Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

* 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.

One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

* National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949

In 1949 or 1950, DeMille was recruited by Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner to serve on the board of the anti-communist National Committee for a Free Europe, the public face of the organization that oversaw the Radio Free Europe service.

* 1949 – Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence.

In November 1949, the logo was modified to incorporate the company's formal name, National Comics Publications.

Finally, in August 1949, the National Army under Marshal Alexander Papagos launched an offensive that forced the remaining insurgents to surrender or flee across the northern border into the territory of Greece's northern Communist neighbors.

He was appointed to the prestigious portfolios of Minister for Labour and National Service ( 1949 – 1958 ; he had previously served in this portfolio 1940 – 41 ) and Minister for Immigration ( 1949 – 1956 ), by which time he was being touted in the press as a " certain successor to Menzies and a potential Prime Minister ".

* 1949 – Phil Miller, English guitarist ( National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole )

He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 — the first black player so honored.

While laying the foundation stone of the National Defence Academy ( India ) in 1949, he stated: " We, who for generations had talked about and attempted in everything a peaceful way and practiced non-violence, should now be, in a sense, glorifying our army, navy and air force.

In 1949, it entrusted 2130 remaining unclaimed pieces ( including 1001 paintings ) to the Direction des Musées de France in order to keep them under appropriate conditions of conservation until their restitution and meanwhile classified them as MNRs ( Musees Nationaux Recuperation or, in English, the National Museums of Recovered Artwork ).

Alan Turing searched for them on the Manchester Mark 1 in 1949, but the first successful identification of a Mersenne prime, M < sub > 521 </ sub >, by this means was achieved at 10: 00 P. M. on January 30, 1952 using the U. S. National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer ( SWAC ) at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the direction of Lehmer, with a computer search program written and run by Prof. R. M.

* 1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.

* 1949 – Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.

The National Security Agency's predecessor was the Armed Forces Security Agency ( AFSA ), created on May 20, 1949.

The league adopted the name National Basketball Association in 1949 after merging with the rival National Basketball League ( NBL ).

On August 3, 1949, the BAA agreed to merge with the NBL, creating the new National Basketball Association.

Normally used an entry level formula, it has grown into a stand alone series, with National, State and Club events and Championships. The first NASCAR " Strictly Stock " race ever was held at Charlotte Speedway, on June 19, 1949. Where a racing class requires that the cars raced be production vehicles only slightly adapted for racing, manufacturers typically produce a limited run of such vehicles for public sale so that they can legitimately race them in the class.

As early as 1949, the youth wing of the African National Congress ( ANC ) advocated the abolishment of Apartheid and suggested fighting against racial segregation by various methods.

In November 1949, during the Potsdam Conference, the United Nations granted Italy trusteeship of Italian Somaliland, but only under close supervision and on the condition — first proposed by the Somali Youth League ( SYL ) and other nascent Somalian political organizations, such as Hizbia Digil Mirifle Somali ( HDMS ) and the Somali National League ( SNL )— that Somalia achieve independence within ten years.

As Minister for Immigration ( 1949 – 1956 ), Holt was responsible for the relaxation of the White Australia policy and as Treasurer under Menzies he initiated major fiscal reforms including the establishment of the Reserve Bank of Australia and launched and guided the process to convert Australia to decimal currency.

Israel captured the entire Sinai Peninsula, and Palestine's Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan ( which it had ruled since 1949 ), and the Golan Heights from Syria.

These remarks from Arafat indicated a shift away from one of the PLO's primary aims — the destruction of Israel ( as entailed in the Palestinian National Covenant )– and toward the establishment of two separate entities: an Israeli state within the 1949 armistice lines, and an Arab state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The bulk of the Arab refugees from the former British Mandate of Palestine ended up in the Gaza strip ( under Egyptian rule between 1949 and 1967 ) and the West Bank ( under Jordanian rule between 1949 and 1967 ), Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

The Armistice Agreements of April 3, 1949 left Jordan in control of the West Bank and provided that the armistice demarcation lines were without prejudice to future territorial settlements or boundary lines.

In March 1949, Transjordan announced its annexation of what has become commonly known as the West Bank, renaming it the West Bank, a reference to its location west of the Jordan River.

However, Palestinian Arabs, who fled the West Bank and Gaza after 1949 ( for example, during the 1967 Six Day war ) are under the jurisdiction of the UNHCR.

Proposals for a Palestinian state currently refers to the proposed establishment of an independent state for the Palestinian people in Palestine on land that was occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967 and earlier to that year for 18 years ( 1949 ) by Egypt ( Gaza ) and by Jordan ( West Bank ).

Some 276, 000 moved to the West Bank ; by 1949 more than half the prewar Arab population of Palestine lived in the West Bank ( from 400, 000 in 1947 to more than 700, 000 ).

At war's end in 1949, Jordan had control of the West Bank of the Jordan River, including East Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Jackson Versus Biddle: The Struggle over the Second Bank of the United States ( 1949 ).

The London Plan Working Party Report of 1949 envisaged as its Route G the electrification of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway ( LTS ), and its diversion away from Fenchurch Street to Bank and on through the Waterloo & City tunnels to Waterloo and its suburban lines.

Also denominated in yuan, this currency was identified by different names, including " People's Bank of China banknotes " (; from November 1948 ), " New Currency " (; from December 1948 ), " People's Bank of China notes " (; from January 1949 ), " People's Notes " ( 人民券, as an abbreviation of the last name ), and finally " People's Currency ", or " renminbi ", from June 1949.

Between June 1949 and the end of 1952, a total of 57 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed by Palestinian infiltrators from The West Bank and Jordan.

After capturing the West Bank area of Cisjordan during the 1948 – 49 war with Israel, Abdullah took the title King of Jordan, and he officially changed the country's name to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in April 1949.

By then, properties which would have their names used for halls of residences such as Wyddrington and Maple Bank were under discussion and more land was obtained from the Calthorpe estate in 1948 and 1949 providing the setting for the Vale.

This unit was equivalent to exactly half the value of a U. S. dollar and maintained its purchasing power until the opening day of the Central Bank of the Philippines in 1949.

Republic Act No. 265 created the Central Bank of the Philippines ( CBP, now the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ) on January 3, 1949, in which was vested the power of administering the banking & credit system of the country.

* Mugur Isărescu ( 1949 ), the Governor of the National Bank of Romania in Bucharest