June 1949 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
• 02 Jun 1949 Transjordan is renamed Jordan.
• 03 Jun 1949 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy
• 04 Jun 1949 Cavalcade of Stars debuts (DuMont)
• 05 Jun 1949 Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament.
• 06 Jun 1949 It Pays To Be Ignorant, game Show, debut on CBS-TV
• 08 Jun 1949 Siam changes name to Thailand
• 09 Jun 1949 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US
• 10 Jun 1949 Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian Premier
• 11 Jun 1949 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah Country Club - Illinois
• 14 Jun 1949 State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
• 15 Jun 1949 Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
• 16 Jun 1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 18 Jun 1949 Along Fifth Avenue closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances
• 20 Jun 1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
• 23 Jun 1949 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
• 24 Jun 1949 Hopalong Cassidy becomes 1st network western (NBC)
• 25 Jun 1949 Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
• 26 Jun 1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
• 27 Jun 1949 Captain Video & His Video Rangers, debut on DUMONT-TV
• 29 Jun 1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II.
• 30 Jun 1949 Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta

Famous Birthday

• Meryl Streep

  American actress, the most esteemed actress of her generation, receiving an unprecedented 11 Oscar nominations for her outstanding...

• Lionel Richie

  R&B Singer.

• Guy Carlier

  French author and radio and television chronicler.

• Elizabeth Warren

  American attorney and law professor.

• Lindsay Wagner

  American actress who, after doing a guest shot in 1976 on the "Six Million Dollar Man," zoomed into her own series, "The Bionic Woman.

• Alain Finkielkraut

  French philosopher and political commentator, influenced by Jewish philosophers Emmanuel Levinas, Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt.

• Lech Kaczynski

  Polish President, a twin, he was elected to the country's presidency in October 2005 after a long career in politics including a stint as...

• Tarak Ben Ammar
• Jean-Jacques Bourdin

  French controversal TV-radio journalist, working for BFM channel (presenting "Bourdin direct": interviews of politicians).

• Henri Proglio

  French businessman, the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Electricité de France and former CEO of Veolia Environnement.

• Thierry Sabine

  Motorcycle racer, founder and main organizer of Paris-Dakar.

• Frank Beard

  American drummer and songwriter (ZZ Top and American Blues).

• Simone Gbagbo
• Philippe Djian

  French writer, a novelist and screenwriter.

• Phyllis George

  American Beauty Queen and broadcaster.

• Yann Piat

  French politician who served in the National Assembly from 1993 to 1994.

• Ken Follett

  Welsh author.

• Papa Wemba
• Susie Cox

  American astrologer, a teacher and writer, the editor and publisher of the International Arc Directory.

• Gabriel Arcand

  Canadian actor with noted family member, he is film director Denys Arcand's brother.

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Famous Deaths

• Koci Xoxe

  Albanian Vice Premier, executed.

• Oton Zupanic

  Slavs Poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71.

• Dynam-Victor Fumet

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Ernest Ford

  Composer, dies at 91.

• Amedos Peter Giannine

  founder of Bank of America, dies at age 79.

• Syed Zafarul Hasan

  Prominent Muslim philosopher (Born 1885).

• Aristidis Stergiadis

  Greek governor-general of Smyrna, (Born 1861).

• Kim Gu

  President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (Born 1876).

• Frank Smythe

  British mountaineer (Born 1900).

• Themistoklis Sophoulis

  Greek politician (Born 1860).

• Buck Freeman

  American baseball player (Born 1871).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Again
2. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - The Hucklebuck
3. Frank Sinatra - Some Enchanted Evening
4. Frank Sinatra - The Hucklebuck
5. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan - Baby, It's Cold Outside