1949
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Events
March 2 - The first non-stop flight on a plane around the globe is over. It lasted 94 hours and was performed on a Lucky Lady II (B-50 Superfortress).
April 4 - Creation of NATO
June 29 - Introduction of apartheid in South Africa
August 8 - The first session of the Council of Europe is held in Strasbourg.
August 12 - The Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims are signed.
August 29 - The USSR conducts the first successful atomic bomb test in Semipalatinsk.
October 1 - The People's Republic of China is proclaimed in Beijing.
December 22 - opening of trolleybus traffic in Zaporozhye.
Anna Magdalena Lemminger founded the Burda publishing house. Burda Moden was published by this publishing house in 1950, and by 1965 it had a circulation of one million.
Science
Discovery of the lysosome.
Maria Heppert-Mayer and Hans Jensen built a shell model of the nucleus.
Technique
Frank Zamboni created the first ice harvester (resfeiser).
Born
See also Category: Born 1949
January 4 - Netiksa Tamara Ivanivna - Soviet illegal spy, retired colonel of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
January 10 - George Foreman, American boxer.
January 19 - Robert Palmer, singer.
January 23 - Hrytsko Chubai, poet and translator.
February 7 - Alan Lancaster, English rock musician (Status Quo).
February 8 - Irina Muravyova, Russian film actress.
February 14 - Mykola Mykolayovych Eremenko Jr., Belarusian film actor.
February 21 - Jerry Harrison, English rock musician (Talking Heads).
February 22 - Niki Lauda, Austrian Formula One racer.
March 4 - Yaroshenko Fedir Oleksiyovych, Ukrainian politician, scientist.
March 19 - Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev, Russian pop singer, actor.
March 22 - Fanny Ardant, French actress.
April 7 - Matvienko Valentina Ivanovna.
April 11 - Bernd Eichinger, German film director and producer
April 15 - Alla Pugacheva, Russian pop singer.
April 20 - Alexander Maltsev, Russian hockey player.
April 20 - Jessica Lang, American actress.
April 25 - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Chairman of the International Monetary Fund (since 2007).
April 28 - Bruno Kerby, American actor.
April 29 - Francis Rossi, English rock musician, guitarist of Status Quo.
May 9 - Billy Joel, singer
