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Events from the year 1949 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Jim Folsom (Democratic )Governor of Arizona : Dan Edward Garvey (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : Benjamin Travis Laney (Democratic ) (until January 11), Sid McMath (Democratic ) (starting January 11)Governor of California : Earl Warren (Republican )Governor of Colorado : William Lee Knous (Democratic )Governor of Connecticut : James C. Shannon (Republican ) (until January 5), Chester Bowles (Democratic ) (starting January 5)Governor of Delaware : Walter W. Bacon (Republican ) (until January 18), Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic ) (starting January 18)Governor of Florida : Millard F. Caldwell (Democratic ) (until January 4), Fuller Warren (Democratic ) (starting January 4)Governor of Georgia : Herman Talmadge (Democratic )Governor of Idaho : C. A. Robins (Republican )Governor of Illinois : Dwight H. Green (Republican ) (until January 10), Adlai E. Stevenson II (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Governor of Indiana : Ralph F. Gates (Republican ) (until January 10), Henry F. Schricker (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Governor of Iowa : Robert D. Blue (Republican ) (until January 13), William S. Beardsley (Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Kansas : Frank Carlson (Republican )Governor of Kentucky : Earle C. Clements (Democratic )Governor of Louisiana : Earl K. Long (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Horace A. Hildreth (Republican ) (until January 5), Frederick G. Payne (Republican ) (starting January 5)Governor of Maryland : William Preston Lane, Jr. (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : Robert F. Bradford (Republican ) (until January 6), Paul A. Dever (Democratic ) (starting January 6)Governor of Michigan : Kim Sigler (Republican ) (until January 1), G. Mennen Williams (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of Minnesota : Luther W. Youngdahl (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : Fielding L. Wright (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic ) (until January 10), Forrest Smith (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Governor of Montana : Sam C. Ford (Republican ) (until January 3), John W. Bonner (Democratic ) (starting January 3)Governor of Nebraska : Val Peterson (Republican )Governor of Nevada : Vail M. Pittman (Democratic )Governor of New Hampshire : Charles M. Dale (Republican ) (until January 6), Sherman Adams (Republican ) (starting January 6)Governor of New Jersey : Alfred E. Driscoll (Republican )Governor of New Mexico : Thomas J. Mabry (Democratic )Governor of New York : Thomas Dewey (Republican )Governor of North Carolina : R. Gregg Cherry (Democratic ) (until January 6), W. Kerr Scott (Democratic ) (starting January 6)Governor of North Dakota : Fred G. Aandahl (Republican )Governor of Ohio : Thomas J. Herbert (Republican ) (until January 10), Frank J. Lausche (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Governor of Oklahoma : Roy J. Turner (Democratic )Governor of Oregon : John H. Hall (Republican ) (until January 10), Douglas McKay (Republican ) (starting January 10)Governor of Pennsylvania : James H. Duff (Republican )Governor of Rhode Island : John Orlando Pastore (Democratic )Governor of South Carolina : Strom Thurmond (Democratic )Governor of South Dakota : George T. Mickelson (Republican )Governor of Tennessee : Jim Nance McCord (Democratic ) (until January 16), Gordon Browning (Democratic ) (starting January 16)Governor of Texas : Beauford H. Jester (Democratic ) (until July 11), Allan Shivers (Democratic ) (starting July 11)Governor of Utah : Herbert B. Maw (Democratic ) (until January 3), J. Bracken Lee (Republican ) (starting January 3)Governor of Vermont : Ernest W. Gibson, Jr. (Republican )Governor of Virginia : William M. Tuck (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Monrad C. Wallgren (Democratic ) (until January 12), Arthur B. Langlie (Republican ) (starting January 12)Governor of West Virginia : Clarence W. Meadows (Democratic ) (until January 17), Okey L. Patteson (Democratic ) (starting January 17)Governor of Wisconsin : Oscar Rennebohm (Republican )Governor of Wyoming : Lester C. Hunt (Democratic ) (until January 3), Arthur G. Crane (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : James C. Inzer (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : Nathan Green Gordon (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of California : Goodwin Knight (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Homer L. Pearson (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Walter Walford Johnson (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Robert E. Parsons (Republican ) (until January 5), William T. Carroll (Democratic ) (starting January 5)Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic ) (until January 20), Alexis I. du Pont Bayard (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of Georgia : Marvin Griffin (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Donald S. Whitehead (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Hugh W. Cross (Republican ) (until January 10), Sherwood Dixon (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Rue J. Alexander (Republican ) (until January 2), John A. Watkins (Democratic ) (starting January 2)Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Kenneth A. Evans (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Frank L. Hagaman (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Lawrence Wetherby (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : William J. Dodd (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Arthur W. Coolidge (Republican ) (until January 6), Charles F. Sullivan (Republican ) (starting January 6)Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Eugene C. Keyes (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), John W. Connolly (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : C. Elmer Anderson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Sam Lumpkin (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Walter Naylor Davis (Democratic ) (until January 10), James T. Blair, Jr. (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Ernest T. Eaton (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Paul Cannon (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Robert B. Crosby (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Charles J. Warner (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Clifford A. Jones (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : Joseph Montoya (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of New York : Joseph R. Hanley (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Lynton Y. Ballentine (Democratic ) (until January 6), Hoyt Patrick Taylor (Democratic ) (starting January 6)Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Clarence P. Dahl (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Paul M. Herbert (Republican ) (until January 10), George D. Nye (Democratic ) (starting January 10)Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : James E. Berry (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Daniel B. Strickler (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : John S. McKiernan (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : George Bell Timmerman, Jr. (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Sioux K. Grigsby (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Rex A. Terry (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : George Oliver Benton (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Walter M. Haynes (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Allan Shivers (Democratic ) (until July 11), vacant (starting July 11)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Lee E. Emerson (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Harold J. Arthur (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Lewis Preston Collins II (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Victor A. Meyers (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Oscar Rennebohm (Republican ) (until January 3), George M. Smith (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Events
January 20: Harry S. Truman , the President of the United States , begins his full term Alben W. Barkley becomes the 35th U.S. Vice PresidentJanuary 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico .
January 4 – RMS Caronia (1947) Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York City on her maiden voyage.
January 4–February 22 – Series of winter storms in Nebraska , Wyoming , South Dakota , Utah , Colorado and Nevada – winds of up to 72 mph – tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish.
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. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff that the car has no future in the U.S. (The VW Beetle goes on to become the greatest automobile phenomenon in American history.)
January 19 – The Poe Toaster first appears at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe .
January 20 – President Harry S. Truman begins his full term. Alben W. Barkley is sworn in as Vice President of the United States .
January 25 – The first Emmy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
February 10 – Arthur Miller 's tragedy Death of a Salesman Morosco Theatre on Broadway in New York City with Lee J. Cobb in the title rôle of Willy Loman and runs for 742 performances.
February 19 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University .
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.
March 2 – The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II Fort Worth, Texas , after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight (it was refueled in flight 4 times).
March 17 – The Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Texas , owned by oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy , has its grand opening.
March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy , Denver & Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr Chicago and Oakland, California , as the first long-distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
March 24 – The 21st Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Robert Montgomery , is held at the Academy Theater in Hollywood , Los Angeles . Laurence Olivier 's Hamlet Best Picture , while John Huston wins Best Director for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Jean Negulesco 's Johnny Belinda
March 26 – The first half of Giuseppe Verdi 's opera Aida Arturo Toscanini , and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC , live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center . The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television .
March 28 – United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly.
April 4: NATO April 4 – The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. , creating the NATO defense alliance.
April 7 – Rodgers and Hammerstein 's South Pacific Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza , opens on Broadway and goes on to become R&H's second longest-running musical . It becomes an instant classic of the musical theatre . The score's biggest hit is the song Some Enchanted Evening .
April 13 – The 6.7 Mw Olympia earthquake affected the Puget Sound region of western Washington with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), causing eight deaths and $25 million in damage.
April 23 – Development of the USS United States (CVA-58) "supercarrier" is cancelled; high-ranking Navy officials resign in protest in what has been called the Revolt of the Admirals .
May 1 Albert Einstein publishes Why Socialism? Monthly Review .
May ? – A working group has been set up by United States Department of State , to codify the White Paper. This team consists of more than 80 staff members, led by Secretary of State Dean Acheson , former Columbia University Professor of Public International Law Philip C. Jessup .[ 1] [ 2]
June 8 – Red Scare : Celebrities including Helen Keller , Dorothy Parker , Danny Kaye , Fredric March , John Garfield , Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
June 14 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey , becomes the first primate to enter space, on Hermes project V-2 rocket Blossom IVB , but is killed on impact at return.
June 19 – Glenn Dunaway wins the inaugural NASCAR 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 24 – The first television western , Hopalong Cassidy NBC .
June 29 – The last U.S. troops withdraw from South Korea .
