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   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 in the year 1949.  

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   "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   On this day in history ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.  

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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1949.  

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   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 in the year 1949.  

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

Feb 19   In the year 1949 auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83  

Feb 19   On this day in history mass arrests of communists in India  

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

Feb 21   Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

Feb 22   In the year 1949 russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies  

Feb 24   Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement on this day in history.  

Feb 24   V-2/WAC-Corporal first rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km on this day in history.  

Feb 25   In the year 1949 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 on this day in history.  

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

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   Heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber," retires after holding the title for more than 11 years on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   In the year 1949 birth of christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary)  

Jan 03   In the year 1949 birth of sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)  

Jan 04   Mick Mills, British(?) soccer player was born in the year 1949.  

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

Jan 06   Michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972) was born in the year 1949.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 20   On this day in history josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87  

Jan 22   William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891) died in the year 1949.  

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