WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1949
Find out what all happened August to November 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)

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

Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi. (15. November 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)

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 Berlin Airlift ends. (30. September 1949)

The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. (26. November 1949)

The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong. (1. October 1949)

The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria. (18. November 1949)

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

Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War. (16. October 1949)

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

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

The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia. (2. November 1949)

Arsène Wenger (Arsenal FC Manager and earlier soccer player) was borned in Strasbourg, France. (22. October 1949)

The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid. (24. October 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)

The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform. (7. November 1949)

The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established. (16. October 1949)

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