Page 3: Historical Events In 1949

Feb 07   Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees) in the year 1949.   

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

Feb 08   Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison in the year 1949.   

Feb 09   In the year 1949 poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60   

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

Feb 11   Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title in the year 1949.   

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

Feb 12   In the year 1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs   

Feb 12   On this day in history canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.   

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   In the year 1949 unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

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

Feb 14   Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses in the year 1949.   

Feb 14   First session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem on this day in history.   

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

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

Feb 20   On this day in history 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)   

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

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

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) in the year 1949.   

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   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   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   On this day in history 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   Mick Mills, British(?) soccer player was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 05   In the year 1949 birth of george Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration)   

Jan 06   Michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 07   John Christopher Parry, rocker (Cure) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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 in the year 1949.   

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

Jan 20   Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87 in the year 1949.   

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.