The Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.

In 1954, he was featured on the cover of Time ( magazine ), the second jazz musician to be so honored ( the first was Louis Armstrong on February 21, 1949 ).

Albania was admitted on 22 February 1949, to the Comecon and Albania remained important both as a way to put pressure on Yugoslavia and also to serve as a pro-Soviet force in the Adriatic Sea.

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

The Gaza Strip acquired its current boundaries at the cessation of fighting in the 1948 war, confirmed by the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement on 24 February 1949.

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.

In February 1949, Albania gained membership in the communist bloc's organization for coordinating economic planning, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( Comecon ).

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.

On February 1, 1949, the stations exchanged solid print congratulatory message traffic and rag-chewed.

* February 23 – Victor Fleming, American motion picture director, ( d. 1949 )

* February 23 – Huddie William Ledbetter ( Lead Belly ), American folk and blues musician ( d. 1949 )

* February 13 – Almanzo James Wilder, American writer ( d. 1949 )

* February 1 – Jerome F. Donovan, American politician ( d. 1949 )

* February 15 – James Forrestal, first United States Secretary of Defense ( d. 1949 )

* February 21 – Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst ( d. 1949 )

* February 1 – Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 ( d. 1949 )

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

Erich Dagobert von Drygalski ( February 9, 1865 – January 10, 1949 ) was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, Province of Prussia.

* " This Oven Makes Oil Out Of Rocks ", February 1949, Popular Science primer article with illustrations on basic of the oil shale production process

Originally published as a serial in Astounding Science Fiction ( January, February, March 1941, as by Anson MacDonald ) it was published in hardcover in 1949.

Burton met his future wife, the young actress Sybil Williams, on the set, and they married in February 1949.

The French also developed the Breguet 763 Deux Ponts, which first flew in February 1949.

In February 1949, Nasser was sent as a member of the Egyptian delegation to Rhodes to negotiate a formal ceasefire with Israel, and reportedly considered the terms to be humiliating.

After working as Editor of the Church Times from 1948 to 1949, Heath worked as a management trainee at the merchant bankers Brown, Shipley & Co. until his election as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bexley in the February 1950 general election.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

In 1932 Dorset received its own exchange, which made business easier for the Manchester office, but it was not until February 1953 that area service was extended to include Manchester and Dorset.

Born at the Eyüp Palace, Constantinople ( Constantinople ), on 9 / 18 February 1830, Abdülaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was made in the West.

He also received numerous other awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to him on February 23, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan.

In February 2012, they received planning permission for the site and the centre is scheduled to be opened by late 2013.

On 28 February 2011 ONUCI consisted of 7, 568 troops, 177 military observers, and numerous international civilians and Police ; the mission had received helicopter and infantry reinforcement from UNMIL during the stand-off since the late 2010 elections which had been won by Alassane Ouattara.

On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Kaye had quadruple bypass heart surgery in February 1983 ; he contracted hepatitis from a blood transfusion he received at that time.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 received Royal Assent in February 2011 to allow the referendum to occur.

In February 1950, Paisà received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay by Rossellini, Sergio Amidei, and Fellini.

de Garis left in 2000, and ATR-HIP was closed on 28 February 2001. de Garis then moved to Starlab in Brussels, where he received a million dollars in funding from the government of Belgium (" over a third of the Brussels government's total budget for scientific research ", according to de Garis ).

According to reports released in February 2010, Hezbollah received $ 400 million dollars from Iran.

In February 1865, Booth became infatuated with Lucy Lambert Hale, the daughter of U. S. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire, and they became secretly engaged when Booth received his mother's blessing for their marriage plans.

He was cordially received, but in February, he learned that his nomination had been rejected by the Senate on January 25, 1832.

In February 1976, the band received its first significant press coverage ; guitarist Steve Jones declared that the Sex Pistols were not so much into music as they were " chaos ".

Pacelli became the under-secretary in 1911, adjunct-secretary in 1912 ( a position he received under Pope Pius X and retained under Pope Benedict XV ), and secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs in February 1914.

Rowland Hill then received a summons to give evidence before the Commission for Post Office Enquiry on 13 February 1837.

The first independent evidence for Chalmers ' claim is the essay and proposal he submitted for adhesive postage stamps to the General Post Office, dated 8 February 1838 and received by the Post Office on 17 February 1838.

Samuel Colt received a British patent for his revolver in 1835 and an American patent ( number 138 ) on February 25, 1836 for a Revolving gun, and made the first production model on March 5 of that year.

This three-part arc, which presaged the inevitable Romulan-Earth War of 2156, received the lowest Nielsen ratings of the entire series, leading UPN to cancel it on February 2, 2005.

The Stationers were enthusiastic, urging Parliament to pass the bill, and it received its second reading on 9 February.

In September 1660 he was made a Justice of the Peace, and on 15 February 1662 Pepys was admitted as a Younger Brother of Trinity House, and on 30 April he received the freedom of Portsmouth.

During this time, the Orbiter Vehicle-105 received major hardware upgrades, including a new, multi-functional, electronic display system, often referred to as glass cockpit, and an advanced GPS receiver, along with safety upgrades recommended by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board ( CAIB ) for the shuttle to return to flight after the disintegration of sister-ship Columbia during re-entry on February 1, 2003.