November 1950

Events in History in November 1950

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

33rd US President Harry Truman — 33rd US President
Harry Truman

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

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Nov 5 Philippines president Elpidio Quirino ends emergency crisis

6th President of the Philippines Elpidio Quirino — 6th President of the Philippines
Elpidio Quirino

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

Nobel Prize

Nov 10 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner

Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner — Author and Nobel Laureate
William Faulkner

Nov 13 US win 1st world championship bridge contest

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

Event of Interest

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

First President of South Korea Syngman Rhee — First President of South Korea
Syngman Rhee

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

34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower — 34th US President & WWII General
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nov 22 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills, NY
Nov 24 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
Nov 24 US infantry division conquers Chonju Korea
Nov 25 UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
Nov 26 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
Nov 27 Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague
Nov 29 National Council of Church of Christ in US forms
Nov 30 US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb

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