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'''1949''' '''(MCMXLIX)''' is a Common_year_starting_on_Saturday.
==Events==
===January-February===
* January_4 - ''RMS_Caronia'' of the Cunard_Line departs Southampton for New_York on her maiden voyage
* January_4 - February_22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South_Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish
* January_5 - U.S. President Harry_S._Truman unveils his Fair_Deal program.
* January_11 - Los_Angeles,_California receives its first recorded Snowfall.
* January_22 - Communist forces enter Peking
* January_25 - The first Emmy_Awards are presented at the Hollywood_Athletic_Club.
* January_25 - In the first Israeli election, David_Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
* January_26 - Australian Citizenship comes into being.
* February_1 - Rationing of clothes ends in Britain
* February_8 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced to life imprisonment for Treason against the Hungarian Communist government.
* February_12 - The Vatican announces the excommunication of all persons involved in the trial and conviction of Cardinal Mindszenty.
* February_14 - The Knesset (Israeli parliament) first convenes.
* February_14 - Antonio Carmona re-elected President_of_Portugal for lack of opposing candidate
* February_19 - Ezra_Pound is awarded the first Bollingen_Prize_in_poetry by the Bollingen_Foundation and Yale_University.
* February_22 - Grady_the_Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon,_Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
===March-April===
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* March_1 - World heavyweight boxing champion Joe_Louis retires
* March_1 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch
* March_2 - The B-50_Superfortress ''Lucky_Lady_II'' under Captain '''James Gallagher''' lands in Fort_Worth,_Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world Airplane flight. It was refueled in flight four times.
* March_3 - The Tucker_automobile Corporation folds.
* March_12 - The Chicago,_Burlington_&_Quincy, Denver_&_Rio_Grande_Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the ''California_Zephyr'' passenger train between Chicago,_Illinois and Los_Angeles,_California as the first train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
* March_28 - United_States_Secretary_of_Defense James_Forrestal resigns suddenly.
* March_31 - The former British colony of Newfoundland joins Canada as its 10th province.
* April_1 - Éire leaves the Commonwealth and becomes the Republic_of_Ireland
* April_4 - NATO is formed.
* April_18 - Éire formally became the Republic_of_Ireland.
* April_20 - Royal_Navy Frigate ''HMS_Amethyst'' goes up the Yangtze_River to evacuate British_Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of the Mao's communist forces. Under heavy fire it rans aground off Rose_Island. After an aborted rescue attempt at April_26 it anchors 10 miles upstream. Negotiations with the communist forces to let the ship leave drag on for weeks
* April_23 - Chinese communist troops take Nanking
* April_29 - ''News_Review'' reveals that neither Selhurst_College nor its headmaster H._Rochester_Sneath exist
===May-June===
* May_5 - The Council_of_Europe is founded by the signing of the Treaty_of_London.
* May_9 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
* May_11 - Israel is admitted to the U.N. as its 59th member.
* May_11 - Siam changes its name to Thailand.
* May_12 - Cold_War: The Soviet_Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
* May_20 - The AFSA (predecessor of the NSA) is established.
* May_22 - After two months in Bethesda_Naval_Hospital, James_Forrestal commits Suicide, under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.
* May_23 - The Federal_Republic_of_Germany is established.
* EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, begins operation at Cambridge_University.
* June_2 - Transjordan becomes kingdom of Jordan
* June_6 - With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi_Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control.
* June_8 - Red_Scare: Such celebrities as 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_8 - George_Orwell's book Nineteen_Eighty-Four is published.
* June_29 - Last US troops withdraw from South_Korea
* June_29 - Dock strike in the UK
* June_29 - Beginning of Apartheid - The ''South_African Citizenship Act'' suspends the granting of citizenship to British_Commonwealth immigrants after five years and imposes a ban on Mixed_marriages
* July_31 - Captain Kerans of ''HMS_Amethyst'' decides to make a break after the nightfall under heavy fire from both sides of the river and successfully rejoins the fleet at Woosung the next day
===August===
* August_5 - In Ecuador an Earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 8000
* August_5 - 6.75 Richter_scale Earthquake kills 6000 in Ecuador
* August_8 - Bhutan becomes independent
* August_14 - Gang of Salvatore_Giuliano explodes mines under police barracks outside Palermo, Sicily
* August_14 - Military_coup in Syria ousts the president
* August_28 - Last surviving veterans of the United_States_Civil_War meet in Indianapolis - all six
* August_29 - First meeting of the Council_of_Europe
* August_29 - Soviet_Union tests its first Atomic_bomb.
===September===
* September_5 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
* September_6 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi_Germany assets back to German control.
* September_7 - Federal_Republic_of_Germany officially founded. Konrad_Adenauer is the first federal chancellor
* September_9 - Albert_Guay_affair: dynamite bomb destroys Canadian_Pacific_Airlines Douglas_DC-3 in Quebec
* September_13 - Soviet_Union vetoes United_Nations membership of Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal
* September_17 - Canadian steamship SS_Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
* September_24 - Laszlo_Rajk, ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.
