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1948 December 23
 
    
Japanese premier Tojo Hideki is convicted in the Tokyo war crimes trial and is hanged       
1949
 
    
The first Indo-Pakistani war ends with a Kashmir demarcation line approved by the UN but acceptable to neither state       
1949
 
     
Defeated by the Communists, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) resigns before the final collapse of his regime        
1949
 
    
Roland Petit's ballet Carmen, starring himself and his wife Zizi Jeanmaire, is a sensation at its London premiere       
1949
 
    
Egypt controls the Gaza Strip area of Palestine at the end of the Arab-Israeli war       
1949
 
    
French ex-convict Jean Genet begins his literary career with an autobiographical Thief's Journal       
1949
 
   
Newfoundland joins Canada as its tenth province, completing the Confederation      
1949
 
    
Jordan occupies the West Bank area of Palestine af the end of the Arab-Israeli war       
1949
 
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is set up by the USA and Canada, together with Britain and other European countries, for purposes of collective security      
1949
 
    
Annie Allen, by US author Gwendolyn Brooks, describes in narrative verse the life of a black girl in contemporary USA       
1949
 
    
Death of a Salesman, by US playwright Arthur Miller, has its first performance in New York       
1949
 
     
The musical South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opens on Broadway        
1949
 
    
US architect Philip Johnson builds the Glass House in Connecticut in the International Style       
1949
 
    
Exceptional Scythian remains are found in frozen burial mounds at Pazyryk, in the Altai region of Siberia       
1949
 
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Radical young members, including Nelson Mandela, take control of the ANC       
1949
 
     
Ealing Studios produce a film of Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel Whisky Galore, about an alcoholic windfall on the island of Barra        
1949
 
   
The first Soviet atomic bomb, called by the Americans Joe One, is successfully tested in Kazakhstan      
1949
 
    
Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees make use of the polarized light of the sun to calculate direction       
1949
 
     
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munchin star as three US sailors on shore leave in the screen version of On the Town        
1949
 
   
The Christian Democrats win the first elections in Germany since 1933, and Konrad Adenauer becomes chancellor of West Germany      
1949
 
    
French author Simone de Beauvoir publishes The Second Sex, a widely influential feminist polemic       
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Bertolt Brecht establishes a new theatrical company, the Berliner Ensemble, in East Germany       
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Carol Reed directs The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and written by Graham Greene        
1949
 
    
Enid Blyton introduces her most successful character, Noddy, a small boy who can't avoid nodding when he speaks       
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French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss publishes Elementary Structures of Kinship       
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British atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs is discovered to be a Soviet agent, passing nuclear secrets to the USSR      
1949
 
    
The world's first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, designed by de Havilland, goes into service with BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation)       
1949
 
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Eire is renamed the republic of Ireland and withdraws from the Commonwealth, severing the last link with the British crown       
1949
 
     
Mao Zedong, standing on the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing, proclaims the new People's Republic of China        
1949
 
   
Mao Zedong's long-standing ally Zhou Enlai heads both the home and foreign departments of the new republic      
1949
 
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The British government declares that northern Ireland will remain British unless the parliament in Stormont decides otherwise