1950 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 3
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open
1952 - Bob Cain of Browns & Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter
1952 - NY Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game & hits his only HR
1952 - Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1953 - General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA
1953 - KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, AL (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
1955 - "Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances
1955 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open
1956 - US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
1958 - Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game
1959 - "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 perfs
1959 - 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
1960 - 1st performance of Ferde Grof‚'s "San Francisco Suite"
1961 - "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1962 - 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched
1962 - NY Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1
1962 - Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1963 - "She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 302 perfs
1963 - Jerry Bock & S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me," premieres in NYC
1964 - James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 - New York State Theater opens
1964 - Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0
1965 - Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 - Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
1968 - "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 7 performances
1968 - 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 pence)
1968 - United Methodist Church forms
1969 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney