April 1949

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The following events occurred in April 1949:

April 1, 1949 (Friday)

April 2, 1949 (Saturday)

April 3, 1949 (Sunday)

  • Israel and Transjordan signed a general armistice agreement, leaving Syria as the last Arab country with which Israel had yet to make peace.
  • Government forces in Costa Rica put down a coup attempt.
Control room of the 8x6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel

April 4, 1949 (Monday)

  • The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
  • A court judge in Paris ruled that Victor Kravchenko had been libeled by the Communist weekly Les Lettres Françaises when it published a series of articles claiming that his best-selling book about life in the Soviet Union, I Chose Freedom, had been ghostwritten by American agents and was full of lies. Kravchenko was awarded 150,000 francs (about $500 US) in damages although this would later be drastically reduced on appeal.
  • Born: Parveen Babi, actress, in Junagadh, India (d. 2005)

April 5, 1949 (Tuesday)

April 6, 1949 (Wednesday)

  • On Budget Day in the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps surprisingly increased taxes by £35 million instead of cutting them as was widely expected. Despite a projected net invisible income of £100 million in 1948, Cripps said that it was "quite impossible to reduce taxation as long as the defence and social services were produced on the present scale."
  • Born: Horst Ludwig Störmer, physicist and Nobel laureate, in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Died: Seymour Hicks, 78, British actor

April 7, 1949 (Thursday)

April 8, 1949 (Friday)

April 9, 1949 (Saturday)

April 10, 1949 (Sunday)

April 11, 1949 (Monday)

April 12, 1949 (Tuesday)

  • The Soviet Union agreed to give Albania equipment and materials on credit to compensate for the loss of trade with Yugoslavia.
  • Pravda accused the West of sending intelligence agents to Mount Ararat near the Turkish-Soviet border posing as archaeologists hunting for Noah's Ark.

April 13, 1949 (Wednesday)

April 14, 1949 (Thursday)

  • The Ministries Trial ended in Nuremberg fifteen months after it began, making it the longest of the subsequent Nuremberg Trials and the last one to end. Two defendants were acquitted but the other nineteen were found guilty of at least one charge and given prison sentences ranging from three years including time served to 25 years' imprisonment.
  • By a vote of 43-6, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution asking the Big Five powers not to use their veto in cases involving requests for UN membership, peaceful settlement of international disputes or appointment of inquiry commissions.
  • Born: John Shea, actor, producer and director, in North Conway, New Hampshire
  • Died: Reginald Hine, 65, English solicitor and historian (suicide by jumping in front of a train)

April 15, 1949 (Friday)

April 16, 1949 (Saturday)

April 17, 1949 (Sunday)

  • The Chinese Communists gave the Nationalist government until April 20 to sign surrender terms. The consequences of refusal were not stated, but it was obviously a threat to invade southern China.

April 18, 1949 (Monday)

April 19, 1949 (Tuesday)

April 20, 1949 (Wednesday)

April 21, 1949 (Thursday)

  • President Truman accepted the resignation of Army Secretary Kenneth Claiborne Royall and named David K. E. Bruce as the new American ambassador to France.
  • A few minutes before midnight, the US Senate voted 57-13 in favor of a housing and slum clearance bill that planned to erect 810,000 public housing units by 1955.
  • Born: Patti LuPone, actress and singer, in Northport, New York

April 22, 1949 (Friday)

April 23, 1949 (Saturday)

April 24, 1949 (Sunday)

April 25, 1949 (Monday)

  • By a vote of 39-6, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution holding that the USSR's refusal to allow Russian wives to join their husbands abroad was a violation of the UN charter.

April 26, 1949 (Tuesday)

April 27, 1949 (Wednesday)

  • The Lausanne Conference of 1949 opened in Switzerland with the goal of resolving disputes arising from the recently concluded Arab-Israeli War.
  • Chinese Communist forces captured Suzhou.
  • The United States Air Force released an official report on flying saucers to the public, reviewing in detail many reports of unidentified flying objects. The report considered several possibilities, including Martian visitors, but discounted that theory because it was "hard to believe that any technically established race would come here, flaunt its ability in mysterious ways over the years, but each time simply go away without ever establishing contact." The report concluded: "The 'saucers' are not a joke. Neither are they a cause for alarm to the population. Many of the incidents already have answers, Meteors, Balloons, Falling stars. Birds in flight. Testing devices, etc. Some of them still end in question marks. It is the mission of the AMC Technical Intelligence Division's Project 'Saucer' to supply the periods."
  • The first Canadian Film Awards ceremony was held in Ottawa. The Loon's Necklace won the first award for Film of the Year.
  • The adventure drama film We Were Strangers starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield was released.
  • Died: Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, 55, Welsh poet and author

April 28, 1949 (Thursday)

April 29, 1949 (Friday)

April 30, 1949 (Saturday)


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