Page 3: Historical Events In 1949

Feb 07   Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees) in the year 1949.   

Feb 08   On this day in history franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81   

Feb 08   Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison on this day in history.   

Feb 09   In the year 1949 poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60   

Feb 10   In the year 1949 the Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, starring Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock, makes its Broadway debut.   

Feb 11   In the year 1949 willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title   

Feb 12   In the year 1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances   

Feb 12   "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs in the year 1949.   

Feb 12   Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0 in the year 1949.   

Feb 12   Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line on this day in history.   

Feb 12   Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio on this day in history.   

Feb 12   Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem on this day in history.   

Feb 14   In the year 1949 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)   

Feb 14   Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses on this day in history.   

Feb 14   First session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem on this day in history.   

Feb 15   On this day in history dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad   

Feb 16   In the year 1949 house of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act by a vote of 140-47. Newfoundland officially joins Canada March 31, 1949   

Feb 17   Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel in the year 1949.   

Feb 18   On this day in history niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71   

Feb 19   "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances in the year 1949.   

Feb 19   Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83 in the year 1949.   

Feb 19   On this day in history mass arrests of communists in India   

Feb 20   1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks) on this day in history.   

Feb 21   Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

Feb 22   Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies in the year 1949.   

Feb 24   Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement on this day in history.   

Feb 24   V-2/WAC-Corporal first rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km on this day in history.   

Feb 25   WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) on this day in history.   

Feb 26   On this day in history uSAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight   

Feb 26   On this day in history uSAF plane began first nonstop around-the-world flight   

Feb 27   In the year 1949 chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president   

Feb 27   On this day in history chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli President   

Feb 28   On this day in history stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65   

Mar 01   Heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber," retires after holding the title for more than 11 years on this day in history.   

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Jan 02   Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 04   In the year 1949 birth of mick Mills, British(?) soccer player   

Jan 05   George Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 06   In the year 1949 birth of michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972)   

Jan 06   In the year 1949 birth of richard Horowitz, composer   

Jan 07   On this day in history birth of john Christopher Parry, rocker (Cure)   

Jan 01   In the year 1949 malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63   

Jan 09   In the year 1949 amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75   

Jan 10   Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865) died on this day in history.   

Jan 14   In the year 1949 joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66   

Jan 15   On this day in history death of black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)   

Jan 20   Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87 on this day in history.   

Jan 22   William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891) died on this day in history.   

Jan 25   On this day in history emil Axman, composer, dies at 61