According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.

Under his watch, the Browns won the AAFC championship in all four years of its existence, including the AAFC's only perfect season in 1948, and continued to succeed after moving to the NFL in 1950.

The Wings won the Stanley Cup again in 1950, with Pete Babando scoring the game winner in double overtime of Game 7 to beat the Rangers in the Finals.

In the five years immediately after the war, Essendon won 3 premierships ( 1946, 1949, 1950 ) and were runners up twice ( 1947, 1948 ).

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).

* Indiana State won the 1950 NAIA Championship.

Brabham won the 1948 Australian Speedway Championship, the 1949 Australian and South Australian Speedcar championships, and the 1950 – 1951 Australian championship with the car.

There, he met and won the confidence of Leonid Brezhnev, the first secretary of the Moldavian SSR from 1950 to 1952 and future leader of the Soviet Union.

They failed to make the Grand Final that year ( eventually won by Essendon ), but in 1950 they did reach the final, defeated by a more efficient Essendon.

* Palestine ( horse ), racehorse who won the 2, 000 Guineas in 1950

In 1950, the movie Destination Moon — the documentary-like film for which he had written the story and scenario, co-written the script, and invented many of the effects — won an Academy Award for special effects.

Flaherty was one of the Directors of The Titan: Story of Michelangelo ( 1950 ), which won an Academy Award for documentary feature.

Askin gained preselection for and won the seat of Collaroy at the 17 June 1950 election, gaining 63. 69 % of the vote.

This party won a plurality in the 1950 General Elections, the establishment feared Butler as a radical and instead Albert Gomes became the first Chief Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.

* 1950 World Cup hosted by Brazil, won by Uruguay

England won the first post-war competition in 1947, and followed up with victories in 1948, 1950, 1953 – 1958 and 1961.

Since 1950, however, weak actors have won a majority of all asymmetric conflicts.

However, by 1950 the Pulitzer committee included composer Richard Rodgers as a recipient when South Pacific won the award, in recognition of music as an integral and important part of the theatrical experience.

He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average four times: 1938, 1949, 1950, and 1955.

* Three productions, all musicals, have won all " big six " awards for their category: South Pacific ( 1950 awards ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1979 awards ) and Hairspray ( 2003 awards ); each won the Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Performance by a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Best Direction awards.

Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).

In 1950, the Census Bureau reported Berkeley's population as 11. 7 % black and 84. 6 % white.

In 1950, Dalton served 11 months in prison as punishment for the contempt conviction, in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky.

Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton ( 1870 – 1920 ), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton ( 1874 – 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 Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $ 2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Convention of the World Meteorological Organization was signed 11 October 1947 and established upon ratification in 1950.

William O ' Dwyer ( July 11, 1890November 24, 1964 ) was the 100th Mayor of New York City, holding that office from 1946 to 1950.

* October 11 – Lionel Cripps, Rhodesian politician ( d. 1950 )

* January 11 – Rudolph Palm, Curaçao born composer ( d. 1950 )

The series was never picked up, although the pilot is currently in the public domain and is available on home video, as is an early television appearance from around the same time on a vaudeville-style comedy series, Camel Comedy Caravan, originally broadcast live on CBS-TV on March 11, 1950, and starring Ed Wynn.

* 1950 ( 11 ) Los Angeles Open, Bing Crosby Pro-Am ( tie with Jack Burke, Jr., Smiley Quick, Dave Douglas ), Texas Open, Miami Beach Open, Greater Greensboro Open, Western Open, Colonial National Invitation, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball ( with Jim Ferrier ), Reading Open, North and South Open, Miami Open

King Leopold III requested the Belgian Government and the Parliament to approve a law delegating his royal powers to his son, Prince Baudouin, who took the constitutional oath before the United Chambers of the Belgian Parliament as Prince Royal on 11 August 1950.

Jeremy Dickson Paxman ( born 11 May 1950 ) is an English journalist, author and broadcaster.

* Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano ( La Cantatrice Chauve ) was first performed on May 11, 1950 at the Théâtre des Noctambules.

It had a population of 11, 922 in 1950, but population growth was slow from the 1960s to the early 1990s.

Millbrae's high school children rode the streetcar to attend Burlingame High School until Capuchino High School opened on September 11, 1950.

Willingboro land was purchased and developed in the 1950s and 1960s as a planned community by Abraham Levitt and Sons in the Levittown model, with the 1950 population of 852 exploding to 11, 861 in 1960 and 43, 386 in 1970.

Tragedy struck this track on September 11, 1950 when the crack passenger train " Spirit of Saint Louis " hit another train carrying 600 men of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion of the Pennsylvania National Guard.

The city had 11, 026 people in 1990, 10, 711 in 1980, 10, 075 in 1970, 7, 917 in 1960, 5, 388 in 1950, 4, 511 in 1940, 3, 071 in 1920, and 2, 724 in 1900.

McMinnville is known among UFO researchers for now-famous photographs published on the front page of the June 9, 1950 edition of the city's newspaper, the News-Register ( then known as the Telephone-Register ), reportedly of an unidentified flying object seen almost a month earlier, May 11.

In 1940, the population of Monongahela was 9, 823, in 1950, 10, 387, in 1960, 12, 948, in 1970, 11, 726, and in 1980, 8, 590.

The first edition of The Woodruff Times was printed May 11, 1950.

Finally on November 11, 1950, Hay, along with Gernreich and friends Dale Jennings and lovers Bob Hull and Chuck Rowland, held the first meeting of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles, under the name " Society of Fools ".