WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO AUGUST 1949
Find out what all happened July to August 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)

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

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

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

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

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

The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War. (31. August 1949)

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

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