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January 1949

The following events occurred in January 1949:

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January 21, 1949: As Mao Zedong's troops approach Nanjing, Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek resigns, and is replaced by Li Zongren.

January 1, 1949 (Saturday)

January 2, 1949 (Sunday)

January 3, 1949 (Monday)

January 4, 1949 (Tuesday)

  • A UN Security Council committee of six experts issued a plan for settlement of the Berlin currency control dispute. The plan called for creation of separate banking systems for East and West Berlin as well as a new bank of issue for the entire city under Big Four supervision.[6]
  • The RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departed Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.

January 5, 1949 (Wednesday)

  • U.S. President Harry S. Truman gave the annual State of the Union address to Congress, putting forth an ambitious set of proposals known as the Fair Deal.
  • Dutch paratroopers took the Sumatran city of Rengat and, according to eyewitness accounts, carried out a massacre of civilians there. Dutch authorities listed the event as an "incident" in which about 80 "non-combatants" died, but Indonesian estimates place the number killed in the thousands.[7]
  • Died: Lily Yeats, 82, Irish embroiderer

January 6, 1949 (Thursday)

January 7, 1949 (Friday)

January 8, 1949 (Saturday)

January 9, 1949 (Sunday)

January 10, 1949 (Monday)

January 11, 1949 (Tuesday)

January 12, 1949 (Wednesday)

January 13, 1949 (Thursday)

January 14, 1949 (Friday)

  • A statement from Mao Zedong was broadcast over Chinese radio announcing his conditions for peace in the Civil War. Mao's demands included abolition of the Kuomintang government, punishment of war criminals and the convocation of a political consultative conference to establish a new coalition government.[23]
  • Poland signed the largest deal made by an Eastern European country since the end of the war when it concluded a trade agreement with Britain providing for an exchange of goods over the next five years worth £260 million.[24]
  • Born: Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter, director and producer, in Miami, Florida
  • Died: Juan Bielovucic, 59, Peruvian aviator; Harry Stack Sullivan, 56, American psychiatrist; Joaquín Turina, 69, Spanish composer

January 15, 1949 (Saturday)

  • In China, the Communists completed the conquest of the important industrial city of Tianjin.[25]
  • Three days of the worst race rioting in the history of South Africa ended with 105 dead.[26]
  • Poland and the Soviet Union signed a commercial agreement providing for a 35% increase in trade between the two countries.[27]
  • Born: Bobby Grich, baseball player, in Muskegon, Michigan

January 16, 1949 (Sunday)

January 17, 1949 (Monday)

January 18, 1949 (Tuesday)

  • Spain decreed that starting July 1, a gift in Spanish pesetas worth 230 U.S. dollars would be given to working class newlyweds to "help the labouring masses to found new homes and numerous families."[31]
  • Born: Philippe Starck, industrial designer, in Paris, France

January 19, 1949 (Wednesday)

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January 21, 1949 (Friday)

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January 27, 1949 (Thursday)

January 28, 1949 (Friday)

January 29, 1949 (Saturday)

January 30, 1949 (Sunday)

January 31, 1949 (Monday)

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