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1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar).
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January
January 17 - The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought over to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America. that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff that the car has no future in the U.S. (The VW Beetle goes on to become the greatest automobile phenomenon in American history.)
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February
February 12 - The Vatican announces the excommunication of all persons involved in the trial and conviction of Cardinal Mindszenty.
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March
March 25 - The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
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April
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May
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June-July
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August
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September
September 5 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbours in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
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October-November
October 7 - Democratic Republic of Germany DDR established officially
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December
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unknown date
The Vatican announced that bones uncovered in its subterranean catacombs could be the apostle Peter. 19 years later, Pope Paul VI announced confirmation that the bones belonged to this first saint.
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January
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February
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March
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April
april 9- tony cragg , sculpture/artist
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May
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June
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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Unknown date
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January-June
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July-December
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Nobel prizes
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