Historical Events In 1949

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

Feb 08   In the year 1949 franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81   

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   In the year 1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs   

Feb 12   In the year 1949 canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.   

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

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

Feb 12   Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem on this day in history.   

Feb 14   1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel) on this day in history.   

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

Feb 14   First session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem in the year 1949.   

Feb 15   In the year 1949 dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad   

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

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

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

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

Feb 19   Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83 in the year 1949.   

Feb 19   Mass arrests of communists in India on this day in history.   

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

Feb 21   In the year 1949 ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78   

Feb 22   On this day in history russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies   

Feb 24   In the year 1949 israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement   

Feb 24   V-2/WAC-Corporal first rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km on this day in history.   

Feb 25   In the year 1949 wAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)   

Feb 26   USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight on this day in history.   

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

Feb 27   Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president in the year 1949.   

Feb 27   Chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli President in the year 1949.   

Feb 28   Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65 in the year 1949.   

Mar 01   Heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber," retires after holding the title for more than 11 years in the year 1949.   

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Jan 02   In the year 1949 birth of chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home)   

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   In the year 1949 birth of mick Mills, British(?) soccer player   

Jan 05   George Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 06   In the year 1949 birth of richard Horowitz, composer   

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

Jan 01   Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63 in the year 1949.   

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

Jan 10   In the year 1949 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.