Page 4: Historical Events In 1949

Mar 02   Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes inaugural nonstop round-the-world flight at Fort Worth TX, covering 23452-mis in 94 hours.   

Mar 02   The inaugural automatic street light (New Milford CT).   

Mar 04   Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister   

Mar 04   Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) is recorded as becoming world champion billiard player.   

Mar 04   Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel.   

Mar 05   Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30   

Mar 08   WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting   

Mar 09   Brigadier Gen Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA   

Mar 09   Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA   

Mar 09   England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes   

Mar 09   The inaugural all-electric dining car was placed in service -- on the Illinois Central Railroad   

Mar 10   Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949   

Mar 11   Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76   

Mar 12   Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95   

Mar 13   US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman   

Mar 13   US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button   

Mar 15   WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting   

Mar 16   KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting   

Mar 17   Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54.   

Mar 18   NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified   

Mar 18   NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ratified.   

Mar 18   NATO set up by seven European countries   

Mar 19   1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn   

Mar 19   inaugural museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge TN.   

Mar 21   WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting   

Mar 23   Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC   

Mar 23   The Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day.   

Mar 24   21st Academy Awards "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win.   

Mar 24   21st Academy Awards   

Mar 24   21st Academy Awards: "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win.   

Mar 24   Walter and John Huston become inaugural father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor and director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre").   

Mar 25   Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54   

Mar 25   SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied   

Mar 26   11th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Kentucky beats Okla State 46-36   

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Jan 02   Chick churchill: Wales, keyboardist (ten years after-i'm going home)   

Jan 02   Christopher durang: Montclair nj, playwright/actor (sister mary)   

Jan 03   Sylvia likens: American torture victim    

Jan 04   Mick mills: British(?) soccer player   

Jan 05   George brown: Rock drummer (kool & the gang-celebration)   

Jan 06   Michael boit: Nandi kenya, 800m runner (olympic-bronze-1972)   

Jan 06   Richard horowitz: Composer   

Jan 07   John christopher parry: Rocker (cure)   

Jan 01   Malcolm campbell: English cyclist (world speed-record),    

Jan 09   Amilcare zanella: Composer,   

Jan 10   Erich von drygalski: German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)   

Jan 14   Joaquín turina: Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (rima),   

Jan 15   Black dahlia: Murder victim found in la (basis of the movie)   

Jan 20   Josephus t j cuypers: Architect (amsterdam stock exchange),    

Jan 22   William thomas walsh: American author (b. 1891)   

Jan 25   Emil axman: Composer,