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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.
• February 8, 1949 – Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
• March 2, 1949 – The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
• April 5, 1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
• May 11, 1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
• 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.
• August 24, 1949 – The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
• September 6, 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
• 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.

Who Were Born On 1949?

• January 12, 1949 – Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian engineer, journalist, and politician; 19th Prime Minister of Tunisia
• January 14, 1949 – Mary Robison, American author and academic
• March 29, 1949 – Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (Steps Ahead and Parliament-Funkadelic) (d. 2007)
• June 7, 1949 – Christopher W. Morris, Canadian philosopher and academic
• June 12, 1949 – John Wetton, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (King Crimson, Mogul Thrash, Family, Roxy Music, UK, and Asia)
• July 10, 1949 – Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
• July 27, 1949 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (d. 2010)
• August 14, 1949 – Bob Backlund, American wrestler and actor
• September 11, 1949 – Roger Uttley, English rugby player and coach
• December 30, 1949 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2014)