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Wreckage of an Avio Linee Italiane [[Fiat G.212]] after the [[Superga air disaster]]; [[Mao Zedong]] proclaiming the [[Proclamation of the People's Republic of China|foundation]] of the [[People's Republic of China]]. }}

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===January===

{{Main|January 1949}}

* [[January 2]] – [[Luis Muñoz Marín]] becomes the first democratically elected [[Governor of Puerto Rico]].

* [[January 11]] – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as [[KDKA-TV]] in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the [[United States]].

* [[June 14]] – [[Albert II (monkey)|Albert II]], a [[rhesus macaque|rhesus monkey]], becomes the first [[primate]] to enter space, on U.S. [[Hermes project]] [[V-2 rocket]] ''Blossom IVB'', but is killed on impact at return.

* [[June 19]] – [[Glenn Dunaway]] wins the [[1949 NASCAR Strictly Stock Series inaugural race|inaugural]] [[NASCAR Cup Series]] race at [[Charlotte Speedway]], a 3/4 mile oval in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]], but is disqualified due to illegal springs. [[Jim Roper]] is declared the official winner.

* [[June 29]] – [[Apartheid]]: The ''South African Citizenship Act'' suspends the granting of citizenship to [[Commonwealth of Nations]] immigrants after 5 years, and imposes a ban on [[interracial marriage|mixed marriage]]s.

 

* [[August 3]] – The [[Basketball Association of America]] and the [[National Basketball League (United States)|National Basketball League]] finalize the merger that will create the [[National Basketball Association]].

* [[August 5]] – In [[Ecuador]], the 6.8 {{M|l|link=y}} [[1949 Ambato earthquake|Ambato earthquake]] kills more than 5,000, and destroys a number of villages.

* [[August 10]] – the [[Avro Canada C102 Jetliner]] makes its first flight; it is the first jet airliner to fly in North America.

* [[August 12]] – The [[Fourth Geneva Convention]] is agreed to.

* [[November 26]] &ndash; The [[Indian Constituent Assembly]] adopts India's constitution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lawmin.nic.in/coi.htm|title=Constitution of India|access-date=2003-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031205192934/http://lawmin.nic.in/coi.htm|archive-date=2003-12-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>

* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Winston Churchill]] makes a landmark speech in support of the idea of a European Union, at [[Kingsway Hall]], London - but does not see UK as part of it, "''The British Government have rightly stated that they cannot commit this country to entering any European Union without the agreement of the other members of the British Commonwealth"''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cvce.eu/en/obj/address_given_by_winston_churchill_london_28_november_1949-en-ce26cc27-30bc-4ec1-b0df-8a572f3dcc0e.html|title=Address given by Winston Churchill (London, 28 November 1949)|work=cvce.eu|access-date=2017-03-28}}</ref>

 

===December===

[[File:Lauda at 1982 Dutch Grand Prix.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Niki Lauda]]]]

[[File:Simon Crean (1).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Simon Crean]]]]

* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Joan Burton]], Irish politician

* [[February 2]]

* [[March 2]]

** [[Gates McFadden]], American actress, choreographer

** [[Dinesh Gunawardena]], Sri Lankan politician, [[List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka|15th]] [[Prime Minister of Sri Lanka]]

* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Elijah Harper]], Canadian Aboriginal activist (d. [[2013]])

** [[Ronnie Ray Smith]], American Olympic athlete (d. [[2013]])

** [[Michael W. Young]], American geneticist, chronobiologist and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]

* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Lene Lovich]], American singer

 

* [[April 18]]

** [[Antônio Fagundes]], Brazilian actor

* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov]], Russian figure skater (d. [[1990]])

* [[April 20]]

* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Alan Titchmarsh]], English gardener

* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Leopoldo Luque]], Argentine soccer player (d. [[2021]])

* [[May 9]]

** [[Billy Joel]], American singer, songwriter and pianist

** [[Jeremy Corbyn]], British politician

** [[Pam Grier]], African-American actress

* [[May 27]]

