Page 3: Historical Events In 1949

Feb 07   Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees) on this day in history.   

Feb 08   Franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Feb 08   In the year 1949 hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison   

Feb 09   On this day in history poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60   

Feb 10   The Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, starring Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock, makes its Broadway debut on this day in history.   

Feb 11   On this day in history willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title   

Feb 12   "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances in the year 1949.   

Feb 12   On this day in history "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs   

Feb 12   Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0 on this day in history.   

Feb 12   Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line in the year 1949.   

Feb 12   Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio in the year 1949.   

Feb 12   Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem in the year 1949.   

Feb 14   In the year 1949 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)   

Feb 14   On this day in history dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses   

Feb 14   In the year 1949 first session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem   

Feb 15   Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad on this day in history.   

Feb 16   House of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act by a vote of 140-47. Newfoundland officially joins Canada March 31, 1949 in the year 1949.   

Feb 17   Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel in the year 1949.   

Feb 18   On this day in history niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71   

Feb 19   On this day in history "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances   

Feb 19   In the year 1949 auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83   

Feb 19   Mass arrests of communists in India in the year 1949.   

Feb 20   1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks) in the year 1949.   

Feb 21   On this day in history ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78   

Feb 22   Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies in the year 1949.   

Feb 24   On this day in history israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement   

Feb 24   In the year 1949 v-2/WAC-Corporal first rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km   

Feb 25   WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) on this day in history.   

Feb 26   In the year 1949 uSAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight   

Feb 26   USAF plane began first nonstop around-the-world flight in the year 1949.   

Feb 27   On this day in history chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president   

Feb 27   Chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli President on this day in history.   

Feb 28   On this day in history stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65   

Mar 01   On this day in history heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber," retires after holding the title for more than 11 years.   

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Jan 02   Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary)   

Jan 03   Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of mick Mills, British(?) soccer player   

Jan 05   George Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972)   

Jan 06   Richard Horowitz, composer was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 07   John Christopher Parry, rocker (Cure) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 01   On this day in history malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63   

Jan 09   Amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75 in the year 1949.   

Jan 10   On this day in history death of erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)   

Jan 14   Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

Jan 15   Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie) died in the year 1949.   

Jan 20   On this day in history josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87   

Jan 22   William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891) died on this day in history.   

Jan 25   Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61 in the year 1949.