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Truman authorizes draft of drs, dentists and allied specialists below age 50; sets Oct 16 for regis of 1st priority group
repts from NK POWs indicate 80% of NK people would be friendly to UN forces; people seen resenting lack of air attack defenses and huge losses caused by war; UN maps extended propaganda effort behind enemy lines
Min Younger (GB) and Austin pledge occupation of NK will be temporary and brief; see no threat to USSR or China; Vishinsky charges Western powers plan long occupation, started war for profits; India seen unlikely to accept membership on comm to be formed under 8-power plan; Thailand to be nominated 7th member
more ex-plainclothesmen retire; 65 more named to plainclothes div
'superior' coll students to be deferred from mil service; 6 coms apptd 2 yrs ago by Maj Gen Hershey establish deferment program; list of com members
1950Dick Jauron, American football player and coach (died 2025)[†]
Richard Manual Jauron was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played eight seasons in the NFL as a safety, five with the Detroit Lions and three with the Cincinnati Bengals. Jauron served as the head coach of the Chicago Bears from 1999 to 2003 and the Buffalo Bills from 2006 until November 2009. He was also the interim head coach for the Lions for the final five games of the 2005 season. He was named the AP Coach of the Year in 2001 after leading the Bears to a 13–3 record.
1950Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of Tanzania[†]
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete is a Tanzanian politician who was the fourth president of Tanzania, in office from 2005 to 2015.
1950Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (born 1876)[†]
Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning, inventing the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902. In 1915, he founded Carrier Corporation, a company specializing in the manufacture and distribution of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.
1950Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.[†]
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto and later to India, where she lived most of her life and carried out her missionary work. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is now observed as her feast day.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]