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 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.
- 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.
- April 23, 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
- 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 western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.
- May 20, 1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
- May 23, 1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
- August 5, 1949 – The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana.
- August 22, 1949 – Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada’s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
- September 6, 1949 – A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
- September 27, 1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People’s Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People’s Republic of China.
- September 29, 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China.
- September 30, 1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
- 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.
- December 13, 1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
- December 27, 1949 – Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.
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