The Year 1949
History and Politics
Dean Acheson appointed US Secretary of State.
Tientsin falls to the Communists; Chiang Kai-shek resigns as President of
China; Communist army resumes offensive against Nationalist troops; Chiang
Kai-shek removes forces to Formosa; Communist People's Republic
proclaimed under Mao Tse-tung, with Chou En-lai as Premier.
Vishinsky replaces Molotov as USSR Foriegn Minister.
North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington.
US Foriegn Assistance Bill grants $5.43 billion to Europe.
Isreal admitted to UN; capital moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
German Federal Republic comes into being with Bonn as capital.
Vietnam state established in Saigon.
US completes the withdrawal of its occupying forces in South Korea.
Apartheid program is established in South Africa.
UN warns of danger of civil war in Korea.
Berlin airlift ends after 277,264 flights.
Democratic Republic established in East Germany with
Pieck as President and Grotewohlas Minister-President.
Eleven US Communists are found guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the government.
Holland transfer sovereignty to Indonesia; France to Vietnam.
Pandit Nehru becomes Prime Minister of India.
President Truman appoints Tom C. Clark & Sherman Minton to the US Supreme Court.
Science, Technology, Growth
Philip Hench discovers cortisone.
Neomycin isolated by Selman Waksman.
USSR tests its first atomic bomb.
R.W.G. Wyckoff: "Electronic Microscopy".
Nobel Prize for Chemistry. W F Giague for his work in chemical thermodynamics.
US Air Force jet flies across US in 3 hours 46 minutes.
US launches guided missiles 250 miles, highest altitude ever reached by man.
Daily Life
British Gas Industry nationalized.
Charlemagne Prize for European understanding established at Aixla-Chapelle.
Clothes rationing ends in Britian.
US Lawn Tennis, Singles won by Pancho Gonzalea, women's won by Margaret O. du Pont.
US Golf Assc. won by Charles R. Coe, Open won by Cary Middlecoff.
"Capot" T. Atkinson up, wins Belmont & Preakness Stakes.
Northwestern defeats California, 20-14 in Rose Bowl.
Ezzard Charles names world heavyweight champion after match with "Jersey" Joe Walcott.
New York (AL) defeats Brooklyn (NL), 4-1 to win World Series.
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