1949 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1949?
- January 2, 1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico
- January 11, 1949 – First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
- January 15, 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
- 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 14, 1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
- March 31, 1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
- April 4, 1949 – Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- April 23, 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
- May 11, 1949 – Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.
- July 1, 1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.
- August 5, 1949 – In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
- August 22, 1949 – Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
- September 6, 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
- September 27, 1949 – 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, 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 15, 1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
- December 13, 1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
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