Historical Events in June 1949

Jun 5 Enid Blyton's wooden toy character Noddy first appears in the "Sunday Graphic"

Jun 6 "It Pays To Be Ignorant" game show debut on CBS-TV
Jun 6 WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast
Jun 6 Orapin Chaiyakan becomes the first Thai woman to be elected to the Parliament of Thailand
Jun 8 Siam changes name to Thailand
Jun 9 Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US
Jun 10 Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier

Jun 11 US Open Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Cary Middlecoff wins the first of his 2 Open titles, 1 stroke ahead of Clayton Heafner and Sam Snead

Jun 14 French-allied State of Vietnam is officially formed during the First Indochina War, Bảo Đại installed as Emperor

Jun 14 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
Jun 15 Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
Jun 16 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated at Erie, Pennsylvania
Jun 18 "Along Fifth Avenue" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances
Jun 20 Central Intelligence Agency Act passes

Jun 20 Tennis star Gussie Moran shocks Wimbledon by wearing a short dress "to look good and "move more freely on the court"

Jun 22 Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for National Boxing Association world heavyweight title

Jun 23 First twelve women graduate from Harvard Medical School
Jun 23 Dutch Constellation aircraft plunges into the sea near Bari, 33 die
Jun 24 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
Jun 24 A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog, arrested in Scheveningen, Netherlands
Jun 24 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
Jun 25 Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
Jun 25 Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
Jun 26 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
Jun 27 "Captain Video & His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV
Jun 29 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
Jun 29 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
Jun 30 Dutch troops evacuate Jakarta