About the day » Thursday March 24, 1949Calender converter

• Philomène GEURTS, Hasselt, 3500, Limburg, België († 2023)
• Johannes Booij, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1968)
• Willy Jansen, Dinxperlo († 2022)
• Willem van der Leij, Amsterdam († 1989)
• Dana Marie Todd **** († 2017)
• Roger Allen Boomsma, Alameda, Alameda County, California, Verenigde Staten († 1968)
• Sharolyn Jolene Pratt, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Martina Maria Muskens, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1949)
• Michael Robert Ives, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Margaret Ann Poppenga, Lennox, Lincoln County, South Dakota († 2012)

• Albertje Strijk (54), Beilen (Smalbroek)
• Petronella Hellemons (60), Roosendaal
• Aaltje Jans Ausma (73), Niebert
• Leendert Schonewille (74), Warnsveld
• alphonse GUEBEN (86), Wasmes (Belgium)
• Abraham de Hullu (76), Oostburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antje HIEMSTRA (53), Franeker (Franekeradeel) Friesland Netherlands
• Berdina Aplonia Martijn (56), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Goolkate (76), enschede
• Anne Jans Veenstra (79), Munnekezijl

• 1948 » Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician († 2013)
• 1948 » Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer († 1989)
• 1948 » Lee Oskar, Jewish-Danish musician
• 1949 » Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran
• 1949 » Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1949 » Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
• 1949 » Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1949 » Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (April Wine) († 2017)
• 1949 » Tabitha King, American author and poet
• 1950 » Gary Wichard, American football player and agent († 2011)

• 1940 » Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1944 » Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)
• 1946 » Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)
• 1948 » Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
• 1950 » James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Mary of Teck (b. 1867)
• 1962 » Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Robert
7. Pieter
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Petrus
11. Peter
12. Dirk
13. Jacob
14. Jacobus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Margaretha
12. Geertruida
13. Jacoba
14. Linda
15. Helena
16. Marianne

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
• January 11 » The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
• February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
• July 1 » The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
• September 30 » The Berlin Airlift ends.
• October 3 » WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
• December 4 » Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.

The temperature on March 24, 1949 was between 3.0 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.