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  • China
    1949
    Chinese Civil War

    Only Tibet was left

    China
    1949

    By late 1949 the People's Liberation Army was pursuing remnants of KMT forces southwards in southern China, and only Tibet was left.




  • Vietnam
    1949
    First Indochina War

    Newly established State of Vietnam

    Vietnam
    1949

    The French tried to stabilize Indochina by reorganizing it as a Federation of Associated States. In 1949, they put former Emperor Bảo Đại back in power, as the ruler of a newly established State of Vietnam.




  • Vietnam
    1949
    First Indochina War

    France officially recognized the nominal "independence" of the State of Vietnam

    Vietnam
    1949

    In 1949, France officially recognized the nominal "independence" of the State of Vietnam as an associated state within the French Union under Bảo Đại. However, France still controlled all foreign relations and every defense issue. The Việt Minh quickly denounced the government and stated that they wanted "real independence, not Bảo Đại independence". Within the framework of the French Union, France also granted independence to the other nations in Indochina, the Kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.




  • Kayin State, Myanmar
    1949
    Conflict in Myanmar

    The Commander-in-chief of the Tatmadaw General Smith Dun was fired

    Kayin State, Myanmar
    1949

    The Karen people of Kayin State (formerly Karen State) in eastern Myanmar are the third largest ethnic group in Myanmar, consisting of roughly 7% of the country's total population. Karen insurgent groups have fought for independence and self-determination since 1949. In 1949, the commander-in-chief of the Tatmadaw General Smith Dun, an ethnic Karen, was fired because of the rise of Karen opposition groups, which furthered ethnic tensions. He was replaced by Ne Win, a Bamar nationalist who would go on to become the dictator of Myanmar.




  • Tokyo, Japan
    1949
    Akio Morita

    The Magnetic Recording Tape

    Tokyo, Japan
    1949

    In 1949, the company developed magnetic recording tape.




  • U.S.
    1949
    Ronald Reagan

    Divorce

    U.S.
    1949

    After the couple had arguments about Reagan's political ambitions, Wyman filed for divorce in 1948, citing a distraction due to her husband's Screen Actors Guild union duties; the divorce was finalized in 1949. Wyman, who was a registered Republican, also stated that their break-up was due to a difference in politics (Reagan was still a Democrat at the time).




  • St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
    1949
    Mobile Phones

    MTS

    St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
    1949

    In 1949, AT&T commercialized Mobile Telephone Service. From its start in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1946, AT&T introduced Mobile Telephone Service to one hundred towns and highway corridors by 1948. Mobile Telephone Service was a rarity with only 5,000 customers placing about 30,000 calls each week. Calls were set up manually by an operator and the user had to depress a button on the handset to talk and release the button to listen. The call subscriber equipment weighed about 80 pounds (36 kg).


  • U.S.
    1949
    Jimmy Carter

    A Lieutenant

    U.S.
    1949

    Carter was promoted to lieutenant junior grade in 1949.


  • Chittagong, Bangladesh
    1949
    Muhammad Yunus

    His Mother Was afflicted With Psychological illness

    Chittagong, Bangladesh
    1949

    By 1949, his mother was afflicted with psychological illness.


  • Hungary
    1949
    Hungarian Revolution of 1956

    Arresting The Leader of The Hungarian Catholic Church

    Hungary
    1949

    Russian language study and Communist political instruction were made mandatory in schools and universities nationwide. Religious schools were nationalized and church leaders were replaced by those loyal to the government. In 1949 the leader of the Hungarian Catholic Church, Cardinal József Mindszenty, was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for treason. Under Rákosi, Hungary's government was among the most repressive in Europe.


  • Hungary
    1949
    Hungarian Revolution of 1956

    The Communist Party merged With The Social Democratic Party

    Hungary
    1949

    The brief period of multi-party democracy came to an end when the Communist Party merged with the Social Democratic Party to become the Hungarian Working People's Party, which stood its candidate list unopposed in 1949. The People's Republic of Hungary was then declared.


  • England
    1949
    Alan Turing

    Turing became Deputy Director of the Computing Machine Laboratory

    England
    1949

    In 1949, he became Deputy Director of the Computing Machine Laboratory, where he worked on software for one of the earliest stored-program computers—the Manchester Mark 1.


  • Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
    1949
    Warren Buffett

    Graduation

    Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
    1949

    Buffett graduated from the University of Nebraska at the age of 19.


