1949

This article is about the year 1949. For the number, see 1949 (number).
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1910s  1920s  1930s 1940s 1950s  1960s  1970s
Years: 1946 1947 194819491950 1951 1952
1949 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1949
MCMXLIX
Ab urbe condita2702
Armenian calendar1398
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԸ
Assyrian calendar6699
Bahá'í calendar105–106
Bengali calendar1356
Berber calendar2899
British Regnal year13 Geo. 6  14 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2493
Burmese calendar1311
Byzantine calendar7457–7458
Chinese calendar戊子(Earth Rat)
4645 or 4585
     to 
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4646 or 4586
Coptic calendar1665–1666
Discordian calendar3115
Ethiopian calendar1941–1942
Hebrew calendar5709–5710
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2005–2006
 - Shaka Samvat1871–1872
 - Kali Yuga5050–5051
Holocene calendar11949
Igbo calendar949–950
Iranian calendar1327–1328
Islamic calendar1368–1369
Japanese calendarShōwa 24
(昭和24年)
Juche calendar38
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4282
Minguo calendarROC 38
民國38年
Thai solar calendar2492
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1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1949th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.

Events

January

January 17: Beetle in U.S.

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

Soviets detonate their first nuclear weapon.

September

October

October 1: People's Republic of China is founded.

November

Dec. 16: Sukarno, first President of Indonesia

December

Date unknown

Currywurst

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

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September

October

November

December

Nobel Prizes

References

  1. "'Big bang' astronomer dies". BBC News. 22 August 2001. Archived from the original on December 8, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
  2. Croswell, Ken (1995). "Chapter 9". The Alchemy of the Heavens. Anchor Books. ISBN 0-385-47213-7.
  3. Mitton, Simon (2005). Fred Hoyle: a Life in Science. Aurum Press. p. 127. ISBN 1-85410-961-8.
  4. "Pioneer computer to be rebuilt". Cam 62: 5. 2011.
  5. "Address given by Winston Churchill (London, 28 November 1949)". european navigator The first digital library on the history of Europe. 28 November 1949. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
  6. "Year by Year 1949" – History Channel International.
  7. From Harding to Hiroshima by Barrington Boardman (1988), p. 14. ISBN 0-934878-94-3
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