June 1949

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The following events occurred in June 1949:

June 1, 1949 (Wednesday)

June 2, 1949 (Thursday)

  • The striking non-Communist Berlin railway workers overwhelmingly rejected a compromise wage offer by the Soviet railway management and voted to continue their thirteen-day-old walkout.[3]
  • Born: Heather Couper, astronomer, in Wallasey, England (d. 2020)
  • Died: Radu R. Rosetti, 72, Romanian general and military historian (died in prison)

June 3, 1949 (Friday)

June 4, 1949 (Saturday)

June 5, 1949 (Sunday)

June 6, 1949 (Monday)

  • The Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington passed an anti-lynching bill providing a maximum penalty of a $10,000 fine or twenty years' imprisonment, or both, for conspiracy to incite, aid or commit a lynching. A lynching victim, or his next of kin, would also be entitled to file civil damage suits against those responsible for the lynching.[14]
  • The United States launched a primate named Albert II into space; the subject died on impact.[15]
  • Sale of alcohol became legal in Kansas for the first time in 69 years.[16]

June 7, 1949 (Tuesday)

  • Strato-Freight Curtiss C-46A crash: A Curtiss C-46 transport plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean en route from Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida due to a maintenance error. 53 of the 81 aboard were killed.
  • US President Harry S. Truman urged Congress to appropriate $150 million for economic aid to South Korea during the next year, calling Korea "a testing ground in which the validity and practical value of the ideals and principles of democracy which the Republic is putting into practice are being matched against the practices of communism which have been imposed upon the people of north Korea."[17]
  • Continuing his testimony at the Alger Hiss trial, Whittaker Chambers said that he had perjured himself repeatedly in hearings to protect Hiss and other friends.[18]

June 8, 1949 (Wednesday)

June 9, 1949 (Thursday)

  • The US attempted to break a six-week deadlock in the UN-sponsored Palestine peace talks in Lausanne, Switzerland by urging the Israelis to abandon their opposition to a general return of Palestinian Arab refugees and concede some land to the Arabs.[20]
  • US Representative
    Helen Gagahan Douglas condemned the California Senate Subcommittee report and its chairman Jack Tenney, declaring that he was "undermining our form of government when he attempts to make people believe that liberalism and communism are synonymous." Several other persons named in the report also criticized it in the press, including Danny Kaye who said he'd never heard of the committee before but that "it sounds to me like a lot of hooey."[21]
  • Fashion icon Nancy "Slim" Keith received a divorce from film director Howard Hawks.[22]
  • Died: Maria Cebotari, 39, Austrian soprano and actress (cancer)

June 10, 1949 (Friday)

June 11, 1949 (Saturday)

June 12, 1949 (Sunday)

June 13, 1949 (Monday)

June 14, 1949 (Tuesday)

June 15, 1949 (Wednesday)

June 16, 1949 (Thursday)

  • President Truman criticized the wave of spy trials and loyalty inquiries for producing a nationwide hysteria.[31]
  • Singer Paul Robeson, returning from a four-month tour of Europe and the Soviet Union, called the New York trial of communist leaders a "type of domestic fascism."[32]
  • Born: Robbin Thompson, singer-songwriter, in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2015)

June 17, 1949 (Friday)

  • The Chinese Communists reopened the port of Shanghai to international traffic after sweeping the area for mines.[33]
  • The Manchester Mark 1 reached a new milestone for computers when it completed nine error-free hours running a program written to search for Mersenne primes.

June 18, 1949 (Saturday)

June 19, 1949 (Sunday)

June 20, 1949 (Monday)

June 21, 1949 (Tuesday)

June 22, 1949 (Wednesday)

June 23, 1949 (Thursday)

June 24, 1949 (Friday)

June 25, 1949 (Saturday)

June 26, 1949 (Sunday)

  • Christian Social Party
    remained the largest party in both chambers of Parliament.
  • Born: Avtar Singh Kang, singer, in Kultham, India
  • Died:
    Kim Koo
    , 72, Korean nationalist politician (assassinated)

June 27, 1949 (Monday)

June 28, 1949 (Tuesday)

June 29, 1949 (Wednesday)

  • The US House of Representatives approved President Truman's housing and slum clearance bill by a vote of 228 to 185.[47]
  • An interlocking one-year trade agreement was signed in Moscow between Russia, Czechoslovakia, Finland and Poland. The deal covered $56.4 million US worth of trade in food, timber, coal and sugar.[48]
  • The radio program Candy Matson, about a female private investigator, premiered on NBC West Coast.
  • Born: Dan Dierdorf, NFL offensive linesman and sportscaster, in Canton, Ohio
  • Died: David Philipson, 86, American Reform rabbi, orator and writer

June 30, 1949 (Thursday)