  • New York, U.S.
    1949
    New York Stock Exchange

    Third-longest (eight-year) bull market begins

    New York, U.S.
    1949

    In 1949, the third-longest (eight-year) bull market begins.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    1949
    World Bank

    Eugene "Gene" Robert Black Sr. became the President of the World Bank

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    1949

    Eugene "Gene" Robert Black Sr. was President of the World Bank from 1949 to 1963.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday Jan 20, 1949
    Harry S. Truman

    The First ever televised nationally

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday Jan 20, 1949

    Truman's second inauguration was the first ever televised nationally.


  • Naval Air Station Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
    Wednesday Jan 26, 1949
    Neil Armstrong

    Armstrong's Call-Up From the Navy arrived

    Naval Air Station Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
    Wednesday Jan 26, 1949

    Armstrong's call-up from the Navy arrived on January 26, 1949, requiring him to report to Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida for flight training with class 5-49.


  • Israel
    Monday Feb 14, 1949
    David Ben-Gurion

    A Prime Minister

    Israel
    Monday Feb 14, 1949

    After leading Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Ben-Gurion was elected Prime Minister of Israel when his Mapai (Labour) party won the largest number of Knesset seats in the first national election, held on 14 February 1949.


  • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
    Friday Feb 18, 1949
    Gary Ridgway

    Gary brith

    Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
    Friday Feb 18, 1949

    Gary Leon Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of Mary and Thomas Ridgway's three sons.


  • U.S.
    Monday Feb 21, 1949
    Louis Armstrong

    Cover of Time magazine

    U.S.
    Monday Feb 21, 1949

    He was the first jazz musician to appear on the cover of Time magazine, on February 21, 1949.


  • Naval Air Station Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 24, 1949
    Neil Armstrong

    Neil became a Midshipman

    Naval Air Station Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 24, 1949

    After passing the medical examinations, he became a midshipman on February 24, 1949.


  • Karkow, Poland
    1949
    Pope John Paul II

    Transferred to the parish of Saint Florian

    Karkow, Poland
    1949

    In March 1949, Wojtyła was transferred to the parish of Saint Florian in Kraków. He taught ethics at Jagiellonian University and subsequently at the Catholic University of Lublin.


  • Roubaix, France
    Saturday Mar 5, 1949
    Bernard Arnault

    Birth

    Roubaix, France
    Saturday Mar 5, 1949

    Arnault was born in Roubaix, France, on March 5, 1949.


  • U.S.
    Friday Apr 1, 1949
    Anna May Wong

    Impact

    U.S.
    Friday Apr 1, 1949

    After a six-year absence, Wong returned to film the same year with a small role in a B movie called Impact.


  • Washington, D.C., U.S.
    Monday Apr 4, 1949
    NATO Establishment

    The Signature of The North Atlantic Treaty

    Washington, D.C., U.S.
    Monday Apr 4, 1949

    Talks for a new military alliance which could also include North America resulted in the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949 by the member states of the Western Union plus the United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.


  • Annecy, France
    Apr, 1949
    World Trade Organization

    Annecy Round

    Annecy, France
    Apr, 1949

    The Annecy Round was a multi-year multilateral trade negotiation (MTN) between 26 nation-states that were parties to the GATT. This second round took place in 1949 in Annecy, France. 13 countries took part in the round. The main focus of the talks was more tariff reductions, around 5,000 in total.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1949
    Anna May Wong

    Wong's father died

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1949

    In 1949, Wong's father died in Los Angeles at the age of 91.


  • Yangtze River, China
    Thursday Apr 21, 1949
    Chinese Civil War

    Yangtze River Crossing Campaign

    Yangtze River, China
    Thursday Apr 21, 1949

    After achieving decisive victory at Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin campaigns, the CPC wiped out 144 regular and 29 irregular KMT divisions, including 1.54 million veteran KMT troops, which significantly reduced the strength of Nationalist forces. Stalin initially favored a coalition government in postwar China, and tried to persuade Mao to stop the CPC from crossing the Yangtze and attacking the KMT positions south of the river. Mao rejected Stalin's position and on 21 April, and began the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign.


  • Nanjing, China
    Saturday Apr 23, 1949
    Chinese Civil War

    CPC captured the KMT's capital

    Nanjing, China
    Saturday Apr 23, 1949

    On 23 April CPC captured the KMT's capital, Nanjing.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Wednesday May 11, 1949
    Harry S. Truman

    Ground Access

    Berlin, Germany
    Wednesday May 11, 1949

    The airlift worked; ground access was again granted on May 11, 1949. Nevertheless, the airlift continued for several months after that. The Berlin Airlift was one of Truman's great foreign policy successes; it significantly aided his election campaign in 1948.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1949
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1949

    In 1949, Du Bois spoke at the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace in New York: "I tell you, people of America, the dark world is on the move! It wants and will have Freedom, Autonomy and Equality. It will not be diverted in these fundamental rights by dialectical splitting of political hairs ... Whites may, if they will, arm themselves for suicide. But the vast majority of the world's peoples will march on over them to freedom!"


