1949 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1949?
- January 20, 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
- January 29, 1949 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
- April 5, 1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
- 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 23, 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
- May 12, 1949 – The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
- May 23, 1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
- June 5, 1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand’s Parliament.
- June 8, 1949 – 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, 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
- June 25, 1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
- August 5, 1949 – In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
- August 24, 1949 – The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
- 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 4, 1949 – The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
- September 6, 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
- September 29, 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China.
- September 30, 1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
- November 2, 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
- November 18, 1949 – The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
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