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Hibok Hibok, Camiguin Is, erupts; 84 killed; aid rushed
United Nations forces that landed in Korea near Inchon, the west coast port for Seoul, were reported to have moved quickly inland against light enemy resistance. A South Korean broadcast said Allied troops had...
Gen MacArthur directs Inchon landing; says operation aims to cut NK supply lines; tours area; sees disintegration of NK forces if operation succeeds; says NK lack of air and sea power cancels numerical superiority of troops; lauds US Navy and Marines; cruises within rifle range of NKs off Inchon
US Marines drive toward Seoul; reptdly capture Kimpo and airport; reptdly reach Seoul suburb on Han River S bank; NK convoy spotted moving S from Kaesong; UN forces in SE beachhead launch gen drive to pin down NKs and prevent moves northward; US, SK and Brit troops strike NW of Waegwan; US Marine landing at Wolmi Is and Inchon described; thousands of infantrymen reptd being landed behind Marines; SKs occupy Angang; forced to withdraw, Hyongsang River, map
SS United States taken by Govt; will be completed as troopship
1950David Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
The Bellamy Brothers are an American pop and country music duo from Darby, Florida. The duo consists of brothers David Milton Bellamy and Homer Howard Bellamy. The duo had considerable musical success in the 1970s and 1980s, starting with the release of their crossover hit "Let Your Love Flow" in 1976, a number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.
1950Henry Louis Gates Jr., American historian, scholar, and journalist[†]
Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
1950Loyd Grossman, American-English singer, guitarist, and television host[†]
Sir Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman is an American-British author, broadcaster, musician, businessman and cultural campaigner who has mainly worked in the United Kingdom. He presented the BBC programme MasterChef from 1990 to 2000 and was a co-presenter, with David Frost, of the BBC and ITV panel show Through the Keyhole from 1987 until 2003.
1950Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (born 1881)[†]
Pedro de Cordoba was an American actor.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]