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   On this day in history hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison  

Feb 09   In the year 1949 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 in the year 1949.  

Feb 11   In the year 1949 willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title  

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

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   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 on this day in history.  

Feb 12   In the year 1949 unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem  

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

Feb 14   In the year 1949 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   On this day in history dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad  

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   In the year 1949 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 in the year 1949.  

Feb 19   On this day in history auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83  

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 on this day in history.  

Feb 22   Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies on this day in history.  

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   WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) on this day in history.  

Feb 26   In the year 1949 uSAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight  

Feb 26   In the year 1949 uSAF plane began first nonstop around-the-world flight  

Feb 27   On this day in history chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president  

Feb 27   In the year 1949 chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli President  

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

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   In the year 1949 birth of christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary)  

Jan 03   Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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

Jan 01   In the year 1949 malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63  

Jan 09   On this day in history amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75  

Jan 10   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1949.