Events Date 1949 September | History by KabAstro

The Third Man

Sep 2 "The Third Man", directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)

Sep 2 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 in Chongqing, China
Sep 3 Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives
Sep 4 Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook)
Sep 5 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beats fellow American Ted Schroeder 16-18, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4; longest singles final match by games (67), before tiebreaker introduction

US Open Women's Tennis

Sep 5 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Margaret Osborne duPont beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-4, 6-1

Sep 6 America's first mass killiung - Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes in Camden, New Jersey [1]
Sep 9 Pacific Airlines flight explodes en route to Baie-Comeau, killing 23 people. A passenger's husband Albert Guay later sentenced and hanged along with two others for first bombing of a Canadian plane [1]
Sep 10 "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway NYC after 76 performances

First West German Elections

Sep 12 Theodor Heuss elected 1st President of the German Federal Republic (West Germany) with Konrad Adenauer the 1st Prime Minister

Chancellor of West Germany Konrad Adenauer

Sep 13 Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC
Sep 14 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language. Celebrated today as Hindi Day.
Sep 15 "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV. Hi-yo, Silver! Away!
Sep 15 WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Sep 15 WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
Sep 16 KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sep 17 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto
Sep 17 3rd Cannes Film Festival: "The Third Man" directed by Carol Reed wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
Sep 17 North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time
Sep 17 Ryder Cup Golf, Ganton GC: US beats Great Britain, 7-5; Americans win 6 of 8 singles matches to claim victory
Sep 17 WFAA TV channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sep 18 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
Sep 19 "Late Spring", Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara and Haruko Sugimura, is released in Japan
Sep 20 Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
Sep 20 Top American tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
Sep 21 Chinese Communist leaders proclaim the People's Republic of China
Sep 22 WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast

Indians Bury Pennant

Sep 23 MLB Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant

Soviet Atomic Bomb

Sep 23 US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation

Sep 25 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place

Billy Graham's Crusade

Sep 25 Evangelist Billy Graham begins his "Los Angeles Crusade" in a circus tent erected in a parking lot

US Women's Golf Open

Sep 25 US Open Women's Golf, Prince George's CC: Louise Suggs leads wire-to-wire to win by 14 strokes ahead of runner-up and defending champion Babe Zaharias

Golfer and Co-Founder of the LPGA Louise Suggs

Hollywoodland

Sep 26 Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood