The Year 1949 From The People History

1949 After many years of misery through the depression and World War 11 postwar prosperity is starting to get underway with companies now able to supply the cars, Televisions and the other goods demanded in a consumer society. The cars got bigger, the TV's got bigger, with some 6.2 million new cars sold in the US and nearly 10 million Televisions in American homes, A new type of TV programme appeared we now call Soap Operas ( the name came from the fact many soap manufacturers sponsored the shows to catch the stay at home mum with advertising ) . China became a communist country and Russia had the Nuclear Bomb which increased the tension between East and West ( The Cold War ).
1949 was 60 years ago this year

What Events Happened in 1949

• 6.75 Richter scale earthquake in Ecuador kills 6000 and destroys 50 towns

• Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Established

• Federal Republic of Germany officially founded

• Indonesia gains it's independence From Netherlands

• Berlin Airlift officially comes to an end on May 12th

• The Communist People’s Republic of China is proclaimed under Mao Tse Tung.

• Republic of China / Taiwan on the island of Formosa comes into being following the defeat by Mao Tse Tung

• The Geneva Convention is agreed providing an agreement on the treatment of prisoners

• RCA Perfects a system for broadcasting color television

• First Polaroid Camera sold for $89.95

• President Harry S. Truman authorizes $16 million in aid for Palestinian refugees

• The Emmy Awards for US Television first presented

• First Volkswagen Beetle The Peoples Car sold in US

• The first car with a Porsche badge is shown

• De-Havilland Comet first commercial passenger jet airliner test flight

• Apartheid Made official Policy of National party in South Africa

• Newfoundland Joins Canada Confederation

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use ) 1949

The first automatic street lights are installed in New Milford, Connecticut
45 rpm Record USA

The world's first commercially available computer The Ferranti Mark 1 Released

Popular Culture

• George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published



• 45 rpm discs are introduced



• First Polaroid Camera History sold for $89.95



• "A" your adorable " by Perry Como



• "Mule Train " by Frankie laine



• FILM Twelve O'Clock High



• First Polaroid Camera sold for $89.95



• Frank Sinatra stars in "On The Town" with Gene Kelly



• Rodgers and Hammerstein debut the musical "South Pacific" on Broadway



Born This Year 1949

Larry Holmes News And Events From November 3rd

Jeff Bridges This Day In History December 4th

Lionel Richie News And Events From June 20th

Bruce Springsteen This Day In History September 23rd

Major World Political Leaders 1949

Australia Prime Minister Ben Chifley Till 19 December
Australia Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies From 19 December

Brazil President Gaspar Dutra

Canada Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent

China Chairman of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong

France President Vincent Auriol

Germany Chancellor Konrad Adenauer From 15 September

India Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru

Italy Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi

Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida

Mexico President Miguel Alemán Valdés

Russia / Soviet Union
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Joseph Stalin

South Africa Prime Minister Daniel François Malan

United States President Harry S. Truman

United Kingdom Prime Minister Clement Attlee

Political Elections 1949

Canadian Federal Election 1949 Louis St. Laurent ( Liberal ) defeats George A. Drew ( Progressive Conservatives ).


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