  • Yugoslavia
    Tuesday Jun 28, 1949
    Josip Broz Tito

    The other member countries of the Cominform expelled Yugoslavia

    Yugoslavia
    Tuesday Jun 28, 1949

    On 28 June, the other member countries of the Cominform expelled Yugoslavia, citing "nationalist elements" that had "managed in the course of the past five or six months to reach a dominant position in the leadership" of the CPY.


  • Tajikistan
    Sunday Jul 10, 1949
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    Khait landslide

    Tajikistan
    Sunday Jul 10, 1949

    The Khait or Hoit landslide occurred on July 10, 1949 in the Hoit district in the Gharm Oblast in the Tajikistan, then part of the Soviet Union. The landslide was triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake and buried 33 villages and has by some estimates killed 28,000 people.


  • Darjeeling, India
    Aug, 1949
    Flag of Bhutan

    First national flag

    Darjeeling, India
    Aug, 1949

    The CBS document states that the first national flag was designed upon the request of Jigme Wangchuck, the second Druk Gyalpo of the 20th-century Kingdom of Bhutan, and was introduced in 1949 during the signing of the Indo-Bhutan Treaty.


  • Brazil
    Wednesday Aug 17, 1949
    Thanksgiving

    Brazil national Thanksgiving day

    Brazil
    Wednesday Aug 17, 1949

    In Brazil, National Thanksgiving Day was instituted by President Gaspar Dutra, through Law 781 of August 17, 1949, at the suggestion of Ambassador Joaquim Nabuco, who was enthusiastic about the commemorations he saw in 1909 in St. Patrick's Cathedral as an ambassador in Washington.


  • Herzogenaurach, Germany
    Thursday Aug 18, 1949
    Adidas

    Adi Dassler Formed Adidas AG

    Herzogenaurach, Germany
    Thursday Aug 18, 1949

    Dassler forming a company formally registered as Adidas AG from Adi Dassler on 18 August 1949.


  • France
    Aug, 1949
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1949 Landes Forest Fire

    France
    Aug, 1949

    A major wildfire occurred from 19 August 1949 to 25 August 1949 in the Landes forest in France. 50,000 hectares (500 km2) of forest land were burnt - and 82 people killed. It was considered the most deadly forest fire in Europe until the 2007.


  • Soviet Union, (Russia)
    Monday Aug 29, 1949
    Harry S. Truman

    The Soviet Union's atomic bomb project

    Soviet Union, (Russia)
    Monday Aug 29, 1949

    The Soviet Union's atomic bomb project progressed much faster than had been expected and they detonated their first bomb on August 29, 1949.


  • Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
    Tuesday Sep 6, 1949
    Mass Shootings in the United States

    Camden Shootings

    Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
    Tuesday Sep 6, 1949

    Howard Barton Unruh was an American mass murderer (sometimes classified as a spree killer) who shot and killed 13 people (including three children) during a 12-minute walk through his neighborhood on September 6, 1949, in Camden, New Jersey, when he was 28 years old. The incident became known as the "Walk of Death".


  • Naval Air Station Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
    Friday Sep 9, 1949
    Neil Armstrong

    Armstrong soloed in SNJ

    Naval Air Station Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
    Friday Sep 9, 1949

    Flight training was conducted in a North American SNJ trainer, in which he soloed on September 9, 1949.


  • Woodmere, New York, U.S.
    1949
    Stan Lee

    Buying a house and having children

    Woodmere, New York, U.S.
    1949

    In 1949, the couple bought a house in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island, living there through 1952. Their daughter Joan Celia "J. C." Lee was born in 1950. Another daughter, Jan Lee, died a few days after her birth in 1953.


  • New York, U.S.
    1949
    IBM

    World Trade Corporation

    New York, U.S.
    1949

    In 1949 Thomas Watson, Sr., created IBM World Trade Corporation, a subsidiary of IBM focused on foreign operations.


  • Beijing, China
    Saturday Oct 1, 1949
    Chinese Civil War

    Founding of the People's Republic of China

    Beijing, China
    Saturday Oct 1, 1949

    On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China with its capital at Beijng, which was returned to the former name Beijing.


