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1949 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2033. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1949 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1949

• January 20, 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
• January 29, 1949 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
• April 5, 1949 – Fireside Theater debuts on television.
• April 28, 1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
• June 8, 1949 – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• September 4, 1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
• October 16, 1949 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
• November 7, 1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
• November 18, 1949 – The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
• December 10, 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People’s Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

Who Were Born On 1949?

• June 13, 1949 – Red Symons, English-Australian guitarist, actor, and radio host (Skyhooks)
• June 22, 1949 – Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician
• July 1, 1949 – John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter (Little River Band)
• July 27, 1949 – Susan Gordon, American actress (d. 2011)
• August 1, 1949 – Jim Carroll, American poet and author (d. 2009)
• August 21, 1949 – Daniel Sivan, Israeli scholar and academic
• September 3, 1949 – Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
• September 27, 1949 – Mike Schmidt, American baseball player and coach
• October 1, 1949 – André Rieu, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor