1949 facts for kids
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1946 1947 1948 – 1949 – 1950 1951 1952 |
1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- January 20 – Harry S. Truman proposes Point Four program to help world's less developed areas.
- 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.
- April 4 – Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
- May 11 – Siam changes its name to Thailand.
- September 21 – The German Federal Republic (West Germany) established.
- October 1 – The founding of the People's Republic of China is announced by Mao Zedong.
- October 7 – The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is established.
- December 27 – Indonesia's independence is recognised by the Netherlands.
Births
- January 12 – Murakami Haruki, Japanese writer
- January 12 – Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager
- February 5 – Kurt Beck, German politician
- February 22 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racecar driver
- February 24 – John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
- April 11 – Bernd Eichinger, German movie producer
- April 19 – Joachim Sauer, husband of German chancellor Angela Merkel
- April 20 – Jessica Lange, American actress
- March 28 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (d. 1998)
- May 9 – Billy Joel, American singer
- May 13 – Zoe Wanamaker, actress
- May 23 – Alan Garcia, President of Peru (d. 2019)
- May 26 – Jeremy Corbyn, English politician
- June 6 – Robert Englund, American actor
- June 18 – Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Polish politician
- June 18 – Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (d. 2010)
- June 20 – Lionel Richie, American singer and musician
- June 22 – Meryl Streep, American actress
- July 4 – Horst Seehofer, German politician
- July 26 – Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai politician
- July 26 – Roger Taylor, British musician
- August 1 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, former President of Kyrgyzstan
- August 15 – Ivan Boldirev, Russian ice hockey player
- August 31 – Richard Gere, American actor
- September 9 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia
- September 19 – Twiggy, British model
- September 23 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer and musician
- October 8 – Sigourney Weaver, American actress
- October 21 – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician
- December 1 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
- December 12 – Marc Ravalomanana, former President of Madagascar
- December 21 – Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso (d. 1987)
- December 22 – Maurice Gibb, singer (d. 2003)
- December 22 – Robin Gibb, singer (d. 2012)
- December 25 – Sissy Spacek, American actress
- December 26 – Jose Ramos Horta, President of East Timor
Deaths
- January 6 – Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
- January 11 – Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1889)
- January 14 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
- January 28 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
- February 12 – Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
- March 30 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- April 19 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
- May 6 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- May 9 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
- May 22 – James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense(b. 1892)
- May 22 – Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
- June 10 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- June 14 – Russell Doubleday, American writer and publisher (b. 1872)
- July 9 – Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born composer (b. 1874)
- July 12 – Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
- July 18 – Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
- August 18 – Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
- August 30 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- September 8 – Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
- September 13 – August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
- September 19 – Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
- September 19 – Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
- October 27 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (plane crash) (b. 1916)
- October 27 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (plane crash) (b. 1919)
- December 6 – Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1885)
- December 11 – Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1875)
- December 16 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian movie director (b. 1873)
- December 28 – Hervey Allen, American writer (b. 1889)
- December 28 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)
Awards
Movies released
- Adam's Rib
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Samson and Delilah
- The Third Man
New Books
- The Aleph – Jorge Luis Borges
- Alien Land – Willard W. Savoy
- The Angry Wife – Pearl S. Buck
- Beneath The Sky – Alfred Q. Jarrette
- Beyond Earth's Gates – C. L. Moore
- Bright Leaf – Foster Fitzsimmons
- Cannibal – John Hawkes
- Crooked House – Agatha Christie
- The Dream Merchants – Harold Robbins
- The Egyptian – Mika Waltari
- Father of the Bride – Edward Streeter
- The Golden Sequence – Martha E. Von Almedingen
- The Heat of the Day – Elixabeth Bowen
- King of the Wind – Marguerite Henry
- Let Love Come Last – Taylor Caldwell
- Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
- Male and Female – Margaret Mead
- The Man with the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
- Men of Maize – Miguel Angel Asturias
- The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth – Hermann L. Hunter
- Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
- Pride's Castle – Frank Yerby
- A Rage To Live – John O'Hara
- The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
- To Hell and Back – Audie Murphy
- Shane – Jack Schaefer
- The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
- The Trial – Franz Kafka
- Trouble with Harry – Jack Story
Images for kids
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January 17: Beetle in U.S.
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John Belushi
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Brent Spiner
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Slavoj Žižek
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Margareta of Romania
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Paul Manafort
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John Shea
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Roger Taylor
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Bill O'Reilly
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Pablo Escobar
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Ron Raines
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Gennaro Righelli
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Yoshijirō Umezu
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Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
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Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
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Prince Louis II of Monaco
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Damaskinos of Athens
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Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist
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Themistoklis Sofoulis
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Ellery Harding Clark
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Nils Östensson
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Pandeli Evangjeli
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Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens
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Blessed Nykyta Budka
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Saint Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena
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Blessed Lorenzo Massa
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Abdolhossein Hazhir
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Leon Schlesinger
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Antoni Ponikowski
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Jack Lovelock
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