In 1950, van Vogt was briefly appointed as head of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation in California.

The element was first made at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 by bombarding curium with alpha particles ( helium-4 ions ).

* 1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name " Californium ".

In 1950 Desmond left for New York City playing alto and clarinet for Jack Fina, but returned to California after hearing Brubeck's trio on the radio.

Rex Ingram died from a cerebral hemorrhage on 21 July 1950 and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

** 98. californium, Cf, named after the state of California, where the university is located ( 1950 ).

In 1950 Tharp's family — younger sister Twanette, twin brothers Stanley and Stanford, mother Lecile and father William — moved to Rialto, California.

Women were significantly underrepresented in the California Gold Rush, and sex ratios did not reach essential equality in California ( and other western states ) until about 1950.

He was elected to a third term ( as a Republican ) in 1950 becoming the first person elected governor of California three times.

Between 1890 and 1910, large amounts of coal were mined in the county and shipped to California ; production decreased after oil was discovered in that state, and no coal mines in the county have been in production since 1950.

In the critically acclaimed The Men ( 1950 ), starring newcomer Marlon Brando as a paraplegic war veteran, Zinnemann filmed many scenes in a California hospital where real patients served as extras.

Because of this and other factors, most of the homes in San Marino, built between 1920 and 1950, do not resemble the houses in surrounding Southern California neighborhoods ( with the exception, perhaps, of neighboring portions of Pasadena ).

Kavner was born in Los Angeles, California on September 7, 1950, the second daughter of Rose, a family counselor, and David Kavner, a furniture manufacturer.

California is a borough on the Monongahela River in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area since 1950.

( Physics ), California Institute of Technology ( 1950 )

Coburn was raised in Compton, California, where he attended Compton Junior College and enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1950, serving as a truck driver and an occasional disc jockey on an Army radio station in Texas.

* McMillan, E. M ." Focusing in Linear Accelerators ", University of California Radiation Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( August 24, 1950 ).

* McMillan, E. M ." A Thick Target for Synchrotrons and Betatrons ", University of California Radiation Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( September 19, 1950 ).

As a three-term Congresswoman, she was later Richard Nixon's opponent for the United States Senate seat from California in 1950.

They moved to several small suburbs around Los Angeles, California, before settling in Midland, Texas, in 1950.

However, the group whose name became adopted as a generic term for independent Scientology was not the first independent Scientologist group ; the California Association of Dianetic Auditors, the oldest breakaway group still in existence, claims a founding date of December 1950, predating the Church of Scientology itself.

In the 1950s, Wright appeared in several unsuccessful films, including The Capture ( 1950 ), Something to Live For ( 1952 ), California Conquest ( 1952 ), The Steel Trap ( 1952 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), The Actress ( 1953 ), and Track of the Cat ( 1954 ) opposite Robert Mitchum again.

He roomed and collaborated for some time with bassist Charles Mingus, before getting a job on Billy Eckstine's California tour, which eventually brought him back to New York.

Billy Gibbons stated in an interview in August 2011 that the new album had been recorded, with initial recording taking place in Malibu, California, before moving to Houston, but was still unnamed and had yet to be mixed and mastered.

* March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Unforgiven winning Best Picture.

* March 24 – The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, with The English Patient winning Best Picture.

* March 26 – The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture.

Leading off against the California Angels ' Clyde Wright in the 12th inning, Rose hit a single and advanced to second on another single by the Los Angeles Dodgers ' Billy Grabarkewitz.

On March 21, 1987, Martin's son, Dean Paul ( formerly Dino of the ' 60s " teeny-bopper " rock group Dino, Desi & Billy ), was killed when his F-4 Phantom II jet fighter crashed while flying with the California Air National Guard.

A couple of fights later, he travelled further west and made his California debut, beating Billy Spencer by a decision in four at Los Angeles.

McCarthy, along with other candidates who had been excluded from the 1992 Democratic debates ( including two-time New Alliance Party Presidential candidate Lenora Fulani, former Irvine, California mayor Larry Agran, " Billy Jack " actor Tom Laughlin, and others ) staged protests and unsuccessfully took legal action in an attempt to be included in the debates.

Def Leppard's US tour in support of Pyromania began opening for Billy Squier in March and ended with a headlining performance before an audience of 55, 000 at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, California in September.

They opened the Essanay-West studio in Niles, California, in 1908, at the foot of Niles Canyon, where many Broncho Billy westerns were shot, along with The Tramp featuring Charlie Chaplin.

* World Middleweight Champion Stanley Ketchel loses his title on 7 September to Billy Papke by a 12th round technical knockout at Vernon, California, but regains it on 26 November at Colma, California, where he knocks out Papke in the 11th round

William Daro " Billy " Bean ( born May 11, 1964 in Santa Ana, California ) is a former Major League Baseball player who made news in 1999 when he made his homosexuality public.

* An art gallery in Ventura, California displaying art pieces from such artists Billy Childish, Stacy Lande and Derek Hess ; most of which include the number * 86 hidden or overtly shown in the art ; some of which fall under the genre of lowbrow.

Speakers at the ceremony, including California Governor Pete Wilson, Kansas senator Bob Dole, and the Reverend Dr. Billy Graham, eulogized the former First Lady.

The Billy DeFrank Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center is a non-profit organization that promotes services for and about the gay community of San Jose, California and Santa Clara County.

The book was a fictional treatment of the familiar Billy the Kid story, relocated from New Mexico to the Monterey Peninsula in California.

The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland to own.

Bon Harris began the Maven project in 2001 in Los Angeles, California, and has worked with Marilyn Manson, Smashing Pumpkins / Billy Corgan, Bush, and Depeche Mode.

* 1 – The Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center first opens its doors in a two-room store front in downtown San Jose, California.

Barty also starred in a local Southern California children's show, Billy Barty's Bigtop, in the mid-1960s, which regularly showed The Three Stooges shorts.

* Owned a rollerskating rink in Fullerton, California, called " Billy Barty's Roller Fantasy ".