Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

This was followed by a comprehensive series of observations of the 1.25-cm emission of the moon over three lunar cycles by Piddington and Minnett ( 1949 ).

From March 3 to May 1, 1949, the patient was maintained on dexamethasone, 3 to 6 mg. daily.

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.

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.

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

The school was founded in 1949 under the name United Baptist Bible Training School ( UBBTS ), and served as both a secondary school and a Bible school.

The Pentelic marble portrait head of Arcadius ( illustration ) was discovered in Istanbul close to the Forum Tauri, in June 1949, in excavating foundations for new buildings of the University at Beyazit.

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.

The first Soviet atomic device was tested on August 29, 1949.

It was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999.

Following World War II, Bonn was in the British zone of occupation, and in 1949 became the capital of West Germany.

In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.

It is named after the city of Berkeley, California, the location of the University of California Radiation Laboratory where it was discovered in December 1949.

Although very small amounts of berkelium were possibly produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in December 1949 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Albert Ghiorso and Stanley G. Thompson.

The Bundestag was established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier Reichstag.

With the new constitution of 1949, the Bundestag was established as the new ( West ) German parliament.

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.

In 1949 the Four Home Unions combined formally to create a Tours Committee and for the first time, every player of the 1950 Lions squad was an international before the New Zealand series.

Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

He was elected President of the South African Baptist Union in 1949 and spent a year visiting churches and mission stations.

The first overt political manifestations of ethnic loyalties occurred in January 1949 when a Gadabuursi candidate Djama Ali was elected to the Conseil de Republique.

* 1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

Theodor Heuss was elected the first President of the Republic, and Adenauer was elected Chancellor ( head of government ) on 16 September 1949 with the support of his own CDU, the Christian Social Union and the liberal Free Democratic Party.

Minnesota elected Humphrey to the United States Senate in 1948 on the DFL ticket, unseating incumbent Republican Joseph H. Ball with 60 % of the vote, and he took office on January 3, 1949.

Gorton ( middle ) in 1951Although Gorton had been a member of the Country Party before the war, in 1949 he was elected to the Senate for the Liberal Party.

Billy McMahon was elected to the House of Representatives for the Sydney seat of Lowe in 1949, one of the flood of new Liberal MPs known as the " forty-niners ".

In 1934 he was elected to the House of Representatives for the electorate of Echuca, switching to Indi in 1937 and Murray in 1949.

* Ioannis Clerides, 1 June 1946 – 31 May 1949 ( Last elected Mayor until 1986 ).

As all chancellors have been elected in the first vote as yet ( 1949 – 2010 ) neither of these constitutional provisions has been applied.

Ostpolitik was an effort to break with the policies of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), which was the elected government of West Germany from 1949 until 1969.

After leading Israel during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, Ben-Gurion was elected Prime Minister of Israel when his Mapai ( Labour ) party won the largest number of Knesset seats in the first national election, held on 14 February 1949.

In 1949 he was defeated and never held office again, despite a bid to be elected to the Senate in 1951.

Dulles served from July 7, 1949, to November 8, 1949, when a successor, Herbert Lehman, was elected, having beaten Dulles in a special election to fill the senate vacancy.

Perkins unseated Meade and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his death.

After the Second World War, the British authorities appointed Gustav Heinemann Mayor of Essen, and in 1946 he was elected to that office, which he kept until 1949.

After being elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1944, Syme was appointed Camden Professor of Ancient History at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1949, a position which he held until his retirement in 1970.

Marcos ran and was twice elected as representative of the 2nd district of Ilocos Norte, 1949 – 1959.

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

He was minister of Public Works in 1945, and in 1949, Frei was elected senator for Atacama and Coquimbo.

Dr. Fletcher was elected an honorary fellow of Acoustical Society of America in 1949, the second person to receive this honor after Thomas Edison.

He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952.

He was elected to the Norwegian parliament in 1949 and stayed there until his retirement in 1977.