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1950 in sports
1950 in Sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Popular sports during the 1950s were badminton and soccer.  Also, 1950 was a huge year for horse racing – horse racing tripled in spectators and prize pools increased.

Margaret Osborne duPont
Margaret Osborne duPont (born Margaret Evelyn Osborne; March 4, 1918 – October 24, 2012) was a world No. 1 American female tennis player.

DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles major titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list, despite never entering the Australian Championships. She won 25 of those major titles at the U.S. Championships, which is an all-time record.
Helen Shirk
Helen Shirk (born 1942, Buffalo New York) is an American jewelry designer. She attended Skidmore College and Indiana University Bloomington as well as studying at the Kunsthaandvaerkerskolen in Copenhagen on a Fulbright Scholarship. She taught jewelry and metalwork at San Diego State University from 1975 to 2010, retiring as Professor of Art Emeritus.

Her work is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In 1999 Shirk became a Fellow of the American Craft Council. In 2017 she received the lifetime achievement award from Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG).

Danmarks Designskole
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design (Danish: Det Kongelige Akademi), more commonly known as the Danish Design School (Danish: Danmarks Designskole,  DKDS) is an institution of higher education in Copenhagen, Denmark, offering a five-year design education consisting of a three-year Bachelor programme and a two-year Master in design as well as conducting research within the fields of arts, crafts and design. Danmarks Designskole is an institution under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education.
Arılı, Posof
Arılı is a village in the Posof District, Ardahan Province, Turkey. Its population is 52 (2021).

The old name of the village of Arılı is Zedatsminda. Zedatsminda (Georgian: ზედაწმინდა) is a Georgian place name and consists of the Georgian words ‘zeda’ (ზედა: upper) and ‘tsminda’ (წმინდა: saint). This place name was written as "Zedavan Zminda" (زدوان ذمندە) in the Ottoman land-survey register (mufassal defter) of 1595.

Posof District
Posof District is a district of Ardahan Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Posof. Its area is 583 km2, and its population is 6,448 (2021). It has a border crossing with neighboring Georgia at Türkgözü.
Ktunaxa Nation
The Ktunaxa Nation or Ktunaxa Nation Council is a First Nations tribal council government comprising four Ktunaxa (Kutenai) bands in the south-east of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is one of three Kutenai governments, the others being the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in the United States.

The Ktunaxa Nation also includes descendants of the Kinbasket family, a Secwepemc (Shuswap) band who settled in Ktunaxa Nation territory and became members. Secwepemc citizens formed the Shuswap Indian Band, now part of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council.

The council was formed in 1970 as the Kootenay Indian District Council. The name was changed in 1990 to the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Tribal Council to reflect the presence both Kutenai and Secwepemc citizens in the council. In 2005, the named was changed to Ktunaxa Nation Council following the departure of the Shuswap Indian Band.

Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho (Kutenai language: ʔaq̓anqmi) is a federally recognized tribe of Lower Kootenai people. They are an Indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau based in northern Idaho.

They are one of five federally recognized tribes in Idaho. The others are Coeur d'Alene, Nez Perce, Shoshone-Bannock, and Duck Valley Indian Reservation (Western Shoshone-Northern Paiute). They have 150 enrolled citizens.
Rohaniya
Rohaniya is a village and corresponding community development block in Unchahar tehsil of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 43 km from Raebareli, the district headquarters. As of 2011, Rohaniya has a population of 3,880 people, in 751 households. It has one primary school and One healthcare facilities.

The 1961 census recorded Rohaniya (as "Rohania") as comprising 8 hamlets, with a total population of 1,488 people (732 male and 756 female), in 337 households and 335 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 1,904 acres and was electrified at that point.

The 1981 census recorded Rohaniya as having a population of 2,126 people, in 430 households, and having an area of 770.52 hectares. The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice.

Raebareli
Raebareli (Hindi: Rāēbarēlī, pronounced [ɾaɛbəɾeliː] ⓘ) is a city in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Raebareli district, and a part of Lucknow Division and comes under the Uttar Pradesh State Capital Region (UP-SCR). The city is situated on the banks of the Sai River, and center of four metropolitan cities i.e. Lucknow, Prayagraj, Ayodhya, and Kanpur. It possesses many architectural features and sites, chief of which is a strong and spacious fort. As of 2011, Raebareli had a population of 191,316 people, in 35,197 households.
Klaksvík Municipality
Klaksvík Municipality (Faroese: Klaksvíkar kommuna) is a municipality of the Faroe Islands. The town of Klaksvík is the administrative centre.

