Page 9: Historical Events In 1949

Jul 06   On this day in history cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs   

Jul 07   "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs in the year 1949.   

Jul 07   "Dragnet" premiers on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967 on this day in history.   

Jul 08   Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon in the year 1949.   

Jul 08   Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants on this day in history.   

Jul 09   Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres on this day in history.   

Jul 09   Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer, dies at 75 in the year 1949.   

Jul 10   The first practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh in the year 1949.   

Jul 12   16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn on this day in history.   

Jul 12   In the year 1949 lA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin   

Jul 13   Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics on this day in history.   

Jul 14   On this day in history frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr), dies   

Jul 14   USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb in the year 1949.   

Jul 15   "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances in the year 1949.   

Jul 15   Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US in the year 1949.   

Jul 19   Laos becomes associated state within French Union in the year 1949.   

Jul 19   On this day in history laos independence   

Jul 20   On this day in history israel's 19 month war of independence ends   

Jul 21   Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 in the year 1949.   

Jul 21   Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO) on this day in history.   

Jul 23   On this day in history test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days   

Jul 24   On this day in history inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5   

Jul 26   C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1951 Lick in the year 1949.   

Jul 26   In the year 1949 wCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting   

Jul 27   1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies on this day in history.   

Jul 27   Havilland Comet 40-passenger airliner makes maiden flight on this day in history.   

Jul 29   Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends on this day in history.   

Jul 30   British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff in the year 1949.   

Jul 31   In the year 1949 lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills SS & 3rd baseman   

Jul 31   Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills the SS & 3rd baseman in the year 1949.   

Aug 03   In the year 1949 republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire   

Aug 03   On this day in history the National Basketball Association was formed.   

Aug 04   NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association on this day in history.   

Aug 05   6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die in the year 1949.   

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Jan 02   Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home) was born in the year 1949.   

Jan 02   In the year 1949 birth of christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary)   

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

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of mick Mills, British(?) soccer player   

Jan 05   In the year 1949 birth of george Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972)   

Jan 06   Richard Horowitz, composer was born in the year 1949.   

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

Jan 01   Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63 in the year 1949.   

Jan 09   On this day in history amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75   

Jan 10   In the year 1949 death of erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)   

Jan 14   Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66 in the year 1949.   

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 in the year 1949.   

Jan 22   William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891) died in the year 1949.   

Jan 25   Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61 in the year 1949.