1949 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1949?
- January 3, 1949 – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
- January 11, 1949 – First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
- January 19, 1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
- January 29, 1949 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 15, 1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
- March 2, 1949 – The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
- March 8, 1949 – Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason
- April 1, 1949 – The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
- April 18, 1949 – The aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
- April 28, 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines 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.
- July 21, 1949 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
- August 3, 1949 – The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
- August 31, 1949 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
- September 6, 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
- October 1, 1949 – The People’s Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
- October 7, 1949 – The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
- October 14, 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
- November 26, 1949 – The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India’s constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
- December 10, 1949 – 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.
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