WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1949
Find out what all happened March to September 1949

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

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)

Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco. (9. May 1949)

The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China. (29. September 1949)

The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become Ireland. (1. April 1949)

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

In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000. (5. August 1949)

The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut. (2. March 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)

Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake (22. August 1949)

President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (8. March 1949)

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

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

Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945. (11. May 1949)

Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute. (2. March 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 Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. (4. September 1949)