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1949 Calendar

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•  January 29, 1949 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  April 23, 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
•  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.
•  May 23, 1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
•  September 4, 1949 – The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
•  September 17, 1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
•  October 7, 1949 – The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
•  October 14, 1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
•  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.
•  December 27, 1949 – Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.

•  February 9, 1949 – Judith Light, American actress
•  March 22, 1949 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist and broadcaster (d.2010)
•  April 20, 1949 – Jessica Lange, American actress
•  April 30, 1949 – Phil Garner, baseball manager
•  May 2, 1949 – Alan Titchmarsh, English television presenter
•  May 30, 1949 – Klaüs Flouride (né Geoffrey Lyall), American musician (Dead Kennedys)
•  September 7, 1949 – Barry Siegel, American journalist
•  September 12, 1949 – Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater
•  September 14, 1949 – Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
•  October 25, 1949 – Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player