* September_29 - First Plenary Session of the National_People's_Congress approves design for the Flag_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China.
* September_29 - Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for Japan as "Tokyo_Rose" during World_War_II.
===October-December===
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* October_1 - Birth of the People's_Republic_of_China.
* October_7 - Democratic Republic of Germany DDR established officially
* October_13 - Severe Flooding in Guatemala
* October_16 - Civil_war ends in Greece - communist troops surrender
* October_17 - Chinese communist troops take Canton,_China
* October_27 - An airliner flying from Paris to New_York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette_Neveu and boxer Marcel_Cerdan.
* November_24 - Opening day at the ski resort Squaw_Valley California.
* November_26 - The Indian_Constituent_Assembly adopts India's constitution. http://lawmin.nic.in/coi.htm
* December_8 - Nationalist Chinese finish their evacuation to Taiwan.
* December_10- Robert Gordon (Bob) Menzies elected.
* December_14 - Traicho_Kostov, ex-vice prime minister of Bulgaria, is sentenced to death.
* December_15 - Typhoon strikes fishing fleet off Korea - several thousand reported dead.
* December_16 - Sukarno elected president of Republic of Indonesia.
* December_17 - Burma recognizes People's_Republic_of_China.
* December_27 - Queen Juliana_of_the_Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty.
* December_30 - India recognizes People's_Republic_of_China.
===An Unknown Date===
* The Fourth_Geneva_Convention is signed.
* ''Pamir'' is the last ''commercial'' Sailing_ship to sail round Cape_Horn.
==Births==
===January===
*January_2 - Christopher_Durang, American playwright
*January_7 - Steven_Williams, American actor
*January_8 - Wolfgang_Puck, Austrian chef
*January_10 - George_Foreman, American boxer
*January 10 - James_Lapine, American stage director and librettist
*January_10 - Linda_Lovelace, American actress (d. 2002)
*January_11 - Kalev_Ots, Estonian statesman
*January_12 - Wayne_Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
*January_13 - Brandon_Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
*January_14 - Lawrence_Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
*January_17 - Andy_Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
*January_18 - Philippe_Starck, French designer
*January_19 - Robert Palmer, English musician (d. 2003)
*January_20 - Göran_Persson, Prime_Minister_of_Sweden
*January_24 - John_Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
*January_30 - Peter_Agre, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry
*January_31 - Ken_Wilber, American philosopher
===February===
*February_2 - Brent_Spiner, American actor
*February_9 - Jim_Sheridan, Irish film director
*February_10 - Maxime_Le_Forestier, French singer
*February_10 - Harold_Sylvester, American actor
*February_15 - Ken_Anderson, American football player
*February_18 - Gary_Ridgway, American serial killer
*February_19 - Dan_Bunten, American computer game designer(d. 1998)
*February_22 - Niki_Lauda, Austrian race car driver
*February_25 - Ric_Flair, American professional wrestler
===March===
*March_2 - Gates_McFadden, American actress
*March 2 - Eddie_Money, American singer
*March 2 - JPR_Williams, Welsh rugby player
*March_3 - Jesse_Jefferson, baseball player
*March_6 - Shaukat_Aziz, Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan
*March 6 - Martin_Buchan, Scottish footballer
*March_7 - Ghulam_Nabi_Azad, Indian politician
*March_10 - Larry_Wall, American computer programmer
*March_12 - Bill_Payne, American musician (Little_Feat)
*March_13 - Julia_Migenes, American soprano
*March_16 - Erik_Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
*March 16 - Victor_Garber, Canadian actor
*March_17 - Patrick_Duffy, American actor
*March_22 - Fanny_Ardant, French actress
*March_23 - Ric_Ocasek, American musician (The_Cars)
*March_24 - Nick_Lowe, American musician
*March_26 - Patrick_Süskind, German writer
*March_30 - Marcia_Ball, American musician
*March 30 - Lene_Lovich, American singer
===April-June===
*April_1 - Gérard_Mestrallet, French businessman
*April 1 - Gil_Scott-Heron, American musician and composer
*April_3 - Richard_Thompson, British musician and songwriter
*April_6 - Horst_Ludwig_Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
*April_7 - John_Oates, American musician (Hall_and_Oates)
*April_14 - John_Shea, American actor
*April_16 - Sandy_Hawley, Canadian jockey
*April_17 - Claudia_de_Santa-Fe, American painter and sculptor
*April_18 - Geoff_Bodine, American race car driver
*May_4 - John_Force, American race car driver
*May_9 - Billy_Joel, American musician
*May_18 - Rick_Wakeman, English musician and songwriter (Yes)
*May 18 - Bill_Wallace, Canadian musician (The_Guess_Who)
*May_19 - Archie_Manning, American football player
*May_24 - Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
*May_26 - Philip_Michael_Thomas, American actor
*May 26 - Hank_Williams_Jr., American singer
*May_31 - Tom_Berenger, American actor
*June_8 - Emanuel_Ax, Polish-born pianist
*June_13 - Ann_Druyan, writer
*June_14 - Jimmy_Lea, English musician (Slade)
*June 14 - Harry_Turtledove, American historian and novelist
*June_21 - John_Agard, British poet and playwright
*June 21 - Jane_Urquhart, Canadian author
*June 24 - Albert_Zappelli, American Educator
===July-September===
