1950 - February - Article Index

Article - Astrology: Dragons Throughout The Ages - Dragons Importance In Astrology.
Chinese astrologers refer to the Moon's Nodes as the Dragon's Head and Tail and give it tremendous attention as to the placement in the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ann Coulter: Encyclopedia Ii - Ann Coulter - Personal Background
Ann Coulter was born in New York City into a Catholic family that she has described as "upper middle class". She was born on December 8, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1991: Encyclopedia Ii - 1991 - Deaths
1991 - January-February. January 5 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922) January 8 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toshiro Mifune: Encyclopedia Ii - Toshiro Mifune - Marriage
One of Mifune's fellow performers, one of the 32 women chosen during the new faces contest, was Sachiko Yoshimine. Eight years Mifune's j...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1976: Encyclopedia Ii - 1976 - Deaths
1976 - January. January 8 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) January 10 - Howlin' Wolf, American musici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1880: Encyclopedia - 1880
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1903: Encyclopedia - 1903
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). It also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes fo...   » Read the article

Article - Native American Spirituality: Native American Medicine Wheel Ceremony On May 8th 2004
In 1999, Bennie LeBeau of the Eastern Shoshone tribe began to experience a torrent of dreams and visions. The visions directed him to set...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andre Norton: Encyclopedia Ii - Andre Norton - Biography
The parents of Alice Mary Norton were Adalbert Freely Norton, owner of a rug company, and Bertha Stemm. She began writing at the Collinwo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chen Yi Kuomintang: Encyclopedia - Chen Yi Kuomintang
Chen Yi (Chinese: 陳儀; Hanyu Pinyin: Chén Yí; Wade-Giles: Ch'en I; 1883 - June 18, 1950) was the Chief Executive and Garrison Comman...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Armstrong Custer: Encyclopedia Ii - George Armstrong Custer - Family Tree
George Armstrong Custer - First generation. George Armstrong Custer was a fifth-generation descendant of Arnold Kuster and his third wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1875: Encyclopedia Ii - 1875 - Events
1875 - January - April. January 12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. February 27 - Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resign...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1949 In Baseball: Encyclopedia Ii - 1949 In Baseball - Champions
1949 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1) All-Star Game, July 12 at Ebbets ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - California Baptist University: Encyclopedia Ii - California Baptist University - History
California Baptist University - 1950s. Founded in 1950 as California Baptist College in El Monte, California, the new college enrolled ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Mccarthy: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Mccarthy - The Army-mccarthy Hearings
Early in 1954, the Army accused McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, of pressuring the Army to give favorable treatment to another f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bhumibol Adulyadej: Encyclopedia - Bhumibol Adulyadej
King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great (Thai: ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช; IPA: pʰu:mipʰon adunjadeːd) (born December 5, 192...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guiding Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Guiding Light - Cast
Guiding Light - Current cast members. Scott Bailey (Sandy Foster) (2003-present) Neal Bledsoe (Quinn Matthews) (2005-present) Rob Bogu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1977 In Baseball: Encyclopedia Ii - 1977 In Baseball - Champions
1977 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: New York Yankees over Los Angeles Dodgers (4-2); Reggie Jackson, MVP American...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pirna: Encyclopedia Ii - Pirna - History
Pirna - Stone Age. Tools made of flint from the late paleolithic (about 12,000-8,000 BC), at the end of the latest ice age, are evidenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malcolm X: Encyclopedia Ii - Malcolm X - Death And Aftermath
In 1964, Life magazine published a famous photograph of Malcolm X holding an M1 Carbine and pulling back the curtains to peer out of a wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2004 In Sports: Encyclopedia Ii - 2004 In Sports - Ice Skating
2004 in sports - Long track speed skating. January 2 - Winners at the 2003 Canada Post All Round Canadian Championships at Calgary, Al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Puyi: Encyclopedia Ii - Puyi - Biography
Puyi - Emperor of China 1908-1924. Chosen by Cixi on her deathbed, Puyi ascended to the throne at age 2 years 10 months in December 190...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1880: Encyclopedia Ii - 1880 - Events
1880 - May - August. May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June 29 - Fran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burkhard Heim: Encyclopedia Ii - Burkhard Heim - Scientific Criticism
Heim Theory is unknown to a majority of scientists and theoretical physicists. Until fairly recently, most of Heim's works were only publ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1973 Oil Crisis: Encyclopedia Ii - 1973 Oil Crisis - Arab Oil Embargo
