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1950: Encyclopedia - 1950
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
1950 - Events.
January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefau...
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1950s: Encyclopedia - 1950s
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
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1950s - Events and trends.
The 1950s in...
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1950: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 - Deaths
1950 - January.
January 21 - George Orwell, English author (b. 1903)
1950 - February.
February 6 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemis...
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Motorama: Encyclopedia Ii - Motorama - 1950
During the 1950 edition, more than 320,000 visitors were able to admire the Cadillac Debutante, a special convertible trimmed in leopard ...
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1950: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 - Events
1950 - January.
January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the U.S....
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1950 In Aviation: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 In Aviation - Events
1950 in aviation - March.
March 20 - Royal Air Force Avro Lincoln bombers are sent to Singapore to be used against the Communist gueri...
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Boxing In The 1950s: Encyclopedia - Boxing In The 1950s
During the 1950s, a couple of relatively new developments changed the world: World War II had only been over for five years when the deca...
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1950 In Film: Encyclopedia - 1950 In Film
1950 in film - Top grossing films.
North America
Cinderella (Disney) (#6 in year of release)
Samson and Delilah
Battleground
King So...
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1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950s - Events And Trends
The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-t...
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D.o.a. 1950 Film: Encyclopedia - D.o.a. 1950 Film
D.O.A. is a 1950 movie that helped define the film noir genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find ou...
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1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950s - People
1950s - World leaders.
Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia)
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (Canada)
Prime Minister John Diefenb...
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1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950s - Events And Trends
The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-ty...
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U.s. Senate Election 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - U.s. Senate Election 1950 - Senate Contests In 1950
1 special election held due to resignation of Raymond E. Baldwin (R-CT)
2 special election held due to death of Bert H. Miller (D-ID).
3 ...
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1950 In Baseball: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 In Baseball - Champions
1950 in baseball - Major League Baseball.
World Series: New York Yankees over Philadelphia Phillies (4-0)
All-Star Game, July 11 at Co...
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1950 In South Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 In South Africa - Events
1950 in South Africa - May.
1 May - 18 blacks are killed by police and more than 30 are injured on the Witwatersrand in a massive stay...
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Cinderella 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinderella 1950 Film - History
Cinderella 1950 film - Production.
Made on the cusp, between the classic "golden age" Disney animations of the 1930s and 1940s, and the...
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1950 In Rail Transport: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 In Rail Transport - Events
1950 in rail transport - March events.
March 2 - The Nickel Plate Railroad runs its first mainline freight train powered by diesel loc...
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1950 In Baseball: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 In Baseball - Events
1950 in baseball - January-March.
1950 in baseball - April-June.
1950 in baseball - July-September.
1950 in baseball - October-Dec...
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - Plot
The opening scene reveals that a man has been killed, and his corpse is seen floating face down in a swimming pool. The dead man (who nar...
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1950 In Aviation: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 In Aviation - First Flights
January
January 13 - Mikoyan-Gurevich I-330, prototype of the MiG-17
January 19 - Avro Canada CF-100 RCAF 18101
March
March 26 - XA2D ...
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1950 Formula One Season: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 Formula One Season - Season Review
In this first Formula One season participating 18 teams (7 constructors and 11 privateers) in 6 European Grand Prix (at Indy 500 particip...
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1950 In Baseball: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 In Baseball - Major League Baseball Final Standings
1950 in baseball - American League final standings.
1950 in baseball - National League final standings.
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Football World Cup 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - Football World Cup 1950 - Background And Overview
Because of World War II, the World Cup had not been staged since 1938; the planned World Cups of 1942 and 1946 were both cancelled. FIFA ...
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1950 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 Atlantic Hurricane Season - Storms
1950 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Able.
An area of disturbed weather northeast of the Lesser Antilles, likely from a tropical ...
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D.o.a. 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - D.o.a. 1950 Film - Plot
The film begins with Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) stumbling into a police station to report a murder: his own. The flashback that follows show...
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Organic Act Of 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - Organic Act Of 1950 - Assemblymen Walk Out And Dismissed
The issue of local authority came to a head when the House of Assembly of the Guam Congress subpoenaed an American Civil service employee...
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1950 In Canadian Football: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 In Canadian Football - Canadian Football News In 1950
The Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats merged to form the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The Regina franchise officially changed their name ...
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29075 1950 Da: Encyclopedia Ii - 29075 1950 Da - General Information
Radar observations were made at the Goldstone and Arecibo Observatory from March 3 to 7, 2001 during the asteroid's 7.8 million km approa...
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - The Film's Current Stature
In 1989 the film was among the first group of 25 deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation...
