Page 9: Historical Events In 1949

Jul 07   "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs.   

Jul 07   "Dragnet" premiers on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 and 1967   

Jul 08   Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon.   

Jul 08   Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants.   

Jul 09   Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres   

Jul 09   Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer, dies at 75.   

Jul 10   The inaugural practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh.   

Jul 12   In this year, 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL claims 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn   

Jul 12   LA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin.   

Jul 13   Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics.   

Jul 14   Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr), dies   

Jul 14   USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb.   

Jul 15   "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances   

Jul 15   Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny and Vladimir Cernik, defect to US.   

Jul 19   Laos independence   

Jul 19   Laos is recorded as becoming associated state within French Union.   

Jul 20   Israel's 19 month war of independence ends.   

Jul 21   Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO).   

Jul 21   Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13.   

Jul 23   Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days.   

Jul 24   Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5.   

Jul 26   C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1951 Lick   

Jul 26   WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting   

Jul 27   1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies.   

Jul 27   Havilland Comet 40-passenger airliner makes maiden flight.   

Jul 29   Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends.   

Jul 30   British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff.   

Jul 31   Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, results in the deaths of SS and 3rd baseman   

Jul 31   Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, results in the deaths of the SS and 3rd baseman.   

Aug 03   Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire.   

Aug 03   The National Basketball Association was formed.   

Aug 04   NBL and NBAA merge into National Basketball Association.   

Aug 05   6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die.   

Aug 06   Luke Appling record of 2154 (en route to 2218) games at shortstop   

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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,