ed., United States Army in the Korean War: Policy and Direction, the First Year (Government Printing Office, 1972) p371
  67. Xiaobing Li and Hongshan Li, China and the United States: A New Cold War History (University Press of America, 1998) p24
  68. "U.S. Plane May Have Strafed China", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 1, 1950, p1
  69. "Age Pension Hike Signed By Truman", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 29, 1950, p2
  70. T. Michael Holmes, The Specter of Communism in Hawaii (University of Hawaii Press, 1994) p172
  71. David French, Army, Empire, and Cold War: The British Army and Military Policy, 1945-1971 (Oxford University Press, 2012) p133
  72. Kenneth R. Philp, Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination, 1933-1953 (University of Nebraska Press, 2002) p93
  73. Jeremy Bernstein, A Palette of Particles (Harvard University Press, 2013) p193
  74. "55 Killed as TWA Plane Crashes, Burns in Egypt", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 1, 1950, p1
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