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[7] [26] Prior to the merge, the league held the 1949 college draft on March 21, which was the last event held under the name BAA. [21] The NBA later adopted the BAA's history and statistics as its own but did not do the same for NBL records and statistics. [4] [5] [27]
The league was formed as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946 and took its current name in 1949. The histories of NBA franchises that were also members of the American Basketball League (ABL), National Basketball League (NBL), National Pro Basketball League (NPBL), and American Basketball Association (ABA) are also included.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles .
The 1949–50 NBA season was the fourth season of the National Basketball Association.It was the first season after the merger of the 3-year-old BAA and 12-year-old NBL. [1] [2] The 1950 NBA playoffs ended with the Minneapolis Lakers winning the NBA Championship, beating the Syracuse Nationals in 6 games in the NBA Finals.
22 March – Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (died 2012) 27 March – Terry Yorath, footballer and football manager; 30 March – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian (died 2022) [38] 3 April – Sally Thomsett, actress; 19 April – Julia Cleverdon, charity worker; 20 April – Robert Mair, engineer and academic; 22 April
The history of Spanish–British relations is complicated by the political and religious heritages of the two countries. Neither the United Kingdom nor Spain have a unique constitutional ancestor; Britain was originally created by a union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland (and later joined by Ireland), whilst the Kingdom of Spain was initially created by a union of the crowns of Castile ...
31 March Newfoundland, a Dominion until 1934, joins Canada as a province. 18 April Ireland ceases to be regarded as a member of the Commonwealth by the Commonwealth countries. They took this view on the basis that the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 had come into effect. The legislation ended the statutory role of the British monarchy in Ireland.
The Spanish question (Spanish: Cuestión Española) was the set of geopolitical and diplomatic circumstances that marked the relationship between Spain and the United Nations between 1945 and 1955, centred on the UN's refusal to admit Spain to the organization due to Francoist Spain's sympathy for the Axis powers, defeated in World War II.