In Montana, 12 smokejumper firefighters and 1 US Forest Service fire guard are killed in the Mann Gulch Fire. Date: August 5, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 5 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)
In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000. Date: August 5, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 5 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association. Date: August 3, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 3 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)
Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner. Date: July 27, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 27 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)
The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty. Date: July 21, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 21 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Date: July 20, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 20 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: July 1, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on…
The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC. Date: June 24, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 24 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)
Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space. Date: June 14, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 14 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)
George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in the United States Date: June 8, 1949 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 8 📅 Events on this day in 1949 📅 On This Day (Today)