Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

Bohr worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in early 1948, and later at Columbia University from January 1949 to August 1950.

Pasternak's translation of the first part of Faust led him to be attacked in the August 1950 edition of Novy Mir.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

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 ).

The Charter of the German Expellees () of August 5, 1950, announced their belief in requiring that " the right to the homeland is recognized and carried out as one of the fundamental rights of mankind given by God ", while renouncing revenge and retaliation in the face of the " unending suffering " ( unendliche Leid ) of the previous decade, and supporting the unified effort to rebuild Germany and Europe.

His siblings were August ( 1872 – 1952 ), Johannes ( 1873 – 1937 ), Lilli ( 1879 – 1950 ) and Elisabeth, who died shortly after birth in c. 1880.

In talks, interviews and round-table discussions broadcast on Hessen Radio, South-West Radio and Radio Bremen, Adorno discussed topics as diverse as “ The Administered World ” ( September 1950 ), “ What is the Meaning of ‘ Working Through the Past ?”’ ( February 1960 ) to “ The Teaching Profession and its Taboos ” ( August 1965 ).

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900-31 August 1986 ), was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland ( 1950 – 1953, 1954 – 1956 ) and later as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland ( 1956 – 1982 ).

O ' Dwyer resigned from office on August 31, 1950.

* On 15 August 1950 an earthquake and floods in Assam, India killed 574 and left 5, 000, 000 homeless.

* August 20 – Rio Reiser, German rock musician and singer ( b. 1950 )

* August 17 – Julia Marlowe, stage actress ( d. 1950 )

* August 15 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer ( d. 1950 )

* August 29 – Albert Lebrun, French politician ( d. 1950 )

* August 15 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, writer, and mystic ( d. 1950 )

* August 4 – Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer ( d. 1950 )

* August 22 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician ( b. 1950 )

Powell had a copy of a State Department Policy Statement from 15 August 1950, in which the American government said that the " agitation " caused by partition in Ireland " lessens the usefulness of Ireland in international organisations and complicates strategic planning for Europe ".

On August 31, 1950, O ' Dwyer, pursued by both federal and state investigators, was suddenly appointed by President Harry S. Truman as ambassador to Mexico, where he would be beyond the reach of officials who wanted his public testimony in several matters on which he preferred not to speak.

On August 14, 1950, twelve climbers ( V. Aksenov, K, Zaporojchenko, Y. Izrael, V. Kovalev, A. Kormshikov, Y. Maslov, E. Nagel, V. Narishkin, V. Nikonov, V. Nozdryuhin, I. Rojkov ) under the direction of Vladimir Racek reached the summit for the fourth time.

A condensed version of the novel was published in serial form in 1950 in Boys ' Life magazine ( August, September, October, November 1950 ), under the title " Satellite Scout ".

In August 1950, Souphanouvong convened the first congress of the Lao Freedom Front ( Neo Lao Issara ) — more generally known as the Pathet Lao-which served as the vehicle for the communist challenge to French rule.

In August 1956 Souvanna and the Communist Pathet Lao, which his half-brother Souphanouvong headed agreed on broad proposals for a ‘ government of national union ’.

In August 1950, Souphanouvong joined the Viet Minh in their headquarters north of Hanoi, Vietnam, and become the head of the Pathet Lao, along with its political arm dubbed Neo Lao Hak Sat ( Lao Patriotic Front ).

Like his friend and contemporary August Strindberg he had little patience with collective mediocrity.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

Anthony, as Johann August Wilhelm Neander remarks, " without any conscious design of his own, had become the founder of a new mode of living in common, Coenobitism.

Nevertheless, the king whose health was failing, wanted to secure the ascension of his young son, Ladislaus, who had been crowned on 26 August 1204.

In August 1219, his younger son, Coloman, who had been crowned King of Halych, was expelled from his kingdom by Prince Mstilav of Novgorod.

On 20 August 1233, Andrew had a meeting with the legate of Pope Gregory IX in the woods of Bereg, and they made an agreement which ensured the privileges of the clergy.

In August of 1334 Stefan Dusan and Andronikos made peace, and the forces of Andronikos were allowed to retake control of those parts of Macedonia that Syrgiannes had captured.

Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

The Falcons had their first season in, and their first preseason game on August 1,, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles.

In August 1825, he passed entrance exams at Harvard University, though when the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first two years which he had successfully challenged by examination, he chose not to attend.

The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

On August 28, Nami and Ahmed al-Haznawi reportedly bothered a Delray Beach resident, Maria Siscar Simpson, to let them through her apartment to retrieve a towel that had fallen off their balcony onto hers.

Greek officers, revolting in August 1909, had secured the appointment of a progressive government under Eleftherios Venizelos which they hoped would resolve the Cretan issue in Greece's favour and reverse their defeat of 1897 by the Ottomans.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

Both Brooke and Alexander were astonished by the transformation in atmosphere when they visited on 19 August, less than a week after Montgomery had taken command.

Marshal Tallard, with 34, 000 men, reached Ulm, joining with the Elector and Marsin in Augsburg on 5 August ( although Tallard was not impressed to find that the Elector had dispersed his army in response to Marlborough's campaign of ravaging the region ).

He had not resided there long when an edict appeared ( August 8, 1564 ) banishing all foreign dissidents.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).