March 1949 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champion.
• 02 Mar 1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)
• 04 Mar 1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister.
• 08 Mar 1949 WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 09 Mar 1949 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
• 10 Mar 1949 Detroit Tigers' pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949.
• 13 Mar 1949 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman.
• 15 Mar 1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 16 Mar 1949 KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 17 Mar 1949 The Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Texas, owned by oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy, has its grand opening.
• 18 Mar 1949 WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 19 Mar 1949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy opens in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
• 20 Mar 1949 The Chicago, Burlington amp Quincy, Denver amp Rio Grande Western, and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the ''California Zephyr'' passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
• 21 Mar 1949 WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, Florida (NBC / CBS) begins broadcasting
• 24 Mar 1949 21st Academy Awards: Hamlet, Laurence Olivier, and Jane Wyman win.
• 25 Mar 1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
• 26 Mar 1949 The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Aida'', conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television.
• 29 Mar 1949 Turkey recognizes Israel.
• 30 Mar 1949 A riot breaks out in Austurvollur square in Reykjavik, when Iceland joins NATO.
• 31 Mar 1949 The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.

Famous Birthday

• Fanny Ardant

  French actress, touted as France's answer to Katharine Hepburn.

• Bernard Arnault

  French chief business executive and largest shareholder of the haute couture house, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), first appointed as...

• Venice (Italy)
• Philippe de Villiers
• Patrick Duffy

  American actor; key role in the top TV soap "Dallas" from 1978-86.

• Alain Chamfort

  French singer and piano-player.

• Eugenia Last

  Canadian astrologer, author of several books and syndicated columns, she hosted a radio talk show on satellite radio.

• Pauline Marois

  Canadian social worker and politician 30th Premier of Quebec.

• Daniel Lavoie

  Canadian singer-songwriter, television actor, producer, and radio host, widely known for his huge hit "Ils s'aiment" and his role of Frollo...

• Slavoj Zizek

  Slovenian sociologist and cultural critic.

• Jon English
• Jean-Michel Aulas
• Eddie Money

  American musician and composer whose first band was the 1970 group, "The Grapes Of Wrath.

• Vicki Lawrence

  American actress and comedienne, best known on "The Carol Burnett Show" where she was a regular 1967-79, followed by "Mama's Family" in...

• Victor Garber

  Canadian actor.

• Ric Ocasek

  American singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (The Cars).

• Erik Estrada

  TV Actor.

• Dunblane massacre
• Julia Migenes

  American soprano and actress.

• Barbara Corcoran

  Entrepreneur.

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Famous Deaths

• Juan Lamonte de Grignon

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Grigoras Dinicu

  Romanian composer and violinist (Born 1889).

• Felix Bressart

  Actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54.

• Maria "Beppie" Bakker

  Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at age 95.

• Hanns A Rauter

  German SS-commandant in Netherlands, executed at age 54.

• Friedrich C R Bergius

  chemist (brown coal, Nobel Prize 1931), dies at age 64.

• Clarence Kingsbury

  British track cyclist (Born 1882).

• Anastasios Charalambis

  Greek general and interim Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1862).

• John Callan O'Laughlin

  American political and military figure and journalist (Born 1873).

• Henri Giraud

  French general (Born 1879).

• Aleksandra Ekster

  Polish-French painter and set designer (d. 1949).

• Bradbury Robinson

  American football player and physician (d. 1949).

• James Rector

  American sprinter and lawyer (d. 1949).

• Francis Dodd

  Welsh-English painter and academic (d. 1949).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Mel Torme - Careless Hands
2. Perry Como - Forever and Ever
3. Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae - A - You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)
4. Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - Cruising Down the River
5. Russ Morgan & His Orchestra - Forever and Ever