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  • Jan 5 US President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
  • Jan 25 First Israeli election won by David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party
  • Apr 4 The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance between Western nations
  • May 2 Arthur Miller wins a Pulitzer Prize for his play "Death of a Salesman"
  • May 12 USSR lifts blockade of West Berlin after US, UK, and allies successfully supply the city during the Berlin Airlift
  • May 23 Federal Republic of (West) Germany is created from the American, British, and French occupation zones
  • Jul 8 South Africa's Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences, prohibiting marriage or sexual relationships between White people and people of other races [1]
  • Aug 29 Soviet Union secretly performs its first successful nuclear weapons test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
  • Sep 14 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language, celebrated today as Hindi Day
  • Sep 21 Mao Zedong and Chinese Communist leaders announce the establishment of the People's Republic of China at the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai, Peking
  • Oct 6 US President Harry Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act to strengthen NATO allies especially Greece and Turkey
  • Nov 2 The Netherlands recognizes its former colony Indonesia as a sovereign state at conclusion of the Round Table Conference at the Hague, Netherlands
  • Dec 27 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands formally recognizes the independence of Indonesia after four years of revolution and United Nations mediation
More 1949 Events
  • Jan 31 1st US daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago)
  • Jun 27 "Captain Video & His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV - Television's first sci-fi series
  • Sep 2 "The Third Man", directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)
  • Sep 15 "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV. Hi-yo, Silver! Away!
  • Feb 11 "Lovesick Blues" single is released by Hank Williams (Cashbox "Best Hillbilly Record of the Year," Billboard Song of the Year 1949)
  • Mar 5 Donald Bradman plays his last innings in first-class cricket, scores 30
  • Aug 3 Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form the National Basketball Association (NBA), with Maurice Podoloff elected as head of the new league

  • Bernard Arnault

    March 5

  • António Guterres

    April 30

  • Ken Follett

    June 5

  • Annie Leibovitz

    October 2

  • Benjamin Netanyahu

    October 21

  • Anna Wintour

    November 3

  • Jessica Lange

    April 20

  • Lionel Richie

    June 20

  • Richard Gere

    August 31

  • Twiggy

    September 19

  • Sigourney Weaver

    October 8

  • Tom Waits

    December 7

  • Billy Joel

    May 9

  • Hank Williams Jr

    May 26

  • Maureen McGovern

    July 27

  • Bruce Springsteen

    September 23

  • George Foreman

    January 10

  • Tom Watson

    September 4

  • Mike Schmidt

    September 27

  • Caitlyn Jenner

    October 28

  • Larry Holmes

    November 3

  • Tom Kite

    December 9
More People Born in 1949

  • Maurice Maeterlinck

    May 6

  • Amadeo Giannini

    June 3

  • Margaret Mitchell

    August 16

  • August Krogh

    September 13

  • Victor Fleming

    January 6

  • Wallace Beery

    April 15

  • Bill Robinson

    November 25

  • Richard Strauss

    September 8

  • Harry Burleigh

    September 12

  • Lead Belly

    December 6
More 1949 Deaths

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four Published

    The cover of the first edition of George Orwell's classic novelJune 8

  • 'Gorgeous Gussie' Shocks Wimbledon

    There is a strict dress code at Wimbledon and, as Gussie Moran discovered on this day in tennis history, tennis players break it at their peril.June 20
  • Jan 18 South African priest and politician Reverend Andries Treurnicht (27) weds Engela Dreyer in South Africa, until his death in 1993
  • Jan 28 NFL coach Tom Landry (24) weds Alicia Wiggs at St John the Divine Church in Houston, Texas
  • Feb 6 American diplomat Henry Kissinger (25) weds Ann Fleisher (23) in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NYC
  • May 31 American singer and actress Doris Day (27) divorces American saxophonist George Weidler (23) after 3 years of marriage
  • Jun 8 Actor Burgess Meredith (41) divorces actress Paulette Goddard (39) after 5 years of marriage
  • Sep 7 American actress Janet Leigh (22) divorces American sailor Stanley Reames after almost 4 years of marriage
More 1949 Weddings

  • Broderick Crawford

    Oscar for Best Actor

  • Olivia de Havilland

    Oscar for Best Actress

  • Winston Churchill

    Time Personof the Year
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  • Clement AttleeUnited Kingdom
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  • Joseph StalinSoviet Union
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