Events
DateEvent
1949 Kalevi Aho Was Born
1949 Eleanor Alberga Was Born
January 27 1949 Boris Asafyev Died
1949 Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Was Born
1949 George Botsford Died
1949 Hans Bottermund Died
1949 Euday L. Bowman Died
1949 Klaus Bruengel Was Born
1949 Harry Burleigh Died
1949 Enrico Cannio Died
1949 John Casken Was Born
1949 Daniel Catán Was Born
1949 Grigoras Dinicu Died
1949 David Foster Was Born
1949 Daniel E. Gawthrop Was Born
November 28 1949 Alexander Godunov Was Born
April 03 1949 Basil Harwood Died
1949 Volodymyr Ivasiuk Was Born
1949 Joan Lamote de Grignon Died
1949 Leonard Lehrman Was Born
1949 Erwin Lendvai Died
1949 Franco Leoni Died
1949 Michaël Lévinas Was Born
1949 Dan Locklair Was Born
1949 Richard Mills Was Born
1949 Vítězslav Novák Died
1949 Henri Rabaud Died
1949 Shulamit Ran Was Born
1949 Frank Ricotti Was Born
December 05 1949 Angela Ro Ro Was Born
1949 Christopher Rouse Was Born
1949 Sharon Ruchman Was Born
1949 Poul Ruders Was Born
1949 Gil Scott-Heron Was Born
1949 Sinyan Shen Was Born
1949 Richard Shephard Was Born
1949 Dave Smith Was Born
1949 Herbert Stothart Died
1949 Richard Strauss Died
1949 Steven Stucky Was Born
1949 John Thow Was Born
1949 Joaquín Turina Died
1949 Kevin Volans Was Born
1949 Philip Wilby Was Born
1949 Walter Zimmermann Was Born
January 01 1949 Kashmir Ceasefire Between India And Pakistan
1949 Hans Pfitzner Died
1949 Ferdinand Pfohl Died
1949 Ignatz Waghalter Died
1949 Ernest Walker Died
1949 Pierre de Bréville Died
1949 Carol E Barnett Was Born
1949 Nancy Dalberg Died
July 30 1949 Alexina Louie Was Born
1949 James Young Was Born
January 02 1949 Luis Munoz Marin Elected Governor Puerto Rico
January 03 1949 The Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas Established
January 05 1949 Fair Deal Program Unveiled By President Truman
January 11 1949 First Television Broadcasts Begin In Pittsburgh
January 11 1949 Los Angeles Hit By Record Snowstorm
January 15 1949 Chinese Communists Seize Tianjin From Nationalists
January 17 1949 The Goldbergs Airs For The First Time In America
January 19 1949 Cuba Recognizes Israel
January 20 1949 President Truman Announces Economic Aid For Poor Countries
January 25 1949 First Emmy Awards Given At Hollywood Club
January 26 1949 Palomar's Hale Telescope Sees First Light
January 31 1949 First Soap Opera Aired In Chicago
February 08 1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty Sentenced For Treason
February 14 1949 Israeli Parliament ""Knesset"" Assembles For First Meeting
February 14 1949 Strike Begins Quebec's Quiet Revolution
February 15 1949 The Dead Sea Scrolls Are Discovered
February 17 1949 Weizmann Begins Term As Israeli President
February 19 1949 Ezra Pound Is Awarded First Bollingen Prize
March 02 1949 Captain Gallagher Lands Plane In Texas
March 02 1949 Automatic Street Light First Installed In Connecticut
March 08 1949 Mildred Gillars Is Convicted Of Treason
March 08 1949 Élysée Accords Gives Vietnam Independence From France
March 25 1949 March Deportation Deports 92,000 People
March 30 1949 Iceland Joins NATO, Riots Break Out
March 31 1949 Newfoundland Joins Canadian Confederation, 10th Province
April 01 1949 Peace Talks Between Chinese Communists, Nationalists Unsuccessful
April 01 1949 Canada Repeals Japanese Canadian Internment
April 01 1949 The Irish Free State Becomes Ireland
April 04 1949 Twelve Nations Signed And Created NATO
