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Years :	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
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Years:	1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Films released 5 New books 6 Hit Songs 7 Nobel Prize winners

[edit] Events

• January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.
• January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria.
• January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.

[edit] Births

• March 11 - Douglas Adams
• July 1 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor in TV series and movies
• July 21 - Robin Williams, American actor

[edit] Deaths

• January 18 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian
• February 6 - King George VI of the United Kingdom
• February 19 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859)
• February 22 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland
• March 7 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
• March 22 - Uncle Dave Macon, country music performer
• March 31 - Wallace H. White, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1877)
• April 3 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish union activist
• April 21 - Sir Stafford Cripps, British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1947-1950
• May 6 - Maria Montessori Italian educator (cerebral haemorrage) (b. 1870)
• May 8 - Walter Fox, American movie producer
• May 21 - John Garfield, actor
• June 17 - Krystyna Skarbek, SOE agent
• July 26 - Eva Peron, Argentine wife of Juan Peron
• September 29 - George Santayana, writer
• September 30 - Viscount Waldorf Astor, British businessman and politician
• October 28 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia
• November 9 - Chaim Weizmann, chemist, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
• November 18 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
• November 23 - Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
• December 12 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist
• December 28 - Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician (b. 1897)

[edit] Films released

• High Noon

[edit] New books

• Adventures in Two Worlds - A.J. Cronin
• Arrow in the Blue - Arthur Koestler
• A Buyer's Market - Anthony Powell
• Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• La Formica Argentina - Italo Calvino
• Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
• Giant - Edna Ferber
• Go Tell it On The Mountain - James Baldwin
• The Gown of Glory - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• Heaven and Earth - Carlo Coccioli
• The Hidden Flower - Pearl S. Buck
• The Houses in Between - Howard Spring
• The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
• Island of Desire - Edith Templeton
• Judgment Night - C. L. Moore
• A Many-splendoured Thing - Han Suyin
• Martha Quest - Doris Lessing
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale
• The Rolling Stones - Robert A. Heinlein
• The Saracen Blade - Frank Yerby
• The Silver Chalice - Thomas B. Costain
• The Small Miracle - Paul Gallico
• Steamboat Gothic - Frances Parkinson Keyes
• Vermeer - Lawrence Gowing
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis

[edit] Hit Songs

• "All Of Me" - Johnnie Ray
• "Anytime" - Eddie Fisher
• "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" - Vera Lynn
• "Be My Life's Companion" - The Mills Brothers
• "Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" - Rosemary Clooney
• "Christmas Roses" - Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
• "Day Of Jubilo" - Guy Mitchell
• "Delicado" - Percy Faith & his Orchestra
• "The Glow-Worm" - The Mills Brothers
• "A Guy Is A Guy" - Doris Day
• "Half As Much" - Rosemary Clooney
• "Heart And Soul" - The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
• "Here In My Heart" - Al Martino
• "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" - Frankie Laine
• "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" - Karen Chandler
• "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" - Jimmy Boyd
• "I Went To Your Wedding" - Patti Page
• "I'll Walk Alone" - Don Cornell
• "I'm Confessin'" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
• "I'm Just A Poor Bachelor" - Frankie Laine
• "I'm Yours" - Eddie Fisher
• "Kiss Of Fire" - Georgia Gibbs
• "A Kiss To Build A Dream On" - Louis Armstrong
• "Lady Of Spain" - Eddie Fisher
• "Lover" - Peggy Lee
• "Maybe" - Perry Como & Eddie Fisher
• "My Favorite Song" - Georgia Gibbs
• "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" - Guy Mitchell
• "Please, Mr. Sun" - Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
• "Ramblin' Man" - Frankie Laine
• "Rock Of Gibraltar" - Frankie Laine
• "Settin' The Woods On Fire" - Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
• "A Sinner Am I" - Johnnie Ray
• "Slow Poke" - Arthur Godfrey
• "So Madly In Love" - Georgia Gibbs
• "Somewhere Along The Way" - Nat King Cole
• "Sugarbush" - Doris Day & Frankie Laine
• "Tell Me Why" - Eddie Fisher
• "Temptation" - Mario Lanza
• "Tenderly" - Rosemary Clooney
• "Tiger Rag" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
• "Till I Waltz Again With You" - Teresa Brewer
• "Tonight You Belong To Me" - Frankie Laine
• "Unforgettable" - Nat King Cole
• "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" - Johnnie Ray
• "Wheel Of Fortune" - Kay Starr
• "When I Fall In Love" - Doris Day
• "When You're In Love" - Frankie Laine
• "Why Don't You Believe Me" - Joni James
• "Winter Wonderland" - Perry Como
• "Wish You Were Here" - Eddie Fisher
• "You Belong to Me" - Jo Stafford
• "You'll Never Be Mine" - Guy Mitchell

[edit] Nobel Prize winners