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'''1949''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXLIX''') was a
common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar).
Events
January
*
January 2 -
Luis Muñoz MarÃn became 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 22 -
Chinese Communist Party Communist forces enter
Peking
*
January 25 - The first
Emmy Awards are presented at the
Hollywood Athletic Club.
*
January 25 - In the first
Israeli election,
David Ben-Gurion becomes
Prime Minister of Israel Prime Minister.
*
January 26 -
Australian Citizenship comes into being.
February
*
February 1 -
Rationing of clothes ends in Britain
*
February 8 -
József Mindszenty Cardinal Mindszenty of
Hungary is sentenced to life imprisonment for
treason against the Hungarian Communist government.
*
February 12 - The Vatican announces the excommunication of all persons involved in the trial and conviction of Cardinal Mindszenty.
*
February 14 - The
Knesset (
Israeli parliament) first convenes.
*
February 14 -
António de Fragoso Carmona Antonio Carmona re-elected
president of Portugal for lack of opposing candidate
*
February 19 -
Ezra Pound is awarded the first
Bollingen Prize 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.
March
Image:Flag of NATO.svg thumb|150px|NATO formed, April 1949
*
March 1 - World heavyweight boxing champion
Joe Louis retires
*
March 1 - 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 3 - The
Tucker automobile Corporation folds.
*
March 12 - The
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
Denver & Rio Grande Western and
Western Pacific Railroad Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the ''
California Zephyr'' passenger train between
Chicago, Illinois and
Los Angeles, California as the first 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 28 -
United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly.
*
March 31 - The former British colony of
Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland joins
Canada as its 10th province.
April
*
April 1 -
Éire leaves the
Commonwealth of Nations British Commonwealth and becomes the
Republic of Ireland
*
April 1 - Founding of the
Tokyo Stock Exchange
*
April 4 -
North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, DC.
*
April 18 -
Éire formally became the
Republic of Ireland.
*
April 20 -
Royal Navy frigate ''
HMS Amethyst'' goes up the
Yangtze River to evacuate
Commonwealth of Nations British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of the Mao's communist forces. Under heavy fire it rans aground off
Rose Island. After an aborted rescue attempt at
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 29 - ''
News Review'' reveals that neither
Selhurst College nor its headmaster
H. Rochester Sneath exist
May
*
May 5 - The
Council of Europe is founded by the signing of the
Treaty of London.
*
May 9 -
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of
Monaco.
*
May 11 -
Israel is admitted to the
U.N. as its 59th member.
*
May 11 -
Siam changes its name to
Thailand.
*
May 12 -
Cold War: The
Soviet Union lifts its
Berlin Airlift Blockade of Berlin.
*
May 20 - The
AFSA (predecessor of the
National Security Agency NSA) is established.
*
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
University of Cambridge Cambridge University.
June
*
June 2 -
Transjordan becomes kingdom of
Jordan
*
June 6 - With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the
India Indian government,
Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial
Buddhism 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.
*
June 8 -
George Orwell's book
Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
*
June 29 - Last US troops withdraw from
South Korea
*
June 29 - Dock strike in the
United Kingdom UK
*
June 29 - Beginning of
Apartheid - The ''
South African Citizenship Act'' suspends the granting of citizenship to
Commonwealth of Nations British Commonwealth immigrants after five years and imposes a ban on
mixed marriages
July
*
July 31 - Captain Kerans of ''
HMS Amethyst'' decides to make a break after the nightfall under heavy fire from both sides of the river and successfully rejoins the fleet at
Woosung the next day July 26 John Mansford born.
August
*
August 5 - 6.75
Richter scale earthquake in
Ecuador kills 6000 and destroys 50 towns.
*
August 8 -
Bhutan becomes independent
*
August 14 - Gang of
Salvatore Giuliano explodes mines under police barracks outside
Palermo,
Sicily
*
August 14 -
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
*
August 29 -
Soviet Union tests its first
atomic bomb.
September
*
September 5 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
*
September 6 -
Allies Allied military authorities relinquish control of former
Nazi Germany assets back to
Germany 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
*
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 Harbor 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.
*
September 29 - Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for
Japan as "
Tokyo Rose" during
World War II.
October
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*
October 1 - Birth of the
People's Republic of China.
*
October 7 - Democratic Republic of Germany
Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR established officially
*
October 13 - Severe
flooding in
Guatemala
*
October 16 -
Civil war ends in
Greece - communist troops surrender
*
October 17 - Chinese communist troops take
Canton, China
*
October 27 - An airliner flying from
Paris to
New York crashes in the
Azores island of
São Miguel. Among the victims are violinist
Ginette Neveu and boxer
Marcel Cerdan.
November
*
November 15 -
Nathuram Godse and
Narayan Apte executed for assassinating
Mahatma Gandhi.
*
November 24 - Opening day at the ski resort
Squaw Valley California.
*
November 26 - The
Indian Constituent Assembly adopts
India's constitution. [http://lawmin.nic.in/coi.htm]
December
*
December 8 - Nationalist Chinese finish their evacuation to
Taiwan.
