1950

1950 in

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the DWU • vital statistics

Events

• 25 December - The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright stole the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey. (PROSE: Set in Stone)

Unknown dates

• Professor Zaroff disappeared from public life and began his efforts to find and raise Atlantis. (TV: The Underwater Menace)
• The Royal Air Force officer Squadron Leader Ian Gilmore was assigned to Berlin, where he befriended a Czech medic named Nadia Červenka. They shared several drinks as well as rations. He and his troops rendered assistance to the Berliners in rebuilding their city in the aftermath of World War II. Due to the increasingly contentious Cold War, his troops were eventually airlifted out of Germany with Červenka's assistance. (AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence)
• 1 January - Actor Hugh Hayes was born.
• 17 January - Actor Sharon Duce was born.
• 20 January - Actor Liza Goddard was born.
• 22 January - Actor Pamela Salem was born.
• 25 January - Actor Christopher Ryan was born.
• 22 March - Actor Mary Tamm was born.
• 30 March - Actor Stephen Jenn was born.
• 17 April - Actor Peter Mantle was born.
• 25 April - Actor Peter Jurasik was born.
• 17 May - Actor Catherine Howe was born.
• 25 May - Actor Eric Deacon was born.
• 9 June - Actor David Troughton, son of Patrick Troughton, was born.
• 25 June - Actor Nitza Saul was born.
• 1 July - Actor Ben Roberts was born.
• 23 July - Actor Cheryl Hall was born.
• 27 July - Actor Nigel Plaskitt was born.
• 24 September - Actor Harriet Walter was born.
• 2 October - Actor Ian McNeice was born.
• 7 November - Actor Lindsay Duncan was born.
• 17 December - Actor Michael Cashman was born.