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 in the year 1949.   

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

Feb 09   Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60 in the year 1949.   

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   Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 12   On this day in history panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio   

Feb 12   On this day in history unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

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

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

Feb 14   On this day in history 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   On this day in history house of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act by a vote of 140-47. Newfoundland officially joins Canada March 31, 1949   

Feb 17   On this day in history chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel   

Feb 18   In the year 1949 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   Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83 in the year 1949.   

Feb 19   On this day in history mass arrests of communists in India   

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

Feb 21   Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78 in the year 1949.   

Feb 22   In the year 1949 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   On this day in history wAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)   

Feb 26   USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight in the year 1949.   

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

Feb 27   In the year 1949 chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president   

Feb 27   On this day in history chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli President   

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 on this day in history.   

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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   Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   In the year 1949 birth of michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972)   

Jan 06   Richard Horowitz, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 07   On this day in history birth of john Christopher Parry, rocker (Cure)   

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

Jan 09   Amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865) died on this day in history.   

Jan 14   In the year 1949 joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66   

Jan 15   On this day in history death of black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)   

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

Jan 22   On this day in history death of william Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)   

Jan 25   Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.