Interesting Miscellaneous Trivia From The Year 1949
Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected
Governor of what country?
A: Puerto Rico.
President Truman unveils his what?
A: Fair Deal program.
Los Angeles receives its first what?
A: Its first recorded snowfall.
President Truman is inaugurated for what?
A: His second term.
The first Emmy Awards are presented where?
A: At the Hollywood Athletic Club.
In the first Israeli election, who becomes Prime Minister?
A: David Ben-Gurion.
Death of a Salesman opens where?
A: In the Morosco Theatre and runs for 742 performances.
Who is re-elected president of Portugal for lack of an
opposing candidate?
A: António Óscar Carmona.
Chaim Weizmann began his term as what?
A: The first President of Israel.
Margaret Roberts, the future Margaret Thatcher, is adopted
as what?
A: The Conservative candidate for Dartford.
What World heavyweight boxing champion retires?
A: Joe Louis.
What United States Secretary of Defense resigns suddenly?
A: James Forrestal.
English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins what term?
A: Big Bang during a BBC radio broadcast.
At the 21st Academy Awards ceremony what movie wins the
Academy Award for Best Picture?
A: Hamlet.
The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C.,
creating what?
A: The NATO defense alliance.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, starring Mary
Martin and Ezio Pinza, opens on
Broadway and goes on to become what?
A: R&H's second longest-running musical.
Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth and becomes what?
A: The Republic of Ireland.
Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is
what?
A: Assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late
husband.
Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco, upon what?
A: The death of his maternal grandfather Louis II.
What country is admitted to the United Nations as its 59th
member?
A: Israel.
The Soviet Union lifts what blockade
A: The Berlin blockade.
Transjordan becomes what?
A: The Kingdom of Jordan.
Thailand elects who the first Thai female member of
Thailand's Parliament?
A: Orapin Chaiyakan.
What George Orwell dystopian novel is published in
London?
A: Nineteen Eighty-Four.
What is the first television western to air on NBC?
A: Hopalong Cassidy.
Israel and what country sign a truce to end their 19-month
war?
A: Syria.
The de Havilland Comet, world's first jet-powered
airliner
does what?
A: Makes its first flight.
Soviets detonate their first what?
A: Nuclear weapon.
The Federal Republic of Germany is officially what?
A: Founded. Konrad Adenauer is the first federal chancellor.
The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for what
countries?
A: Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal.
In October, the People's Republic of China is what?
A: Founded.
Severe flooding hits what country?
A: Guatemala.
Who is executed for assassinating Mohandas Gandhi?
A: Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte.
Second trial of Alger Hiss begins in New York, again with
who as principal witness?
A: Whittaker Chambers.
The government of the Republic of China finishes its
evacuation to where, and declares Taipei its temporary capital city?
A: Taiwan.
Who is elected prime minister of Australia?
A: Robert Menzies.
Traicho Kostov, ex-vice prime minister of Bulgaria, is
sentenced to what?
A: Death.
Who is elected president of the Republic of
Indonesia?
A: Sukarno.
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia what?
A: Sovereignty.
1949 was the first year in which no African-American was
reported what?
A: Lynched in the USA.