June 1949 in History

Events in History

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

Jun 6 Orapin Chaiyakan becomes the first Thai woman to be elected to the Parliament of Thailand

Jun 8 Secker & Warburg publishes George Orwell's seminal novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", set in the totalitarian state of Oceania

Jun 12 Kwame Nkrumah announces the formation of Ghana's Convention People's Party (CPP), the word "convention" chosen "to carry the masses with us"

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

Jun 15 Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
Jun 16 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated at Erie, Pennsylvania
Jun 20 Central Intelligence Agency Act passes
Jun 23 Dutch Constellation aircraft plunges into the sea near Bari, 33 die
Jun 23 First twelve women graduate from Harvard Medical School
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 26 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
Jun 29 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
Jun 30 Dutch troops evacuate Jakarta

Jun 2 Heather Couper, British astronomer and presenter (The Sky at Night), born in Wallesey, England (d. 2020)
Jun 3 David Evennett, British politician (Conservative), born in Romford, England

Jun 5 Welsh spy author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions), born in Cardiff, Wales

Jun 10 John Sentamu, Ugandan-British bishop (Archbishop of York), born near Kampala, Uganda
Jun 11 Benjamin Vasserman, Estonian graphic artist, born in Sovetsky, Kirov Oblast, Russia
Jun 11 George Willig, American stuntman (The Human Fly, Spiderman) who climbed the World Trade Center in 1977, born in Queens, New York City
Jun 12 Yuri Baturin, Russian cosmonaut (SK:Soyuz TM-28), born in Moscow, Russia
Jun 14 Bob Frankston, American programmer (VisiCalc), born in Brooklyn, New York
Jun 14 Harry Turtledove, American author (The Guns of the South), born in Los Angeles, California
Jun 18 Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
Jun 18 Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Polish lawyer and politician (head of Law and Justice party), born in Warsaw, Poland
Jun 18 Lech Kaczyński, Polish president (2005-10), born in Warsaw, Poland
Jun 18 William Randolph Hearst III, American publisher and editor
Jun 20 Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan politician (President of Sri Lanka 2019-22), born in Palatuwa, Ceylon
Jun 21 Jim Bacchus, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida), born in Nashville, Tennessee

Jun 22 American academic and US Senator (D-Massachusetts 2013-), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Jun 22 Russell Ebert, Australian Rules midfielder (4 x Magarey Medals; 6 x Port Adelaide FC B&F; Australian Football HOF) and coach (SA 1996-98), born in Berri, Australia (d. 2021)
Jun 27 Vera Wang, American fashion designer (Vera Wang Fashions), born in New York City
Jun 28 Edward Totah, art dealer
Jun 29 Ann Veneman, 5th Executive Director of UNICEF and 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture, born in Modesto, California
Jun 29 Joan Clos, Spanish politician (116th Mayor of Barcelona & Minister of Industry), born in Parets del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
Jun 30 Bùi Thanh Liêm, Vietnamese cosmonaut, born in Hanoi, Vietnam (d. 1981)

Jun 12 Religious leader Jim Jones (18) weds nurse Marceline Baldwin

Jun 3 American banker and entrepreneur (founded Bank of America), dies at 79

Jun 10 Sigrid Undset, Norwegian-Danish writer (1928 Nobel Prize for Literature), dies at 67
Jun 11 Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
Jun 11 Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71
Jun 19 Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-Pakistani Prominent Muslim philosopher, dies at 64
Jun 26 Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (1939-48), dies at 72