WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1949
Find out what all happened January to 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)

Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed. (28. April 1949)

The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union. (25. March 1949)

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published. (8. June 1949)

United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program. (5. January 1949)

The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time. (17. January 1949)

The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time. (14. February 1949)

Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. (2. January 1949)

Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner. (27. July 1949)

EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation. (6. May 1949)

Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel. (17. February 1949)

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

The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family. (1. July 1949)

At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland. (17. April 1949)

United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly. (1. January 1949)

The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec. (14. February 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)

At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented. (25. January 1949)

In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established. (20. May 1949)

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