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Sen Mitchell and Assemblyman Lama offer bi-partisan bill to create state debt to aid non-profit corps to build low and middle-cost housing
Truculent (Brit submarine): sunk by tanker Divina, Thames Estuary; map
O'Dwyer backs plan; Labor Relations Dir O'Grady offers minimum standards code
C L Sulzberger sees mil threat eased if Govt bans Cominform air flights over territory
1950Clive Betts, English economist and politician[†]
Clive James Charles Betts is a British Labour Party politician and former economist who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield South East, previously Sheffield Attercliffe since 1992.
1950Bob Forsch, American baseball player (died 2011)[†]
Robert Herbert Forsch was an American professional baseball player who spent most of his sixteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the St. Louis Cardinals (1974–1988) before finishing his playing career with the Houston Astros (1988–1989). He was a member of the 1982 World Series Champions and National League (NL) pennant winners in 1985 and 1987.
1950Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (died 2014)[†]
Gholamhossein Mazloumi, nicknamed Sar Talaei, was an Iranian football player, coach and football administrator.
1950British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.[†]
HMS Truculent was a British submarine of the third group of the T-class. She was built as P315 by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 12 September 1942. She sank nine enemy vessels.
1950Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.[†]
Finnish–Chinese relations are the foreign relations between Finland and China.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]