WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1949
Find out what all happened March to October 1949

Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war. (20. July 1949)

A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO. (30. March 1949)

The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration. (5. May 1949)

Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (4. April 1949)

The treaty creating NATO goes into effect. (24. August 1949)

The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members. (8. June 1949)

The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin. (12. May 1949)

The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. (4. September 1949)

Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space. (14. June 1949)

A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States. (5. April 1949)

The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy. (4. May 1949)

Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting. (1. April 1949)

Israel joins the United Nations. (11. May 1949)

The Government of Canada repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years. (1. April 1949)

Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China. (14. October 1949)

Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government. (14. October 1949)

The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives. (17. September 1949)

Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament. (5. June 1949)

Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control. (6. September 1949)

The Berlin Airlift ends. (30. September 1949)