July 1949 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1949 63rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ted Schroeder beat Drobny (36 60 63 46 64)
• 02 Jul 1949 High Button Shoes closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 performances
• 05 Jul 1949 New York Giants purchase Monty Irvin and Henry Thompson, their 1st blacks
• 06 Jul 1949 Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs
• 07 Jul 1949 Cabatgata (A Night in Spain) opens at Broadway NYC for 76 performances
• 08 Jul 1949 Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for New York Giants
• 10 Jul 1949 WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 11 Jul 1949 ''Pamir'' is the last ''commercial'' sailing ship to round Cape Horn under sail alone.
• 12 Jul 1949 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
• 13 Jul 1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
• 14 Jul 1949 USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb
• 15 Jul 1949 Miss Liberty opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances
• 19 Jul 1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union.
• 20 Jul 1949 Vasil Kolarov elected Premier of Bulgaria
• 21 Jul 1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)
• 24 Jul 1949 Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
• 26 Jul 1949 WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 27 Jul 1949 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
• 29 Jul 1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
• 30 Jul 1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
• 31 Jul 1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills the shortstop and third baseman.

Famous Birthday

• Adrian Ross Duncan
• Roger Meddows Taylor
• Shelley Duvall

  American actress singer and producer.

• Yves Duteil

  French singer-songwriter and politician.

• Roland Magdane

  French comedian, famed for his stage work in Paris as a stand-up comic.

• Leslie Easterbrook

  American actress.

• Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
• Phyllis Hyman

  R&B / Jazz singer (Prime of My Life), suicides at 45.

• Thaksin Shinawatra

  Thai businessman and politician 23rd Prime Minister of Thailand.

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Maureen McGovern

  American singer known for traditional pop, standards and ballads.

• Michael Richards

  Actor, co-star of Seinfeld, he played the belovedly wacky, off-beat Kramer in the long-running series, beginning in 1989, a part which made...

• Rory McDonald
• Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

  French actor (d. 2010).

• Glenn Perry

  American pro astrologer, editor and publisher.

• Wolfgang Puck

  Austrian-born celebrity chef.

• Faith McInerney
• Liona Boyd

  British musician and composer on the classical guitar.

• Daniel Vaillant

  French Socialist politician.

• Pascal Garnier (writer)
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Famous Deaths

• Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Louis Davids [Simon David]

  Cabaret artist, dies at 65.

• Bunk Johnson

  American jazz trumpeter (Born 1879 or 1889).

• Fritz Bennicke Hart

  English-born Australian composer (b.

• Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov

  Russian poet (Born 1866).

• Vitezslav Novak

  Czech composer (Born 1870).

• Fritz Hart

  English-born Australian composer (Born 1874).

• Georgi Dimitrov

  Bulgarian compositor and politician 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Mel Torme - The Four Winds and the Seven Seas
2. Eddy Howard & His Orchestra - Room Full of Roses
3. Dick Haymes - Maybe It's Because
4. Paul Weston & His Orchestra - Some Enchanted Evening
5. Al Morgan - Jealous Heart