Timeline March 1950

Events in March 1950 7

• 1871 – 1950 Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) Died 11 March 1950, aged 78 Heinrich Mann was a German novelist and elder brother of Thomas Mann, best known for the novel Professor Unrat, adapted into the film The Blue Angel. A vocal critic of Nazism, he fled Germany in 1933 and eventually settled in the United States. He died in Santa Monica, California, shortly before a planned return to East Germany.
• 1872 – 1950 Leon Blum (1872-1950) Died 30 March 1950, aged 77 Leon Blum was a French statesman who led the Popular Front government of the 1930s as France's first Socialist and first Jewish prime minister. He was imprisoned by the Vichy regime and deported to German concentration camps during the war. He briefly served again as prime minister in 1946-47.
• 1875 – 1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) Died 19 March 1950, aged 74 Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author best known for creating Tarzan and the John Carter of Mars series. His pulp adventure novels sold in the tens of millions and were adapted into numerous films. He died in Encino, California.
• 1949 – 1950 Miles Davis records Birth of the Cool Cool jazz A nonet that launches cool jazz.
• 1950 Klaus Fuchs convicted of atomic espionage Physicist sentenced for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted in a London court of passing atomic bomb secrets from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. He was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. The case exposed major breaches in Western nuclear security during the early Cold War.
• 1950 – 1983 Karen Carpenter (1950-1983) Died 4 February 1983, aged 32 Karen Carpenter was an American singer and drummer who, with her brother Richard, formed the pop duo the Carpenters. Her death from complications of anorexia nervosa brought international attention to eating disorders. The duo sold over 100 million records worldwide.
• 1950 1950 World Snooker Championship Donaldson Title 2 Winner: Walter Donaldson; Runner-up: Fred Davis. Score: 51–46.