" Various reform efforts slowly changed city government ; the most significant took place in 1950 under a new city charter that strengthened the position of mayor and weakened the Philadelphia City Council.

* René Follet: Various series ( 1950 onwards )

Various private telephone companies, often with only a dozen subscribers, operated until they were all absorbed by Manitoba Telephone System in 1950.

King of Thailand | King Bhumibol Adulyadej | Bhumibol Adulyadej ( Rama IX ) of Thailand presented with regalia at his coronation in the Grand Palace in Bangkok, 5 May 1950.

Between 1950 and the Six Day War in 1967, although not widely recognized, Jordan claimed and administered an additional 5, 880 square kilometers encompassing the West Bank ; in 1988 and with continuing Israeli occupation, King Hussein relinquished Jordan's claim to the West Bank in favor of the Palestinians.

* In 1950, King George VI of the United Kingdom awarded Hoover an honorary knighthood in the Order of the British Empire.

* 1950 – Lou Gramm, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Foreigner and Shadow King )

* 1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.

* Coronation Day, commemorates the coronation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1950.

Nat King Cole, a former jazz pianist who had had # 1 and # 2 hits on the pop charts in the early 1950s (" Mona Lisa " at # 2 in 1950 and " Too Young " at # 1 in 1951 ), had a record in the top 5 in the R & B charts in 1958, " Looking Back "/" Do I Like It ".

The base at King Edward Point was expanded as a research facility in 1949 / 1950 by the British Antarctic Survey, which until 1962 was called the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.

Both lines stop at Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza which was built as Central Union Terminal by the New York Central Railroad — along its Water Level Route — in 1950.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG ( December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950 ), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.

King kept a very candid diary from 1893 until his death in 1950.

King died on July 22, 1950, at Kingsmere from pneumonia, with his retirement plans to write his memoirs unfulfilled.

* Granatstein, J. L .. " King, ( William Lyon ) Mackenzie ( 1874 – 1950 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online ed, Jan 2011 accessed 12 Sept 2011

In 1944, Arafat enrolled in the University of King Fuad I and graduated in 1950.

* January 28 – Rajagopala Tondaiman, King of Pudukkottai ( d. 1950 )

* December 17 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1950 )

** King Gustaf V of Sweden ( d. 1950 )

He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), The African Queen ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

On 24 April 1950 the Jordan House of Deputies and House of Notables formally annexed the West Bank and East Jerusalem, declaring " complete unity between the two sides of the Jordan and their union in one state ... at whose head reigns King Abdullah Ibn al Hussain ".

In 1950 he ceased to be King of India when it became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, but he remained King of Pakistan until his death and India recognised his new title of Head of the Commonwealth.

* Prince Charles of Belgium served as Prince Regent of Belgium from 1944 to 1950 during the German captivity and then exile to Switzerland of his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium.

The team went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular of all musicals and were each made into successful films: Carousel ( 1945 ), South Pacific ( 1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ), The King and I ( 1951 ), and The Sound of Music ( 1959 ).

In February 1950, Paisà received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay by Rossellini, Sergio Amidei, and Fellini.

* 1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.

* 1950: South Pacific * – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan

Gustaf V ( Oscar Gustaf Adolf 16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950 ) was King of Sweden from 1907.

Streeter officially became a city in 1950, and its first mayor was Oscar Seher.

Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.

On November 1, 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempted to assassinate President Truman in Blair House.

She starred in The Glass Menagerie ( 1950 ), Just for You ( 1952 ), Let's Do It Again ( 1953 ), The Blue Veil ( 1951 ) ( another Oscar nomination ), the remake of Edna Ferber's So Big ( 1953 ), Magnificent Obsession ( 1954 ) ( Oscar nomination ), Lucy Gallant ( 1955 ), All That Heaven Allows ( 1955 ), and Miracle in the Rain ( 1956 ).

Oscar Torp in April 1950

It is due to Oscar Zariski and took a place of particular importance in the field around 1950.

* 1950: South Pacific – Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.

On November 1, 1950, Nationalists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attacked the Blair House in Washington, D. C. where president Harry S. Truman was staying while the White House was being renovated.

Mankiewicz kept Ritter in mind, and cast her as " Birdie " in All About Eve ( 1950 ), which earned her an Oscar nomination.

He shared the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for co-writing South Pacific.

Oscar Tschirky ( 1866 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland – November 6, 1950 in New Paltz, New York, USA ) was maître d ' hôtel of Delmonico's Restaurant and subsequently the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York, United States.

It was not until 1950 that Mostel again acted in movies, for a role in the Oscar winning film Panic in the Streets, at the request of its director, Elia Kazan.

* Father Cuthbert Dunne C. P., ( 1869 – 1950 ), was a Passionist priest from Mount Argus, who carried out the deathbed conversion of Oscar Wilde to the catholic faith in Paris.

* Academy Awards: Nominated, Oscar, Best Writing, Screenplay, Cesare Zavattini ; 1950.

" The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has required all Oscar recipients since 1950 to sign an agreement forbidding them from selling their award ; as a pre-1950 winner, Russell was exempt from this provision.

( 1950 ) and his Oscar winning role in The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ).

On November 1, 1950, following a series of uprisings in Puerto Rico which included the Jayuya Uprising and the Utuado Uprising which culminated in a massacre, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola invaded Harry S. Truman's residence, carrying a letter written by Albizu Campos and addressed to Truman.