August 10: Department of Defense
Adm. Gerald F. Bogan meets Shah of Iran , December 3, 1949
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 2
January 6 – Carolyn D. Wright , poet (died 2016 )
January 8 – John Podesta , lawyer and politician, 20th White House Chief of Staff
January 10
January 22 – Steve Perry , musician
February 2 – Brent Spiner , actor, comedian and singer
February 4 – Michael Beck , actor
February 7 – Joe English , drummer and songwriter
February 15 – Ken Anderson , American football player and coach
February 17 – Dennis Green , American football player and coach (died 2016 )
February 19 – Danielle Bunten Berry , born Dan(iel Paul) Bunten, software developer (died 1998 )
February 25 – Ric Flair (Richard Fliehr), wrestler
February 27 – John Wockenfuss , baseball player (died 2022 )[ 6]
February 28 – Ilene Graff , actress and singer
March 2
March 3
March 10 – Larry Wall , computer programmer
March 12 – Rob Cohen , film director
March 13 – Julia Migenes , soprano
March 16
March 17 – Patrick Duffy , television actor
March 21 – Eddie Money (Edward Mahoney), rock guitarist and singer (died 2019 )[ 7]
March 28 – Michael W. Young , geneticist and chronobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017
March 29 – Michael Brecker , jazz saxophonist (died 2007 )
April 1 – Gil Scott-Heron , African American poet, jazz/soul musician and author (died 2011 )
April 5 – Judith Resnik , astronaut (died 1986 )[ 8]
April 7 – Mitch Daniels , Academic Administrator, businessman, author, politician and the 49th governor of Indiana
April 9 – Stephen Hickman , illustrator
April 11 – Dorothy Allison , novelist and campaigner
April 20 – Jessica Lange , actress
May 1
May 3 – Ron Wyden , U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1996
May 4
May 7 – Deborah Butterfield , sculptor
May 9 – Billy Joel , singer-songwriter and pianist
May 13 – Zoë Wanamaker , actress
May 15 – George Adams , basketball player
May 26 – Ward Cunningham , computer programmer
June 3 – John Rothman , actor
June 7 – Larry Hama , comic book writer, artist, actor and musician
June 14 – Harry Turtledove , novelist
June 20 – Lionel Richie , African American singer-songwriter
June 22
July 1 – Denis Johnson , writer
July 15 – Richard Russo , novelist
July 16 – Alan Fitzgerald , guitarist and keyboardist
July 19 – Calvin O. Butts , academic administrator and pastor (died 2022 )
July 24 – Michael Richards , actor and comedian
July 29 – Marilyn Quayle , wife of Dan Quayle , Second Lady of the United States
July 31 – Mike Jackson , basketball player
August 1 – Jim Carroll , author, poet and punk musician (died 2009 )
August 3 – Peter Gutmann , journalist
August 4 – John Riggins , American football player
August 6
August 11 – Tim Hutchinson , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1997 to 2003
August 13 – Pete Visclosky , politician
August 14 – Bob Backlund , pro wrestler
August 15
August 17 – Norm Coleman , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 2003 to 2009
August 22
August 24
August 31
September 1 – Leslie Feinberg , transgender activist
September 7 - Lee McGeorge Durrell , zoologist
September 10 – Bill O'Reilly , conservative political commentator
September 13 – John W. Henry , foreign exchange advisor and Boston Red Sox owner
September 15 – Joe Barton , politician
September 16 – Ed Begley, Jr. actor and environmentalist
September 23 – Bruce Springsteen , singer-songwriter
September 26 – Jane Smiley , novelist
September 27 – Mike Schmidt , baseball player and coach
September 29 – Burton Richardson , game show announcer
October 3 – Haunani-Kay Trask , activist, educator and poet (died 2021 )[ 13]
October 8
October 12 – Randy Kryn , Civil Rights Movement historian
October 15 – Tanya Roberts , actress (d. 2021 )
October 24
October 25 – Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. , film producer, record producer, singer and voice artist (son of Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. )
November 1 – Jeannie Berlin , film actress
November 2 – Lois McMaster Bujold , author of speculative fiction
November 9 – Julie Beckett , teacher and disability rights activist (died 2022 )[ 14]
November 10
November 12 – Jack Reed , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1997
November 14 – James Young , hard rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Styx )
November 29
December 4 – Jeff Bridges , film actor
December 9 – Tom Kite , golfer
December 13
December 14 – Bill Buckner , baseball player (died 2019 )
December 15 – Don Johnson , television actor
