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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 11, 1949
– The first “networked” television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
January 29, 1949
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
March 30, 1949
– A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
April 4, 1949
– Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
May 23, 1949
– The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
June 8, 1949
– Celebrities 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.
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.
August 29, 1949
– Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
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.
Who Were Born On 1949?
January 12, 1949
– Michael W. Vannier, American radiologist
March 17, 1949
– Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
April 15, 1949
– Craig Zadan, American film producer
May 23, 1949
– Daniel DiNardo, American Roman Catholic cardinal
May 26, 1949
– Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor
May 28, 1949
– Wendy O. Williams, American vocalist (Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
October 5, 1949
– Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
October 29, 1949
– James Williamson, American guitarist