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Sir G Jebb warns on Communist threat to new nations, UN Security Council
Churchill urges creating Eur army with W Ger troops; H von Brentano backs proposal; says W Ger will share burdens; Schmid agrees in principle; Consultative Assembly adopts proposal; adopts resolution for Eur Defense Min
promotion of 5,000 officers weighed
Truman plan to raise Individual and corp taxes; examples of effect of rise on taxpayers discussed
Sen debate; Taft says he will offer amendment giving Cong final power to make controls effective: Repubs split on issue; Ives backs bill
1950Jim Beaver, American actor, director, and screenwriter[†]
James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor, writer, and film historian. He is most familiar to worldwide audiences as Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting, Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series Justified, and Robert "Dakota Bob" Singer on the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys. His memoir Life's That Way was published in April 2009.
1950George McGinnis, American basketball player (died 2023)[†]
George F. McGinnis was an American professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers, earning third-team All-American honors in 1971, before starting his pro career in the ABA with the Indiana Pacers. A three-time ABA All-Star with the Pacers, McGinnis was named the ABA Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1975 and won two ABA championships with the team. He was a three-time NBA All-Star with the Philadelphia 76ers. He was named to the ABA All-Time Team and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
1950Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: Seventy-five American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.[†]
The Korean War was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations Command (UNC) led by the United States. The conflict was one of the first major proxy wars of the Cold War. Fighting ended in 1953 with an armistice but no peace treaty, leading to the ongoing Korean conflict.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]