* A. M. Rosenthal ( 1949 ), former executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers ; Pulitzer prize winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation ’ s government and society

In 1949, the former lawyer of many Supreme Court cases, St-Laurent ended the practice of appealing Canadian legal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, making the Supreme Court of Canada the highest avenue of legal appeal available to Canadians.

In the late 1940s the pressure to sign the " verification documents " grew and in February 1949 the former chief of the stalinist secret Police ( UB ) of Lodz, Mieczyslaw Moczar, started the " Great verification " campaign.

A former colony and dominion of the United Kingdom, Newfoundland and Labrador became the tenth province to enter the Canadian Confederation on March 31, 1949, as Newfoundland.

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 ".

Porsche's company logo was based on the coat of arms of Free People's State of Württemberg of former Weimar Germany, which had Stuttgart as its capital and became part of Baden-Württemberg after the political consolidation of West Germany in 1949.

On 27 May 1949, the People's Liberation Army took control of Shanghai, which was one of only three former Republic of China ( ROC ) municipalities not merged into neighboring provinces over the next decade ( the others being Beijing and Tianjin ).

With the exception of Palestine's Gaza Strip, which came under the administration of the All-Palestine Government, the western frontier of the former Mandate of Palestine became the Egyptian-Israeli frontier under the 1949 Armistice Agreement.

" In 1949, Brunot and his family made sets in a converted former schoolhouse in Dodgingtown, a section of Newtown.

* 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.

* Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German ), the German Democratic Republic ( English ), i. e., the former East Germany, a state in Europe, 1949 – 90

Andreas Nikolaus " Niki " Lauda ( born February 22, 1949 ) is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver and three-time F1 World Champion.

The bulk of the Arab refugees from the former British Mandate of Palestine ended up in the Gaza strip ( under Egyptian rule between 1949 and 1967 ) and the West Bank ( under Jordanian rule between 1949 and 1967 ), Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

Herschel Park ( known as Upton Park until 1949 ) is currently being relandscaped in a multi-million pound effort to bring it back to its former Victorian era glory.

Vera Ellen Wang (, ; born June 27, 1949 ) is an American fashion designer based in New York City and former figure skater.

Three former British European Airways ( BEA ) Vickers Vikings, which Laker had acquired in 1949 as well, were overhauled at ATL's Southend maintenance base and sold on to British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) at a profit.

In Saigon, the anti-Communist State of Vietnam, led by former Emperor Bảo Đại, was granted independence in 1949.

In 1949, Governor Stevenson testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to defend Alger Hiss, a former high ranking State Department official who was later found to be a Soviet spy.

* Ginger Gilmour ( born 1949 ), American artist, former wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour

Richard Christopher Wakeman ( born 18 May 1949 ) is an English keyboard player, composer and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes.

In 1949, non-communist Vietnamese politicians formed a rival government in Saigon led by former emperor Bao Dai.

In the now defunct German Democratic Republic ( GDR, East Germany ), which existed from 7 October 1949 to 3 October 1990 ( when the territory of the former GDR was reunified with the Federal Republic of Germany ), the position of Chancellor did not exist.

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 French persuaded him to return in 1949 to serve as " head of state " ( quốc trưởng ), not as " emperor " ( Hoàng Đế ).

Cochinchina was renamed the " Republic of South Vietnam " in 1947, the " Provisional Central Government of Vietnam " in 1948, and the " State of Vietnam ", with former emperor Bảo Đại as head of state, in 1949.

The former emperor returned to Vietnam in 1949 at the invitation of the civilian government and was named head of state, but he went into exile again in 1954.

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

Wills recalled the early days of what became known as Western swing music in a 1949 interview.

When it became clear that Li was unlikely to accept Mao's terms, the Communists issued an ultimatum in April 1949, warning that they would resume their attacks if Li did not agree within five days.

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

Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949.

Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, it became the capital of the Irish Free State ( 1922 – 1949 ) and now is the capital of the Republic of Ireland.

In 1912 he became the head of the Department of Phonetics and was appointed to a chair in 1921, a post he held until his retirement in 1949.

Mountbatten arrives on board HMS Glasgow at Malta to assume command of the Mediterranean Fleet, 16 May 1952After India, Mountbatten served as commander of the 1st cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean Fleet and, having been granted the substantive rank of vice admiral on 22 June 1949, he became Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in April 1950.

After the cessation of hostilities, the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement of 24 February 1949 established the separation line between Egyptian and Israeli forces, and established what became the present boundary between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Moving to London in 1945, following the repeal of the Witchcraft Act of 1736 he became intent on propagating this religion, attracting media attention and writing about it in High Magic's Aid ( 1949 ), Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

In 1949 the Soviets turned control of East Germany over to the Socialist Unity Party, headed by Wilhelm Pieck ( 1876 – 1960 ), who became president of the GDR and remained officially ' Number One ' until his death in 1960, while most executive authority was assumed by SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht.

In 1949 the Soviet zone became the " Deutsche Demokratische Republik " – " DDR " (" German Democratic Republic " – " GDR ", simply often " East Germany "), under control of the German Communist Party.

Ulbricht became deputy prime minister in 1949 and secretary ( chief executive ) of the Socialist Unity ( Communist ) party in 1950.

After World War II, Hamburg was in the British Zone of Occupation and became a state of the then Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.

In 1949, Simon became a professor of administrations and chairman of the Department of Industrial Management at Carnegie Tech ( later to become Carnegie Mellon University ).

Following the declaration, Moetzet HaAm became the Provisional State Council, which acted as the legislative body for the new state until the first elections in January 1949.

Israel became a member of the United Nations on 11 May 1949.

The USSR continued to maintain diplomatic relations with Chiang's KMT regime until 1949 when it became clear Mao would win.

After the 1949 foundation of the People ’ s Republic of China, trading conditions for foreign companies under the new Communist regime became increasingly difficult.

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

After World War II Luxembourg abandoned its politics of neutrality, when it became a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( 1949 ) and the United Nations.

It was donated to the school by Arthur " Buddy " Gist, who met Davis in 1949 and became a close friend.

For higher education, the city has only one university, Umm al-Qura University, which was established in 1949 as a college and became a public university in 1979.

It became a part of Canada in 1949.

Institutional education steadily became more and more available and normative after Confederation in 1949.