State and local expenditures ( in real terms ) increased persistently from $26.5-billion in 1949 to $44.3-billion in 1959, and it would not be surprising if they showed a comparable increase in this decade, which would carry them to the neighborhood of $75-billion by 1970.

Fuller lectured at NC State University in Raleigh in 1949, where he met James Fitzgibbon, who would become a close friend and colleague.

The murals, which were unveiled in 1949, have been on display in the lobby of the Golden State Mutual Headquarters.

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.

** Indiana State finished third in 1953 and fourth in the 1949 NAIA tourney

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.

Early in the history of the state of Pakistan, a resolution ( the Objectives Resolution ) was adopted proclaiming " Sovereignty belongs to Allah alone but He has delegated it to the State of Pakistan through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him as a sacred trust " ( 12 March 1949 )

Normally used an entry level formula, it has grown into a stand alone series, with National, State and Club events and Championships. The first NASCAR " Strictly Stock " race ever was held at Charlotte Speedway, on June 19, 1949. Where a racing class requires that the cars raced be production vehicles only slightly adapted for racing, manufacturers typically produce a limited run of such vehicles for public sale so that they can legitimately race them in the class.

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.

* Terry L. Punt ( born 1949 ), Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate

* 1855 – Newfoundland ( suspended from 1934 to 1949 ), the State of New South Wales, and the State of Victoria

However, the land remained largely unused and ownership was transferred to the California State University system in 1949.

** 1948 Arab – Israeli War ( 1948 – 1949 ) – The war was fought between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbours.

Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949 – 1993.

Marshall resigned from the State Department because of ill health on January 7, 1949, and the same month became chairman of American Battle Monuments Commission.

In 1949, Knopf published his The State of Europe, a 408-page country-by-country survey of Europe that drew on these experiences and that argued " both the American and the Russian policies are mistaken "; he advocated more " social reform " for Western Europe and more " political liberty " for Eastern Europe.

* Eliza Marian Butler Ritual Magic, University Park, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1949 ; Reprint 1998

* 1949 Dean Acheson becomes Secretary of State

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.

* November 13, 1949: Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University freshman James Heer grabbed a. 45 caliber handgun from the room of a Delta Tau Delta fraternity brother and shot and killed his fraternity brother Jack McKeown, 21, an Ohio State senior.

* 1949 – 55 State of Vietnam ( Quốc gia Việt Nam ).

The State of Vietnam was created through co-operation between anti-communist Vietnamese and the French government on 14 June 1949.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

* 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

He was elected President of the South African Baptist Union in 1949 and spent a year visiting churches and mission stations.

The company was registered again in West Germany as Auto Union GmbH in 1949, first as a spare-part provider, but soon to take up production of the RT 125 motorcycle and a newly developed delivery van, called a Schnellaster F800.

This name was officially adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1949, becoming the second element after gallium to be named after France.

There is a multi-party system that, since 1949, has been dominated by the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

The German Democratic Republic ( GDR ; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR ), informally known as East Germany ( German: Ostdeutschland ), was a socialist state established by the Soviet Union in 1949 out of the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

In 1949, the insurgents suffered a major blow, as Yugoslavia closed its borders following the split between Marshal Josip Broz Tito with the Soviet Union.

Its main allies are the United States, the other NATO countries ( Italy was one of the founding countries of the organization in 1949 ), and the European Union.

In 1949, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania founded the Comecon in accordance with Stalin's desire to enforce Soviet domination of the lesser states of Central Europe and to mollify some states that had expressed interest in the Marshall Plan, and which were now, increasingly, cut off from their traditional markets and suppliers in Western Europe.

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* 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.

Theodor Heuss was elected the first President of the Republic, and Adenauer was elected Chancellor ( head of government ) on 16 September 1949 with the support of his own CDU, the Christian Social Union and the liberal Free Democratic Party.

Revolutionary socialist governments espousing Marxist concepts took power in a variety of countries in the 20th century, leading to the formation of such socialist states as the Soviet Union in 1922 and the People's Republic of China in 1949.

By the time the first national elections were held in the Federal Republic in 1949, Kiesinger had joined the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and won a seat in the Bundestag, the West German parliament.

* 1949 – The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.

China returned to civil war between the Western-backed Kuomintang versus Mao Zedong's Communists supported by the Soviet Union with the Communists seizing control of all of mainland China in 1949, creating the People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

To end this confusion, the name niobium was chosen for element 41 at the 15th Conference of the Union of Chemistry in Amsterdam in 1949.

* 1949 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.

In 1949, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland became founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for their defense against Germany, the Soviet Union, and all other potential invaders, and these three countries remain members as of 2011.

* India — Hindi Day as Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi as the Official Language of the Union on 14th September 1949.

But with the Soviet Union gaining possession of atomic weapons in 1949, SAC was forced to rethink its nuclear strategy.

* Operation Dropshot, an all-out U. S. war with the Soviet Union, is expected to be triggered by the Soviet takeover of Western Europe, the Near East and parts of Eastern Asia, as it was anticipated in 1949.

It came into being on 7 December 1949 following a split within the World Federation of Trade Unions ( WFTU ), and was dissolved on 31 October 2006 when it merged with the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) to form the International Trade Union Confederation ( ITUC ).