February 1949 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1949 RCA releases first single record ever (45 RPM).
• 02 Feb 1949 1st 45 RPM record released
• 04 Feb 1949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia.
• 05 Feb 1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• 07 Feb 1949 Joe DiMaggio becomes first US$100,000 per year baseball player (New York Yankees).
• 08 Feb 1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
• 10 Feb 1949 Arthur Miller's play a Salesman opens at Morosco Theater, New York City.
• 11 Feb 1949 Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title.
• 12 Feb 1949 Annie Get Your Gun closes at Imperial Theater in New York City after 1147 performances.
• 13 Feb 1949 António Óscar Carmona is re-elected president of Portugal for lack of an opposing candidate.
• 14 Feb 1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses.
• 15 Feb 1949 Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 17 Feb 1949 Chaim Weitzman elected 1st President of Israel
• 19 Feb 1949 Inside USA closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
• 20 Feb 1949 First International Pancake Race held (Liberal, Kansas, USA).
• 24 Feb 1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal first rocket to outer space, White Sands, New Mexico, 400km.
• 25 Feb 1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
• 26 Feb 1949 US Air Force plane begins first nonstop around-the-world flight.
• 27 Feb 1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President

Famous Birthday

• Ivana Trump

  Czechoslovakian-American news figure and socialite.

• Maxime Le Forestier

  French singer and songwriter, his most known song is called "San Francisco", recorded in 1971:.

• Brooke Adams

  American actress and producer.

• Brooke Adams

  American actress and producer.

• Niki Lauda

  Austrian business owner and world motor racing champion.

• Niels Arestrup

  French actor director and screenwriter.

• Marc Garneau

  Canadian Astronaut, a Navy Captain in the Canadian Space Agency from 1984 until he retired 4/05/1989.

• Gary Ridgway

  American convicted serial killer.

• Olga Morozova

  Russian tennis player and coach.

• Judith Light

  TV Actress.

• Gilbert Mitterrand

  French politician and noted family, the son of President François Mitterrand.

• Marc Menant
• Ric Flair

  American professional wrestler.

• Marc de Jonge
• Marion Hänsel

  Belgian film director, producer, actress and screenwriter.

• Émile Wandelmer
• Alain Carignon
• Joaquín Sabina

  Spanish singer-songwriter.

• Antoine Waechter

  French politician, leader of the Independent Ecological Movement (Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant - MEI) which he founded in 1994, hoping...

• Amin Maalouf

  Lebanese-French journalist and author.

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Famous Deaths

• Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa

  Composer, dies at 50.

• Franco Leoni

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck

  Composer, dies at 60.

• Ernest Walker

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Stanley Robert Marchant

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Yusuf Salman Yusuf

  Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (Born 1901).

• Niceto A Zamora y Torres

  premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at age 71.

• Hassan al Banna

  Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (Born 1906).

• Tan Malaka

  Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (Born 1894).

• Herbert Stothart

  American musician, a composer, director and arranger who won 11 Oscar nominations and the Oscar for his musical score of "The Wizard of Oz,"...

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra (Vocal Don Cornell) - Careless Hands
2. Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Red Roses For A Blue Lady
3. Mills Brothers - I Love You So Much It Hurts
4. Dean Martin - Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile, Smile, Smile)
5. Mills Brothers - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm