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1949 Calendar
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1949 Historical Event(s)
- January 1, 1949 – United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
- 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 19, 1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
- March 2, 1949 – The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
- April 5, 1949 – Fireside Theater debuts on television.
- August 5, 1949 – In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
- August 10, 1949 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.
- September 6, 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
- October 24, 1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
Who Were Born On 1949?
- January 11, 1949 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock singer
- January 26, 1949 – David Strathairn, American actor
- February 23, 1949 – Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut
- March 12, 1949 – David Mellor, British QC, politician and broadcaster
- March 21, 1949 – Eddie Money, American musician
- April 6, 1949 – Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
- May 3, 1949 – Ken Hom, Chinese American chef
- June 13, 1949 – Ulla Schmidt, German politician
- June 20, 1949 – Lionel Richie, American musician (The Commodores)
- August 2, 1949 – Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian cosmonaut