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Events from the year 1950 in Massachusetts.
Office holders
[edit]State office holders
[edit]- Governor of Massachusetts: Paul A. Dever (Democrat)
- Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts:
- Massachusetts Attorney General:
- Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: (Republican)
- Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives:
- Majority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate:
- Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court:
Mayors of major cities
[edit]- Mayor of Detroit: Albert Cobo
- Mayor of Grand Rapids: Stanley J. Davis/Paul G. Goebel
- Mayor of Flint: George G. Wills/Paul Lovegrove
- Mayor of Lansing: Ralph Crego
- Mayor of Ann Arbor: William E. Brown Jr.
Federal office holders
[edit]- U.S. Senator from Michigan: Homer S. Ferguson (Republican)
- U.S. Senator from Michigan: Arthur Vandenberg (Republican)
- House District 1: George G. Sadowski (Democrat)
- House District 2: Earl C. Michener (Republican)
- House District 3: Paul W. Shafer (Republican)
- House District 4: Clare Hoffman (Republican)
- House District 5: Gerald Ford (Republican)
- House District 6: William W. Blackney (Republican)
- House District 7: Jesse P. Wolcott (Republican)
- House District 8: Fred L. Crawford (Republican)
- House District 9: Albert J. Engel (Republican)
- House District 10: Roy O. Woodruff (Republican)
- House District 11: Charles E. Potter (Republican)
- House District 12: John B. Bennett (Republican)
- House District 13: George D. O'Brien (Democrat)
- House District 14: Louis C. Rabaut (Democrat)
- House District 15: John D. Dingell Sr. (Democrat)
- House District 16: John Lesinski Sr. (Democrat)
- House District 17: George Anthony Dondero (Republican)
Daniel Tyler Jr. Chairman of the Republican State Committee
Sports
[edit]Baseball
[edit]- 1950 Boston Braves season
- 1950 Boston Red Sox season
- 1950 Tufts Jumbos baseball team
- Orleans Firebirds won the 1950 Cape Cod Baseball League championship against Sagamore
American football
[edit]- 1950 Boston College Eagles football team
- 1950 Boston University Terriers football team
- 1950 Harvard Crimson football team
- 1950 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
- 1950 UMass Redmen football team
Basketball
[edit]Ice hockey
[edit]Boat racing
[edit]Boxing
[edit]Golfing
[edit]Other
[edit]- Ham Kee-yong – winner of 1950 List of winners of the Boston Marathon
Chronology of events
[edit]January
[edit]- January 2 – John Hynes becomes 48th Mayor of Boston
- January 14 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester was established
- January 17 – Great Brink's Robbery: 11 thieves steal more than $2,000,000 from an armored car in the North End, Boston.
February
[edit]- The Town and the City published, set in Lowell
- February 15 – Cinderella (1950 film): film originally released in theaters in Boston.
- February 15 – WFGL first aired in Fitchburg
- February 27 – The Tobin Bridge was opened.
March
[edit]- March 1 – WBUR-FM first aired in Boston
April
[edit]- April 8 – Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed the first photograph demonstrating the appearance of an atom, using x-rays to simulate a pattern of iron and sulphur atoms, within the mineral marcasite, magnified more than 10,000,000 times.[1]
- April 30 – Murphy Army Hospital in Waltham, Massachusetts, was deactivated, bringing an end to an 11-month long experiment to determine "to what extent women could be substituted for men in the operation of Army hospitals". Major General Raymond W. Bliss, the Surgeon General of the United States Army, had started a process on June 1, 1949, in which civilian women and members of the Women's Army Corps would gradually replace men in the majority of medical and administrative jobs. However, no women Army doctors were available and "costs precluded the hospital's hiring of civilian women for the experiment."[2]
May
[edit]- May 23 – Chief Don Eagle defeated Frank Sexton in a best-of-three falls. Sexton was just over a year into a near-four-year reign of the Boston version of the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
June
[edit]July
[edit]August
[edit]- August 22 – Kowloon Restaurant opened in Saugus.
September
[edit]- September 1950 – Hurricane Dog was a major offshore hurricane that moved very close to Nantucket. Hurricane conditions occurred across southeast Massachusetts. Winds gusted near hurricane force on Nantucket and along the New England coast.
October
[edit]November
[edit]December
[edit]- WHMP first aired in Northampton
Other
[edit]- Boston University College of Engineering was established.
- MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences officially established.
- American Healthcare Professionals and Friends for Medicine in Israel established in Boston.