Its area comprises the majority of the islands of Borðoy, Kalsoy and Svínoy (added 1 January 2009).

It contains the following towns and villages:

On Borðoy:

Klaksvík

Árnafjørður

Ánir

Norðoyri

Skálatoftir (abandoned)

Strond (abandoned)

On Kalsoy:

Húsar

Mikladalur

Syðradalur

Trøllanes

On Svínoy:

Svínoy

Syðradalur
Syðradalur (Faroese pronunciation: [ˈsiːɹaˌdɛalʊɹ], is a village on the island of Kalsoy, one of the Faroe Islands.

Syðradalur is the southernmost village on the island, and is in Húsar Municipality. On 1 January 2009, Syðradalur had nine inhabitants, down from 12 in 1985. Bjørn Kalsø comes from Syðradalur.
Heart Wirral
53°4′33.2″N 3°1′15.7″W﻿ / ﻿53.075889°N 3.021028°W﻿ / 53.075889; -3.021028

Heart Wirral (formerly Wirral's Buzz) was an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the Wirral Peninsula, sharing its facilities with Heart Wrexham and Gold, in Gwersyllt, Wrexham.

Gold (British radio network)
Gold Radio is a network of oldies radio stations in the United Kingdom, which was formed by the merger of the Capital Gold network and the Classic Gold network in August 2007. Most programming is broadcast from the Global Radio studios in Leicester Square, London.

The station relaunched in March 2014 as a partly-automated service, broadcasting in fewer areas, after many of Gold's local AM/DAB frequencies were transferred to Smooth Radio. The station ceased broadcasting on AM in London on 29 September 2023 leaving Manchester as the only area receiving Gold on analogue radio. On 12 April 2024 the Gold website posted that the final AM transmitter would close at the end of the month.

As of September 2024, the network broadcasts to a combined weekly audience of 1.8 million, according to RAJAR.
Jessica McCormack
Jessica McCormack (born 8 September 1989 in Hamilton, New Zealand) is a women's basketball and netball player. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal as part of the Tall Ferns New Zealand women's basketball team. McCormack represented New Zealand in basketball again at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

McCormack played college basketball in the United States for the University of Washington and the University of Connecticut. In 2009, she returned to New Zealand in 2009 for surgery on an Achilles tendon injury. That year, McCormack was also signed for the Netball New Zealand Accelerant Group, a development squad for potential players in the New Zealand netball team, the Silver Ferns. She later signed with the Canberra Capitals in the Australian WNBL.

UConn Huskies
The UConn Huskies (or Connecticut Huskies) are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Connecticut, with its main campus located in Storrs, Connecticut. The school is a member of the NCAA's Division I and the Big East Conference.

The university's athletic teams mainly play at on-campus facilities, but the football team plays at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, and the men's and women's basketball teams share their home court designation at Harry A. Gampel Pavilion on-campus and at the PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford.
Robert Donald Munro
Robert Donald Munro best known as Bob Munro (September 1, 1942 – January 19, 2025) was a Canadian policy advisor who founded the Mathare Youth Sports Association and Mathare United football team in Nairobi, Kenya. He was the husband of Jamii Bora Bank founder Ingrid Munro. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022 and was named an Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear in 2024 by Kenyan President William Ruto.

Munro worked on the Action Plan at the first UN Environment Conference in 1972 in Stockholm at the beginning of the environmental movement. He then advocated for establishing the UN Environment Program (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi. He later served as the Canadian Secretary-General for the 1976 UN Conference on Human Settlements, and helped bring the UN-Habitat agency to Nairobi as well.

Mathare United F.C.
Mathare United Football Club is a professional football club based in Nairobi, Kenya. The club competed  in the Kenyan Premier League (the highest tier of the Kenyan football league system), but in 2023, the club was relegated to the second division, National Super League. Established in 1994, Mathare United won its first league title in the 2008 season. The team plays its home matches at the Moi International Sports Centre in Kasarani.
Swan 60
The Swan 60 is a Finnish racer-cruisers sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers.