** [[Jo Ann Harris]], American actress

** [[Harry Turtledove]], American historian, novelist

** [[Papa Wemba]], Congolese [[soukous]] musician (d. [[2016]])

* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Robbin Thompson]], American singer, songwriter (d. [[2015]])

* [[June 18]]

* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Jon McLachlan]], New Zealand rugby union player

* [[June 25]]

** [[Lalith Kaluperuma]], Sri Lankan test cricketer and ODI cricketer

** [[Patrick Tambay]], French racing driver (d. [[2022]])

** [[Uwe Kliemann]], German football player and coach

** [[Norm Mitchell]], Australian rules footballer

 

===July===

* [[September 16]]

** [[Ed Begley Jr.]], American actor, environmentalist (''[[St. Elsewhere]]'')

** [[Chrisye]], Indonesian singer (d. [[2007]])

* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Didith Reyes]], Filipina singer (d. [[2008]])

* [[December 1]]

** [[Pablo Escobar]], Colombian drug lord (k. [[1993]])

* [[December 3]]

** [[John Akii-Bua]], Ugandan hurdler (d. [[1997]])

* [[December 15]]

** [[Don Johnson]], American actor (''[[Miami Vice]]'')

* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Billy Gibbons]], American guitarist ([[ZZ Top]])

* [[December 17]]

** [[Tommy Handley]], British radio comedian (b. [[1892]])

** [[Tom Longboat]], Canadian Olympic runner (b. [[1887]])<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tom-longboat Tom Longboat]</ref>

* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Nelson Doubleday]], American publisher (b. [[1889]])

* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Eduardo Barron]], Spanish engineer, pilot (b. [[1888]])

* [[May 22]]

** [[James Forrestal]], U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (b. [[1892]])

* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Jan Frans De Boever]], Belgian painter (b. [[1872]])

* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Robert Ripley]], American creator of ''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not!]]'' (b. [[1890]])

===June===

 

[[File:Themistoklis Sofoulis.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Themistoklis Sofoulis]]]]

* [[June 8]]

** [[Naguib el-Rihani]], Egyptian actor (b. [[1889]])

* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Maria Cebotari]], Romanian soprano, actress (b. [[1910]])

* [[June 10]]

* [[July 18]]

** [[Ted Alley]], Australian footballer (b. [[1881]])

** [[Vítězslav Novák]], Czech composer (b. [[1870]])

* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Frank Murphy]], American politician and [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://www.oyez.org/justices/frank_murphy Frank Murphy]</ref>

** [[Nils Östensson]], Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (b. [[1918]])

** [[Ada Baker]], Australian soprano, singing teacher and vaudeville star (b. [[1866]])

* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Linda Arvidson]], American actress (b. [[1884]])

* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Ellery Harding Clark]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1874]])

* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[José Clemente Orozco]], Mexican painter (b. [[1883]])

* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Richard Strauss]], German composer (''[[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]'') (b. [[1864]])

* [[September 12]]

** [[Harry Burleigh]], American composer (b. [[1866]])

[[File:Elena Arizmendi ca 1916.PNG|thumbnail|100px|[[Elena Arizmendi Mejía]]]]

[[File:Hazhir.jpg|thumbnail|100px|[[Abdolhossein Hazhir]]]]

* November &ndash; [[María Josepha Sophia de Iturbide]], head of the Imperial House of Mexico (b. [[1872]])

* [[November 3]]

** [[Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies]] (b. [[1870]])

** [[Ignatius Stelletskii]], Soviet archaeologist, historian and researcher (b. [[1878]])

* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Nathuram Godse]], assassin of [[Mohandas Gandhi]] (b. [[1910]]), and his accomplice, [[Narayan Apte]] (b. [[1911]])

* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[James Ensor]], Belgian painter (b. [[1860]])

* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria]] (b. [[1859]])

* [[November 25]]