- Ann's Diner was built in Salisbury
- Athol Memorial Hospital established in Athol.
- Camp Danbee was established on the south side of Lake Ashmere in Peru
- Cape Cod Music Circus opened in Hyannis
- Chicopee Valley Aqueduct was completed.
- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum opened in Lincoln.
- Dunkin' Donuts was founded by Bill Rosenberg in Quincy
- Eliot Bridge completed
- Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts founded in Roxbury
- Heritage Academy Longmeadow founded in Longmeadow
- In 1950, Legal Sea Foods opened a fish market opened in Cambridge
- MACOM Technology Solutions was founded.
- WREB (Massachusetts) first aired in Holyoke
- Harbor Defenses of New Bedford disestablished
- Mystery Street filmed in Boston and on Cape Cod
- International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Cambridge
- List Visual Arts Center was established
- Joseph Barboza sent to Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Concord
- Marsh Chapel built
Births
[edit]- January 26 – Mike Pazik in Lynn
- January 26 – Paul Pena in Hyannis
- January 27 – Thomas Finneran in Boston
- January 29 – Ann Jillian in Cambridge
- February 4 – Bill Adams in Lynn
- March 27 – Robert DeLeo in Winthrop
- March 30 – John D'earth in Framingham
- April 12 – Peter W. Agnes Jr. in Somerville
- April 28 – Bruce H. Mann in Cambridge
- May 5 – Joseph Abboud in Boston
- May 7 – Patricia Haddad in Fall River
- May 11 – John F. Kelly in Boston
- May 12 – Billy Squier in Wellesley
- May 12 – Jocko Marcellino in Quincy
- May 26 – Ned Dowd in Boston
- June 9 – Thomas Palumbo in Newburyport
- June 10 – Larry Alexander in Gardner
- June 26 – Nancy Flavin in Northampton
- June 30 – Edward J. Clancy Jr. in Lynn
- July 11 – Roxanne Quimby in Cambridge
- September 10 – Joe Perry in Lawrence
- September 16 – Loyd Grossman in Boston
- September 17 – William F. Galvin in Brighton
- September 23 – George Garzone in Boston
- October 20 – Martha B. Sosman in Boston
- October 30 – Louise DuArt in Quincy
- November 20 – Edward Bozek in Salem
- December 15 – Kevin Collins in Springfield
- Brunonia Barry in Salem
- Hannah Howell
- John McNamara (artist)
- Larry Frisoli
- Phillip Pizzo
- Douglas Whynott
- Ron Hurst (musician)
Deaths
[edit]- January 8 – Allison G. Catheron in Wellesley
- January 26 – Tom Bannon in Lynn
- February 2 – John Butler in Boston
- February 25 – George Minot in Brookline
- March 15 – Alice Stone Blackwell in Cambridge
- March 16 – Ruby Foo in Jamaica Plain
- April 1 – F. O. Matthiessen in Boston
- April 7 – Martha Atwood in Hyannis
- May 1 – Daniel Huntington in Wellesley
- May 30 – William J. Day in Dorchester
- May 30 – Margaret Sutermeister in Milton
- July 1 – Melvin B. Breath in Chelsea
- July 18 – Art LaVigne in Worcester
- July 19 – Arthur L. Newton in Worcester
- August 17 – Paddy O'Connor in Springfield
- September 19 – Chrystal Herne in Boston
- September 25 – Pep Deininger in Boston
- October 2 – John F. Fitzgerald in Boston
- October 5 – Thomas Addis Emmet in Boston
- October 9 – Frank G. Allen in Norwood
- October 15 – Samuel A. Eliot in Boston
- October 15 – Ulysses Grant Groff
- October 28 – George Cabot Lee Jr. in Boston
- November 16 – John Phillip Rilley in Salem
- November 25 – Mark Hart in Worcester
- December 14 – Grace Elliston in Lenox
- Charles Metcalf Allen
- Gordon M. Craig buried at Elmwood Cemetery, East Bridgewater
- Joseph R. Ouellette buried at Saint Joseph Cemetery, Chelmsford
- Ida Annah Ryan buried at Grove Hill Cemetery in Waltham
- Thomas Whittemore buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge
1950 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
1949–1950 Massachusetts legislature
1950 United States House of Representatives elections#Special elections
1950 Massachusetts elections#Secretary of the Commonwealth
1950 Massachusetts elections#Attorney General
1950 United States House of Representatives elections#Massachusetts