  • China
    Saturday Oct 1, 1949
    Mao Zedong

    The People's Republic of China

    China
    Saturday Oct 1, 1949

    The People's Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949. It was the culmination of over two decades of civil and international wars. Mao's famous phrase "The Chinese people have stood up" associated with the establishment of the People's Republic of China was not used in the speech he delivered from the Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tian'anmen) on October 1.


  • Michelena, Táchira, Venezuela
    Wednesday Oct 12, 1949
    Carlos the Jackal

    Birth

    Michelena, Táchira, Venezuela
    Wednesday Oct 12, 1949

    Ilich Ramírez Sánchez born in Michelena, Táchira, Venezuela, in 12-10-1949.


  • Guangzhou, China
    Saturday Oct 15, 1949
    Chinese Civil War

    Retreated to Guangzhou

    Guangzhou, China
    Saturday Oct 15, 1949

    The KMT government retreated to Canton (Guangzhou) until October 15.


  • U.S.
    Nov, 1949
    DC Comics

    The logo was modified to incorporate the company's formal name National Comics Publications

    U.S.
    Nov, 1949

    In November 1949, the logo was modified to incorporate the company's formal name, National Comics Publications. This logo would also serve as the round body of Johnny DC, DC's mascot in the 1960s.


  • Cuba
    Sunday Nov 13, 1949
    Fidel Castro

    Castro volunteered to deliver a Speech

    Cuba
    Sunday Nov 13, 1949

    Castro volunteered to deliver a speech for the Movement on 13 November, exposing the government's secret deals with the gangs and identifying key members. Attracting the attention of the national press, the speech angered the gangs and Castro fled into hiding, first in the countryside and then in the United States.


  • Chongqing, China
    Friday Nov 25, 1949
    Chinese Civil War

    Retreated to Chongqing

    Chongqing, China
    Friday Nov 25, 1949

    The KMT government retreated to Chongqing until November 25.


  • Rionegro, Colombia
    Thursday Dec 1, 1949
    Pablo Escobar: Narcos

    Birth

    Rionegro, Colombia
    Thursday Dec 1, 1949

    Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on 1 December 1949, in Rionegro, in the Antioquia Department of Colombia. He was the third of seven children of the farmer Abel de Jesús Dari Escobar Echeverri (1910–2001), with his wife Hilda de Los Dolores Gaviria Berrío, an elementary school teacher.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1949
    Ted Bundy

    First Years

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1949

    For the first three years of his life, Bundy lived in the Philadelphia home of his maternal grandparents, Samuel (1898–1983) and Eleanor Cowell (1895–1971), who raised him as their son to avoid the social stigma that accompanied birth outside of wedlock.


  • Taiwan
    Saturday Dec 10, 1949
    Chinese Civil War

    Retreated to Taiwan

    Taiwan
    Saturday Dec 10, 1949

    The KMT government retreated to Chengdu before retreating to Taiwan on December 10.


  • Chengdu, China
    Saturday Dec 10, 1949
    Chinese Civil War

    Fall of Chengdu

    Chengdu, China
    Saturday Dec 10, 1949

    Isolated Nationalist pockets of resistance remained in the area, but the majority of the resistance collapsed after the fall of Chengdu on 10 December 1949, with some resistance continuing in the far south.


  • Taiwan
    Saturday Dec 10, 1949
    Mao Zedong

    Chiang Kai-shek Fled From The mainland To Formosa (Taiwan)

    Taiwan
    Saturday Dec 10, 1949

    In the early morning of December 10, 1949, PLA troops laid siege to Chongqing and Chengdu on mainland China, and Chiang Kai-shek fled from the mainland to Formosa (Taiwan).


  • Bhutan
    1949
    Flag of Bhutan

    The early flag description

    Bhutan
    1949

    The CBS document does not illustrate the early versions of the flag and its description of the 1949 flag is not entirely consistent with the photos surviving from 1949. It describes the flag as "square", while the proportions of the flag in the photographs appear closer to 4:5. The document describes the dragon as "facing the fly end", while the dragon visible in the photos faces the hoist. The dragon is described as "parallel to the fly" (meaning, according to a diagram in the document, parallel to the length along the bottom edge of the flag), while the dragon in the photos appears to have a slightly rising vertical slant. The dragon is described as "green", but the shade in the photos, if indeed green, must be very pale.


  • Malta
    1949
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip was stationed in Malta

    Malta
    1949

    From 1949, Philip was stationed in Malta (residing at Villa Guardamangia) after being posted as the first lieutenant of the destroyer HMS Chequers, the lead ship of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean Fleet.


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