From top to bottom, left to right: British astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang; the North Atlantic Treaty is signed, forming NATO; Police and protesters clach during the 1949 Kemi strike; EDSAC is the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service; The first Soviet atomic bomb, RDS-1, is made; Devastation after the Prüm explosion in Germany;
Wreckage of an Avio Linee Italiane Fiat G.212 after the Superga air disaster; Mao Zedong proclaiming the foundation of the People's Republic of China.
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1949 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1949 MCMXLIX
Ab urbe condita
2702
Armenian calendar
1398 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԸ
Assyrian calendar
6699
Baháʼí calendar
105–106
Balinese saka calendar
1870–1871
Bengali calendar
1356
Berber calendar
2899
British Regnal year
13 Geo. 6 – 14 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar
2493
Burmese calendar
1311
Byzantine calendar
7457–7458
Chinese calendar
戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4646 or 4439 — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4647 or 4440
Coptic calendar
1665–1666
Discordian calendar
3115
Ethiopian calendar
1941–1942
Hebrew calendar
5709–5710
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2005–2006
- Shaka Samvat
1870–1871
- Kali Yuga
5049–5050
Holocene calendar
11949
Igbo calendar
949–950
Iranian calendar
1327–1328
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1368–1369
Japanese calendar
Shōwa 24 (昭和２４年)
Javanese calendar
1880–1881
Juche calendar
38
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4282
Minguo calendar
ROC 38 民國38年
Nanakshahi calendar
481
Thai solar calendar
2492
Tibetan calendar
阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 2075 or 1694 or 922 — to — 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 2076 or 1695 or 923
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