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Contents  (full)

1 Events of 1949

-  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

-  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.

-  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.

-  Undated ^. Ongoing ^.
-  World population

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel Prizes  -  Fields Medalists

5 See also -  Notes -  External links

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Events of 1949

January

January 17: Beetle in US

• January 2 - Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
• January 4 - RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage.
  • January 4 - February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish.
• January 5 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
• January 11 - Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall.
• January 17 - The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought over to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff that the car has no future in the U.S. (The VW Beetle goes on to become the greatest automobile phenomenon in American history.)
• January 19 - First recorded date of The Poe Toaster to appear at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe
• January 20 - Elected U.S. President Harry S. Truman begins his full term.

• January 25
  • Forces from the Communist Party of China enter Beijing.
  • The first Emmy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
  • In the first Israeli election, David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
• January 26 - Australian Citizenship comes into being.

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February

• February 1 - Rationing of clothes ends in Britain.
• Antonio Carmona is re-elected president of Portugal for lack of an opposing candidate.
• February 19 - Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
• February 22 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.

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March

NATO formed, April 1949

• March 1
  • World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires
  • Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
• March 2 - The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II under Captain James Gallagher lands in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight. It was refueled in flight four times.
• March 17 - Grand opening of the Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Texas, owned by oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy.
• March 20 - The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
• March 25 - The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
• March 26 - The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half will be telecast a week later. This will be the only complete opera that Toscanini will ever conduct on television.
• March 28 - United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly.
• March 31 - The former British colony of Newfoundland and Labrador joins Canada as its 10th province.

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April

• April 1
  • Éire leaves the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.
  • The Tokyo Stock Exchange is founded.
• April 4 - The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, DC, creating the NATO defense alliance.
• April 7 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, opens on Broadway and goes on to become R&H's second longest-running musical. It becomes an instant classic of the musical theatre. The score's biggest hit is the song Some Enchanted Evening.
• April 14 - The day the N'Ko alphabet is held to have been completed by Solomana Kante.
• April 18 - Éire formally became the Republic of Ireland.
• April 20 - Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst (U16) goes up the Yangtze River to evacuate British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of the Mao's communist forces. Under heavy fire it runs aground off Rose Island. After an aborted rescue attempt on April 26 it anchors 10 miles upstream. Negotiations with the communist forces to let the ship leave drag on for weeks
• April 23 - Chinese communist troops take Nanking
• April 28 - India issues the London Declaration, enabling it (and, thereafter, any other nation) to remain in the British Commonwealth despite becoming a republic, creating the position of 'Head of the Commonwealth', and renaming the organisation as the 'Commonwealth of Nations'.
• April 29 - The News Review reveals that neither Selhurst College nor its headmaster H. Rochester Sneath exist.

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May

• May 1 - Nereid, a moon of Neptune, is discovered by Gerard P. Kuiper.
• May 5 - The Council of Europe is founded by the signing of the Treaty of London.
• May 9 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco, upon the death of his maternal grandfather Louis II.
• May 11
  • Israel is admitted to the U.N. as its 59th member.
  • Siam officially changes its name to Thailand, a name in use since 1939.
• May 12 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
• May 20
  • The AFSA (predecessor of the NSA) is established.
  • Kuomintang regime declare Taiwan is under the martial law.
• May 22 - After two months in Bethesda Naval Hospital, James Forrestal commits suicide, under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.
• May 23 - The Federal Republic of Germany is established.
• EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, begins operation at Cambridge University.

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June

• June 2 - Transjordan becomes kingdom of Jordan
• June 6 - With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control.
• June 8
  • Red Scare: Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
  • George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• June 22 - Academy Award winning actress, Meryl Streep is born to a comercial artist and pharamceutical director in Summit, New Jersey.[Streep%20-%2001%20-%20The Devil Wears Prada]
• June 24 - First Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC.
• June 29
  • Last US troops withdraw from South Korea
  • Dock strike in the UK
  • Beginning of Apartheid - The South African Citizenship Act suspends the granting of citizenship to British Commonwealth immigrants after five years and imposes a ban on mixed marriages

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July

• July 20 - Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
• July 27 - Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
• July 31 - Captain Kerans of the HMS Amethyst decides to make a break after nightfall under heavy fire from the Chinese People's Liberation Army both sides of the Yangtze River and successfully rejoins the fleet at Woosung the next day.

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August

• August 5 - 6.75 Richter scale earthquake in Ecuador kills 6000 and destroys 50 towns.
• August 8 - Bhutan becomes independent
• August 12 - The Fourth Geneva Convention is agreed.
• August 14
  • Gang of Salvatore Giuliano explodes mines under police barracks outside Palermo, Sicily
  • Military coup in Syria ousts the president
• August 28 - Last surviving veterans of the United States Civil War meet in Indianapolis - all six
• August 29
  • First meeting of the Council of Europe
  • Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, code named "Joe 1." Its design imitated the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.

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September

• September 5 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbours in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
• September 6 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
• September 7 - Federal Republic of Germany officially founded. Konrad Adenauer is the first federal chancellor.
• September 9
  • Albert Guay affair: dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in Quebec.
  • Notorious World War II veteran Edwin Alonzo Boyd commits his first career bank robbery in Toronto
• September 13 - Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership of Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal.
• September 17 - Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
• September 24 - Laszlo Rajk, ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.
• September 29
  • First Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves design for the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
  • Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for Japan as "Tokyo Rose" during World War II.
• September - Mervyn's reveal their first logo, used until 1994.

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