1949
Facts taken from Wikipedia.
January
· January 4–February 22 – Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada – winds of up to 72 mph – tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish.
· January 5 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
o Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall.
o KDKA-TV becomes the first local, on-air television station in the US.
· January 17 – The first VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff the car has no future in the U.S. (The Type 1 goes on to become an automotive phenomenon.)
· January 20 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman begins his full term.
· January 25- The first Emmy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
February
· February 22 – Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow, gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention in the United States.
March
· March 2 – The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II under Captain James Gallagher lands in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight (it was refueled in flight 4 times).
· March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
· March 28
o English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang during a BBC Third Programme radio broadcast.[1][2][3]
April
· April 4 – The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance.
· April 7 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, opens on Broadway and goes on to become R&H's second longest-running musical. It becomes an instant classic of the musical theatre. The score's biggest hit is the song "Some Enchanted Evening".
May
· May 1 – Nereid, a moon of Neptune, is discovered by Gerard P. Kuiper.
· May 6 – EDSAC, the first practicable stored-program computer, runs its first program at Cambridge University.[4]
· May 11- Israel is admitted to the United Nations as its 59th member.
· May 12 – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
· May 23 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established.
June
· June 8
o Red Scare: Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
· June 14 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes the first primate to enter space, on U.S. Hermes project V-2 rocket Blossom IVB, but is killed on impact at return.
· June 24 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC.
July
· July 11 – Pamir is the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn under sail alone.
· July 27 – The de Havilland Comet, the Worlds First Jet-Powered Airliner, makes its first flight.
August
· August 28 – The last 6 surviving veterans of the American Civil War meet in Indianapolis.
· August 29- The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, code named "Joe 1". Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
September
· September 6- Howard Unruh, a World War II veteran, kills thirteen neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
· September 23 – U.S. Harry S. Truman announced that the USSR had the atomic bomb
October
· October 1 – The People's Republic of China is officially proclaimed.
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· The Vatican announces that bones uncovered in its subterranean catacombs could be the apostle Peter; 19 years later, Pope Paul VI announces confirmation that the bones belong to this first pope.[6]
· 1949 was the first year in which no African-American was reported lynched in the USA.[7]
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