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

Feb 10   In the year 1949 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   "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances in the year 1949.  

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

Feb 12   In the year 1949 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 in the year 1949.  

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

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

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

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

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

Feb 19   Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

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

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

Feb 21   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history wAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)  

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   Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president on this day in history.  

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   Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary) was born in the year 1949.  

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   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   In the year 1949 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 in the year 1949.  

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

Jan 15   In the year 1949 death of black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)  

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 in the year 1949.