In 1949 the Council of Europe came into existence, a purely consultative parliamentary body but the first organ of political rather than functional unity.

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.

* 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

Fleming's first wife, Sarah, died in 1949.

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.

In 1949, the company developed magnetic recording tape and in 1950, sold the first tape recorder in Japan.

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

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.

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

In 1949, he erected his first geodesic dome building that could sustain its own weight with no practical limits.

The award, created by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ) in honor of Babe Ruth, was first awarded in 1949, one year after Ruth's death.

This combination first appeared in 1949, and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U. S. ambassador to Luxembourg.

# Grumman F9F-2 Panther – 1949 – June 1950 ( first jet );

The General Synod and the College of Bishops of Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hui planned to publish a unified version for the use of all Anglican churches in China in 1949, which was the 400th anniversary of the first publishing of the Book of Common Prayer.

The first major model for communication was introduced by by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver for Bell Laboratories in 1949 The original model was designed to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies.

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 Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.

It wasn't until after Fulham first reached the top division, in 1949, that further improvements were made to the stadium.

Later in 1949, Veeck's first wife ( who had a half-stake in Veeck's share of the team ) divorced him.

In 1949 Marker published his first novel, Le Coeur net ( The Forthright Spirit ), which was about aviation.

In 1949, The NCA held its first clinic in Huntsville, Texas, with 52 girls in attendance.

These theories were first applied in the 1920s by Chinese scholars such as Guo Moruo, and became orthodoxy in academic study after 1949.

* 1949 – Patrick Hernandez, French singer and songwriter

* 1949 – Philippe Petit, French tightrope walker

* 1919 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician

* 1949 – Véronique Sanson, French singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

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.

In 1949 during the French colonial rule, the law required the main ethnic groups, the Afar and the Somali to participate as separate electorates.

* During 1949, the French Post Office issued a series of stamps with his portrait.

* 1868 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player ( d. 1949 )

* 1879 – Othon Friesz, French artist ( d. 1949 )

* 1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( d. 1949 )

In 1949, the three western occupation zones ( American, British, and French ) were combined into the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG, West Germany ).

* 1949 – Yves Duteil, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer ( d. 1949 )

In 1949, Cousteau left the French Navy.

* 1949 – Alain Chamfort, French singer

Apologie pour l ' histoire ou Métier d ' historien ( 1949 ), translated as The Historian's Craft ( 1953 ) excerpt of 1992 introduction by Peter Burke, and text search ; Original French text

Strange Defeat ; a Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 ( London: Oxford University Press, 1949 ) Original French text ; excerpt and text search

Support for dismantling was by this time coming predominantly from the French, and the Petersberg Agreement of November 1949 reduced the levels vastly, though dismantling of minor factories continued until 1951.

* 1949 – Fanny Ardant, French actress

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 ).

Influenced by the published journals of the French writer Jules Renard, which Maugham had often enjoyed for their conscientiousness, wisdom and wit, Maugham published selections from his own journals under the title A Writer's Notebook in 1949.

The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.

** Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( d. 1949 )

* August 11 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist ( d. 1949 )