1949 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1949?
- January 20, 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
- January 29, 1949 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 8, 1949 – Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
- March 25, 1949 – The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
- March 30, 1949 – A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
- 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 11, 1949 – Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.
- 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.
- July 27, 1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
- August 3, 1949 – The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
- August 5, 1949 – The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana.
- 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.
- September 17, 1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
- November 26, 1949 – The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India’s constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
- December 8, 1949 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
- December 13, 1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
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