Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.

Only CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK are currently in common use, although four radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador retained call letters beginning with VO when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

From the beginning of Communist rule in 1949, until the 1980s, when China was in the early years of economic reform, the focus was largely on peasant life, as interpreted via the officially sanctioned Marxist theory of class struggle.

The first overt political manifestations of ethnic loyalties occurred in January 1949 when a Gadabuursi candidate Djama Ali was elected to the Conseil de Republique.

Rosenthal had been her attorney since 1949, when he represented her in her uncontested divorce action against her second husband, songwriter George W. Weidler.

Kaye was flying home from an appearance in London in 1949 when one of the plane's four engines lost its propeller and caught fire.

EDSAC ran its first programs on 6 May 1949, when it calculated a table of squares and a list of prime numbers.

It was then simplified in 1947, when Leon Henkin observed in his Ph. D. thesis that the hard part of the proof can be presented as the Model Existence Theorem ( published in 1949 ).

The Netherlands tried to reestablish their rule, but a bitter armed and diplomatic struggle ended in December 1949, when in the face of international pressure, the Dutch formally recognised Indonesian independence.

Early developments of the integrated circuit go back to 1949, when the German engineer Werner Jacobi ( Siemens AG ) filed a patent for an integrated-circuit-like semiconductor amplifying device showing five transistors on a common substrate in a 2-stage amplifier arrangement.

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

He went on to star in such popular films as Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Duel in the Sun ( which remains one of the top 100 highest grossing films of all time when adjusted for inflation ), Love Letters ( 1945 ), Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ).

This tale of hidden telepathic abilities was Katherine MacLean's first story to see print when it was published in Astounding Science Fiction ( October, 1949 ).

Remnants of the Knights of Labor continued in existence until 1949, when the group's last 50-member local dropped its affiliation.

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.

ELAS and Yugoslavia were on good terms until 1949, when they split due to Tito's lack of allegiance to Joseph Stalin ( cf.

This game was banned by the government of People's Republic of China when it took power in 1949.

* 1949 – A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.

Musharraf's family moved to Ankara in 1949, when his father became part of a diplomatic deputation from Pakistan to Turkey.

This period of confusion ended in 1949 when the state was declared to be a republic.

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

The remodelling work was completed in 1949 when Murrary Easton replaced the Gothic tracery of the windows with a simpler design in the style of the medieval Hall.

The term " rhythm and blues " was used by Billboard in its chart listings from June 1949 until August 1969, when its " Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles " chart was renamed as " Best Selling Soul Singles ".

Population growth was slow, averaging about 1. 1 % annually during the period from 1949 to 1955, when the population registered at 21. 5 million.

From 1949 until their divorce in 1963, he was married to producer Sybil Williams, by whom he had two daughters, Katherine " Kate " Burton ( born 10 September 1957 ) and Jessica Burton ( born 1961 ).

In August 1949 Fonda announced to Frances that he wanted a divorce so he could remarry ; their thirteen years of marriage had not been happy ones for him.

His high-profile estrangement and then divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's script for the film Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey ended up marrying the lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his then ex-wife Allen married the opposing lawyer, William Dwight Whitney.

During their marriage ( ended by divorce in 1949 ), they had four children.

She filed for divorce in 1948 ; the divorce was finalized in 1949.

Stanley was married four times – Bruce Hall ( 1945 – 1946 ), Curt Conway ( 1949 – 1956 ), Alfred Ryder ( 1958 – 1964 ) and Joseph Siegel ( 1964 – 1967 ) – with all four marriages ending in divorce.

The fifth was Chicago millionaire William Deering Davis, who had been briefly married to the silent film star Louise Brooks, in the 1930s ; Plesch's marriage to Davis lasted from 1949 until their divorce in 1951.

Separated from his wife ( their divorce became final in 1950 ), Reeves moved to New York City in 1949.

In 1949 he married Dorothy DeMass Way, with whom he also had two children before their divorce in 1964.

The Whites ' long marriage ended in divorce in 1949.

The couple had a daughter, Mary Jacqueline ( born 1949 ), but their marriage ended in divorce in 1954, though the Mexican divorce was ruled invalid in 1956.

After his first marriage and divorce, he remarried to Carla, Contessa Roberti ( later known as Lady Thorneycroft, DBE ) in 1949.

In 1948-49 Helen joined Umaña in Paris where they were married in 1950 ( his divorce from Eve Peri was finalized in 1949 ).

After her divorce from Zito, Haver started dating Dr. John L. Duzik, whom she had dated before her marriage to Zito ; they planned on marrying, but Duzik died on October 31, 1949 following surgery complications.

Their divorce was finalized in January 1949.

During the Mao era ( 1949 – 1976 ) divorce was rare, but in the reform era, it has become easier and more commonplace.

On April 15, 1949, it was revised to permit divorce for certain reasons.

Court was married to Irish actor Dermot Walsh from 1949 until their divorce in 1963.

This marriage ended in divorce in 1949.

They had two children, Victoria ( b. 1949 ) and Richard ( b. 1953 ) Their marriage ended in divorce.