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July 23, 1950

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Headlines from July 23, 1950

TIGHT EXPORT CURB IS CALLED CERTAIN; Swift Action Is Possible Under Existing Statute to Order Quantitative Controls CRITICAL ITEMS AFFECTED Various Goods Are Watched On Price and Supply With View to Quick Moves Some Licenses Revoked Our Exports On Downgrade Links to E.C.A. Necessary

By Thomas F. Conroy

A tighter curb by the United States on all exports of critical goods or equipment now looms as a practical certainty. The major question as the week ended was how soon "quotas" or restrictive quantitative controls would be applied.

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Notable Births

Alex Kozinski

1950Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American lawyer and judge[†]

Alex Kozinski is a Romanian-American jurist and lawyer who was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1985 to 2017. He was a prominent and influential judge, and many of his law clerks went on to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

1950Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

Ian Campbell Thomas is a Juno Award winning Canadian singer, songwriter, actor and author. He is the younger brother of comedian and actor Dave Thomas. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Blair Thornton

1950Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist and songwriter[†]

Blair Montgomery Thornton is a Canadian guitarist and songwriter most widely known for his work with the rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO). He also played in the band Crosstown Bus prior to joining BTO.

1950Alan Turner, Australian cricketer[†]

Alan Turner is a former Australian cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman who played for New South Wales from 1968 until retirement in 1978. He scored over 5,700 runs as a stocky opener with a practised cut shot, though he was not able to prove his abilities at best at international level. He played in fourteen Test matches and six One Day Internationals from 1975 to 1977. On the back of his several good Sheffield Shield seasons he was selected for Australian tours of England and New Zealand. He scored a single Test century against the touring West Indian side in 1975–76. The cricket writer Peter Hanlon described Turner as "an ordinary man in the company of Gods." He was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

Notable Deaths

Shigenori Tōgō

1950Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician and diplomat, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1882)[†]

Shigenori Tōgō was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Axis–Allied conflict during World War II. He also served as Minister of Colonial Affairs in 1941, and assumed the same position, renamed the Minister for Greater East Asia, in 1945.

Historical Context for July 23, 1950

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