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

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

The company was registered again in West Germany as Auto Union GmbH in 1949, first as a spare-part provider, but soon to take up production of the RT 125 motorcycle and a newly developed delivery van, called a Schnellaster F800.

This name was officially adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1949, becoming the second element after gallium to be named after France.

There is a multi-party system that, since 1949, has been dominated by the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

The German Democratic Republic ( GDR ; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR ), informally known as East Germany ( German: Ostdeutschland ), was a socialist state established by the Soviet Union in 1949 out of the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

In 1949, the insurgents suffered a major blow, as Yugoslavia closed its borders following the split between Marshal Josip Broz Tito with the Soviet Union.

Its main allies are the United States, the other NATO countries ( Italy was one of the founding countries of the organization in 1949 ), and the European Union.

In 1949, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania founded the Comecon in accordance with Stalin's desire to enforce Soviet domination of the lesser states of Central Europe and to mollify some states that had expressed interest in the Marshall Plan, and which were now, increasingly, cut off from their traditional markets and suppliers in Western Europe.

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* 1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi ( later re-organized as Kerala ) in the Indian Union ends more than 1, 000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.

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.

Revolutionary socialist governments espousing Marxist concepts took power in a variety of countries in the 20th century, leading to the formation of such socialist states as the Soviet Union in 1922 and the People's Republic of China in 1949.

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.

* 1949 – The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.

China returned to civil war between the Western-backed Kuomintang versus Mao Zedong's Communists supported by the Soviet Union with the Communists seizing control of all of mainland China in 1949, creating the People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

To end this confusion, the name niobium was chosen for element 41 at the 15th Conference of the Union of Chemistry in Amsterdam in 1949.

* 1949 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.

In 1949, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland became founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for their defense against Germany, the Soviet Union, and all other potential invaders, and these three countries remain members as of 2011.

* India — Hindi Day as Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi as the Official Language of the Union on 14th September 1949.

But with the Soviet Union gaining possession of atomic weapons in 1949, SAC was forced to rethink its nuclear strategy.

* Operation Dropshot, an all-out U. S. war with the Soviet Union, is expected to be triggered by the Soviet takeover of Western Europe, the Near East and parts of Eastern Asia, as it was anticipated in 1949.

It came into being on 7 December 1949 following a split within the World Federation of Trade Unions ( WFTU ), and was dissolved on 31 October 2006 when it merged with the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) to form the International Trade Union Confederation ( ITUC ).

A Married Women ( Restraint Upon Anticipation ) Act was passed in 1949 “ to equalise, to render inoperative any restrictions upon anticipation or alienation attached to the enjoyment of property by a woman ,” while the Married Women ( Maintenance ) Act of 1949 was enacted with the intention of improving the adequacy and duration of financial benefits for married women.

The Merchant Shipping Act of 1948 and the Merchant Shipping ( Safety Convention ) Act of 1949 were passed to improve conditions for seamen.

On 21 November 1949 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution stating that Libya should become independent before 1 January 1952.

His two years of National Service ( 1949 – 51 ) passed comparatively easily.

In 1949, the Constituent Assembly passed the Objectives Resolution and the Annex to the Constitution of Pakistan, giving the country the road to Westernized federal parliamentary democratic republic.

Because of this, all British North America Acts dated before 1949 were passed by the British Parliament, while some of those dated after 1949 were passed by the Canadian Parliament.

BNA Acts were passed in 1867, 1871, 1886, 1907, 1915, 1916 *, 1930, 1940, 1943 *, 1946 *, 1949, 1949 ( No. 2 )*, 1951 *, 1952 *, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1974, 1975 and 1975 ( No. 2 ).

He passed the Maryland bar exam in June 1949.

The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 was passed with all party support.

The Menzies and Holt Governments effectively dismantled the policies between 1949 and 1966 and the Whitlam Government passed laws to ensure that race would be totally disregarded as a component for immigration to Australia in 1973.

After being passed by the Parliamentary Council assembled at the Museum Koenig in Bonn on 8 May 1949 — the Museum was the only intact building in Bonn large enough to house the assembly — and after being approved by the occupying powers on 12 May 1949, it was ratified by the parliaments of all the Länder with the exception of Bavaria ( Bayern ).

On 11 August 1949 it was decided by the Security Council that the mediators function had been completed and that the role in observing the ceasefire should be passed to the Chief of Staff of the UNTSO

In January 1949, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution demanding the reinstatement of the Republican government.

The former had not been consulted, and following the declaration of the republic in 1948, the UK passed the Ireland Act in 1949.

Later, during the 1930s and 1940s, cattle ranching became popular as tick-borne diseases were being controlled with a state-sponsored irradication program and a fence law was passed by the state legislature in 1949 ending the open range in Florida.

Finally, in 1948, the London County Council presented a site close to the Royal Festival Hall for the purpose, and a " National Theatre Act ", offering financial support, was passed by Parliament in 1949.

The campaign was partially successful in 1949, when control passed from the Hindu mahant to the state government of Bihar, which established a temple management committee.

The Church Village proposal was vetoed by the Ministry of Power as new housing there would have interfered with plans for the expansion of coalmining in the area ; however, " Cwmbrân " was passed in 1949.