1949

1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1949th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.

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From top to bottom, left to right: British astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang; the North Atlantic Treaty is signed, forming NATO; Police and protesters clach during the 1949 Kemi strike; EDSAC is the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service; The first Soviet atomic bomb, RDS-1, is made; Devastation after the Prüm explosion in Germany; Wreckage of an Avio Linee Italiane Fiat G.212 after the Superga air disaster; Mao Zedong proclaiming the foundation of the People's Republic of China.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1949 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1949
MCMXLIX
Ab urbe condita2702
Armenian calendar1398
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԸ
Assyrian calendar6699
Baháʼí calendar105–106
Balinese saka calendar1870–1871
Bengali calendar1356
Berber calendar2899
British Regnal year13 Geo. 6 – 14 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2493
Burmese calendar1311
Byzantine calendar7457–7458
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4646 or 4439
    — to —
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4647 or 4440
Coptic calendar1665–1666
Discordian calendar3115
Ethiopian calendar1941–1942
Hebrew calendar5709–5710
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2005–2006
 - Shaka Samvat1870–1871
 - Kali Yuga5049–5050
Holocene calendar11949
Igbo calendar949–950
Iranian calendar1327–1328
Islamic calendar1368–1369
Japanese calendarShōwa 24
(昭和24年)
Javanese calendar1880–1881
Juche calendar38
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4282
Minguo calendarROC 38
民國38年
Nanakshahi calendar481
Thai solar calendar2492
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
2075 or 1694 or 922
    — to —
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
2076 or 1695 or 923

Events

January

[[File:VW Standard, Bj1950 2005-09-17 |thumb|120px| January 17: Beetle in U.S.]]

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

1949 
Konrad Adenauer.

October

1949 
October 1: People's Republic of China is founded.
1949 
Mao Zedong's Proclamation of The People's Republic of China during a Speech on October 1, 1949.
1949 
October 7: The German Democratic Republic is Established.

November

December

1949 
Dec. 16: Sukarno, first President of Indonesia
1949 
Celebration of Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday (December 21, 1949)

Date unknown

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

1949 
George Foreman
1949 
Göran Persson
1949 
John Belushi

February

1949 
Brent Spiner
1949 
Niki Lauda
1949 
Simon Crean

March

1949 
Shaukat Aziz
1949 
Alex Higgins
1949 
Slavoj Žižek
1949 
Margareta of Romania
1949 
Michael W. Young

April

1949 
Judith Resnik
1949 
Zygmunt Zimowski
1949 
Massimo D'Alema
1949 
Janet Ågren
1949 
Jessica Lange
1949 
György Gedó
1949 
António Guterres

May

1949 
Billy Joel
1949 
Alan García
1949 
Jim Broadbent
1949 
Jeremy Corbyn
1949 
Tom Berenger

June

1949 
Heather Couper
1949 
Jarosław Kaczyński
1949 
Ebi
1949 
Lionel Richie
1949 
Meryl Streep

July

1949 
Noli de Castro
1949 
Shelley Duvall
1949 
Carl Bildt
1949 
Kgalema Motlanthe
1949 
Alan Menken
1949 
Thaksin Shinawatra
1949 
Jamil Mahuad

August

1949 
Mark Knopfler
1949 
Fernando Collor de Mello
1949 
Beverly Burns
1949 
Phil Lynott
1949 
Vicky Leandros
1949 
Richard Gere

September

1949 
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
1949 
Bruce Springsteen

October

1949 
Luis Sepúlveda
1949 
Sigourney Weaver
1949 
Owen Arthur
1949 
Benjamin Netanyahu
1949 
Arsène Wenger

November

1949 
Pierre Buyoya
1949 
Bonnie Raitt

December

1949 
Pablo Escobar
1949 
Sebastián Piñera
1949 
Jeff Bridges
1949 
Sissy Spacek

Date unknown

Deaths

January

1949 
Gennaro Righelli
1949 
Yoshijirō Umezu

February

1949 
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora

March

1949 
Sarojini Naidu
1949 
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia

April

May

1949 
Prince Louis II of Monaco
1949 
Damaskinos of Athens

June

1949 
Themistoklis Sofoulis
1949 
Sigrid Undset

July

1949 
Georgi Dimitrov
1949 
Douglas Hyde
1949 
Ellery Harding Clark
1949 
Nils Östensson

August

1949 
Margaret Mitchell
1949 
Uemura Shōen

September

1949 
Richard Strauss
1949 
Pandeli Evangjeli
1949 
Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens

October

1949 
Blessed Nykyta Budka
1949 
Saint Laura Montoya
1949 
Blessed Lorenzo Massa

November

1949 
Elena Arizmendi Mejía
1949 
Abdolhossein Hazhir
1949 
Wakatsuki Reijirō

December

1949 
Maria Ouspenskaya
1949 
Lead Belly
1949 
Antoni Ponikowski
1949 
Jack Lovelock

Date unknown

Nobel Prizes

1949 

References

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