1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1949th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.

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 clash 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 after the Prüm explosion in Germany; Wreckage of an Avio Linee Italiane Fiat G.212 after the Superga air disaster; Mao Zedong proclaiming the foundation of the People's Republic of China.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1949 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1949
MCMXLIX
Ab urbe condita2702
Armenian calendar1398
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԸ
Assyrian calendar6699
Baháʼí calendar105–106
Balinese saka calendar1870–1871
Bengali calendar1356
Berber calendar2899
British Regnal year13 Geo. 6 – 14 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2493
Burmese calendar1311
Byzantine calendar7457–7458
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4646 or 4439
    — to —
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4647 or 4440
Coptic calendar1665–1666
Discordian calendar3115
Ethiopian calendar1941–1942
Hebrew calendar5709–5710
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2005–2006
 - Shaka Samvat1870–1871
 - Kali Yuga5049–5050
Holocene calendar11949
Igbo calendar949–950
Iranian calendar1327–1328
Islamic calendar1368–1369
Japanese calendarShōwa 24
(昭和24年)
Javanese calendar1880–1881
Juche calendar38
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4282
Minguo calendarROC 38
民國38年
Nanakshahi calendar481
Thai solar calendar2492
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
2075 or 1694 or 922
    — to —
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
2076 or 1695 or 923

Events

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January

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January 17: Beetle in U.S.

February

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March

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April

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June

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July

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August

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September

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Konrad Adenauer.

October

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October 1: People's Republic of China is founded.
 
October 7: The German Democratic Republic is Established.

November

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December

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Dec. 16: Sukarno, first President of Indonesia
 
Celebration of Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday (December 21, 1949)

Date unknown

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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George Foreman
 
Göran Persson
 
John Belushi

February

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Brent Spiner
 
Niki Lauda
 
Simon Crean
 
Ric Flair

March

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Alex Higgins
 
Slavoj Žižek
 
Margareta of Romania
 
Michael W. Young

April

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Judith Resnik
 
Zygmunt Zimowski
 
Massimo D'Alema
 
Janet Ågren
 
Jessica Lange
 
György Gedó
 
António Guterres
 
Billy Joel
 
Alan García
 
Jim Broadbent
 
Jeremy Corbyn
 
Tom Berenger

June

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Heather Couper
 
Jarosław Kaczyński
 
Ebi
 
Lionel Richie
 
Meryl Streep

July

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Noli de Castro
 
Shelley Duvall
 
Carl Bildt
 
Kgalema Motlanthe
 
Alan Menken
 
Thaksin Shinawatra
 
Jamil Mahuad

August

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Mark Knopfler
 
Fernando Collor de Mello
 
Beverly Burns
 
Phil Lynott
 
Vicky Leandros
 
Richard Gere

September

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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
 
Bruce Springsteen

October

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Luis Sepúlveda
 
Sigourney Weaver
 
Owen Arthur
 
Benjamin Netanyahu
 
Arsène Wenger

November

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Pierre Buyoya
 
Bonnie Raitt

December

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Pablo Escobar
 
Sebastián Piñera
 
Jeff Bridges
 
Sissy Spacek

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Deaths

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January

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Gennaro Righelli
 
Yoshijirō Umezu

February

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March

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Sarojini Naidu
 
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia

April

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Prince Louis II of Monaco
 
Damaskinos of Athens

June

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Themistoklis Sofoulis
 
Sigrid Undset

July

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Georgi Dimitrov
 
Douglas Hyde
 
Ellery Harding Clark
 
Nils Östensson

August

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Margaret Mitchell
 
Uemura Shōen

September

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Richard Strauss
 
Pandeli Evangjeli
 
Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens

October

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Blessed Nykyta Budka
 
Saint Laura Montoya
 
Blessed Lorenzo Massa

November

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Elena Arizmendi Mejía
 
Abdolhossein Hazhir
 
Wakatsuki Reijirō

December

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Maria Ouspenskaya
 
Lead Belly
 
Antoni Ponikowski
 
Jack Lovelock

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Nobel Prizes

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