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1949 is a year in the 20th century. It was a common year.
[edit] Events
- January 20 - Harry S.Truman proposes Point Four program to help world's less developed areas.
- February 22 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
- April 4 - Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
- September 21 - German Federal Republic (West Germany) established.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
- January 11 - Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1889)
- January 14 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
- January 28 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
- February 12 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
- March 30 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- April 19 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
- May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- May 9 - Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
- May 22 - James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (suicide) (b. 1892)
- May 22 - Klaus Mann, German writer (suicide) (b. 1906)
- June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- June 14 - Russell Doubleday, American author and publisher (b. 1872)
- July 9 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born composer (b. 1874)
- July 12 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
- July 18- Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
- August 18 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
- August 30 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- September 8 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
- September 13 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
- September 19 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
- September 19 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
- October 27 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (plane crash) (b. 1916)
- October 27 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (plane crash) (b. 1919)
- December 6 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1885)
- December 11 - Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1875)
- December 16 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
- December 28 - Hervey Allen, American author (b. 1889)
- December 28 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)
[edit] Awards
[edit] Films released
- Adam's Rib
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Samson and Delilah
- The Third Man
[edit] New Books
- The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
- Alien Land - Willard W. Savoy
- The Angry Wife - Pearl S. Buck
- Beneath The Sky - Alfred Q. Jarrette
- Beyond Earth's Gates - C. L. Moore
- Bright Leaf - Foster Fitzsimmons
- Cannibal - John Hawkes
- Crooked House - Agatha Christie
- The Dream Merchants - Harold Robbins
- The Egyptian - Mika Waltari
- Father of the Bride - Edward Streeter
- The Golden Sequence - Martha E. Von Almedingen
- The Heat of the Day - Elixabeth Bowen
- King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry
- Let Love Come Last - Taylor Caldwell
- Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
- Male and Female - Margaret Mead
- The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
- Men of Maize - Miguel Angel Asturias
- The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth - Hermann L. Hunter
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- Pride's Castle - Frank Yerby
- A Rage To Live - John O'Hara
- The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
- To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy
- Shane - Jack Schaefer
- The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- Trouble with Harry - Jack Story