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - Awards
Sunset Boulevard won Academy Awards in the categories of:
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hans Dreier, John Meehan, ...
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - The Musical Version
A musical version (also titled Sunset Boulevard) with music by Andrew Lloyd-Webber and book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampt...
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England V United States 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - England V United States 1950 - Game Summary
At the time, the English were considered the "Kings of Football", with a post-war record of 23 wins, 4 losses, and 3 draws. Conversely, t...
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - Background
The street after which the film is named has been associated with Hollywood film production since 1911 when the town's first film studio ...
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - Casting
In 1948 Wilder discussed the Norma Desmond character with Greta Garbo (who had not made a movie since 1941) in the hope she might return ...
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1950 British Empire Games: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 British Empire Games - Medals By Country
At the 1950 British Empire Games all the teams won at least one medal.
(Host nation in bold.)
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - Writing
Wilder and Brackett began working on a script in 1948 but the result did not completely satisfy them. In August 1948 D.M. Marshman Jr., f...
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1950 In Canadian Football: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 In Canadian Football - Regular Season
1950 in Canadian football - Final Regular Season Standings.
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, P...
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Communists In The U.s. Labor Movement 1937-1950: Encyclopedia Ii - Communists In The U.s. Labor Movement 1937-1950 - Factionalism Zig Zags And Retreats
After playing a leading role in the United Automobile Workers' victories in Flint and Chrysler in 1937, the CP found itself under sharp a...
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - Key Creative Personnel
The film's dark, shadowy black-and-white film noir cinematography was the work of John F. Seitz. Wilder had worked with him several times...
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1950 Nfl Season: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 Nfl Season - Final Standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - Reaction To The Film
Wilder and Brackett were nervous about a major screening in Hollywood and decided to have the film preview in Evanston, Illinois. The ori...
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Timeline Of Computing 1950-1979: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Computing 1950-1979 - 1950s
Estimate that there are 100 computers in the world.
Magnetic core memory developed.
FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) development started by ...
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Atlas Comics 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlas Comics 1950s - Atlas Titles By Genre
This list is incomplete and in progress
Information from Atlas Tales [5] and other references. Some titles may be arguably Timely at the ...
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Atlas Comics 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlas Comics 1950s - Trend-following
Atlas, rather than similarly innovate, took what it saw as the proven route of following popular trends in TV and movies — Westerns and...
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Atlas Comics 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlas Comics 1950s - Humor And Miscellanea
Atlas also published a plethora of children's and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlo's Homer, the Happy Ghost (a la Casper the Frie...
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Atlas Comics 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlas Comics 1950s - Atlas Shrugs
From 1952 to late 1956, Goodman distributed this torrent of comics to newsstands through his self-owned distributor, Atlas. He then switc...
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Animals In Space: Encyclopedia Ii - Animals In Space - 1950s
On August 31, 1950 the U.S. launched a mouse into space (137 km) aboard a V2 (the Albert V flight which unlike the Albert I-IV flights di...
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Atlas Comics 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlas Comics 1950s - Return Of Jack Kirby
Goodman's men's magazines and paperback books were still successful — the comics, except in the early Golden Age, were a relatively sma...
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England V United States 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - England V United States 1950 - Aftermath
Around the world, newspaper headlines trumpeted the shocking upset, except, oddly enough, in the United States and England. In fact, only...
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Atlas Comics 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlas Comics 1950s - Atlas Or Marvel?
The exact point at which "Atlas" began to be considered "Marvel" has never been definitively established. Goodman had begun moving away f...
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England V United States 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - England V United States 1950 - Players
England: Bert Williams (goalkeeper), Alf Ramsey, Jack Aston, Billy Wright, Laurie Hughes, Jimmy Dickinson, Wilf Mannion, Tom Finney, Jame...
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1950 Nfl Season: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 Nfl Season - The Aafc-nfl Merger
The NFL and the AAFC merged prior to the season. Three AAFC teams - Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, and Baltimore Colts - joined t...
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Football World Cup 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - Football World Cup 1950 - First Round
Football World Cup 1950 - Group 1.
June 24, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil 4 - 0 Mexico
June 25, Estádio Independênc...
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1950 Formula One Season: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 Formula One Season - 1950 Drivers Championship Final Standings
1950 Formula One season - Notes.
^ : Three drivers car Talbot-Lago (Guy Mairesse, Charles Pozzi and Pierre Levegh) racing with no...
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - After Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard was the last collaboration between Wilder and Brackett. Their relationship was reportedly damaged by disputes over filmi...
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Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 1950 Film - Other Films About Hollywood
While Hollywood had been making films about itself since the 1920s many of them, such as It's a Great Feeling (1949), were good-natured a...
