Month January 1950 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1950

• Day of Week 1st » Standard practice uses this day as the origin of the age scale Before Present
• Day of Week 14th » The first prototype of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 called MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
• Day of Week 21st » American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
• Day of Week 23rd » The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
• Day of Week 26th » The Constitution of India coming into force or comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day (India) called Republic Day in India.
• Day of Week 31st » President of the United States e.g President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1950

• 1st » Wayne Bennett (rugby league) or Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1st » Morgan Fisher, British keyboard player and songwriter (Mott the Hoople and Morgan (band) called Morgan)
• 1st » Deepa Mehta, Indian-Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1st » James Richardson (poet) or James Richardson, American poet
• 2nd » Débora Duarte, Brazilian actress
• 2nd » David Shifrin, American clarinet player
• 2nd » Anatoli Ushanov, Russian footballer and coach
• 2nd » Leo van der Goot, Dutch singer and radio host
• 3rd » Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
• 3rd » Victoria Principal, American actress
• 4th » John Louis Evans, American murderer (d. 1983)
• 4th » Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic (d. 2013)
• 5th » Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian, philosopher, and author (d. 1991)
• 5th » Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, English lawyer
• 5th » John Manley, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
• 5th » Charlie Richmond (inventor) or Charlie Richmond, Canadian sound designer and engineer
• 5th » Chris Stein, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Blondie (band) named Blondie)
• 5th » Krzysztof Wielicki, Polish mountaineer
• 6th » Louis Freeh, American jurist, 10th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 7th » Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 7th » Erin Gray, American actress
• 7th » Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
• 7th » Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer
• 8th » Jos Hermens, Dutch runner
• 9th » Alec Jeffreys, English geneticist
• 9th » David Johansen, American singer-songwriter and actor (New York Dolls)
• 9th » Rio Reiser, German singer-songwriter (Ton Steine Scherben) (d. 1996)
• 10th » Roy Blunt, American politician
• 10th » Ernie Wasson, American gardener and author
• 12th » Sheila Jackson Lee, American lawyer and politician
• 12th » Göran Lindblad, Swedish politician
• 12th » Bob McEwen, American politician
• 12th » Dorrit Moussaieff, Israeli-Icelandic jewelry designer and businesswoman, 5th List of spouses of presidents and prime ministers of Iceland called First Lady of Iceland
• 12th » Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (d. 1992)
• 12th » Greg X. Volz, American singer (Petra)
• 13th » Clive Betts, English politician
• 13th » Bob Forsch, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 13th » John McNaughton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 14th » Rambhadracharya, Indian religious leader, scholar, and author
• 14th » Arthur Byron Cover, American author and screenwriter
• 15th » Marius Trésor, French footballer
• 16th » Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 16th » Brian Castro, Australian author
• 16th » Robert Schimmel, American comedian (d. 2010)
• 16th » Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer and guitarist (Can (band) known as Can)
• 17th » Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican author
• 19th » Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
• 19th » Jon Matlack, American baseball player
• 19th » Grant Nordman, American-Canadian politician
• 19th » David Tredinnick (politician) or David Tredinnick, English politician
• 20th » Daniel Benzali, Brazilian-American actor
• 20th » Liza Goddard, English actress
• 20th » Edward Hirsch, American poet
• 20th » Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 20th » William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Minister of Finance (Tanzania) or Tanzanian Minister of Finance (d. 2014)
• 20th » Mahamane Ousmane, Nigerian politician, President of Niger
• 21st » Gary Locke, American politician and diplomat, 36th United States Secretary of Commerce
• 21st » Billy Ocean, Trinidadian-English singer-songwriter
• 21st » Agnes van Ardenne, Dutch politician and diplomat
• 22nd » Paul Bew, Irish historian and academic
• 22nd » Pamela Salem, English actress
• 23rd » Richard Dean Anderson, American actor, producer, and composer
• 23rd » Bill Cunningham (musician) known as Bill Cunningham, American bass player and keyboard player (The Box Tops)
• 23rd » Danny Federici, American accordion player (E Street Band) (d. 2008)
• 23rd » John Greaves (musician) or John Greaves, Welsh bass player and songwriter (Henry Cow, National Health, and The Lodge (band) or The Lodge)
• 23rd » Suzanne Scotchmer, American economist and academic (d. 2014)
• 24th » Daniel Auteuil, French actor
• 24th » Gennifer Flowers, American actress and model
• 24th » Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-American author and scholar
• 25th » Gloria Naylor, American author
• 26th » Jörg Haider, Austrian politician, List of governors of Carinthia e.g Governor of Carinthia (d. 2008)
• 26th » Janet Lupo, American model
• 26th » Jack Youngblood, American football player
• 27th » Derek Acorah, English medium and television host
• 27th » Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-American gynecologist
• 27th » Alex Norton, Scottish actor
• 28th » Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini king
• 28th » Barbi Benton, American model, actress, and singer
• 28th » Bob Hay (musician) called Bob Hay, American singer-songwriter (Supercluster (band) known as Supercluster)
• 28th » David C. Hilmers, American colonel, physician, and astronaut
• 28th » Naila Kabeer, Bangladeshi-born British social economist
• 29th » Max Carl, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player (Grand Funk Railroad and 38 Special (band) or 38 Special)
• 29th » Ann Jillian, American actress
• 29th » Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
• 29th » Miklós Vámos, Hungarian talk show host and author
• 30th » John Cleveland (politician) e.g John Cleveland, American politician
• 30th » Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar, Ghanaian-American scholar and Imam
• 30th » Leili Pärnpuu, Estonian chess player
• 30th » Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
• 31st » Denise Fleming, American author and illustrator
• 31st » Alexander Korzhakov, Russian general and bodyguard

Famous Deaths for January 1950

• 2nd » James Dooley (politician) called James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
• 2nd » Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)
• 3rd » Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
• 8th » Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
• 13th » Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist (b. 1883)
• 15th » Henry H. Arnold, American general (b. 1886)
• 21st » George Orwell, Indian-English journalist and author (b. 1903)
• 22nd » Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
• 22nd » Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
• 28th » Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
• 28th » Ronald McNair, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1950)
• 29th » Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1885)

• « Year 1949 Calendar
• Year 1951 Calendar »