6th Golden Globe Awards — 1949 film award ceremony, on the 16th of March in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1948 filmmaking

EuroBasket 1949 — 1949 edition of EuroBasket

Operation Priboi — code name for the Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949

1949 Armistice Agreements — formal ceasefire which ended the 1948 Arab–Israeli War

1949 South American Championship — football tournament

1949 Cannes Film Festival — film festival edition

1949 battle during the Chinese civil war

North Atlantic Treaty — treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the NATO

Battle of the Greek Civil War (1949)

Raising of the Ink Flag at Umm Rashrash

21st Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1948