May 1949 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (second satellite of Neptune).
• 02 May 1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman
• 03 May 1949 First firing of a US Viking rocket; reaches 80 km.
• 04 May 1949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives).
• 05 May 1949 Council of Europe forms
• 06 May 1949 EDSAC, the first practicable stored-program computer, runs its first program at Cambridge University.
• 07 May 1949 75th Kentucky Derby: Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 2:04.2.
• 08 May 1949 West German constitution approved.
• 09 May 1949 Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
• 11 May 1949 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)
• 12 May 1949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
• 14 May 1949 Love Life closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 252 performances
• 17 May 1949 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland.
• 18 May 1949 Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates.
• 20 May 1949 In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
• 22 May 1949 After two months in Bethesda Naval Hospital, James Forrestal commits suicide, under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.
• 23 May 1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
• 25 May 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai.
• 27 May 1949 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane
• 29 May 1949 Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC
• 30 May 1949 East Germans constitution approved
• 31 May 1949 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage Country Club, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

Famous Birthday

• Billy Joel

  American singer inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992 after 15 years preparation for success as a singer and songwriter.

• Pam Grier

  American actress.

• Rick Wakeman

  English musician who played in the progressive rock band Yes during the 1970s.

• Tom Berenger

  American actor.

• Jim Broadbent

  English actor.

• Pablito Picasso
• Jeremy Corbyn

  Politician.

• Marie-George Buffet

  French politician who was the head of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 2001 to 2010.

• Philip Michael Thomas
• João Botelho
• Arno (singer)
• Thérèse Liotard
• Dayle Haddon
• David Cochrane

  American astrologer and computer programmer, head developer of the Kepler, Sirius, and Pegasus astrology software.

• Guy-André Kieffer
• Alan García

  Peruvian lawyer, sociologist and politician who was President of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2006 to 2011.

• Wendy O Williams

  American singer (Plasmatics) (Born 1949).

• Fausto Rapisarda

  Italian lawyer and right hand of Ligresti.

• Dusty Hill

  American singer-songwriter and bass player (ZZ Top and American Blues).

• Francis Rossi

  English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo).

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Famous Deaths

• Klaus Mann

  German writer, son of the famous writer Thomas Mann.

• P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck

  Belg philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86.

• William Newzam Prior Nicholson

  Painter / engraver.

• Klaus H T Mann

  German/US writer (Turning Point), dies at age 42.

• Ropert L Ripley

  cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at age 55 in New York.

• Adrianus PHA de Kleyn

  Throat / nose / otologist (ear doctor), dies at 65.

• Prince Louis

  II of Monaco (Born 1870).

• Aleksey Shchusev

  Russian architect (Born 1873).

• James T

  Adams; US historian (Pulitzer 1921).

• Hans Erich Pfitzner

  Russian/German composer, dies at age 80.

• Simon H Spoor

  intelligence officer/general (WWII), dies at age 47.

• Archbishop Damaskinos

  of Athens (Born 1891).

• Randolph West

  American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (Born 1890).

• Jan Frans De Boever

  Belgian painter (Born 1872).

• Emmanuel Celestin Suhard

  French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (Born 1874).

• Maurice Maeterlinck

  Belgian dramatist, essayist, poet, playwright, philosopher, lawyer and naturalist, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Literature.

• Robert Ripley

  American illustrator, cartoonist and adventurer.

• Louis II

  Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365).

• Maurice Maeterlinck

  Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911).

• Maurice Maeterlinck

  Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Perry Como - Some Enchanted Evening
2. Perry Como - Bali Ha'i
3. Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark - Baby, It's Cold Outside
4. Art Mooney & His Orchestra - Again
5. Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer - Baby, It's Cold Outside