The cave claimed its first life on 9 April 1949 when Gordon Marriott lost his life returning from Chamber 9.

In 1949, workers at the Maymead quarry ( just south of Mountain City ) discovered a cave with several early Mississippian-era ( ca.

Full-scale work at the site began after Roland de Vaux and G. Lankester Harding in 1949 excavated what became known as Cave 1, the first scroll-bearing cave.

From 1938 until 1949 the cave was unsupervised and frequently visited by the local residents.

In 1949, Raney purchased " Wild Horse Cavern ", a cave that had been a tourist attraction since 1928, but had been closed and virtually abandoned for ten years.

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.

Jerry Wolman bought the franchise in 1963 from the " Happy Hundred ," a group of investors who owned the team from 1949 – 1963, for $ 5, 505, 000 ( equal to $ today ).

It had been the Northern Horticultural Society's trial ground and display garden since they bought it in 1949.

In 1949, Mills Station was bought by Mr. and Mrs. Lerch, parents of later Fire Chief Bob Lerch and famous baseball player Randy Lerch.

A few years later, in 1949, Alfred Winslow Jones founded a fund ( that was unregulated ) that bought stocks while selling other stocks short, hence hedging some of the market risk, and the hedge fund was born.

by 1949, the last of the private utilities had been bought up, making Nebraska the only state in the nation to be served entirely by public power.

At the end of the war the government ceased operation, and in 1949 Albert LaPierre and Jack Peterson bought the abandoned airstrip and began filling it with modest cinder-block houses.

It ceased to operate in 1936, and gradually became derelict until it was bought by Bob Morse in 1949, after he moved to Norfolk.

In 1949, they bought Farley Farm House in Sussex.

The Ford Motor Company opened a commercial vehicle component factory at Langley Airfield in 1949, and then bought the entire ex-Hawker site in 1959.

In 1949, the BBC bought Lime Grove Studios as a " temporary measure " – as they were to build Television Centre at nearby White City – and began converting them from film to television use, reopening them on 21 May 1950.

In 1949, Beebe bought this estate to use a permanent research station to replace Rancho Grande.

The game was bought by Milton Bradley Company ( now owned by Hasbro ) and first published in 1949.

A few years later, in 1949, the Government of British Columbia bought the ski area.

Warner Bros. had just bought rights to Hunt's novel Bimini Run when he joined the CIA in October 1949 as a political action specialist, in what came to be called their Special Activities Division.

In 1949, KMB bought 20 Daimler double-deckers from England, becoming the first operator to operate double-deckers in Hong Kong.

In 1949, Nathan moved the label to Cincinnati, Ohio and in 1951 he bought out the Braun brothers completely.

; July, 1949: K-225-An improved version of the K-125 ; the U. S. Navy bought two and the Coast Guard one for $ 25, 000 each.

In 1949, Young bought a house in Omemee, Ontario, near Peterborough.

Camp Hi-Sierra was created in 1949 with land that the Santa Clara County Council bought within the Stanislaus National Forest.

In 1949, the city of Tampa bought a 720 acre grassy parcel between the airport and West Tampa from the federal government with the idea of eventually building a community sports complex.

By the end of the 1948 / 1949 financial year, the Development Corporation had bought of land in West Green, and was negotiating the acquisition, mostly by compulsory purchase order, of another.

Boomer died in an airplane crash in 1947 and Conrad Hilton bought The Waldorf Astoria in 1949.

He bought a permanent house in 1949 and listed Key West as his primary residence until his death in 1983.

The Trustees of SwCC bought the property from the Perry estate in 1949 and began operation the following Fall.

Upon completion of therapy in 1949, Keyes returned to South Miami, Florida where he resumed work in real estate and bought a specially equipped speedboat for racing.