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January 5 – President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program. January 11 – Los Angeles, California, receives its first recorded snowfall. January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City by Dutch businessman Ben Pon.
What happened in 1949? What does the year 1949 refer to in the Gregorian calendar? What was 1949 known for ? Balanced between the 1940s and 1950s, 1949 was just another year in the Truman presidence. At the beginning of this year, world leaders, presided over a global population estimated at just over 2.5 billion.
From top to bottom, left to right: British astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang; the North Atlantic Treaty is signed, forming NATO; Police and protesters clach during the 1949 Kemi strike; EDSAC is the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service; The first Soviet atomic bomb, RDS-1, is made; Devastation ...
What happened and who was famous in 1949? Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 1949.
What Happened in 1949? MAJOR EVENTS: Communists forces gain power in China; nationalists flee to Taiwan. North Atlantic Treaty Organization established. Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb. Israel admitted to U.N. Soviet Union lifts Berlin blockade; Berlin airlift ends. Apartheid becomes official government policy in South Africa.
Feb 9, 2010 · 1949. Soviets explode atomic bomb. At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure...
This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1950 to 1969 . 1950s. Presidency of Harry S. Truman. 1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power, and McCarthyism (1950–1954) begins. 1950 – McCarran Internal Security Act. 1950 – Korean War begins. 1950 – The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, is first published.
