The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1950
The Shoebridges die in a house fire. (Family Plot)
Irene Butterman is born. (Hot Fuzz)
Lars Olfen (future head of PBN TV network) is born. (Sweden) (A Mighty Wind)
Ray Robinson becomes Ray Charles and begins recording songs. (Ray)
Brushy Bill Roberts, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, dies. (Young Guns 2)
Tuesday 17th January: The Great Brinks Robbery (Boston, Massachusetts) (The Brink's Job)
Tuesday 31st January: U.S. President Harry S. Truman publicly announces his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. (Truman)
Thursday 9th February: Senator Joseph McCarthy claims that he has a list with the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are "known communists." (Wheeling, West Virginia) (Citizen Cohn)
Monday 20th February: Welsh poet Dylan Thomas arrives for his first reading tour of the United States. (New York) (Dylan Thomas: Return Journey )
Monday 29th May: Preston Tucker's lawsuit against his former prosecutors is thrown out of court. (Tucker: The Man and His Dream )
Friday 30th June: President Harry S. Truman orders U.S. armed forces to assist in defending that South Korea from invading North Korean armies. (Truman)
Saturday 8th July: General Douglas MacArthur is appointed head of the United Nations Command in Korea by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. (MacArthur)
Friday 25th August: In anticipation of a crippling strike by railroad workers, President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order putting America’s railroads under the control of the U.S. Army. (Truman)
Wednesday 1st November: Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at the Blair House. (Washington, D.C.) (Truman)
Saturday 4th November: Grover Cleveland Alexander dies. (St. Paul, Nebraska) (The Winning Team)