page_title: October 1950
section_title: October 1, 1950 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1950 / October 1, 1950 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1950:
context_section_description: Led by Võ Nguyên Giáp, Communist troops in the northern section of the French Indochina colony of Vietnam began a campaign of attacks on French colonial fortresses along the border with China.  The 10,000 French troops in the forts faced 14 infantry and three artillery battalions, and were separated from the main French armies by 300 miles of jungle, and all of them would fall by October 17.
  In a conclusion of what would later be called the Leningrad Affair, six prominent leaders in the Soviet city of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) were executed following their organization of an unauthorized trade fair in 1949. Convicted and shot were Mikhail Rodionov, the former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Republic; Pyotr Popkov, the Leningrad regional secretary; Soviet Planning Committee Chairman Nikolai Voznesensky; Leningrad First Secretary Aleksey Kuznetsov; Lengingrad Deputy Secretary Ya. F. Kapustin; and Leningrad Mayor P.G. Lazutin.
  The minesweeper USS Magpie became the first American ship to be sunk during the Korean War, after striking a mine.  Twenty-one people, including the ship's commander, Lt. (j.g.) Warren R. Pierson, were killed.
  On the final day of the 1950 National League baseball season, the second-place Brooklyn Dodgers hosted the league-leading Philadelphia Phillies, after having closed the gap from nine games behind to only one.  A Brooklyn win would have both teams tied at 90-64 and would have forced a playoff for the pennant, and the Dodgers had the bases loaded and were tied 1–1 in the ninth inning; but a deep right center hit by Gil Hodges was caught, and the Phillies went on to the World Series with a 4–1 win.
  The Tallkrogen, Gullmarsplan, Medborgarplatsen, Skanstull and Skogskyrkogården metro stations on the Stockholm metro were inaugurated in Sweden.
  Born:
  Boris Morukov, Russian cosmonaut who flew as an astronaut on the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 2006 (d. 2015)
  Randy Quaid, American actor, in Houston, Texas
caption: Voznesensky
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