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In December 1950 it was announced that the forces initially to come under General Eisenhower's command were to be the Seventh United States Army in Germany, the British Army of the Rhine, with 2nd & 7th Armoured Divisions, to be bolstered by 11th Armoured Division and a further infantry division, three French divisions in Germany and Austria, the Danish, Belgian, and the Independent Norwegian Brigades in Western Germany, and the American and British garrisons in Austria, Trieste, and Berlin.
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Bjarne Stroustrup (); born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark ) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C ++ programming language.
The Columbia trustees refused to accept his resignation in December 1950, when he took leave from the university to become the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), and was given operational command of NATO forces in Europe.
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( 29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988 ) was a German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research ( the Manhattan Project ) to the USSR during and shortly after World War II.
In December 1950 he was stripped of his British citizenship.
* In 1950 Menzies was awarded the Legion of Merit ( Chief Commander ) by U. S. President Harry S. Truman for " exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services 1941 – 1944 and December 1949 – July 1950 ".
The story begins with the synthesis of chlorpromazine in December 1950 by Rhône-Poulenc's chief chemist, Paul Charpentier, from synthetic antihistamines developed by Rhône-Poulenc in the 1940s.
UNHCR was established on 14 December 1950 and succeeded the earlier United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
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.
The 1950s or The Fifties was the decade that began on January 1, 1950 and ended on December 31, 1959.
* December 20 – Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator ( d. 1950 )
* December 25 – Evangeline Booth, 4th General of The Salvation Army ( d. 1950 )
* December 8 – Howard Rollins, American actor ( b. 1950 )
* December 23 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist ( b. 1950 )
* December 13 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer, and archivist ( d. 1950 )
* December 2 – George Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1950 )
* December 17 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1950 )
* December 18 – Richard Maury, American naturalized Argentine engineer ( d. 1950 )
* December 31 – Ernest J Moeran, British composer ( d. 1950 )
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) ( established December 14, 1950 ) protects and supports refugees at the request of a government or the United Nations and assists in their return or resettlement.
In the period between 27 November and 13 December 1950, 30, 000 United Nations ( UN ) troops ( nicknamed " The Chosin Few ") under the command of Major General Edward Almond were encircled by approximately 67, 000 Chinese troops under the command of Song Shi-Lun.
* Jan Pieter Karel van Eechoud ( 29 December 1949-8 February 1950 ) ( Acting )
Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel () ( 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950 ) was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of India.
After suffering a massive heart attack ( his second ), he died on 15 December 1950 at Birla House in Bombay.
Chiang evacuated with the government to Taiwan in December 1949 and resumed his duties on 1 March 1950.
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It was really a May and December combination.
As summer cooled into fall and winter, even so the relationship between the two men continued to grow colder by the day, and by December of 1834 it was icy.
In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.
The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.
He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.
In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.
The promotion of Robert E. Swift to the position of Assistant Manager of the Interference Control Field Service Department was announced early in December by Frederick S. Scarborough, Manager of Interference Control Field Service.
She was then trained on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking cart once around the half-mile track and hoppled again.
Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.
For these crimes he was sentenced to be hanged in public on Friday, December 2, 1859.
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.
She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.
It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.
On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.
He said the snow plan was put in effect too slowly in December.
The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.
The 187-mile Illinois State Toll Highway, for example, was not opened over its entire length until December, 1958.
Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.
" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.
Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.
By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.
Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.
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The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.
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