These factors – combined with a war for players between the two leagues that raised salaries and ate into owners ' profits – ultimately led to the dissolution of the AAFC and the merger of three of its teams, including the Browns, into the NFL in 1949.

* 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.

In 1949, they joined the NBA as part of the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America merger.

Three colleges merged with IIT after the 1940 Armor / Lewis merger: Institute of Design in 1949, Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1969, and Midwest College of Engineering in 1986.

The men responsible for the merger were Karl Ludvig Lundberg and Josef Sachs ( 1872 – 1949 ), who wanted to establish a department store that would offer the same level of service as the stores in Paris or London.

It was founded in 1949 as the merger of two major actuarial organizations in the United States: the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries.

The high school, Okinoerabu High School, was formed in 1949 through the merger of China High School and Wadomari High School ; it maintains campuses in both towns.

* County and City Data Book-formed by merger of a 1944 Cities Supplement to the Abstract and a 1947 County Data Book, began publication in 1949 with the latest edition being the 14th ( 2007 ).

It was chartered in 1949 by the merger of,

Traditionally, the Council has fought amalgamation of their area with other councils, though additional land has been added to the Council since 1885 such as annexure of the unincorporated area of Flemington, merger with the west ward of the abolished Enfield Council in 1949 and merger with the Municipality of Homebush in May 1947.

, located in the Japanese cities of Higashihiroshima and Hiroshima, was established 1949 by the merger of a number of national educational institutions.

Incorporated in 1976 following the merger of the cities of Orsainville, Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides, the town of Charlesbourg ( 1949 ) and the municipality of Charlesbourg-Est ( 1928 ).

The Baltimore Bullets were an American Basketball League ( 1944 – 47 ) team, and later, a Basketball Association of America ( 1947 – 49 ), and ( beginning in 1949, following the BAA's merger with the National Basketball League ) a National Basketball Association team based in Baltimore, Maryland.

The company, whose name is an abbreviation of Cement Roadstone Holdings, was formed through the merger in 1970 of Cement Ltd ( established in 1936 ) and Roadstone Ltd ( established in 1949 ).

It was created on 1 July 1949 by the merger of two former Princely States, the kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin with Trivandrum as the capital.

An anti-merger congregation in Brooklyn filed suit against the CC moderator, Helen Kenyon, in 1949 to legally stop the merger proceedings ; the major legal contention made by the church and the anti-union advocates was that the CC General Council possessed no authority to enter into a merger as a national entity.

The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts ( 東京美術学校 Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō ) and the Tokyo Music School ( 東京音楽学校 Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō ), both of which were founded in 1887.

The North Eastern force had been formed on May 16, 1949, by the merger of Aberdeenshire Constabulary, Banffshire Constabulary, Kincardineshire Constabulary, and Moray and Nairn Constabulary.

Established in 1949, the club played at Victoria Road from 1955 until its merger with Redbridge Forest in 1992 to form Dagenham & Redbridge.

After the BAA-NBL merger to form the NBA prior to the 1949 – 50 campaign, he continued to serve in the dual capacity role until his retirement as an active player in 1953.

In July 1949 Morris and Austin announced the end of their scheme, no further steps would be taken to pool production resources and no merger of any kind was contemplated.

In 1949 the Colts were one of three AAFC teams, along with the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns, to be brought into the NFL following the AAFC-NFL merger.

The municipality was abolished upon merger into the City of Sydney in 1949, along with Darlington, Erskineville, Newtown, Redfern, Waterloo, Paddington and Glebe.

Travancore and the princely state of Cochin merged on 1 July 1949 to form the Indian state of Travancore-Cochin.

On July 1, 1949, the State of Travancore-Cochin was established, with the Maharajah of Travancore as the Rajapramukh of the new State.

* Travancore dynasty ( 1102 – 1949 AD )

At the time of the integrating of Travancore and Cochin districts in 1949, Kollam was one of the three revenue divisions in the state.

In 1949 Padmanabhan became a member of the Travancore Legislative Assembly.

On India becoming independent, Travancore joined the Indian Union in 1947 and later became a part of the State of Travancore-Cochin in 1949 which in turn became part of the state of Kerala when it was formed in 1956.

Cochin was a state of south India which merged with Travancore on 1 July 1949 to form Travancore – Cochin.

After India gained her independence on 15 August 1947, the Kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin were integrated to form the Travancore-Cochin State or Thiru-Kochi on 1 July 1949.

Some notable historical groups formed along the way include Colgate University's The Colgate 13 ( 1942 ), Dartmouth College's Aires ( 1946 ), Cornell University's Cayuga's Waiters ( 1949 ) and The Hangovers ( 1968 ), the Columbia University Kingsmen ( 1949 ), the Jabberwocks of Brown University ( 1949 ), and the University of Rochester YellowJackets ( 1956 ).

In a series of articles published between 1949 and 1954, he argued that Westermann's ' West Sudanic ' and Bantu formed a single genetic family, which he named Niger – Congo ; that Bantu constituted a subgroup of the Benue – Congo branch ; that Adamawa – Eastern, previously not considered to be related, was another member of this family ; and that Fula belonged to the West Atlantic languages.

* 1949 – The German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) is formed.

Paramount Pictures Corporation was formed to be the production distribution company, with the 1, 500-screen theater chain handed to the new United Paramount Theaters on December 31, 1949.

The position became permanent on 8 March 1949, when the first government was formed.

Chelvanayakam broke away in 1949 and formed the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi ( ITAK ) aka Federal Party.

The band initially formed as Bill Haley and the Saddlemen c. 1949 – 1952, and performed mostly country and western songs, though occasionally with a bluesy feel.

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

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.

India's first youth hostel was formed in the Maharaja's College Hostel in 1949.

As a result of a first Hoover Commission recommendation, in 1949 the National Archives was placed within the newly formed General Services Administration ( GSA ).

In 1949, events reinforced the need for better coordination of national security policy: NATO was formed, military assistance for Europe was begun, the Soviet Union detonated an atomic bomb, and the Communists gained control in China.

The Ohio Department of Public Works maintained the canal lands for recreational purposes until 1949 when the Portage Lakes were transferred to the newly formed Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation.

In the third phase ( 1946 – 1949 ), guerrilla forces controlled by the Greek Communist Party ( KKE ) fought against the internationally recognized Greek government which was formed after 1946 elections boycotted by the KKE.

The Cooper Landing Community Club was first formed in 1949.

The Malibu Chamber of Commerce was formed in 1949 to provide support to local Malibu business, and now has over 500 members.

Calimesa community members felt the need for more protection on the south side of the wash, so in 1949 they formed the Volunteer Fire Department.

The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Flen ( instituted in 1949 ), the market town ( köping ) Malmköping and the surrounding countryside.

In 1949 he became head of the cryptographic division of the newly-formed Armed Forces Security Agency ( AFSA ) and in 1952 became chief cryptologist for the National Security Agency ( NSA ) when it was formed to take over from AFSA.

Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949, with the headquarters at Thrissur City.

The Gurkha Contingent ( GC ) of the Singapore Police Force was formed on 9 April 1949 from selected ex-British Army Gurkhas.

The ' Branch Lines Committee ' of the British Transport Commission ( BTC ) was formed in 1949 with a brief to close the least used branch lines ; a total of railway were closed between 1948 and 1962.

Radio Free Europe was created and grew in its early years through the efforts of the National Committee for a Free Europe ( NCFE ), a US anti-communist organization that was formed in New York City in 1949.