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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.
Gary Leon Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of Mary and Thomas Ridgway's three sons.
He was the first jazz musician to appear on the cover of Time magazine, on February 21, 1949.
After passing the medical examinations, he became a midshipman on February 24, 1949.
