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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
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Historical Events Of 1949
- January 11, 1949 – A record-setting snowstorm hits Los Angeles, California.
- 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.
- February 15, 1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
- February 19, 1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
- April 5, 1949 – Fireside Theater debuts on television.
- July 1, 1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.
- September 27, 1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People’s Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People’s Republic of China.
- October 16, 1949 – Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
- November 7, 1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
Who Were Born On 1949?
- February 3, 1949 – Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist and manager
- March 24, 1949 – Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran
- April 26, 1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
- May 28, 1949 – Susan Fitzgerald, English-Irish actress (d. 2013)
- May 31, 1949 – Tapio Kantanen, Finnish runner
- July 22, 1949 – Alan Menken, American pianist and composer
- September 25, 1949 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
- October 21, 1949 – Mike Keenan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- December 8, 1949 – Nancy Meyers, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- December 14, 1949 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player and manager