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 on this day in history.   

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   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   "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs in the year 1949.   

Feb 12   In the year 1949 canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.   

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   Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio in the year 1949.   

Feb 12   Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem in the year 1949.   

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

Feb 14   In the year 1949 dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses   

Feb 14   In the year 1949 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   On this day in history chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel   

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

Feb 19   In the year 1949 "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances   

Feb 19   Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83 in the year 1949.   

Feb 19   In the year 1949 mass arrests of communists in India   

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

Feb 24   Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement in the year 1949.   

Feb 24   V-2/WAC-Corporal first rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km in the year 1949.   

Feb 25   On this day in history wAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)   

Feb 26   On this day in history 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 in the year 1949.   

Feb 27   Chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli President in the year 1949.   

Feb 28   In the year 1949 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   In the year 1949 birth of chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home)   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary)   

Jan 03   Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 04   In the year 1949 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   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   John Christopher Parry, rocker (Cure) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 01   On this day in history malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63   

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   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   On this day in history death of william Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)   

Jan 25   In the year 1949 emil Axman, composer, dies at 61