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7 August 1950 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 7 August 1950 was a Monday.
- Top Film of 1950
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1950 was Cinderella.
- Bestselling Novel of 1950
- “The Cardinal” by Henry Morton Robinson was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1950.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Texaco Star Theater” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1950–51 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 7 August is Leo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 7 August 1950 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 7 August 1950 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 7 August
- 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
- 1944 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
- 1946 The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
- 1947 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- 1959 Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Famous people born on August 7
- Charlize Theron, South African actress (born 1975)
- Kyler Murray, American football player (born 1997)
- Michael Shannon, American actor (born 1974)
- Jalen Hurts, American football player (born 1998)
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Events of 1950 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1950 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- February 9 – Second Red Scare: In his speech to the Republican Women's Club at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the U.S. State Department of being filled with 205 Communists.
- February 15 – Walt Disney releases his twelfth animated feature film, Cinderella, in Hollywood.
- March 17 – University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they have named "californium".
Life in the US in 1950
President
Harry S. Truman
Gas (per gallon)
$0.27
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Average House
$7,354
Weekly Wage
$55
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