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.

Performers of popular music began appearing as early as the late 1940s ; Delia Murphy popularised Irish folk songs that she recorded for HMV in 1949 ; Margaret Barry is also credited with bringing traditional songs to the fore ; Donegal's Bridie Gallagher shot to fame in 1956 and is considered ' Ireland's first international pop star '; Belfast-born singer Ruby Murray achieved unprecedented chart success in the UK in the mid-1950s ; The Bachelors were an all-male harmony group from Dublin who had hits in the UK, Europe, US, Australia and Russia ; Mary O ' Hara was a soprano and harpist who was successful on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s and early 1960s ; Waterford crooner Val Doonican had a string of UK hits and presented his own TV show on the BBC from 1965 to 1986.

Since 1949, the St. Louis club has been below on May 1 just four times.

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.

Edwin Schallert for the Los Angeles Times praised Davis's performance in Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), while observing, " the mimics will have more fun than a box of monkeys imitating Miss Davis ", and Dorothy Manners at the Los Angeles Examiner said of her performance in the poorly received Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ), " no night club caricaturist has ever turned in such a cruel imitation of the Davis mannerisms as Bette turns on herself in this one ".

Dyer continued on as coach for three years after his playing retirement at the end of 1949, but was asked to retire by the committee who felt the club needed a shake up.

He finished off his club hurling career by winning a further three county medals in succession in 1948, 1949 and 1950.

The club resumed league play in 1947 in the first division Oberliga Nord and was relegated, but quickly returned to the top-flight in 1949.

For Sunderland, the immediate post-war years were characterised by significant spending ; the club paid £ 18, 000 (£ today ) for Carlisle United's Ivor Broadis in January 1949.

Between 1947 and 1952, the club was nicknamed Expresso da Vitória ( Victory Express ), as Vasco won several competitions in that period, such as the Rio de Janeiro championship in 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, and 1952, and the South American Club Championship in 1948.

In 1949, the club won its ninth Paranaense State Championship, which gave them the nickname of Furacão ( meaning hurricane, in English )-attributed to the club for its great campaign in the competition.

The club re-emerged after World War II in 1949 as BSG Franz Mehring Grube, becoming BSG Aktivist Brieske-Ost in 1950.

However, after these seasons things went downwards for AIK, even though they still attracted big crowds, the 1949 / 1950 season the club had 21. 768 a game, a record which would last until the 21st century.

In 1949 the club turned professional, and changed its name to Cambridge United in 1951.

Handball club “ Lovćen ” was founded at the beginning of 1949.

The club was founded in 1949 by the neurologist John Bates and continued to meet until 1958.

By 1949, he was Preston's club captain but had lost his place in the first team, which was struggling against relegation despite having the great Tom Finney in the side.

There was a short-lived attempt to merge the club with two others – Werksportgemeinschaft Hoesch and Freier Sportverein 98 – as Sportgemeinschaft Borussia von 1898, but it was as Ballspiel-Verein Borussia ( BVB ) that they made their first appearance in the national league final in 1949 where they lost 2 – 3 to Mannheim.

In the summer of 1949 the club made its first ever tour abroad when it played three games against the British army in Germany.

A small Rosary making club formed by Xaverian Brother Sylvan Mattingly in Louisville, Kentucky in 1949 grew to be the largest Catholic Rosary making group in the United States.

In spite of reaching a more respectable 6th place under his successor Billy Wooton in 1949, it wasn't until the appointment of George Hardwick as player-manager in November 1950 that the club found any real form.

In 1949, the club became the first to appoint Bill Shankly as manager.

The club can trace its origins back to four amateur clubs Ilford ( formed in 1881 ), Leytonstone ( 1886 ), Walthamstow Avenue ( 1900 ) and Dagenham ( 1949 ).

* Moe Lieberman – builder, 1973 ( University of Alberta as player 1915 ; Edmonton Eskimos as player 1921 – 22, manager 1922, director 1930s, and club organizer and director 1949 – 57 ).

Charles made his first team debut as a centre back for Leeds United in a friendly versus Dumfries club Queen of the South on 19 April 1949.