Historical Events In 1949

Feb 07   In the year 1949 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   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   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   On this day in history willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title  

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   Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0 in the year 1949.  

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   In the year 1949 panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio  

Feb 12   Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem in the year 1949.  

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

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 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   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   On this day in history "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances  

Feb 19   On this day in history 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   In the year 1949 ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78  

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 in the year 1949.  

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

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

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   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 on this day in history.  

Jan 04   Mick Mills, British(?) soccer player was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of george Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration)  

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972)  

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of richard Horowitz, composer  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 10   On this day in history death of erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)  

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   Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87 on this day in history.  

Jan 22   William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891) died on this day in history.  

Jan 25   On this day in history emil Axman, composer, dies at 61