A later, unrelated design introduced in 2000 was also marketed as the Swan 60, but is now usually referred to by its sub-model designation of Swan 60 FD and Swan 60 S to avoid confusion with this Swan 60 model.

Cruising (maritime)
Cruising is a maritime activity that involves staying aboard a watercraft for extended periods of time when the vessel is traveling on water at a steady speed. Cruising generally refers to leisurely trips on yachts and luxury cruiseships, with durations varying from day-trips to months-long round-the-world voyages.
Pierre Tabart
Pierre Tabart (also Thabart, Tharbart) (Chinon, baptized 8 January 1645 – Meaux, 1716) was a French composer and maître de chapelle. Said to have studied music under 'the best contrapuntist of his time', he served as maître de musique in Orléans until 1683, followed by Senlis from 1683-1689. He then succeeded Nicolas Goupillet as maître de musique of Meaux Cathedral. However, due to the fact that his nine-year contract was left unrenewed, he was succeeded by Sébastien de Brossard in 1699. He later aided his successor to the post in selecting the maître de musique for Évreux Cathedral.

Évreux Cathedral
Évreux Cathedral, otherwise the Cathedral of Our Lady of Évreux (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Évreux), is a Catholic church located in Évreux, Normandy, France. The cathedral is a national monument and is the seat of the Bishop of Évreux.
Abel James Hindle
Abel James Hindle (1870–1954) was a farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Willow Bunch in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1917 to 1925 as a Liberal.

He was born in Churchill, Ontario, the son of Abel James Hindle and Mary Ann McKay, and was educated in Owen Sound. His grandparents had come to Canada from Lancashire, England. In 1898, Hindle married Minnie Sinclair. He operated a large farm west of Owen Sound until 1911, when the Hindles moved to Saskatchewan. They settled on a homestead west of Moose Jaw. Hindle was reeve of the rural municipality of Stonehenge from 1914 and 1915. He resigned his seat in 1925 to allow James Albert Cross to be elected to the provincial assembly. He later moved to Regina.

Owen Sound
Owen Sound (2021 Census population 21,612) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The seat of government of Grey County, it is located at the mouths of the Pottawatomi and Sydenham Rivers on an inlet of Georgian Bay.

The primary tourist attractions are the many waterfalls within a short drive of the town.
The Taste of Intimacy
Hương vị tình thân (English: The Taste of Intimacy) is a TV series produced by Vietnam Television Film Center, Vietnam Television directed by Nguyễn Danh Dũng. The film was adapted from the 2018 Korean drama My Only One. The series aired at 9:00 p.m every Monday to Friday starting from April 19, 2021, and ended on October 27, 2021, on channel VTV1.

VTV1
VTV1 is a state-owned Vietnamese-language news channel and also the first television channel of Vietnam Television. It has evolved from a general news, sports, and entertainment outlet to a 24/7 all-news station since the 1990s when other VTV channels were introduced.

On June 15, 2011, VTV1 shifted to a 24/7 channel offering news, politics, and current affairs.

VTV1 is seen as one of the "essential television channels" in Vietnam, legally required to be distributed by television providers in the country. As a government-controlled channel, it primarily airs news and content favorable to the Vietnamese government.
It Happened in Paris
It Happened in Paris is the title of several films:

It Happened in Paris (1919 film), an American crime drama

It Happened in Paris (1932 film), starring Ranny Weeks, a remake of The Two Orphans (1915)

It Happened in Paris (1935 film), a British romantic comedy

It Happened in Paris (1952 film), a French comedy

It Happened in Paris (1919 film)
It Happened in Paris, is a 1919 American silent drama crime film, directed by David Hartford and Richard Gordon Matzene. There are no known archival holdings of the film, so it is presumably a lost film. The film was a commercial failure.
Hwacheon County
Hwacheon County (Korean: 화천군; RR: Hwacheon-gun) is a county in the state of Gangwon-do, South Korea. The northern border is, in some places, within nine kilometres of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Neighboring counties are Cheorwon to the northwest and north, Yanggu to the east, Chuncheon to the south, and the Gyeonggi-do province to the southwest. The county consists largely of mountains and rivers, between which are small farming communities, military bases and military training grounds. The area is renowned for its rivers, lake trout, indigenous otters, and natural scenery.

