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1949
 
    
The first Indo-Pakistani war ends with a Kashmir demarcation line approved by the UN but acceptable to neither state       
1949
 
     
Defeated by the Communists, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) resigns before the final collapse of his regime        
1949
 
    
Roland Petit's ballet Carmen, starring himself and his wife Zizi Jeanmaire, is a sensation at its London premiere       
1949
 
    
Egypt controls the Gaza Strip area of Palestine at the end of the Arab-Israeli war       
1949
 
    
French ex-convict Jean Genet begins his literary career with an autobiographical Thief's Journal       
1949
 
   
Newfoundland joins Canada as its tenth province, completing the Confederation      
1949
 
    
Jordan occupies the West Bank area of Palestine af the end of the Arab-Israeli war       
1949
 
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is set up by the USA and Canada, together with Britain and other European countries, for purposes of collective security      
1949
 
    
Annie Allen, by US author Gwendolyn Brooks, describes in narrative verse the life of a black girl in contemporary USA       
1949
 
    
Death of a Salesman, by US playwright Arthur Miller, has its first performance in New York