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August 5 – A bomb-laden B-29 Superfortress crashes into a residential area in California; 17 are killed and 68 injured. August 8 – Winston Churchill expresses support for the idea of a pan-European army allied with Canada and the United States.
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1950 – NBC airs Broadway Open House a late-night comedy, variety, talk show through 1951. Hosted by Morey Amsterdam and Jerry Lester and Dagmar, it serves as the prototype for The Tonight Show; 1950 – Failed assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican nationals on President Harry S. Truman while he was living at Blair House.
Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco may be to a bioweapon attack, killing at least one American and sickening at least 10 more.
1950 California elections (4 P) L. 1950 in Los Angeles (3 P) S. 1950 in sports in California (1 C, 24 P) Pages in category "1950 in California" The following 2 pages ...
California played a major role in terms of agriculture, industry, finance and propaganda during World War I. [31] Its industrialized agriculture exported food to the Allies, 1914–1917, and expanded again when America entered the war in 1917. After the war ended, it shipped large quantities of food to central Europe as part of national relief ...
March 22 – The 5.7 M w San Francisco earthquake shook the Bay Area in California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), causing $1 million in losses, one death and forty injuries. March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg 's Howl and Other Poems (first published November 1, 1956 ), printed in the UK, are seized by United States ...
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