*
December 10- Robert Gordon (Bob) Menzies elected.
*
December 14 -
Traicho Kostov, ex-vice prime minister of
Bulgaria, is sentenced to death.
*
December 15 -
Typhoon strikes fishing fleet off
Korea - several thousand reported dead.
*
December 16 -
Sukarno elected president of Republic of
Indonesia.
*
December 17 -
Burma recognizes
People's Republic of China.
*
December 27 - Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands grants
Indonesia sovereignty.
*
December 30 -
India recognizes
People's Republic of China.
An Unknown Date
* The
Fourth Geneva Convention is signed.
* ''
Pamir (ship) Pamir'' is the last ''commercial''
sailing ship to sail round
Cape Horn.
Births
January
*
January 2 -
Christopher Durang, American playwright
*
January 7 -
Steven Williams, American actor
*
January 8 -
Wolfgang Puck, Austrian chef
*
January 10 -
George Foreman, American boxer
*January 10 -
James Lapine, American stage director and librettist
*
January 10 -
Linda Lovelace, American actress (d.
2002)
*
January 11 -
Kalev Ots, Estonian statesman
*
January 12 -
Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
*
January 13 -
Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d.
1997)
*
January 14 -
Lawrence Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
*
January 17 -
Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d.
1984)
*
January 18 -
Philippe Starck, French designer
*
January 19 -
Robert Palmer (British singer) Robert Palmer, English musician (d.
2003)
*January 19 -
Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
*
January 20 -
Göran Persson,
Prime Minister of Sweden
*
January 24 -
John Belushi, American actor (d.
1982)
*
January 30 -
Peter Agre, American biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*
January 31 -
Ken Wilber, American philosopher
February
*
February 2 -
Brent Spiner, American actor
*
February 3 -
Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist, World Champion in 1975
*
February 9 -
Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
*
February 10 -
Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
*
February 10 -
Harold Sylvester, American actor
*
February 15 -
Ken Anderson, American football player
*
February 18 -
Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
*
February 19 -
Dan Bunten, American computer game designer(d.
1998)
*
February 22 -
Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
*
February 25 -
Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
March
*
March 2 -
Gates McFadden, American actress
*March 2 -
Eddie Money, American singer
*March 2 -
JPR Williams, Welsh rugby player
*
March 3 -
Jesse Jefferson, baseball player
*
March 6 -
Shaukat Aziz,
Prime Minister of Pakistan
*March 6 -
Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
*
March 7 -
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
*
March 10 -
Larry Wall, American computer programmer
*
March 12 -
Bill Payne, American musician (
Little Feat)
*
March 13 -
Julia Migenes, American soprano
*
March 16 -
Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
*March 16 -
Victor Garber, Canadian actor
*
March 17 -
Patrick Duffy (actor) Patrick Duffy, American actor
*March 17 -
Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
*
March 18 -
Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player
*
March 22 -
Fanny Ardant, French actress
*
March 23 -
Ric Ocasek, American musician (
The Cars)
*
March 24 -
Nick Lowe, American musician
*
March 26 -
Patrick Süskind, German writer
*
March 30 -
Marcia Ball, American musician
*March 30 -
Lene Lovich, American singer
April
*
April 1 -
Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
*
April 1 -
Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer
*
April 1 -
Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer
*
April 3 -
Richard Thompson, British musician and songwriter
*
April 6 -
Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
April 7 -
John Oates, American musician (
Hall and Oates)
*
April 14 -
John Shea, American actor
*
April 16 -
Sandy Hawley, Canadian jockey
*
April 18 -
Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
May
*
May 4 -
John Force, American race car driver
*
May 7 -
Tanya Falan, American singer
*
May 9 -
Billy Joel, American musician
*
May 18 -
Rick Wakeman, English musician and songwriter (
Yes (band) Yes)
*
May 18 -
Bill Wallace, Canadian musician (
The Guess Who)
*
May 19 -
Archie Manning, American football player
*
May 24 -
Tomaz Pisanski Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
*
May 26 -
Philip Michael Thomas, American actor
*
May 26 -
Hank Williams Jr., American singer
*
May 31 -
Tom Berenger, American actor
June
*
June 8 -
Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
*
June 13 -
Ann Druyan, writer
*
June 14 -
Jimmy Lea, English musician (
Slade)
*
June 14 -
Harry Turtledove, American historian and novelist
*
June 21 -
John Agard, British poet and playwright
*
June 21 -
Jane Urquhart, Canadian author
July
*
July 3 -
Jan Smithers, American actress
*
July 15 -
Carl Bildt,
Prime Minister of Sweden
*
July 17 -
Charlie Steiner, American sportscaster
*
July 22 -
Alan Menken, American composer
*
July 26 -
Roger Meddows-Taylor Roger Taylor, English musician (
Queen (band) Queen)
August
*
August 6 -
Alan Campbell (pastor) Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
*
August 7 -
Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
*
August 12 -
Mark Knopfler, English guitarist, Dire Straits
*
August 15 -
Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
*
August 23 -
Shelley Long, American actress
* August 23 -
Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
*
August 25 -
Martin Amis, English novelist
*
August 31 -
Richard Gere, American actor
*August 31 -
H. David Politzer, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
September
*
September 1 -
P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
*
September 3 -
Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d.
