July 1949

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The following events occurred in July 1949:

July 1, 1949 (Friday)

July 2, 1949 (Saturday)

July 3, 1949 (Sunday)

July 4, 1949 (Monday)

July 5, 1949 (Tuesday)

July 6, 1949 (Wednesday)

July 7, 1949 (Thursday)

July 8, 1949 (Friday)

July 9, 1949 (Saturday)

July 10, 1949 (Sunday)

July 11, 1949 (Monday)

July 12, 1949 (Tuesday)

July 13, 1949 (Wednesday)

July 14, 1949 (Thursday)

July 15, 1949 (Friday)

July 16, 1949 (Saturday)

  • The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia issued a manifesto maintaining that there would be no compromise in the fight against the church, which it characterized as "our greatest enemy."

July 17, 1949 (Sunday)

July 18, 1949 (Monday)

July 19, 1949 (Tuesday)

July 20, 1949 (Wednesday)

  • Israel and Syria signed an armistice agreement in which both sides agreed to keep their military forces behind their international borders and to establish demilitarized zones in contested areas.

July 21, 1949 (Thursday)

July 22, 1949 (Friday)

  • A French military tribunal sentenced former German Ambassador to Vichy France Otto Abetz to 20 years hard labour as a war criminal.
  • Dock workers in London voted to end their four-week strike.
  • Born: Alan Menken, film score composer and pianist, in New York City; Lasse Virén, long-distance runner, in Myrskylä, Finland

July 23, 1949 (Saturday)

  • Yugoslavian Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj announced his country's withdrawal of "moral and political" support for Greek Communist guerrillas, whom he accused of following the Cominform's anti-Tito line.
  • Died: Masaharu Anesaki, 75, Japanese scholar

July 24, 1949 (Sunday)

July 25, 1949 (Monday)

July 26, 1949 (Tuesday)

July 27, 1949 (Wednesday)

July 28, 1949 (Thursday)

July 29, 1949 (Friday)

  • The United States and Britain announced plans to phase out the Berlin airlift by October 1.
  • Murder of Bill Mason: Alice, Texas radio journalist W.H. Mason was shot and killed in a car with a friend, resulting in the arrest of deputy sheriff Sam Smithwick for murder. The previous day, Mason had claimed in a broadcast that a local dance hall was being operated in a disreputable manner without interference from law enforcement.
  • Born: Jamil Mahuad, lawyer and 39th president of Ecuador, in Loja, Ecuador
  • Died: Alice Everett, 84, British astronomer and engineer

July 30, 1949 (Saturday)

July 31, 1949 (Sunday)

  • A pastoral letter was read in Catholic churches throughout West Germany telling voters that failure of Catholics to vote in the August 14 election might play into the hands of "forces which oppose Christian principles." Social Democratic Party leader Kurt Schumacher took exception to the letter, charging that it was an attempt to swing votes to the Christian Democratic Union. "We have absolute understanding for all doctrines rooted in Christian ethics and morality," Schumacher said. "But we have no understanding for outspoken power politics exercised by ecclesiastical authorities."
  • Born: Dimitri Devyatkin, filmmaker, video artist and journalist, in Manhattan, New York

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