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

Jan 02   Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 03   Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   Michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 06   In the year 1949 birth of richard Horowitz, composer   

Jan 07   In the year 1949 birth of john Christopher Parry, rocker (Cure)   

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   In the year 1949 death of erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)   

Jan 14   Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1949.   

Jan 22   In the year 1949 death of william Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)   

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