In 1949, he formed the first ' George Shearing Quintet ', a band with Margie Hyams ( vibraphone ), Chuck Wayne ( guitar ), later replaced by Toots Thielemans ( listed as John Tillman ), John Levy ( bass ) and Denzil Best ( drums ) and recorded for Discovery, Savoy and MGM, including the immensely popular single " September in the Rain " ( MGM ), which sold over 900, 000 copies ; " my other hit " to accompany " Lullaby of Birdland ".

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Only CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK are currently in common use, although four radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador retained call letters beginning with VO when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949.

The United States joined Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, Italy, and the Netherlands in 1949 to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the United States ' first " entangling " European alliance in 170 years.

The Dominion of Newfoundland, Britain's oldest colony in the Americas, joined Canada as a province in 1949.

After World War II, he studied law and economics at the universities of Halle and Leipzig ( 1946 – 1949 ) and joined the East German Liberal Democratic Party ( LDPD ) in 1946.

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.

Orton became interested in performing in the theatre around 1949 and joined a number of different dramatic societies, including the prestigious Leicester Dramatic Society.

By the time the first national elections were held in the Federal Republic in 1949, Kiesinger had joined the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and won a seat in the Bundestag, the West German parliament.

Since then, former next-door neighbor RKO closed up shop in 1957 ; Warner Bros. ( whose old Sunset Boulevard studio was sold to Paramount in 1949 as a home for KTLA ) moved to Burbank in 1930 ; Columbia joined Warners in Burbank in 1973 then moved again to Culver City in 1989 ; and the Pickford-Fairbanks-Goldwyn-United Artists lot, after a lively history, has been turned into a post-production and music-scoring facility for Warners, known simply as " The Lot ".

González joined Moríñigo in exile early in 1949, and Chaves became president in 1950 as the military finally allowed power to pass to the democráticos.

It debated its role in world affairs and joined the UN in 1945, NATO in 1949, where it became a close ally of the United States.

In 1949, he published a thesis on the electronic music and speech synthesis from the viewpoint of sound synthesis, and in 1951, he joined to the successful proposal of establishment of WDR Cologne Studio for Electronic Music.

The colonies of Prince Edward Island and British Columbia joined over the next six years, and Newfoundland joined in 1949.

Norway joined NATO in 1949 and in 1960 the European Free Trade Area as one of the seven founding members.

De jure, the German Reich did not cease to exist in 1945, but after four years of Allied occupation, three German states were formed inside of Germany as a whole in 1949: the Federal Republic of Germany ( then commonly known as West Germany ) in the former U. S., and British zones of occupation, the Saar in French zone, until 1957, when it joined the FRG, and the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) in the former Soviet Zone.

The pair were joined in 1949 by WDTV in Pittsburgh.

When Newfoundland joined the confederation in 1949, the RCMP entered the province and absorbed the then Newfoundland Ranger Force and took over responsibilities in that area.

April 1, 1949, Newfoundland joined in full confederation with Canada and the Newfoundland Ranger Force amalgamated with the RCMP.

The first premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Joey Smallwood, coined the term Atlantic Canada when Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada in 1949.

In 1949, he joined the Daily Mail as a cartoonist, where he remained until 1956.

In 1949, they joined the NBA as part of the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America merger.

It became known as the Institute of Design in 1944 and later joined Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949.

Israel joined the United Nations on May 11, 1949.

The first international organization which the Israeli government joined was the International Wheat Council, established as part of Point Four Program in early 1949.

In 1949, when Barretto returned home from military service, he started to visit clubs and participated in jam sessions, where he perfected his conga playing.

Because Price did not have a band ( though he would eventually start his own band in 1949 ), Rupe hired Dave Bartholomew and his band ( which included Fats Domino on piano ) to do the arrangements and back up Price in the recording session.

The first Blue Note session, in August 1949, features Fats Navarro, Sonny Rollins, Powell, Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes, and the compositions " Bouncing with Bud " and " Dance of the Infidels ".

In August 1949, he was elected President of the first session of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Harmel represented Belgium at the fourth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1949.

In 1949, at the fourth session of general UNESCO conference, a decision was accepted to begin the work for international law regulation in the field of cultural heritage protection in case of armed conflict.

1949 – 4th session of general UNESCO conference has taken a decision to begin a work for international-law regulation in the field of cultural values protection during the military actions.

The Youth Governor ’ s Conference, established in 1949, serves as a weeklong national servant leadership training session for all students elected to serve as Governor ( or in some cases Chief Justice or Secretary General ) of their state programs.

Proxy letters from a number of Union Conferences were held by the General Conference Secretary enabling the session to convene legally ( a provision enabled in the 1949 corporate registration ), though the proxy holder still only had one vote regardless of the number of proxies held.

As the inaugural 1925 SDARM General Conference session did not agree to use this designation in its official name, the 1949 registered entity did not use it.

Appearing first in a closed session, Blitzstein admitted his membership in the Communist Party ( ending in 1949 ) and, challenging the right of HUAC to question him at all, refused to name names or cooperate any further.

Therefore, it is quite possible that the Lords would have rejected the bill outright, which would have meant that the government would have had to table the Bill again in the next session of Parliament, and would possibly have had to use the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 in order to force it through Parliament and gain Royal Assent.

During his tenure, Fairfield University was chartered by the State of Connecticut to grant degrees in 1945 ; the first class of 303 male students was admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences in 1947 ; the College of Arts and Sciences was accredited by the State of Connecticut and the first summer session of undergraduate courses was held in 1949.

Following the US Presidential proclamation, the issue of legally determining territorial waters by international was raised, and already in its first session in 1949, the International Law Commission of the United Nations added the subject to its agenda.

On 15 July 1971, 17 UN members requested that a question of the " Restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations " be placed on the provisional agenda of the twenty-sixth session of the UN General Assembly, claiming that the PRC, a " founding member of the United Nations and a permanent member of the Security Council, had since 1949 been refused by systematic maneuvers the right to occupy the seat to which it is entitled ipso jure ".

Roland Robinson ( 1949, Detroit, Michigan – November 11, 2004, Memphis, Tennessee ) was a longtime Memphis studio session bass player and songwriter.

He constantly accused Adenauer of betraying national interests ( see, for example, Bjöl, Grimberg's History of the Nations ), culminating in his heckle at the Bundestag session of 25 September 1949: " The Chancellor of the Allies!

The unified administration issued its first postage stamps on October 8, 1949, consisting of a set of four depicting a lantern and the Gate of Heavenly Peace, commemorating the 1st session of the Chinese People's Consultative Political Conference.

In 1949 the Communists abolished all Guomindang laws and judicial organs and established the Common Program, a statement of national purposes adopted by a September 1949 session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, as a provisional constitution.

The 1st session of the commission was held in Lake Success from April 12 to June 9, 1949.

In the 2000-01 session of Parliament, he presented a Private Member's Bill in the House of Lords ( the Parliament Acts ( Amendment ) Bill ), which would have had the effect of confirming the legitimacy of the Parliament Act 1949 to address concerns raised by legal academics as to whether the use of the Act was valid.

On July 6, 1949, the IWC held its first session, and chose London as its permanent headquarters.

The boundary between the two towns were as surveyed by the Bureau of lands in accordance with Resolution No. 1. of the joint session of the Provincial Board of Negros Occidental and the Municipal Council of Isabela dated November 15, 1949, and subsequently concurred to by Resolution No. 79 of the Municipal Council of Isabela dated December 26, 1949.