December 16 – Billy Gibbons , rock guitarist (ZZ Top )
December 20
December 22 – Ray Guy , American football player (died 2022 )[ 16]
December 25
December 28 – Barbara De Fina , film producer
Deaths
January 6 – Victor Fleming , film director (born 1889 )
January 11 – Nelson Doubleday , publisher (born 1889)
January 14 – Harry Stack Sullivan , psychiatrist (born 1892 )
February 1 – Herbert Stothart , composer (born 1885 )
March 7
March 17 – Felix Bressart , German American actor (born 1892 )
March 20 – Irving Fazola , jazz clarinetist (born 1912 ; heart attack)
March 25 – Jack Kapp , president of the U.S. branch of Decca Records (born 1901 )
April 6 – Joseph J. Sullivan , gambler (born 1870 )
April 15 – Wallace Beery , film actor (born 1885)
April 22 – Charles Middleton , actor (born 1874)
May 22 – James Forrestal , U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (born 1892 )
May 27 – Robert Ripley , creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not! 1890 )
June 14 – Russell Doubleday , author and publisher (born 1872 )
June 25 – Buck Freeman , baseball player (born 1871 )
July 7 – Bunk Johnson , African American jazz trumpeter (born 1879 )
July 18 – Alice Corbin Henderson , poet (born 1881 )
July 24 – Virginia M. Alexander , African American physician and community activist (born 1899 )
July 26 – Linda Arvidson , silent film actress (born 1884)
July 27 – Ellery Harding Clark , field athlete (born 1874 )
August 9
August 16 – Margaret Mitchell , novelist (born 1900 ; killed in road accident)
August 18 – Paul Mares , dixieland jazz cornet player (born 1900; lung cancer)
September 10 – Wiley Rutledge , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born 1894 )
September 12 – Harry Burleigh , African American baritone and classical composer (born 1866)
September 18 – Frank Morgan , character actor (born 1890 )
September 19 – Will Cuppy , humorist (born 1884 )
September 20 – Richard Dix , film actor (born 1893 )
September 22 – Sam Wood , film director (born 1883 )
September 27 – David Adler , architect (born 1882 )
October 1 – Buddy Clark , singer (born 1911 ; killed in aviation accident)
October 14 – Fritz Leiber (Sr.) , actor (born 1882 )
October 15 – Elmer Clifton , film actor and director (born 1890)
October 23 – Almanzo Wilder , writer, husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1857 )
October 26 – Emil Liston , sports coach and administrator (born 1890 )
October 31 – Edward Stettinius, Jr. , U.S. Secretary of State (born 1900; coronary thrombosis)
November 2 – Jerome F. Donovan , politician (born 1872 )
November 3 – Solomon R. Guggenheim , philanthropist (born 1861 )
November 25 – Bill Robinson ("Bojangles"), African American dancer (born 1878 )
December 6
December 7 – Rex Beach , adventure novelist and Olympic water polo player (born 1877 )
December 25 – Leon Schlesinger , film producer (born 1884 )
December 28
See also
References
^ "FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1949, THE FAR EAST: CHINA, VOLUME IX" [1]
^ 唐耐心《在塵埃中的模式：中美關係和承認的爭議，1949-1950》1983年出版[publisher missing
^ "FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1949, THE FAR EAST: CHINA, VOLUME IX" [2]
^ "Company Overview of Myron Corporation" . BusinessWeek. June 20, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2012 .^ From Harding to Hiroshima by Barrington Boardman (1988), p. 14. ISBN 0-934878-94-3 ^ Longtime Detroit Tigers utilityman John Wockenfuss dies at 73 ^ Smith, Harrison (2019-09-13). "Eddie Money, singer behind 'Take Me Home Tonight' and 'Two Tickets to Paradise,' dies at 70" . The Washington Post . Archived from the original on 2019-09-16. Retrieved 2021-07-14 . ^ "Space Shuttle Challenger Fast Facts" . CNN . Retrieved 4 December 2021 .^ DeCosta-Willis, Miriam (2008). Notable Black Memphians . Cambria Press. pp. 85–87. ISBN 978-1-62196-863-4 ^ Gary Gaines, coach at heart of Friday Night Lights, dies aged 73 ^ "Meryl Streep" . Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers . 16 February 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2021 .^ William Yardley (2014-10-21). "Stephen Paulus, Classical Composer Rich in Lyricism, Dies at 65 - The New York Times" . Nytimes.com . Retrieved 2017-09-07 . ^ Native Hawaiian Activist Haunani-Kay Trask, Who Opposed U.S. Imperialism, Dies at 71 ^ Julie Beckett, who fought for change in Medicaid system, dies ^ Former US Rep. Brad Ashford of Nebraska dead at 72 ^ Ray Guy, widely known as greatest punter of all time, dies at age of 72
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