On October 16th, 1973, as part of the political strategy that included the Yom Kippur War, OAPEC cut production of oil, and placed an emb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Genesis P-orridge: Encyclopedia Ii - Genesis P-orridge - Trouble In England
In February 1992 GP-O, the family, and various members of the TOPY entourage, had just come from Kathmandu, where they had distributed ri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Armstrong Custer: Encyclopedia Ii - George Armstrong Custer - Controversial Legacy
After his death, Custer achieved the lasting fame that eluded him in life. The public saw him as a tragic military hero and gentleman who...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sun Myung Moon: Encyclopedia Ii - Sun Myung Moon - Biography
Sun Myung Moon - Life in Korea. Sun Myung Moon was born Moon Yong-myung in Sangsa-ri, Deogun-myun, Jeongju-gun, North P'yŏng'an Provin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Cotten: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Cotten - Biography And Career
Joseph Cotten - Early Life and Career. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Cotten worked as an advertising agent after graduating from the Wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harry S. Truman: Encyclopedia Ii - Harry S. Truman - Political Career
In 1922, with the help of the Kansas City Democratic machine led by boss Tom Pendergast, Truman was elected judge of the County Court of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Claude Elwood Shannon: Encyclopedia - Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the fat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ernest Hemingway: Encyclopedia Ii - Ernest Hemingway - Works
Ernest Hemingway - Novels/Noveletta. (1925) The Torrents of Spring (1926) The Sun Also Rises (1929) A Farewell to Arms (1937) To Have ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franklin D. Roosevelt: Encyclopedia Ii - Franklin D. Roosevelt - Scholarly Secondary Sources
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Foreign Policy and World War II. Barnes, Harry Elmer. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examinatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ken Jennings: Encyclopedia Ii - Ken Jennings - Endorsements
Jennings’ success has resulted in him being a popular individual amongst corporations looking for public endorsers. H&R Block, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2nd Prince Chun: Encyclopedia - 2nd Prince Chun
The 2nd Prince Chun (Chinese: 醇親王) (February 12, 1883 - February 3, 1951) was born Zaifeng (Chinese: 載灃; Wade-Giles: Tsai-feng)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Immanuel Velikovsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Immanuel Velikovsky - Biography
Immanuel Velikovsky was born in Vitebsk in what is today Belarus. He learned several languages as a child, performed exceptionally well i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buenos Aires: Encyclopedia Ii - Buenos Aires - Economy
Buenos Aires is the financial, industrial, commercial, and cultural hub of Argentina. Its port is one of the busiest in the world; naviga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Puyi: Encyclopedia - Puyi
For the Chinese ethnic group, see Buyei. Puyi (Chinese:溥儀;) (February 7, 1906 - October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ruling fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elizabeth Taylor: Encyclopedia Ii - Elizabeth Taylor - Awards And Honours
Taylor received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1992. The following year, 1993, she received the AFI Life Achievement Award. And ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Margaret Thatcher: Encyclopedia Ii - Margaret Thatcher - Family Life
Lady Thatcher's husband, Sir Denis Thatcher, died in June 2003. The couple had been married for fifty-two years and had two children, twi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harold Wilson: Encyclopedia Ii - Harold Wilson - In Parliament
As the War drew to an end, he began searching for a seat to fight at the impending general election. Eventually he was selected for Ormsk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sam Walton: Encyclopedia Ii - Sam Walton - Biography
Sam Walton was born to Thomas Gibson Walton and Nancy Lee Walton near Kingfisher, Oklahoma. There, he lived with his parents on their far...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nepal: Encyclopedia Ii - Nepal - History
Neolithic tools found in the Kathmandu Valley indicate that people have been living in the Himalayan region for at least 9,000 years. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Armstrong Custer: Encyclopedia Ii - George Armstrong Custer - Custer In Popular Culture
George Armstrong Custer - Films. George Custer has been played in motion pictures by Francis Ford (1912 twice), Ned Finley (1916), Dust...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joe Orton: Encyclopedia Ii - Joe Orton - Orton As Playwright
In the early 1960s Orton began to write plays. He wrote his last novel in 1961 (Head to Toe) and soon after had writing accepted. In 1963...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Involuntary Settlements In The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Involuntary Settlements In The Soviet Union - Exile Settlements
Exile settlements (ссыльное поселение, ssylnoye poselenie) were a kind of internal exile. The system of political and ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eniac: Encyclopedia Ii - Eniac - Description