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Music Of The United Kingdom 1950s And 60s: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of The United Kingdom 1950s And 60s - Late 1950s Rock
American rock and roll caught on among British youth, who soon made it their own. In contrast to American listeners, however, the British...
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Communists In The U.s. Labor Movement 1937-1950: Encyclopedia Ii - Communists In The U.s. Labor Movement 1937-1950 - The Second World War And The No-strike Pledge
The CP's policy toward Roosevelt and war changed as soon as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. At that point, the Party changed into unqual...
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Timeline Of Computing 1950-1979: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Computing 1950-1979 - 1960s
Algol - first structured, procedural, programming language to be released.
Compiler compiler - The first compiler compiler is released.
T...
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Atlas Comics 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlas Comics 1950s - After The Golden Age
Atlas grew out of Timely Comics, the company Goodman founded in 1939 and whose star characters during the 1930s and '40s Golden Age of co...
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Timeline Of Computing 1950-1979: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Computing 1950-1979 - 1970s
First dynamic RAM chip introduced by Intel. It was called the 1103 and had a capacity of 1 K-bit, 1024 bits.
Development of UNIX operatin...
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1950-51 Nhl Season: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950-51 Nhl Season - Regular Season
The Detroit Red Wings finished in first place again, becoming the first team with more than 100 points. Gordie Howe led the NHL in goals,...
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Communists In The U.s. Labor Movement 1937-1950: Encyclopedia Ii - Communists In The U.s. Labor Movement 1937-1950 - The Post-war Era And Expulsion From The Cio
The CP suffered a series of setbacks in the immediate postwar era. The most serious was their complete rout in the UAW, where Walter Reut...
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1950-51 Nhl Season: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950-51 Nhl Season - Stanley Cup Playoffs
All dates in 1951
The second seed Toronto Maple Leafs eliminated the fourth seed Boston Bruins in five games, and the third seed Montreal...
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Born Yesterday: Encyclopedia Ii - Born Yesterday - 1950 Film
The play was adapted into a 1950 comedy film, Born Yesterday (1950), by Albert Mannheimer, which was directed by George Cukor. It stars J...
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Escopeteros: Encyclopedia Ii - Escopeteros - 1950s Context
During the "War Against Batista" in Cuba this term was applied to the essential scouts and pickets that ranged from the Sierra Maestra an...
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Rajpramukh: Encyclopedia Ii - Rajpramukh - Rajpramukhs In The Indian Republic 1950-1956
In the intervening period the Dominion Government of India had set up a Constitution Assembly to formulate a new Constitution for India. ...
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The Shadows: Encyclopedia Ii - The Shadows - 1950s
Formed initially as a backing band for Cliff Richard, they took the name The Drifters until finding out that there was already a thriving...
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Rajpramukh: Encyclopedia Ii - Rajpramukh - After Indian Independence 1947-1950
On 20 February 1947, His majesty's Government announced its intention to transfer power in British India to Indian hands by June 1948. Ho...
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History Of Geelong: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Geelong - 1900 - 1950
The town of Geelong officially became a city on December 8, 1910. Electric trams began operation in 1912.
Between 1922 and 1925 Geelong's...
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Nigel Kneale: Encyclopedia Ii - Nigel Kneale - 1950s And Quatermass
Lasting for six weeks over July and August, The Quatermass Experiment tells the story of Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Expe...
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Sun Ra: Encyclopedia Ii - Sun Ra - 1950s
Sun Ra's recording career as a bandleader began in Chicago, in the early 1950s.
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Newbery Honor: Encyclopedia Ii - Newbery Honor - The 1950s
1959
The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper)
Along Came A Dog by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
Chucaro: Wild Pony of t...
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Dan Dare: Encyclopedia Ii - Dan Dare - The 1950s
Dan Dare first appeared on the cover of the first issue of the weekly comic strip magazine The Eagle, on 14th April 1950. There were two ...
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Southern Rock: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern Rock - 1950s And 1960s – Origins
Rock music's origins lie mostly in the music of Southerners, and many stars from the first wave of 1950s rock and roll such as Elvis Pres...
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Lloyd Car: Encyclopedia Ii - Lloyd Car - 1950-1963
Lloyd as a name only entered mass production of cars and light trucks in 1950 with the company becoming Lloyd Motoren Werke GmbH still in...
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Wally Wood: Encyclopedia Ii - Wally Wood - 1950s And The Silver Age
Working from a studio at West 64th Street and Columbus Avenue in Manhattan, Wood began to attract attention in 1950 with his highly detai...
