It has been in federal government longer than any other party, as the junior coalition partner to either the CDU / CSU ( 1949 – 56, 1961 – 66, 1982 – 98, and since 2009 ) or the Social Democratic Party ( 1969 – 82 ).

After eight years in opposition, the Coalition won the federal election of December 1949 and Menzies began his record-setting second term as Prime Minister.

Indeed, in the lead up to the 1949 federal election, Fadden played a key role in the defeat of the Chifley Labor government, frequently making inflammatory claims about the " socialist " nature of the Labor Party, which Menzies could then " clarify " or repudiate as he saw fit, thus appearing more " moderate ".

In 1949, the Constituent Assembly passed the Objectives Resolution and the Annex to the Constitution of Pakistan, giving the country the road to Westernized federal parliamentary democratic republic.

In the 1998 federal election, the CDU polled 28. 4 % and the CSU 6. 7 % of the national vote, which was the lowest result for CDU / CSU since 1949.

Both parties agreed to the formation of the ' United States of Indonesia ' by 1 January 1949, a semi-autonomous federal state with the Monarchy of the Netherlands at its head.

The Dutch – Indonesian Round Table Conference was held in The Hague from 23 August 1949 to 2 November 1949 between the Republic, the Netherlands, and the Dutch-created federal states.

Indeed, in the lead up to the 1949 federal election, Fadden often made inflammatory claims about the " socialist " nature of the Labor Party which Menzies could then " clarify " or repudiate as he saw fit, thus appearing more " moderate ".

* Philip Cohen was murdered in 1949, several months after being released from federal prison.

The trial was held in the Foley Square federal courthouse in New York City, and opened on November 1, 1948 ; preliminary proceedings and jury selection lasted until January 17, 1949 ; the defendants first appeared in court on March 7 ; and the trial concluded on October 14, 1949.

Although later trials surpassed it, in 1949 it was the longest federal trial in US history.

From 1949 to 1952, Bethlehem Steel had a contract with the federal government of the United States to roll uranium fuel rods for nuclear reactors in Bethlehem Steel's Lackawanna, New York plant.

New Mexico and Texas disputed water rights to the river until the federal government settled the dispute in 1949 with the Pecos River Compact.

These continued to exist when in 1947 Lippe lost its status as a state of Germany and by order of the British military government was incorporated into the new federal state North Rhine-Westphalia ; in 1949 this change was approved by the parliament.

* John Phil Gilbert ( born 1949 ), U. S. federal judge

Wake stood as a Liberal candidate in the 1949 Australian federal election for the Sydney seat of Barton, running against Dr. Herbert Evatt, then Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs in the Ben Chifley Labor government.

The availability of a portion of the land used as Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara until 1946 on another seaside mesa in Goleta, which the Regents could acquire for free from the federal government, led to that site becoming the Santa Barbara campus in 1949.

In 1949, only 10 percent of all federal laws, namely, those directly affecting the Länder, required Bundesrat approval.

The Cardinal engaged later in a heated public dispute with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1949 when she expressed her opposition to providing federal funding to parochial schools in her column, My Day.

Accordingly in 1949 a conference was held at Victoria Falls which produced a workable federal scheme.

On September 7, 1949 he was elected as the first president of the federal Bundesrat of Germany.

On June 2, 1949, a federal court refused to reinstate the three players pending their trials, but urged that the antitrust issues be adjudicated as soon as possible.

The United States extended official recognition after the first Israeli election, as Truman had promised, on 31 January 1949.

The first election to the Bundestag of West Germany was held on 15 August 1949, with the Christian Democrats emerging as the strongest party.

At one event during the 1949 election campaign, he disembarked his train and instead of approaching the assembled crowd of adults and reporters, gravitated to, and began chatting with, a group of children on the platform.

He again became Prime Minister at the 1949 election, and he then dominated Australian politics until his retirement in 1966.

With the lower house enlarged from 74 to 121 seats, the Menzies Liberal / Country Coalition won the 1949 election with 74 of 121 seats and 51. 0 percent of the two-party vote but remained in minority in the Senate.

Rapidly rising through the party ranks, Askin soon became President of the Liberals ' Manly branch and supported William Wentworth's successful bid for the new seat of Mackellar at the 1949 election.