2004)
*
September 7 -
Lee McGeorge Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
*
September 7 -
Gloria Gaynor, American singer
*
September 14 -
Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
*
September 15 -
Joe Barton, American politician
*
September 17 -
Cassandra Peterson, American actress
Elvira
*
September 18 -
Mo Mowlam, British politician (d.
2005)
*
September 19 -
Twiggy Twiggy Lawson, English model
*
September 23 -
Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
*
September 27 -
Mike Schmidt, baseball player
October
*
October 1 -
Isaac Bonewits, American author and occultist
*
October 8 -
Sigourney Weaver, American actress
*
October 14 -
Katy Manning, British actress
*
October 20 -
Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
*
October 21 -
Benjamin Netanyahu,
Prime Minister of Israel
*
October 22 -
Arsene Wenger, French football manager
*
October 22 -
Stiv Bators, American musician (
The Dead Boys) (d.
1990)
November
*
November 5 -
Armin Shimerman, American actor
*
November 6 -
Arturo Sandoval, Cuban musician
*
November 7 -
Aiswarya, Queen of Nepal (d.
2001)
*
November 7 -
Judi Bari, American environmental activist (d.
1997)
*
November 24 -
Nicholas Richard Ainger, British politician
*
November 25 -
Kerry O'Keeffe Kerry James O'Keeffe, Australian Test cricketer and commentator
*
November 26 -
Juanin Clay, American actress (d.
1995)
*
November 28 -
Alexander Godunov, Russian-born dancer and actor (d.
1995)
*
November 29 -
Jerry Lawler, American porfessional wrestler, and commentator
December
*
December 3 -
John Akii-Bua Ugandan hurdler (d.
1997)
*
December 4 -
Jeff Bridges, American actor
*
December 4 -
Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born comedienne, actress, and singer
*
December 7 -
Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
*
December 12 -
Bill Nighy, English actor
*
December 13 – Randy Owen, lead singer of the country music band
Alabama (band) Alabama
*
December 14 -
Bill Buckner, baseball player
*
December 16 -
Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
*
December 17 -
Paul Rodgers, British singer (
free (band) Free)
*
December 22 -
Maurice Gibb, Australian musician (
The Bee Gees) (d.
2003)
*
December 22 -
Robin Gibb, Australian musician (
The Bee Gees)
*
December 24 -
Randy Neugebauer, American politician
*
December 25 -
Sissy Spacek, American actress
*
December 25 -
Joe Louis Walker, American musician
*
December 26 -
José Ramos Horta, Foreign Minister of East Timor, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
Unknown date
*
Bill Farmer, American comedian, voiceover actor
*
William Hope (actor) William Hope, Canadian actor
Deaths
January
*
January 6 -
Victor Fleming, American director (b.
1883)
*
January 11 -
Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b.
1889)
*
January 14 -
JoaquÃn Turina, Spanish composer (b.
1882)
*
January 28 -
Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b.
1908)
February
*
February 12 -
Hassan al Banna Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b.
1906)
March
*
March 30 -
Friedrich Bergius, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1884)
April
*
April 19 -
Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b.
1877)
May
*
May 6 -
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1862)
*
May 9 -
Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b.
1870)
*
May 22 -
James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (suicide) (b.
1892)
*
May 22 -
Klaus Mann, German writer (suicide) (b.
1906)
June
*
June 10 -
Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1882)
*
June 14 -
Russell Doubleday, American author and publisher (b.
1872)
July
*
July 9 -
Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born composer (b.
1874)
*
July 12 -
Douglas Hyde, first
President of Ireland (b.
1860)
*
July 18-
VÃtÄ›zslav Novák, Czech composer (b.
1870)
August
*
August 18 -
Paul Mares, American musician (b.
1900)
*
August 30 -
Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b.
1877)
September
*
September 8 -
Richard Strauss, German composer (b.
1864)
*
September 13 -
August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1874)
*
September 19 -
Will Cuppy, American humorist (b.
1884)
*
September 19 -
George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (b.
1886)
*
September 19 -
Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b.
1901)
October
*
October 27 -
Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (plane crash) (b.
1916)
*
October 27 -
Ginette Neveu, French violinist (plane crash) (b.
1919)
December
*
December 6 -
Leadbelly, American musician (b.
1885)
*
December 11 -
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b.
1875)
*
December 16 -
Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b.
1873)
*
December 28 -
Hervey Allen, American author (b.
1889)
*
December 28 -
Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b.
1910)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize in Physics Physics -
Yukawa Hideki
*
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemistry -
William Francis Giauque
*
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Medicine -
Walter Rudolf Hess,
Antonio Caetano De Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
*
Nobel Prize in Literature Literature -
William Faulkner
*
Nobel Peace Prize Peace -
John Boyd Orr
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