1949 q1 TimelineJanuary01 - Nikolai Tikhonovich Moskalenko, Russia, cosmonaut, is born.
01 - Television KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, CA MET begins broadcasting.
01 - Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand.
02 - Television KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA CBS begins broadcasting.
03 - Television "Colgate Theater" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV.
05 - General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra.
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05 - President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal".
12 - Television "Arthur Godfrey & His Friends" premieres on CBS TV.
13 - "Along 5th Avenue" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 perfs.
14 - South Africa Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban where 142 die.
14 - Joaqu¡n Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66.
15 - Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA.
15 - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63.
15 - Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin.
16 - Television WTOP (now WUSA) TV channel 9 in Washington, DC (CBS) 1st broadcast.
16 - "Rape of Lucretia" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 23 performances.
16 - Television KNBH (now KNBC) TV channel 4 in Los Angeles, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast.
18 - 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson).
20 - USA President Truman announces his point 4 program.
20 - J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen.
20 - Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87.
22 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed.
22 - "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 121 perfs.
25 - 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins.
25 - Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61.
25 - Television 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win.
26 - Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65.
27 - Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China.
28 - UN Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia.
28 - Music Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, composer, dies at 62.
28 - Sports NY Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin & Ford Smith.
29 - Brit, Belgium, Lux, Neth, NZ & Switz recognize Israel.
31 - Television 1st daytime soap "These Are My Children" NBC in Chicago.
February01 - Music RCA releases 1st single record ever 45 rpm.
01 - 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used s.jun 03 1948.
02 - Sports Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident.
04 - Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia.
05 - Sports Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic.
05 - Music Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer, dies at 50.
08 - Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison.
08 - Music Franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81.
08 - Music Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer, dies at 54.
09 - Music Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60.
10 - Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC.
11 - Sports Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title.
12 - "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances.
12 - Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem ?+¢.
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12 - Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio.
12 - Sports Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey.
15 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad.
17 - Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel.
17 - Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Paris won by Alena Vrzanova of CZE.
17 - Sports Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Andrea Kekesy/Ede Kiraly of Hungary.
17 - Sports Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris retained by Richard Button USA.
19 - "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances.
19 - Mass arrests of communists in India.
19 - 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound.
19 - Music Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83.
20 - 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks).
21 - Music Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78.
22 - Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies.
24 - Israel and Egypt sign an armistice agreement.
24 - New Mexico V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, 400 km.
25 - WAC Corporal rocket achieves record height of 400k.
26 - USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight.
27 - Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president.
28 - Music Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65.
March01 - Sports The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals.
01 - Sports Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ.
02 - Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs.
02 - 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct).
04 - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister.
04 - Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player.
04 - Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel.
05 - Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30.
08 - WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting.
08 - WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting.
09 - England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes.
09 - Brigadier Gen Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA.
10 - Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949.
11 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76.
12 - Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95.
13 - Sports US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman.
13 - Sports US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button.
15 - Television WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA NBC begins broadcasting.
16 - Television KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA CBS begins broadcasting.
17 - Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54.
18 - Television WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting.
18 - NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified. 19 - 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn.
21 - Television WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting.
23 - Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC.
25 - SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied.
25 - Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54.
26 - Sports 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Kentucky beats Okla State 46-36.
28 - Grigoras Dinicu, composer, dies at 59.
29 - Turkey recognizes Israel.
30 - Sports Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies.
30 - Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64.
31 - Newfoundland becomes the tenth province of Canada.
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