Title: What Happened in 1949 including Pop Culture, Significant Events, Key Technology and Inventions
Headings: What Happened in 1949 Important News and Events, Key Technology and Popular Culture
What Happened in 1949 Important News and Events, Key Technology and Popular Culture
Cost of Living 1949
Berlin Blockade
Communist People's Republic of China
The Geneva Convention
World - First Non-Stop Circumnavigation Flight
The Goldbergs
Indonesia becomes independent
Nineteen Eighty-Four is published
NATO Established
De-Havilland Comet
Calendar For The Year 1949
Earthquake in Ecuador
Soviet Union first atomic bomb
NATO
Germany
Taiwan
Color Television
Polaroid
Palestinian refugees
Truman "fair deal speech"
Emmy Awards
First Beetle Sold In US
Porsche
Newfoundland
National Basketball Association NBA
Popular Culture
Born This Year
Technology
Major World Political Leaders

Content: Within a year the states were dissolved and the country became just the Republic of Indonesia. Nineteen Eighty-Four is published
George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published. More Information for the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was published in the United Kingdom on June 8, . Considered to be one of the most influential novels written during the twentieth century, the story focused on a futuristic totalitarian state that set out to control the thoughts of its citizens and rewrite history. The novel was an immediate success and was made into a movie in 1956 and 1984. The book was so influential that many of its made up terms have become part of normal speech such as "Big Brother," "Thought Police" and "doublethink." NATO Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established during April. It was a collective defense pact meant to protect Europe from the Soviet Union which had been aggressively controlling much of Eastern Europe at the time. It also guaranteed US influence in the region, bolstering the status of the United States at the start of the Cold War. The pact originally included a total of 12 Western nations;