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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 clash 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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| 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 |
| Islamic calendar | 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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1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1949th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.