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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1949


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 6 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
  • January 10 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer
  • January 14 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
  • January 22 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
  • January 25 - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman　(b. 1861)
  • January 28 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
  • February 12 - Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
  • February 14 - Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
  • February 21 - Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
  • March 7 - Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
  • March 7 - Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 (b. 1884)
  • March 10 - James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
  • March 13 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
  • March 14 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
  • March 17 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
  • March 28 - Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
  • March 30 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist
  • April 15 - Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
  • April 18 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
  • April 19 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
  • April 28 - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
  • May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer
  • May 9 - Prince Louis II of Monaco, (b. 1870)
  • May 20 - Randolph West, American biochemist
  • May 21 - Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
  • May 24 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (b. 1873)
  • May 27 - Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890)
  • June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer
  • June 19 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
  • June 25 - Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871)
  • June 26 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
  • July 7 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
  • July 9 - Fritz Hart, English-born Australian composer (b. 1874)
  • July 12 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
  • July 16 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
  • July 18 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
  • August 16 - Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (b. 1900)
  • August 17 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist and politician (b. 1891)
  • August 18 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
  • August 30 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
  • September 7 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
  • September 8 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
  • September 13 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist
  • September 18 - Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
  • September 19 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
  • September 19 - George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
  • September 19 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
  • October 27 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
  • October 27 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
  • October 29 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
  • November 2 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
  • November 3 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
  • November 8 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
  • November 15 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte, conspirators against Mahatma Gandhi (b. Narayan Apte
  • November 25 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African American entertainer (b. 1878)
  • December 3 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876)
  • December 6 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1888)
  • December 16 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
  • December 28 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)

Events
  • January 1 - United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
  • January 2 - Luis Muńoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
  • January 11 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
  • January 15 - The Chinese Communist Party forces took over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
  • January 17 - The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs.
  • January 19 - Cuba recognises Israel.
  • January 25 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
  • January 25 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
  • February 8 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary sentenced for treason.
  • February 14 - The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
  • February 14 - The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
  • February 19 - Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • March 1 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
  • March 2 - Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
  • March 2 - The first automatic street light was installed in New Milford, Conn..
  • March 5 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
  • March 25 - The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
  • March 30 - Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO.
  • March 31 - The Dominion of Newfoundland joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
  • April 1 - Chinese Civil War: Communist Party of China holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
  • April 1 - The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
  • April 4 - Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
  • April 5 - Fireside Theater debuts on television.
  • April 5 - A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements.
  • April 18 - The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force.
  • April 18 - The aircraft carrier USS United States (CVA-58) is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, the United States is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
  • April 28 - Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
  • May 4 - The entire Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
  • May 5 - The Council of Europe in Strasbourg is founded through the Treaty of London as the first European institution working for European integration. Since 1964, May 5 has been designated Europe Day by the Council of Europe and is celebrated since then to commemorate its founding on May 5, 1949.
  • May 9 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
  • May 11 - Siam officially changes its name to Thailand, a name in use since 1939.
  • May 11 - Israel joins the United Nations.
  • May 12 - The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
  • May 12 - The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state
  • May 20 - In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
  • May 20 - The Kuomintang regime declares Taiwan is under martial law.
  • May 23 - The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
  • May 24 - The Soviet Union ends the 11-month Berlin Blockade.
  • June 8 - Celebrities 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 24 - The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
  • June 25 - Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
  • July 20 - Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
  • July 21 - The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
  • July 27 - Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
  • August 3 - National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
  • August 5 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000.
  • August 8 - Bhutan becomes independent.
  • August 10 - US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
  • August 22 - Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
  • August 24 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
  • August 29 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  • September 4 - Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon.
  • September 4 - The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
  • September 6 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
  • September 6 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
  • September 17 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
  • September 27 - The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
  • September 30 - The Berlin Airlift ends.
  • October 1 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
  • October 7 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
  • October 14 - Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.
  • October 14 - Chinese Red Army occupies Canton (Guangzhou).
  • October 16 - Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
  • October 16 - The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic are established.
  • November 15 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
  • November 26 - The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution.
  • December 7 - Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.
  • December 8 - Chinese Civil War: The capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.
  • December 10 - Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
  • December 13 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
  • December 16 - Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, later knows as SAAB, is founded in Sweden.
  • December 27 - Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence.
  • December 29 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.


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