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charges campaign workers are terrorized; A L Jacoby charges Dewey-Impellitteri link
NYS Savings Banks Assn seeks easing of curbs on branches
Truman, in only s of election campaign, revs gains under Dem Adms
India repts Lhasa-New Delhi radio dead for 6 days
1950Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway[†]
Thorbjørn Jagland is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. He served as the secretary general of the Council of Europe from 2009 to 2019. He served as the prime minister of Norway from 1996 to 1997, as the minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2001 and as the president of the Storting from 2005 to 2009.
1950James Kennedy, American psychologist and author[†]
James Kennedy is an American social psychologist, best known as an originator and researcher of particle swarm optimization. The first papers on the topic, by Kennedy and Russell C. Eberhart, were presented in 1995; since then tens of thousands of papers have been published on particle swarms. The Academic Press / Morgan Kaufmann book, Swarm Intelligence, by Kennedy and Eberhart with Yuhui Shi, was published in 2001.
1950Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (born 1863)[†]
Mary Elizabeth Harris Armor was an American temperance leader. She was the Georgia state president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and is often credited for the passing of prohibition legislature in Georgia.
1950Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.[†]
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[†]