Chuncheon
Chuncheon (Korean: 춘천; Hanja: 春川市; Korean pronunciation: [tɕʰun.tɕʰʌn]; literally spring river), formerly spelled as Ch'unch'ŏn, is the capital of the state of Gangwon, South Korea. The city lies in the north of the country, located in a basin formed by the Soyang River and Han River. There are some large lakes around the city, most notably Soyang Lake and Uiam Lake (or Uiam Dam). The area has small river islands, such as Sangjungdo, Ha-Jungdo, Bungeodo, and Wido.

It is a popular destination among East Asian tourists as it was featured in the popular South Korean TV drama Winter Sonata. It is where the resort island of Namiseom is located. Also, Gangwon Provincial Office is located in the city.
Lagoon damselfish
The lagoon damselfish (Hemiglyphidodon plagiometopon), also known as the sweetlip damsel, is a species of ray-finned fish, a damselfish from the family Pomacentridae. It is a larger species of damselfish which is found in the Indo-Pacific where it occurs around branching corals in sheltered areas of reefs.

Damselfish
Damselfish are fish within the subfamilies Abudefdufinae, Chrominae, Lepidozyginae, Pomacentrinae, and Stegastinae within the family Pomacentridae.

Most species within this group are relatively small, although the four largest species (Hypsypops rubicundus, Microspathodon bairdii, M. dorsalis and Nexilosus latifrons) can reach 30cm (12 in) in length. Most damselfish species exist only in marine environments, but a few inhabit brackish or fresh water. These fish are found globally in tropical, subtropical, and temperate waters.
Dick Horn
Richard Henry Horn (March 18, 1930 – October 22, 2022) was a professional American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played one season with the Baltimore Colts in 1958.

Horn played safety and was the backup quarterback for Stanford. He completed Stanford Medical School in 1959.

Horn died on October 22, 2022, at the age of 92.

Stanford University School of Medicine
The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This medical institution, then called Cooper Medical College, was acquired by Stanford in 1908. In 1959, the medical school moved to the Stanford campus near Palo Alto, California.

The School of Medicine, along with Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, is part of Stanford Medicine.
Radim Hruška
Radim Hruška (born October 12, 1984) is a Czech professional ice hockey player who currently plays with HC Nové Zámky in the Tipsport Liga.

Hruška previously played for HC Vsetín, HC Slezan Opava, HC Olomouc, HC Havířov, HK 36 Skalica and HC Vítkovice.

HC Vítkovice Ridera
HC Vítkovice Ridera is a professional ice hockey team based in Vítkovice, the Moravian-part of Ostrava, in the Czech Republic, competing in the Czech Extraliga. It plays at Ostravar Aréna.

The club was founded in 1928 after the merger of SK Moravská Slavia and SK Slovan Ostrava. Vítkovice were the champions of the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League in the 1951–52 and 1980–81 seasons.

Its biggest rivals are HC Oceláři Třinec and HC Sparta Prague.
MacInnis
MacInnis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ai Hua (born Charlotte MacInnis in 1981), American television presenter active in China

Al MacInnis (born 1963), Canadian hockey defenseman

Alison MacInnis (born 1980), American actress

Angus MacInnis (1884–1964), Canadian politician

David Macinnis Gill (born 1963), American author

Donald MacInnis (1918–2007), Canadian politician

Gordon MacInnis (born 1945), Canadian businessman and politician

Grace MacInnis (1905–1991), Canadian politician and feminist

Joseph B. MacInnis (born 1937), Canadian explorer, the first scientist to dive under the North Pole

Lloyd MacInnis (1917–1965), Canadian radio host and television presenter

Malcolm MacInnis (1933–2023), Canadian politician

William H. MacInnis (1861-?), American politician

Lloyd MacInnis
Lloyd Young MacInnis (21 August 1917 – 14 March 1965) was a Canadian radio host and television presenter from Nova Scotia. He was the writer and narrator of the 1964 two-part documentary The Silence Barrier, which covered deafness and teaching deaf children to speak. The documentary was produced by CBC Halifax and won the 1965 Alexander Graham Bell Award.
Play It Cool (film)
Play It Cool is a 1962 British musical film directed by Michael Winner and starring Billy Fury, Michael Anderson Jr., Helen Shapiro, Bobby Vee, Shane Fenton, Danny Williams, Dennis Price, Richard Wattis, Maurice Kaufmann and Anna Palk.