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Cadillac Eldorado: Encyclopedia Ii - Cadillac Eldorado - The 1950s
The 1953 Eldorado was a special-bodied, low-production convertible (532 units in total). It was the production version of the 1952 El Dor...
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Doug Sahm: Encyclopedia Ii - Doug Sahm - 1940s And 1950s
Sahm began his musical career singing and playing steel guitar, mandolin and violin as "Little" Doug Sahm, making his radio debut at the ...
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French Connection: Encyclopedia Ii - French Connection - From The 1930s To The 1950s
Illegal heroin labs were first discovered near Marseille, France, in 1937. These labs were run by the legendary Corsican gang leader Paul...
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Water Speed Record: Encyclopedia Ii - Water Speed Record - 1950s
Early in the morning of June 26, 1950, a small red boat skipped across Lake Washington, near Seattle, and improved on Campbell’s record...
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Superhero Chronology: Encyclopedia Ii - Superhero Chronology - 1950s
Superhero Chronology - Comic Book.
Superhero Chronology - Television.
Adventures of Superman (1952-1957)
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American Rock: Encyclopedia Ii - American Rock - 1950s
American rock - Covers: Early 50s.
Through the late 1940s and early 1950s, rhythm and blues music had been gaining a stronger beat and ...
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Oscar Niemeyer: Encyclopedia Ii - Oscar Niemeyer - The 1940s And 1950s
In 1947, his world-wide recognition was confirmed when Niemeyer traveled to the United States to design the headquarters of the United Na...
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John L. Lewis: Encyclopedia Ii - John L. Lewis - The 1950s
In the 1950s, Lewis won periodic wage and benefit increases for miners and led the campaign for the first Federal Mine Safety Act in 1952...
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Team Lotus: Encyclopedia Ii - Team Lotus - 1950s - A New Presence
Colin Chapman established Lotus Engineering in 1952 at Hornsea, UK. Lotus achieved rapid success with the 1953 Mk 6, and the 1954 Mk 8, t...
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Chinese Immigration To The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Immigration To The United States - 1800 To 1950
According to records from the United States government, the first Chinese arrived in the United States around 1820. Subsequent immigrants...
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Paramount Pictures: Encyclopedia Ii - Paramount Pictures - The 1950s To The 1970s
As movie attendance declined after World War II, Paramount and the others struggled to keep the audience. Hovering nearby were the Federa...
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United Artists: Encyclopedia Ii - United Artists - The 1950s And 1960s
In 1951, two lawyers-turned-producers Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin approached Pickford and Chaplin with a wild idea: let them take ove...
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Production Code: Encyclopedia Ii - Production Code - The 1950s And Early 1960s
Hollywood worked within the confines of the Production Code until the late 1950s, by which time the "Golden Age Of Hollywood" had ended, ...
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Quantitative Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Quantitative Revolution - The 1950s Crisis In Geography
During the late 1940s and early ‘50s a series of events nearly led to the downfall of geography as an academic subject in the United St...
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Belgian Congo: Encyclopedia Ii - Belgian Congo - 1908-1950s
Léopold gave up control of his personal property, the Congo Free State mainly due to international outrage over the brutality of his rei...
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Cbs Morning News: Encyclopedia Ii - Cbs Morning News - 1950s
In its first incarnation in 1954 as the Morning Show, Walter Cronkite was teamed with a lion puppet name Charlemane. Cronkite, a gag writ...
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Polygram: Encyclopedia Ii - Polygram - Philips Phonografische Industrie Ppi 1950-1962
In the 1940s, the record business was spread out within Philips — research in the Eindhoven labs, development elsewhere in Eindhoven, r...
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Chinese Immigration To The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Immigration To The United States - 1950 To Present
With the loosening of American immigration laws in 1952 and 1965, a second wave of Chinese immigration began. There was an increase in im...
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St. George Dragons: Encyclopedia Ii - St. George Dragons - 1950s
St George Football Club came of age in the 1950's. A move from Hurstville Oval to Kogarah Oval saw St George take on Souths before a crow...
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Polygram: Encyclopedia Ii - Polygram - Hollandsche Decca Distributie Hdd 1929-1950
In 1929, Decca Records (London) licensed record shop owner H.W. van Zoelen as a distributor in the Netherlands. By 1931, his company Holl...
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List Of Years In Television: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Years In Television - 1950s
See also.
1959-60 United States network television schedule
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Radio Australia: Encyclopedia Ii - Radio Australia - Radio Australia's Programming Output 1950-1996
For a comparasion of RA to other broadcasters see
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1950: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 - Births
1950 - January.
January 12 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
January 16 - Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreogr...
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