Date in year · 1949 · The 1940s
On August 22, 1949, the Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. Spencer Haywood, Tommy Mottola, Holly Near would arrive in the same year.
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1949
1940s
Featured · August 22, 1949
m. PDT on August 21. 1.
Around 1949
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.
What happened
Magnitude 8.1 earthquake in the Canadian Pacific Northwest
m. PDT on August 21. 1.
Elsewhere that year
The class of 1949
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