• 1949 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1949: Massachusetts...
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    The singular term Geneva Convention colloquially denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of the Second World War (1939–1945), which updated...
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    Germany on 14 August 1949 to elect the members of the first Bundestag, with a further eight seats elected in West Berlin between 1949 and January 1952...
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    1949 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1949. 1949 (MCMXLIX)...
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  • Obsession, released in the United States as The Hidden Room, is a 1949 British crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk. It is based on the 1947 novel A Man...
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    one of the four treaties of the Geneva Conventions. It was adopted in August 1949, and came into force in October 1950. While the first three conventions...
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    rest of Xinjiang, marking the collapse of the Coalition Government. In August 1949, the People's Liberation Army captured Lanzhou, the capital of the Gansu...
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    It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America...
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  • The Blue Lagoon is a 1949 British coming-of-age romance and adventure film directed and co-produced by Frank Launder (with Sidney Gilliat) and starring...
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  • Republic of Hungary.—Budapest, 20th August, 1949" (PDF). Program in Law and Public Affairs. Retrieved 20 August 2022. "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin...
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    no one would name him head of a provisional government in exile. In August 1949, an announcement was made in Paris that Albanian political exiles had...
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    The Geneva Conventions, which were most recently revised in 1949, consist of seven individual treaties which are open to ratification or accession by any...
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    National Maritime Museum. The 'Darings' were the largest destroyers then built (1949) for the RN, having a displacement of 3,820 tons, a length of 390 feet (120 m)...
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    Israel, containing Replies to the Commission's Questionnaire of 15 August 1949 31st Aug 1949 Israel's official claim to non-state territories Archived 2018-11-18...
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    International Criminal Court: Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected...
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    code-name Joe-1, in reference to Joseph Stalin. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 at 7:00 a.m., at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR, after top-secret...
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    Union induced the leaders of the former ETR to accede to the CCP. In August 1949, Ehmetjan Qasim and his delegation of four other top ETR leaders died...
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    "Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949". International Committee of the Red Cross. Retrieved 7 October 2016...
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    Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff (category 1949 births)
    evitʃ bɔɡdanɔf]; 29 August 1949 – 3 January 2022) and Grégoire "Grichka" Youriévitch Bogdanoff (French: [ɡʁeɡwaʁ ɡʁiʃka]; 29 August 1949 – 28 December 2021)...
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  • because he never got between men and their "broads." [citation needed] In August 1949, Stompanato was described in the press as the "new right hand man" and...
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  • of 18 asteroids between 1946–1951, as well as several comets. On 25 August 1949, he discovered 48P/Johnson, a periodic comet expected to pass no closer...
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    April 1949. p. 10. "Variety (May 1949)". Variety. May 1949. Wood, Alan (1952). Mr Rank A Study of J Arthur Rank. p. 273. THOMAS F BRADY (3 August 1949). "STEWART...
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    Andy Davis (born Andrew Cresswell-Davis 10 August 1949) and singer/bassist James Warren (born 25 August 1951), both former members of 1970s band Stackridge...
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    Salif Keita (category 1949 births)
    Salif Keïta (IPA: [salif keita]) (born 25 August 1949) is a Malian singer-songwriter, referred to as the "Golden Voice of Africa". He is a member of the...
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    Sheikh Kamal (category 1949 births)
    Sheikh Kamal (5 August 1949 – 15 August 1975) was the eldest son of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, former President of Bangladesh and the younger brother of Sheikh...
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    "World War II Nominal Roll". "18 Aug 1949 – The Social Round of Events in Sydney Yesterday". Trove. 18 August 1949. Stephen Vagg, 'Finch, Fry and Factories:...
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    Rajasthan High Court (category 1949 establishments in Rajasthan)
    state of Rajasthan. It was established on 29 August 1949 under the Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949. Currently[when?] the sanctioned strength of the...
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    3 April 2012. One photo (see "Indo-Bhutan Friendship Treaty, 8th of August, 1949". New Delhi: National Gallery of Modern Art. Retrieved 2010-12-22.) was...
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    Abdur Rab Nishtar (category Articles with unsourced statements from August 2024)
    Communications of Pakistan from August 1947 to August 1949 and then as the second Governor of West Punjab from August 1949 to November 1951. Abdul Rab Nishtar...
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    Prisoners of War was first adopted in 1929, but significantly revised at the 1949 conference. It defines humanitarian protections for prisoners of war. There...
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