In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

* 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.

The element berkelium was synthesized and named in 1949, recognizing the University, thus also placing the city's name in the list of elements.

Fishing vessels were major post-war users, but it was also used on aircraft, including a very early ( 1949 ) application of moving-map displays.

Albania was admitted on 22 February 1949, to the Comecon and Albania remained important both as a way to put pressure on Yugoslavia and also to serve as a pro-Soviet force in the Adriatic Sea.

But she was also a hit with the critics ; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

For the next four years Orwell mixed journalistic work – mainly for Tribune, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News, though he also contributed to many small-circulation political and literary magazines – with writing his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published in 1949.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

In 1949 Hawks re-teamed with Cary Grant in the screwball comedy I Was a Male War Bride, also starring Ann Sheridan.

In 1949, Larry Doby also recommended Greenberg scout three players Doby used to play with in the Negro leagues: Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays.

When the group ’ s grant was exhausted, he joined the faculty of Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was a professor of political science from 1942 to 1949, and also served as department chairman.

He attended a technical high school in the capital and then went to Paris in 1949 to study radio electronics ( other sources say he attended a school for printers and typesetters and also studied civil engineering ).

The government also engaged in massive public works and infrastructure projects such as building the Trans-Canada Highway ( 1949 ), the St. Lawrence Seaway ( 1954 ) and the Trans-Canada Pipeline.

In 1969 a group of female manga artists ( later called the Year 24 Group, also known as Magnificent 24s ) made their shōjo manga debut (" year 24 " comes from the Japanese name for the year 1949, the birth-year of many of these artists ).

Even while the Marshall Plan was being implemented, the dismantling of German industry continued, and in 1949 Konrad Adenauer wrote to the Allies requesting that it end, citing the inherent contradiction between encouraging industrial growth and removing factories and also the unpopularity of the policy.

Cyclosarin was also discovered during WWII but the details were lost and it was ' discovered ' again in 1949.

After the PRC was established in 1949, the PLA also became a state military.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China ( CAAC ), also called the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, was established as a government agency in 1949 to operate China's commercial air fleet.

In 1949 the term was used to describe a dissatisfaction with modern architecture, and led to the postmodern architecture movement, perhaps also a response to the modernist architectural movement known as the International Style.

The first complete translation from Persian into the modern Japanese language was made by Ryosaku Ogawa in 1949, which is still popular and has been published from Iwanami Shoten ( it is now under public domain and also freely available from Aozora Bunko ).

The 1949 coal strike, engineered by the Communist Party, also played into Menzies ' hands.

From 1949 until 1993 it served as the seat of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin and until 1991 also as the office of the Governing Mayor.

Those " different types " of films he had made-The Great Sinner ( 1949 ) for MGM, Time Out of Mind ( 1947 ) for Universal ( which Siodmak also produced ), The Whistle at Eaton Falls ( 1951 ) for Columbia Pictures-all proved ill suited to his noir sensibilities ( although The Crimson Pirate, despite the difficult production, was a surprising and pleasant departure ).

* Pamela Stephenson ( born 1949 ), New Zealand-Australian comedienne, actress and psychologist, also known as Pamela Connolly

As part of this policy, limits were placed on production levels, and industries in the Saar were dismantled just as in the Ruhr, although mostly in the period prior to its detachment ( see also the 1949 letter from the UK Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, urging a reconsideration of the dismantling policy ).

Although the conditions were ripe for industrial unrest — Communist influence in the union movement was then at its peak, and the right-wing faction in Cabinet was openly agitating for a showdown with the unions — the combination of strong economic growth and Holt's enlightened approach to industrial relations saw the number of working hours lost to strikes fall dramatically, from over two million in 1949 to just 439, 000 in 1958.

Indeed, in the lead up to the 1949 federal election, Fadden played a key role in the defeat of the Chifley Labor government, frequently making inflammatory claims about the " socialist " nature of the Labor Party, which Menzies could then " clarify " or repudiate as he saw fit, thus appearing more " moderate ".

The 1940s saw huge change in South Asia with the Partition of India in 1947 ( resulting in the establishment of the two new states of India and Pakistan ), and the establishment of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1949.

The United States saw dramatic growth in the popularity of talk radio during the 1990s due to the repeal of the Federal Communications Commission's post-war Fairness Doctrine of 1949, in 1987.

With the establishment of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, the CPC-controlled government saw itself as the sole legitimate government of China, competing with the claims of the Republic of China, whose authority is now limited to Taiwan and other islands.

His tenure as police minister ( As Home Minister was called prior to 1950 ) saw successful curbing of communal riots in 1947, mass migration and resettlement of refugees and break-in and putting of idols in disputed Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi complex on 22 Dec 1949.

Indeed, in the lead up to the 1949 federal election, Fadden often made inflammatory claims about the " socialist " nature of the Labor Party which Menzies could then " clarify " or repudiate as he saw fit, thus appearing more " moderate ".

The latter half of the 1940s saw Hobson in perhaps her two most memorable roles: as the adult Estella in David Lean's 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations, and as the refined and virtuous Edith D ' Ascoyne in the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.

The University saw the addition of a number of new faculties in the post-war period, such as the Faculty of Graduate Studies ( 1947 ), the School of Business Administration ( now the Richard Ivey School of Business ) ( 1949 ), the Faculty of Engineering Science ( now the Faculty of Engineering ) ( 1957 ), the Faculty of Law ( 1959 ), and Althouse College for education students ( now the Faculty of Education ) ( 1963 ) and the Faculty of Music ( 1968 ).

For example, the 200-inch Hale Telescope saw first light January 26, 1949, targeting NGC 2261 under the direction of American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble.

The year 1949 saw Southern Company's first full year of operation.

The 2008 – 09 season saw the club's strongest start since 1949 – 50, as an opening day draw preceded a run of seven consecutive wins.

Members of the research grants committee of the National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH ), which had been founded in 1949, contend that they also helped provide an impetus for the new institute, as when reviewing grant applications they saw a significant number of neurological projects and proposed a separate institute for them.

1949 saw the first Papuan to achieve international fame, Blasius To Una, begin his career.

1949 saw the launch of a night-time breakdown and recovery service initially in London only before extending nationally.

He fears that the administration ’ s civilian lawyers and a president who never saw combat are putting US service personnel at risk of torture, summary executions and other atrocities by chipping away at Geneva Conventions ’ standards that have protected them since 1949.

Acheson did not regard the Soviet " threat " as chiefly political, and he saw the Berlin blockade starting in June 1948, the first Soviet test of a nuclear weapon in August 1949, the Communist revolution in China a month later, and the beginning of the Korean War in June 1950 as evidence of his view.

The telescope ( the largest in the world at that time ) saw first light January 26, 1949 targeting NGC 2261.

It was reactivated in 1949 and saw 1, 008 days of combat during the Korean War.

We got it off the ground in 1949 and saw it take hold solidly by 1950.

We got it off the ground in 1949 and saw it take hold solidly by 1950.

Lyons was set to be the seventh convicted murderer executed by North Carolina that year, making 2003 a peak for executions in the state ( exceeded only in recent history by 1949, which saw 10 executions ).

Although SAB ( then called Castle Breweries ) had established the first pub in South Africa in 1896, it did not begin to invest heavily in service industries until 1949 when an aggressive expansion thrust saw some £ 4. 5 million invested in hotels and pubs, as well as additional brewing facilities.

The period after World War II saw the most significant period of development in the suburb with the first public housing built by the Housing Commission in 1949 and continuing up until the 1960s with the development of the Moomba Park estate, named after the initial Labour Day Moomba Parade held in 1955.