ENIAC received a lot of press for its sheer size, but in some ways it was not the state-of-the-art of its era. Unlike Konrad Zuse's Z3 of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Border Blaster: Encyclopedia - Border Blaster
A border blaster, in contrast to an international broadcast station, was a licensed commercial radio station that transmitted at very hig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alan Shepard: Encyclopedia - Alan Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.) was the first U.S. astronaut in space, though ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Rupee: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Rupee - Rupee Banknotes
History of the rupee - Early paper issues. Notes issued by the Bank of Bengal can be categorised in the following three series. Uniface...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia Ii - Gore Vidal - Biography
He was born Eugene Luther Vidal in West Point, New York, the son of Eugene Vidal and Nina Gore. His birth took place at the United States...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2003 In Baseball: Encyclopedia Ii - 2003 In Baseball - Major League Baseball Final Standings
  * The asterisk denotes the club that won the Wild card for its respective league. ... See also:2003 in baseball, 2003 in baseba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Delaware: Encyclopedia Ii - Delaware - Transportation
The transportation system in Delaware is under the governance and supervision of the Delaware Department of Transportation, also known as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marilyn Monroe: Encyclopedia Ii - Marilyn Monroe - Early Life
Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital. Her registered name was Norma Jeane Morte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Encyclopedia Ii - Royal Canadian Mounted Police - The Rcmp In Wartime
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - The Boer War. During the Boer War, members of the North West Mounted Police were given leaves of absenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marilyn Monroe: Encyclopedia Ii - Marilyn Monroe - Early Life
Although she would eventually become one of the most celebrated actors in film history, Monroe's beginnings were humble. She was born in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winnipeg Manitoba: Encyclopedia Ii - Winnipeg Manitoba - Famous Winnipegers
Winnipeg Manitoba - Born in Winnipeg. Randy Bachman, musician, (The Guess Who) & Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) Ashleigh Banfield,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. Peter's Basilica: Encyclopedia Ii - St. Peter's Basilica - Miscellaneous
Despite a frequent confusion due to the similar names, the church of San Pietro in Vincoli (famous for hosting the precious Michelangelo'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chiang Kai-shek: Encyclopedia - Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bulgarian Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Dioceses
Dioceses in Bulgaria: Diocese of Vidin (bulg.: Видинска епархия); Diocese of Vratsa (bulg.: Врачанска епар...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Workers' Party Of Korea: Encyclopedia - Workers' Party Of Korea
The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK; Korean chosŏn'gŭl: 조선로동당; hanja: 朝鮮勞動黨; McCune-Reischauer: Chosŏn Rodong-dang; r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joan Crawford: Encyclopedia Ii - Joan Crawford - Marriages
In 1929 at the time she wed her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford bought a mansion at 426 North Bristol Avenue in Brentwood,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bhumibol Adulyadej: Encyclopedia Ii - Bhumibol Adulyadej - Styles
His full ceremonial name is provided in the above section. Although often referred to as King Rama IX in English language translation, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nepal: Encyclopedia Ii - Nepal - Demographics
Nepal has a estimated population of 27.7 million as of July 2005, with a growth rate of 2.2%. 39% of the population is 14 years and below...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fidel Castro: Encyclopedia Ii - Fidel Castro - Religion
Castro is an atheist and has not been a practicing Roman Catholic since his childhood. Pope John XXIII excommunicated Castro on January 3...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guiding Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Guiding Light - History
The series was created by Irna Phillips, who based it on personal experiences. After giving birth to a still-born baby at age 19, she fou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Altman: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Altman - Film Career Continues
Altman then mucked his way through several years of struggle after quarreling with Jack Warner and it was during this time that he first ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science Fiction On Television: Encyclopedia Ii - Science Fiction On Television - Japanese Television Science Fiction
Known for meticulous use of miniatures and hundreds of sci-fi themed anime, Japan has a long history of producing science fiction series ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 - Deaths
1950 - January. January 21 - George Orwell, English author (b. 1903) 1950 - February. February 6 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950 - Births
1950 - January. January 12 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician January 16 - Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreogr...   » Read the article