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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 29, 1949 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
• March 2, 1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
• July 27, 1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
• August 31, 1949 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
• September 4, 1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
• October 16, 1949 – Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
• November 2, 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
• November 7, 1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
• December 7, 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.
• December 29, 1949 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.

Who Were Born On 1949?

• January 25, 1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English poet and critic
• February 10, 1949 – Maxime Le Forestier, French singer and guitarist
• March 8, 1949 – Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
• April 19, 1949 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (d. 1993)
• June 26, 1949 – Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (d. 2015)
• July 27, 1949 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (d. 2010)
• August 31, 1949 – Richard Gere, American actor, singer, and producer
• September 12, 1949 – Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater and politician
• October 3, 1949 – Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Russian director and screenwriter
• November 28, 1949 – Paul Shaffer, Canadian-American actor, keyboard player, and bandleader