It was one of several pop musicals released around this time. Many of these were, like Play it Cool financed by Nat Cohen at Anglo Amalgamated.

Michael Anderson Jr.
Michael Joseph Anderson Jr. (born 6 August 1943) is a British-American retired actor whose 40-year career includes roles in The Sundowners, In Search of the Castaways, The Sons of Katie Elder, and Logan's Run. During the 1966 television season he starred as Clayt Monroe in The Monroes.
Kalaskathi
Kalaskati or Kalaskathi is a village in Bakerganj Upazila of Barisal District in the Barisal Division of southern-central Bangladesh.

According to the 2022 Census of Bangladesh, Kalaskati had 816 households and a population of 3,374. It has a total area of 2.03 km2 (0.78 sq mi).

Barisal Division
Barisal Division (Bengali: বরিশাল বিভাগ, romanized: Borishal Bibhag; Bengali pronunciation: [boriʃal bibʱag]) is one of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh. Located in the south-central part of the country, it has an area of 13,225 km2 (5,106 sq mi), and a population of 9,325,820 at the 2022 census. It is the least populous division in Bangladesh. It is bounded by Dhaka Division on the north, the Bay of Bengal on the south, Chittagong Division on the east and Khulna Division on the west. The administrative capital, Barisal city, lies in the Padma River delta on an offshoot of the Arial Khan River. Barisal division is criss-crossed by numerous rivers that earned it the nickname Dhan-Nodi-Khal, Ei tin-e Borishal (rice, river and canal built Barisal).
1991 Ryder Cup
The 29th Ryder Cup Matches were held September 27–29, 1991, on The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, southwest of Charleston.

The United States team won the competition by 141⁄2 to 131⁄2 points, winning back the Cup on the 18th hole of the final match. Bernhard Langer missed a six-foot (1.8 m) par putt which would have won his match and clinched a 14-all tie and retained the Ryder Cup for Europe. It was the first win for the U.S. since 1983, after consecutive losses to Europe in 1985 and 1987 and a tie in 1989. Due to the fierce competition, gamesmanship and general over-exuberance of the U.S. Team and their fans, these Ryder Cup Matches became known as the "War on the Shore."

The event was originally slated for PGA West, but was moved in 1989 to accommodate television coverage in both the United States and Europe.

The Ocean Course later hosted the PGA Championship in 2012 and 2021.

José María Olazábal
José María Olazábal Manterola (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse maˈɾia olaˈθaβal manteˈɾola], Basque: [olas̻abal]; born 5 February 1966) is a Spanish professional golfer from the Basque Country, Spain who has enjoyed success on both the European Tour and the PGA Tour. He has won 30 professional tournaments, including two major championships, both the 1994 and 1999 Masters Tournaments.

Olazábal played for Europe in seven Ryder Cups from 1987 to 2006. He also served as captain at the 2012 Ryder Cup, where the European team overcame a 10–6 deficit to win 14½–13½.
Bo Let Ya
Bo Let Ya (Burmese: ဗိုလ်လက်ျာ; pronounced [bò lɛʔ jà]; born Hla Pe Burmese: လှဘေ; pronounced [hla̰ pɛ̀]; 30 August 1911 – 29 November 1978) was a Burmese army general and a member of the legendary Thirty Comrades who fought for Burma's independence from Britain. He also served as the 2nd Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Union of Burma and Deputy Prime Minister of Burma.

Independence Day (Myanmar)
Independence Day (Burmese: လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့) is a national holiday observed annually in Myanmar every 4 January. The date celebrates Myanmar's Declaration of Independence from British colonization on 4 January 1948.
Goodenia purpurascens
Goodenia purpurascens is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It is usually a perennial herb with linear to lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant, and thyrses or panicles of purple flowers.

Goodeniaceae
Goodeniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales. It contains about 404 species in twelve genera. The family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus Scaevola, which is pantropical. Its species are found across most of Australia, being especially common in arid and semi-arid climates.