Timeline January 1949

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• 1889 – 1949 Victor Fleming (1889-1949) Died 6 January 1949, aged 59 Victor Fleming was an American film director best known for directing both Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz in 1939. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Gone with the Wind.
• 1949 Australian Open 1949 Men: Frank Sedgman · Women: Doris Hart
• 1949 Volkswagen Beetle exported to the United States First Beetles arrive on American shores Dutch importer Ben Pon brought the first Volkswagen Beetles to the United States, beginning what would become one of the best-selling car exports in history. Sales grew slowly at first but the Beetle later became a fixture of American roads.
• 1949 – 1967 Childhood in Kobe Grew up in Kobe, a cosmopolitan port city where he was exposed to Western culture through imported books and records. His parents encouraged reading, though he rejected the classic Japanese works they taught and devoured American paperbacks instead.
• 1949 Emigrated to the United States The Springer family immigrated to the United States, settling in the Kew Gardens neighbourhood of Queens, New York.
• 1949 – 1951 Featured Vocalist with Cugat Hired by Xavier Cugat as his featured vocalist after he saw her perform on Vincent Lopez's television show. Despite being 32 years her senior, Cugat made her his star attraction.
• 1949 – 1951 Newark Arts High School Attended Newark Arts High School, where he took up clarinet and then tenor saxophone. Created his own comic book called Other Worlds, reflecting his lifelong love of science fiction.
• 1949 – present Haruki Murakami Japanese novelist Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist and translator whose deeply imaginative novels blend surrealism, loneliness and modern life with jazz, cats and parallel worlds. Born in Kyoto and raised in Kobe, he ran a jazz bar with his wife before an epiphany at a baseball game led him to write his first novel. Norwegian Wood (1987) made him one of the best-selling authors in Japanese history. His works have been translated into over 50 languages, selling millions of copies worldwide. A perennial Nobel Prize candidate, he has received the Franz Kafka Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
• 1949 Haruki Murakami born in Kyoto Born Haruki Murakami in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto. His parents both taught Japanese literature, but Murakami gravitated toward Western fiction — Raymond Chandler, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Kurt Vonnegut — and jazz.
• 1949 – 2003 Robert Palmer (1949-2003) Died 26 September 2003, aged 54 Robert Palmer was an English singer known for a smooth, soulful voice and a sharply tailored image, with hits including 'Addicted to Love' and 'Simply Irresistible'. He also recorded with the group Power Station. He died of a heart attack in Paris.
• 1949 – 1950 Miles Davis records Birth of the Cool Cool jazz A nonet that launches cool jazz.
• 1949 – 1982 John Belushi (1949-1982) Died 5 March 1982, aged 33 American comedian and actor known for Saturday Night Live and The Blues Brothers. He died of a drug overdose in a Los Angeles hotel, shocking the entertainment world.