After an initial loss to Labor at the 1946 election, Menzies led the Liberals to victory at the 1949 election against the incumbent Labor government led by Curtin's successor, Ben Chifley, and the Coalition stayed in office for a record 23 years.

He held his seat at the 2005 election, the first independent MP to do so since 1949.

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 leading Israel during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, Ben-Gurion was elected Prime Minister of Israel when his Mapai ( Labour ) party won the largest number of Knesset seats in the first national election, held on 14 February 1949.

Dulles served from July 7, 1949, to November 8, 1949, when a successor, Herbert Lehman, was elected, having beaten Dulles in a special election to fill the senate vacancy.

On February 17, 1949, a petition signed by 42 eligible voters was presented to the Dallas County judge requesting an election for incorporation.

The first presidential election took place on 16 February 1949, and the winner was Chaim Weizmann.

The Liberal-Conservative coalition government won a landslide victory in the 1949 election -- at 61 % the greatest percentage of the popular vote in BC history.

The 1938 general election was called when the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Neville Chamberlain was negotiating a settlement of outstanding disputes with Éamon de Valera, whose new constitution laid claim to Northern Ireland, and the 1949 election was called when the Irish government declared itself a republic.

* Northern Ireland general election, 1949

This was followed by a comprehensive series of observations of the 1.25-cm emission of the moon over three lunar cycles by Piddington and Minnett ( 1949 ).

There followed Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), his second film with Sinatra, where Kelly paid tribute to his Irish heritage in The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day routine.

The first " German level of industry " plan was subsequently followed by a number of new ones, the last signed in 1949.

GB ( sarin ) was discovered next in 1939, followed by GD ( soman ) in 1944 and finally the more obscure GF ( cyclosarin ) in 1949.

In the US, V-shaped, or short-and-sharp contractions followed by rapid and sustained recovery, occurred in 1954 and 1990 – 91 ; U-shaped ( prolonged slump ) in 1974 – 75, and W-shaped, or double-dip recessions in 1949 and 1980 – 82.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

Two more military dictators followed by December 1949.

After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed on the mainland, siding with the communists.

More full-line stores followed with Detroit, Michigan, in 1940 and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1949.

Ministers who followed Balmforth were William and Wilma Constable ( 1937 to 1941 ), Donald Livingstone ( 1941 to 1949 ), Magnus Ratter ( 1949 to 1960 and 1971 to 1976 ), Victor Carpenter ( 1962 to 1967 ), Eugene Widrick ( 1968 to 1971 ), Leon Fay ( 1977 to 1979 ), Robert Steyn ( 1979 to 1997 ).

Created in December 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ) is a relief and human development agency, originally intended to provide jobs on public works projects and direct relief for 652, 000 Arabs who fled from Israel during the fighting that followed the end of the British mandate over Palestine.

Williams and Kilburn applied for British patents on Dec. 11, 1946 and Oct. 2, 1947, followed by US patent applications on Dec. 10, 1947 () and May 16, 1949 ().

In 1949, the current type of holed 5 yen was introduced, followed by bronze 10 yen ( of the type still in circulation ) in 1951.

The first of these was first published by G. E. Thomas in 1949 and is followed by numerous authors ( e. g., Tanenbaum ).

Ireland was formally declared a republic in 1949, and India followed suit the following year.

After Williams suffered a heart attack in 1948, his health began to decline, and after 1949 a series of strokes followed.

Brigadoon then received a West End production opening in 1949 that ran for 685 performances, and many revivals followed.

Notes for 200, 500, 5000 and 10, 000 yuan followed in 1949, with 50, 000 yuan notes added in 1950.

After the communist revolution at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, which led to the creation of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), Tsinghua University's then President Mei Yi-Qi, followed by many professors, fled to Taiwan where they established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan.

He followed it with a role as a mortally wounded Irish bank robber in Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and his first Hollywood film, Caught ( 1949 ).

In an extraordinary concert there in 1949, the Budapest Quartet performed the composer's 14th String Quartet, followed by the Paganini's performance of his 15th ; and then both ensembles played the two pieces together as an octet.

The Truman Doctrine was the first in a series of containment moves by the United States, followed by economic restoration of Western Europe through the Marshall Plan and military containment by the creation of NATO in 1949.

Plantinga reluctantly followed his father's advice and in 1949, a few months before his 17th birthday, he enrolled in Jamestown College, in Jamestown, North Dakota.