| Events of 1949 |
| Date |
Event |
| Jan 07, 1949 |
Cease-fire in Palestine |
| Jan 20, 1949 |
Truman proposes Point Four Program to help world's less developed areas |
| Feb 24, 1949 |
Israel signs armistice with Egypt |
| Mar 02, 1949 |
Captain James Gallagher lands the B-50 Lucky Lady II in Texas after completing the first around-the-world non-stop airplane flight. It was refueled four times in flight. |
| Apr 04, 1949 |
NATO, the North American Treaty Organization, is formed by the United States, Canada, and ten Western European nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom). The treaty stated that any attack against one nation would be considered an attack against them all. |
| May 12, 1949 |
Berlin blockade ends |
| May 23, 1949 |
Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) established |
| Jun 29, 1949 |
United States withdraws its troops from Korea. |
| Jul 14, 1949 |
First successful Soviet atomic test |
| Sep 30, 1949 |
Allied airlift of Berline ends |
| Oct 01, 1949 |
Communist People's Republic of China formally proclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong |
| Oct 07, 1949 |
Tokyo Rose, the femme fatale of Japanese war broadcasts, was sentenced to ten years in prison. She would be paroled in 1956 and pardoned in 1977. |
| Oct 07, 1949 |
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) established under Soviet rule |
| Oct 14, 1949 |
Eleven leaders of the United States Communist party are convicted of advocating a violent insurrection and overthrow of the U.S. government. The Supreme Court would uphold the convictions on June 4, 1951. |
| , 1949 |
South Africa institutionalizes apartheid. |
