November 1950 in History

Events in History

Nov 1 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill US President Harry Truman at Blair House

Nov 2 The Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware
Nov 4 Indonesian troops reconquer Ambon
Nov 4 US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea

Nov 5 Philippines president Elpidio Quirino ends emergency crisis

Nov 6 Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
Nov 6 King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
Nov 7 Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti" premieres in Milan
Nov 7 French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
Nov 8 A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history
Nov 9 Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
Nov 10 Clifford Odet's "Country Girl" premieres in NYC
Nov 10 Jacobo Árbenz elected President of Guatemala

Nov 10 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner

Nov 13 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas
Nov 15 Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed, by Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
Nov 16 Egyptian King Faruk demands departure of all British troops
Nov 16 UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
Nov 16 US President Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat

Nov 18 South Korean President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions

Nov 19 US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe

Nov 1 Tony Hymphris, political activist
Nov 3 Joe Queenan, American writer
Nov 3 Massimo Mongai, Italian writer
Nov 3 James Rothman, American Biochemist and Nobel Laureate (2013) for work on vesicle trafficking, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts
Nov 4 Markie Post, American actress (Christine-Night Court), born in Palo Alto, California
Nov 4 Charles Frazier, American novelist (Cold Mountain), born in Asheville, North Carolina
Nov 7 Alexa Canady, 1st African-American female neurosurgeon and educator, born in Lansing, Michigan
Nov 7 Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nov 11 Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet, born in Slobozia, Romania
Nov 16 Carl J. Meade, Major USAF and NASA astronaut (STS 38, STS 50, 64), born in Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois
Nov 23 Charles "Chuck" Schumer, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1981-1999, Sen-D-NY, 1999 -), born in NYC, New York
Nov 25 Alexis Wright, Australian author
Nov 29 Kevin O'Donnell Jr, American sci-fi author (Caverns, Reefs, Lava)

Nov 17 Writer Jack Kerouac (28) weds Joan Haverty

Nov 2 George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist (Pygmalion, Nobel Prize for Literature 1925), dies at 94

Nov 16 "Dr. Bob" Smith, American physician and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, dies of colon cancer at 71
Nov 18 Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
Nov 25 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
Nov 25 Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat, dies at 77
Nov 26 Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83