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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.
•  February 14, 1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
•  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 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
•  April 1, 1949 – The Canadian government repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years.
•  May 5, 1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
•  May 11, 1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
•  May 12, 1949 – The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
•  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.
•  October 1, 1949 – The People’s Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.

•  March 17, 1949 – Daniel Lavoie, Canadian singer and songwriter
•  July 28, 1949 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
•  August 14, 1949 – Morten Olsen, Danish footballer
•  August 25, 1949 – Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
•  September 4, 1949 – Tom Watson, American golfer
•  September 14, 1949 – Tommy Seebach, Danish musician (d. 2003)
•  October 19, 1949 – Lynn Dickey, American football player
•  October 25, 1949 – Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player
•  December 3, 1949 – Heather Menzies, American actress
•  December 6, 1949 – Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2007)