*July_3 - Jan_Smithers, American actress
*July_15 - Carl_Bildt, Prime_Minister_of_Sweden
*July_17 - Charlie_Steiner, American sportscaster
*July_22 - Alan_Menken, American composer
*July_26 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
*August_6 - Alan Campbell, Irish minister
*August_7 - Walid_Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
*August_12 - Mark_Knopfler, Swiss guitarist
*August_15 - Richard_Deacon, Welsh sculptor
*August_23 - Shelley_Long, American actress
* August 23 - Rick_Springfield, Australian singer and actor
*August_25 - Martin_Amis, English novelist
*August_31 - Richard_Gere, American actor
*August 31 - H._David_Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
*September_1 - P.A._Sangma, Indian politician
*September_3 - Patriarch_Peter_VII_of_Alexandria (d. 2004)
*September_7 - Lee_McGeorge_Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
*September 7 - Gloria_Gaynor, American singer
*September_14 - Eikichi_Yazawa, Japanese singer
*September_15 - Joe_Barton, American politician
*September_17 - Cassandra_Peterson, American actress Elvira
*September_18 - Mo_Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
*September_23 - Bruce_Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
*September_27 - Mike_Schmidt, baseball player
===October-December===
*October_1 - Isaac_Bonewits, American author and occultist
*October_2 - Lorraine_Bracco, American actress
*October_8 - Sigourney_Weaver, American actress
*October_14 - Katy_Manning, British actress
*October_20 - Valeri_Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
*October_21 - Benjamin_Netanyahu, Prime_Minister_of_Israel
*October_22 - Stiv_Bators, American musician (The_Dead_Boys) (d. 1990)
*November_5 - Armin_Shimerman, American actor
*November_6 - Arturo_Sandoval, Cuban musician
*November_7 - Aiswarya, Queen of Nepal (d. 2001)
*November 7 - Judi_Bari, American environmental activist (d. 1997)
*November_24 - Nicholas_Richard_Ainger, British politician
*November_26 - Juanin_Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
*November_29 - Alexander_Godunov, Russian-born dancer and actor (d. 1995)
*December_3 - John_Akii-Bua Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
*December_4 - Jeff_Bridges, American actor
*December 4 - Pamela_Stephenson, New Zealand-born comedienne, actress, and singer
*December_7 - Tom_Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
*December_12 - Bill_Nighy, English actor
*December_13 – Randy Owen, lead singer of the country music band Alabama
*December_14 - Bill_Buckner, baseball player
*December_15 - Don_Johnson, American actor
*December_17 - Paul_Rodgers, British singer (Free)
*December_22 - Maurice_Gibb, Australian musician (The_Bee_Gees) (d. 2003)
*December 22 - Robin_Gibb, Australian musician (The_Bee_Gees)
*December_24 - Randy_Neugebauer, American politician
*December_25 - Sissy_Spacek, American actress
*December 25 - Joe_Louis_Walker, American musician
*December_26 - José_Ramos_Horta, Foreign Minister of East Timor, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize
===Unknown date===
* William Hope, Canadian actor
==Deaths==
*January_6 - Victor_Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
*January_11 - Nelson_Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1889)
*January_14 - Joaquín_Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
*January_28 - Jean-Pierre_Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
*February_12 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
*March_30 - Friedrich_Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
*April_19 - Ulrich_Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
*May_6 - Maurice_Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
*May_9 - Louis_II,_Prince_of_Monaco (b. 1870)
*May_22 - James_Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (suicide) (b. 1892)
*May_22 - Klaus_Mann, German writer (suicide) (b. 1906)
*June_10 - Sigrid_Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
*June_14 - Russell_Doubleday, American author and publisher (b. 1872)
*July_9 - Fritz_Bennicke_Hart, English-born composer (b. 1874)
*July_12 - Douglas_Hyde, first President_of_Ireland (b. 1860)
*July_18- Vítězslav_Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
*August_18 - Paul_Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
*August_30 - Arthur_Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
*September_8 - Richard_Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
*September_13 - August_Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (b. 1874)
*September_19 - Will_Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
*September_19 - Nikolaos_Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
*October_27 - Marcel_Cerdan, French boxer (plane crash) (b. 1916)
*October_27 - Ginette_Neveu, French violinist (plane crash) (b. 1919)
*December_6 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1885)
*December_11 - Krishna_Chandra_Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1875)
*December_16 - Sidney_Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
*December_28 - Hervey_Allen, American author (b. 1889)
*December_28 - Jack_Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)
==Nobel Prizes==
* Physics - Yukawa_Hideki
* Chemistry - William_Francis_Giauque
* Medicine - Walter_Rudolf_Hess, Antonio_Caetano_De_Abreu_Freire_Egas_Moniz
* Literature - William_Faulkner
* Peace - John_Boyd_Orr
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