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| 1947 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht's play The Life of Galileo has its premiere in Los Angeles with Charles Laughton in the lead | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Richard Strauss completes his Four Last Songs in the year before his death | |
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| 1948 June 24 |
| | | The Soviet Union imposes a blockade on Berlin by denying the other powers access through the land corridor to the city | |
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| 1948 June 26 |
| | | The Western powrers respond to the Soviet blockade by launching the Berlin airlift, flying in necessary provisions of every kind | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees make use of the polarized light of the sun to calculate direction | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The Christian Democrats win the first elections in Germany since 1933, and Konrad Adenauer becomes chancellor of West Germany | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht establishes a new theatrical company, the Berliner Ensemble, in East Germany | |
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| 1949 May 12 |
| | | The Soviet Union lifts the blockade on Berlin and the airlift ends, after providing for nearly a year a lifeline to the city | |
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| 1949 May 25 |
| | | The Federal Republic of Germany is formed from the British, French and US zones of occupation | |
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| 1949 May 30 |
| | | The USSR grants nominal independence to east Germany as the newly established German Democratic Republic | |
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