1949

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Years : 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952

1949 is a year in the 20th century. It was a common year.

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[edit] Events

  • January 20 - Harry S.Truman proposes Point Four program to help world's less developed areas.
  • February 22 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
  • April 4 - Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
  • September 21 - German Federal Republic (West Germany) established.

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[edit] Films released

  • Adam's Rib
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • Samson and Delilah
  • The Third Man

[edit] New Books

  • The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
  • Alien Land - Willard W. Savoy
  • The Angry Wife - Pearl S. Buck
  • Beneath The Sky - Alfred Q. Jarrette
  • Beyond Earth's Gates - C. L. Moore
  • Bright Leaf - Foster Fitzsimmons
  • Cannibal - John Hawkes
  • Crooked House - Agatha Christie
  • The Dream Merchants - Harold Robbins
  • The Egyptian - Mika Waltari
  • Father of the Bride - Edward Streeter
  • The Golden Sequence - Martha E. Von Almedingen
  • The Heat of the Day - Elixabeth Bowen
  • King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry
  • Let Love Come Last - Taylor Caldwell
  • Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
  • Male and Female - Margaret Mead
  • The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
  • Men of Maize - Miguel Angel Asturias
  • The Miracles of the Red Altar Cloth - Hermann L. Hunter
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
  • Pride's Castle - Frank Yerby
  • A Rage To Live - John O'Hara
  • The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
  • To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy
  • Shane - Jack Schaefer
  • The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
  • A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  • The Trial - Franz Kafka
  • Trouble with Harry - Jack Story