About the day » Saturday October 1, 1949Calender converter

• Frank Hoes († 2001)
• Lammina Lutina Bernardus, Meppel, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthonie Jacob Kalkman, Driehuis († 1992)
• Janie Ruth Brady († 1968)
• Heather Margaret Douglas, Connecticut († 1977)
• Bruce Stamper, Chippewa County (Amerikaanse staat Wisconsin) Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Joke Zonneveld, Utrecht († 2003)
• Siva Doris Ellen Rehfeld, Hemdingen, Duitsland († 2012)
• OG Kornaat, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1949)
• Dirk Johannes Dijkhuizen († 2016)

• Bakker (41), Zaandam
• Antonia Henrica DE BUEGER (89), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Annetje van Leeuwen (58), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Benjamin Hendriksz Tellman (78), Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan, United States
• Coleta Verhavert (92), Puurs, Antwerpen, België
• Catherine Edith Cecilia SPENCER (77), Mowbray, Tasmania, Australia
• Charlemagne Eugène Baudry (71), Savigny sur Orge, 91600, FRANCE
• Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Bollow (65), Hamburg-Eppendorf
• Adriana Catharina van Weerdenburg (65), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• antonius albertus volmer, arnhem

• 1948 » Cub Koda, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2000)
• 1949 » André Rieu, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor
• 1949 » Isaac Bonewits, American singer-songwriter, liturgist, and author († 2010)
• 1949 » Sheila Gilmore, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1950 » Boris Morukov, Russian physician and astronaut († 2015)
• 1950 » Elpida, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1950 » Mark Helias, American bassist and composer
• 1950 » Randy Quaid, American actor
• 1950 » Sigbjørn Johnsen, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance
• 1950 » Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, English neuroscientist, academic, and politician

• 1940 » Chiungtze C. Tsen, Chinese mathematician (b. 1898)
• 1942 » Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1884)
• 1950 » Faik Ali Ozansoy, Turkish poet, educator, and politician (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charles Christie, American film producer, founded Christie Film Company (b. 1880)
• 1957 » Abdülhalik Renda, Turkish civil servant and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Defence (b. 1881)
• 1958 » Robert Falk, Russian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Italy (b. 1877)
• 1961 » Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian-American author and illustrator (b. 1898)

• 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.
• January 20 » Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
• March 30 » Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
• July 20 » The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
• August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
• October 25 » The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.

The temperature on October 1, 1949 was between 4.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.