Historical Events In 1949

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

Feb 08   On this day in history franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81  

Feb 08   Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison on this day in history.  

Feb 09   Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1949 "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   In the year 1949 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   Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses on this day in history.  

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

Feb 15   Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad in the year 1949.  

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 on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)  

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   On this day in history v-2/WAC-Corporal first rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km  

Feb 25   WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) in the year 1949.  

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

Feb 26   On this day in history uSAF plane began first nonstop around-the-world flight  

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

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

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

Mar 01   In the year 1949 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 in the year 1949.  

Jan 02   Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary) was born on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 09   In the year 1949 amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75  

Jan 10   Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865) died in the year 1949.  

Jan 14   On this day in history joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66  

Jan 15   Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie) died on this day in history.  

Jan 20   In the year 1949 josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87  

Jan 22   In the year 1949 death of william Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)  

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