WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO SEPTEMBER 1949
Find out what all happened May to September 1949

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

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

The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty. (21. July 1949)

U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense. (10. August 1949)

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

Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. (29. August 1949)

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

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

The Berlin Airlift ends. (30. September 1949)

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

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

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)

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

Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters. (25. June 1949)

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

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

The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana. (5. August 1949)

The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany. (12. May 1949)