* 1950 – Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts-born English singer-songwriter

* 1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet ( d. 1950 )

Growth was always slow and steady, with no sudden burst: in 1801 there were 6, 000 people living in St Albans ; in 1850 11, 000 ; in 1931 29, 000 ; and in 1950 44, 000.

* 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Movements of the New Left, 1950 – 1975: A Brief History with Documents ( Bedford / St.

In 1950, Kelly-Bootle helped found the St Lawrence Folk Song Society at Cambridge University.

A Record of the Commemoration Held at St John ’ s College, Cambridge in April 1950 ; Cambridge University Press, 1950 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00289-9 )

* February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer ( d. 1950 )

Among films released before 1950, only Gone With the Wind, The Bells of St. Mary's and four Disney titles have done more total business, in part due to later re-releases.

St. Maximilian's beatification miracle was the July 1948 cure of intestinal tuberculosis in Angela Testoni, and in August 1950, the cure of calcification of the arteries / sclerosis of Francis Ranier was attributed to the intercession of St. Maximilian.

Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC, FRS ( 9 October 1907 – 12 October 2001 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham ( 1950 – 1963 ), was a British politician who was known for the length of his career, the vigour with which he campaigned for the Conservative Party, and the influence of his political writing.

The 1950 season saw St Kilda win the first five games before fading to finish with eight wins and a draw in ninth place.

St. Louis County was the first Missouri County to adopt a home-rule charter under the Missouri constitution, in 1950.

Founded in Spain in 1928 by the Catholic priest St. Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei was given final Catholic Church approval in 1950 by Pope Pius XII.

Adela Rogers St. Johns had a different take: in 1950, she wrote, " If ever a star was made by public demand, it was Clara Bow ".

In 1950 East St. Louis was the 4th largest city in Illinois.

They were affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds from 1947 to 1950, as well with the bygone St. Louis Browns in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Sim appeared with Cole in the films Cottage to Let ( 1941 ), The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ), Scrooge ( 1951 ), Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ), The Belles of St. Trinian's ( 1954 ), An Inspector Calls ( 1954 ), The Green Man ( 1956 ) and Blue Murder at St. Trinian's ( 1957 ).

In 1950 John Tobin conducted a performance of Messiah in St Paul's Cathedral with the orchestral forces specified by the composer, a choir of 60, a counter-tenor alto soloist, and modest attempts at vocal elaboration of the printed notes, in the manner of Handel's day.

During the 1950s she made her name as a sidekick to such comedy greats as Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford in films such as The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ) and the St Trinian's series.

It was re-furbished in 1950 and was renamed St. Andrew's Hall becoming known as the Village Hall.

in 1950 it had become 47.1% urban.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

In the latter research program, information is available for 2,758 Cornell students surveyed in 1950 and for 1,571 students surveyed in 1952.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

What Krim ignores, in his contempt for history and for accuracy, is that these magazines, Partisan foremost, brought about a genuine revolution in the American mind from the mid-thirties to approximately 1950.

In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

The Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency, established in 1949, has published, since January 1950, The United States Armed Forces Medical Journal as a triservice publication to furnish material of professional interest to Medical Department officers of the three military services.

Its editors only knew of one example to point to, a public housing development of 278 homes in New Haven described by John Schulz in the March, 1950 issue.

Wyatt and Whipple, 1950 ), which is a retardation of the orbital motion of particles by the relativistic aberration of the repulsive force of the impinging solar radiation, causes the dust to spiral into the sun in times much shorter than the age of the Earth.

The most conclusively identified is L-5-vinyl-2-thio-oxazolidone, which was isolated from rutabaga ( Greer, 1950 ).

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

The volume was completed in 1950 and published in 1951.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

Hughes said, `` This is not a plan to conquer space -- but to conserve it '', pointing out the state population has increased 125,000 each year since 1950.

Both were under the meet mark of 1.10.8 set in 1950 by Mal Whitfield.

Arkansas combined 280 yards rushing with 64 yards passing ( on 5 completions in 7 tosses ) and a tough defense to whip TCU, and A & M, with a 38-point bulge against Texas Tech ran up its biggest total loop play since 1950.

He was in charge of the Hockaday School meals from 1946 to 1950, before he moved to Aj.

Both these types, and those in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the legislature of county library systems financed by county governments with matching funds from the state.

In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.

Though the reference to race was stricken by the association in 1950, being an agent of such `` detrimental '' influences still appears as the cardinal sin realtors see themselves committed to avoid.

Not until long after the war -- 1950, in fact -- did they get a hint of the reason.

Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 082 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950.

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

The post-World War II housing shortage in Chicago cost him the Institute's building lease, so in 1946, he moved the Institute to Lakeville, Connecticut, USA, where he directed it until his death in 1950.