References

  1. ^ "Britain Names General To New Post in Germany". The New York Times: 5. June 2, 1949.
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  3. ^ "Strikers In Berlin Reject Soviet Bid". The New York Times: 1. June 3, 1949.
  4. ^ Conklin, William R. (June 4, 1949). "Chambers Admits Testifying Falsely Before Grand Jury". The New York Times: 1, 2.
  5. ^ Porter, Russell (June 4, 1949). "Red Case Contempt Jails 3 Of Accused At Stormy Session". The New York Times: 1.
  6. ^ "Change of Name in Jordan". The New York Times: 29. June 5, 1949.
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  8. ^ "Take One False Step". American Film Institute. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  9. ^ "Wallace Protests Jailing Of 3 Reds". The New York Times: 2. June 5, 1949.
  10. ^ "Greek Church Picks A New Archbishop". The New York Times: 24. June 5, 1949.
  11. ^ "Nimbus, 7-1, Annexes Derby at Epsom by Head in Photo". The New York Times: S1. June 5, 1949.
  12. ^ Stuart, John (June 6, 1949). "Canada Gets 4 New Routes In Airways Pact With U. S.". The New York Times: 1.
  13. ^ "Ban on Major Leaguers Who Jumped to Mexico Lifted by Chandler". The New York Times: 24. June 3, 1949.
  14. ^ "Committee Approves Anti-Lynching Bill; Senate's First Formal Action on 'Rights'". The New York Times. June 7, 1949. p. 14.
  15. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Grimwood, James M. "Part 1 (A) Major Events Leading to Project Mercury March 1944 through December 1957". Project Mercury - A Chronology. NASA Special Publication-4001. NASA. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  16. ^ "Kansas Is Wet, Officially". The New York Times. June 7, 1949. p. 23.
  17. ^ "Special Message to the Congress Recommending Continuation of Economic Assistance to Korea". Harry S. Truman Library & Museum. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  18. ^ Conklin, William R. (June 8, 1949). "Perjured Himself To Aid Ex-Friends, Chambers Asserts". The New York Times: 1.
  19. ^ "Hundreds Named As Red Appeasers". The New York Times: 5. June 9, 1949.
  20. ^ Hamilton, Thomas J. (June 10, 1949). "Israel Assails U. S. On Arab Re-Entry". The New York Times: 6.
  21. ^ "Never Were or Would Be Reds, Fredric March and Wife Assert". The New York Times: 10. June 10, 1949.
  22. ^ "Howard Hawks Divorced". The New York Times: 12. June 10, 1949.
  23. Pittsburgh Press
    : 1. June 10, 1949.
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  25. ^ "Prague Breaks Off Trading With Tito". The New York Times: 10. June 12, 1949.
  26. ^ "Faculty Anti-Red Oaths Set By University of California". The New York Times: 1. June 13, 1949.
  27. ^ Cianfarra, Camille M. (June 14, 1949). "Pro-Italian Parties Triumph In Trieste Municipal Voting". The New York Times: 1.
  28. ^ "Contempt Appeal Lost By 2 Film Men". The New York Times: 12. June 14, 1949.
  29. ^ Dohrer, Elizabeth (27 January 2022). "Animals in space". Space.com. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  30. ^ "West Eases Berlin Rule". The New York Times: 6. June 16, 1949.
  31. ^ Leviero, Anthony (June 17, 1949). "Truman Declares Hysteria Over Reds Sweeps The Nation". The New York Times: 1.
  32. ^ "Robeson Back Home, Assails Reds' Trial". The New York Times: 3. June 17, 1949.
  33. ^ Sullivan, Walter (June 18, 1949). "Port Of Shanghai Opened To Traffic". The New York Times: 6.
  34. ^ "Rajk and Szonyi Held As Spies by Hungary". The New York Times: 4. June 19, 1949.
  35. ^ Sullivan, Walter (June 20, 1949). "China's Communists Set Stage To Form 'Coalition' Regime". The New York Times: 1, 6.
  36. ^ Yust, Walter, ed. (1950). 1950 Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. p. 8.
  37. ^ Callender, Harold (June 21, 1949). "Big Four Adjourn In Limited Accord, Then Soviet Balks". The New York Times: 1.
  38. ^ Conklin, William R. (June 21, 1949). "Jessup Testifies To Hiss' Good Name". The New York Times: 1.
  39. ^ Dawson, James P. (June 23, 1949). "Charles Wins NBA Heavyweight Title by Beating Walcott". The New York Times: 35.
  40. ^ "200,000 Expelled In Hungary Purge". The New York Times: 8. June 24, 1949.
  41. ^ "Iran, Iraq Sign Mutual Aid Pact". The New York Times: 6. June 24, 1949.
  42. ^ Hulen, Bertram D. (June 25, 1949). "Two Indonesians Slain In Dutch Exit". The New York Times: 5.
  43. ^ Hamilton, Thomas J. (June 25, 1949). "New U. N. Deadlock On Members Issue". The New York Times: 4.
  44. ^ Schmidt, Dana Adams (June 28, 1949). "Prague Silences the Clergy; Excommunications Flouted". The New York Times: 1.
  45. ^ "Alabama Moves To Unmask Mobs". The New York Times: 20. June 23, 1949.
  46. ^ "Alabama Outlaws Wearing Of Masks". The New York Times: 54. June 29, 1949.
  47. ^ Knowles, Clayton (June 30, 1949). "House Passes Housing Bill; Low Rent Section Retained, A Major Fair Deal Victory". The New York Times: 1.
  48. ^ "Soviet Signs Pact With 3 Countries". The New York Times: 4. July 5, 1949.
  49. ^ Trumbull, Robert (June 30, 1949). "Hindu God's State Joins India Today". The New York Times: 10.