1949 Events1949x - USA begins urban renewal with Housing Act
x - USSR tests its first atomic bomb
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x - Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac
x - Thomas Merton: The Seven Storey Mountain
x - T.S. Eliot ?+*: The Cocktail Party
x - Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
x - Whirlwind at MIT is the first real time computer. Iron Core Memory by Jay Forrester used.
x - Magnetic discs - On EDVAC
x - British EDSAC computer stores programs in memory, switches programs.
x - Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex discusses male oppression.
x - Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific on Broadway; wins Pulitzer.
x - Edward Murphy's "law" is a guide to communication and everything else.
x - The Emmy Awards for television begin, with 1948 programs.
x - Milton Berle hosts the first telethon.
x - Community Antenna Television, forerunner to cable. s.1948
x - Automatic Payrolls Incorporated by Henry Taub (later Automatic Data Processing Inc)
x - Indonesia is declared independant.
x - A coup is led in Lebanon to try and promote union with Syria.
x - Ireland Ireland leaves Commonwealth.
x - Radiocarbon dating invented.
x - First hydrogen bomb detonated, by the United States
x - Supreme Court decision splits movie studios from theater chains.
x - Hollywood studios begin to produce television programs.
x - The McIntosh amplifier improves home listening.
x - Nelson Algren's novel, The Man with the Golden Arm.
x - Film Twelve O'Clock High, Battleground, Champion.
x - Hollywood nervously tackles racial issue with Pinky, uses a white actress.
x - Italian neo-realism continues with The Bicycle Thief.
x - Library of Congress awards annual Bollingen Prize to living poets.
x - The acoustic suspension loudspeaker.
x - Shirley Jackson's story of sheeplike behavior, "The Lottery."
x - The United States has 98 television stations. x - Poet Stephen Spender's essays on communism, The God That Failed.
x - Chess-playing machine by Claude Shannon, MIT
x - Short Code high-level language suggested by John W. Mauchly & coded by William F. Schmitt.
x - BINAC tested
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