April 05 1949 Fireside Theater Debuts On Television
April 05 1949 Illinois Hospital Fire Kills 77
April 17 1949 Republic Of Ireland Gets 21-gun Salute
April 18 1949 Keel For Aircraft Carrier Laid Down
April 23 1949 People's Liberation Army Navy Established
April 28 1949 Aurora Quezon, Her Daughter And Ten Others Assassinated
May 04 1949 Torino Football Team Killed
May 05 1949 Council Of Europe Working Towards European Integration
May 06 1949 EDSAC Runs Its First Operation
May 09 1949 Rainier III Crowned Prince Of Monaco
May 11 1949 Israel Joins The United Nations
May 11 1949 Siam Changes Name To Thailand Again
May 12 1949 Federal Repulic Of Germany Formed
May 12 1949 The Soviet Union Lifts Its Blockade Of Berlin
May 20 1949 US Armed Forces Security Agency Established
May 23 1949 Federal Republic Of Germany Established And Proclaimed
June 05 1949 Thailand Elects First Woman President
June 08 1949 Celebrities Named In FBI Communist Party Report
June 08 1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four Published
June 14 1949 Albert II First Monkey I Space
June 24 1949 First Western, Hopalong Cassidy Aired On NBC
June 25 1949 Bugs Bunny Is Released In Theaters
July 01 1949 Kerala Is Formed With A Merge Of States
July 20 1949 Israel And Syria Sign Truce Ending War
July 21 1949 U.S. Senate Ratifies North Atlantic Treaty
July 27 1949 First Flight Of Havilland Comet
August 05 1949 Ecuadoran Earthquake Causes Death And Destruction
August 05 1949 Mann Gulch Fire Kills 13 Firefighters, Montana
August 10 1949 Truman Signs The National Security Act
August 22 1949 Canadian Earthquake Queen Charlotte Largest Since 1700
August 24 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Goes Into Effect
August 29 1949 USSR Tests First Atomic Bomb In Kazakhstan
August 31 1949 Greek Army Retreats As Civil War Ends
September 04 1949 Peekskill NY Riots After Paul Robeson Concert
September 06 1949 Allies Relinquish Control Of Former Nazi Assets
September 17 1949 Toronto Steamship Fire Kills 118
September 27 1949 National People's Congress Approves Republic Of China Flag
September 29 1949 Chinese Communist Party Adopts Common Programme
September 30 1949 The Berlin Airlift Ends
October 01 1949 China Was Established And Declared By Mao Zedong
October 03 1949 First Black Radio WERD Opens In Atlanta
October 07 1949 East Germany Forms Communist Democratic Republic
October 14 1949 11 American Communist Are Convicted
October 14 1949 Chinese Communists Forces Occupy Guangzhou
October 16 1949 Greek Comunnist Party Announces 'cease-fire'
October 16 1949 Soviet And German Diplomatic Relations Established
October 24 1949 United Nations Headquarters: Cornerstone Laid
November 02 1949 Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference Ends
November 07 1949 First Oil Taken From Oldest Offshore Platform
November 15 1949 Godse And Aote Exected For Assassinating Gandhi
November 18 1949 Fatal Shooting Of Striking Nigerian Miners
November 26 1949 Ambedkar Constitution Adopted By Indian Assembly
December 07 1949 Chinese Government Moves From Nanking To Taipei
December 08 1949 1948 Un Relief And Works Aid Palestinian Refugees
December 10 1949 Chiang Kai-shek And His Government Retreat To Taiwan
December 13 1949 Knesset Votes For The Capital Of Israel
December 27 1949 The Netherlands Grants Indonesian It's Independence
December 29 1949 Connecticut's KC2XAK - First UHF Station Operating Daily