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February 22, 1950

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Headlines from February 22, 1950

AIM CONSERVATION; Governor Sees Situation Moving From Critical to Desperate Stage HOSPITAL PLIGHT IS CITED Tallamy May Invoke His Power to Shut Rinks and Theatres and Limit Store Hours Cause of Request Theatre Men to Confer DEWEY SEEKS RIGHT TO SEIZE ALL COAL

By Leo Egan Special To the New York Times

Dewey says he will ask Legis for power to seize dealers and private owners stocks and fix prices; NYC dealers reptd refusal to fill 2 hosp orders linked; repts NYS has 6-day soft coal and 13 1/2-day anthracite supply, NYC has 1-day soft coal supply; O'Brien denies repts; says city has wk's supply

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U.S. BREAKS WITH BULGARIA, DEMANDS RECALL OF ENVOY; CITES 'INSULTS' TO LEGATION; SATELLITE ENVOY ON HIS WAY OUT U.S. BREAKS TIES WITH SOFIA REGIME U.S. Seeks to Split Nation

By Walter H. Waggoner Special To the New York Times.the New York Times (BY GEORGE TAMES)

US breaks diplomatic relations; recalls Heath and staff; demands Voutov and aides be recalled; charges Bulgaria continually intimidated legation staff; scores attempt to link Heath to recent trial of late T Kostov; Voutov illus

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Notable Births

Julius Erving

1950Julius Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster[†]

Julius Winfield "Dr. J" Erving II is an American former professional basketball player. He helped legitimize the American Basketball Association (ABA), and was the best-known player in the league when it merged into the National Basketball Association (NBA) after the 1975–1976 season.

Lenny Kuhr

1950Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer-songwriter[†]

Helena Hubertina Johanna "Lenny" Kuhr is a Dutch singer-songwriter.

Miou-Miou

1950Miou-Miou, French actress[†]

Sylvette Herry, known professionally as Miou-Miou, is a French actress. A ten-time CĂ©sar Award nominee, she won the CĂ©sar Award for Best Actress for the 1979 film Memoirs of a French Whore. Her other films include This Sweet Sickness (1977), Entre Nous (1983), May Fools (1990), Germinal (1993), Dry Cleaning (1997) and ArrĂȘtez-moi (2013). In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle.

Genesis P-Orridge

1950Genesis P-Orridge, English singer-songwriter (died 2020)[†]

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, visual artist, and occultist who rose to notoriety as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of seminal industrial band Throbbing Gristle. They were also a founding member of TOPY - Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth - occult group, and fronted the experimental pop rock band Psychic TV.

Julie Walters

1950Julie Walters, English actress and author[†]

Dame Julia Mary Walters, known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress and comedian. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award.

Historical Context for February 22, 1950

In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]