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Consumer goods made their debut in 1949, including prepared cake mixes, <b>Oreo</b> cookies and a refrigerated cheesecake made by a 44 year old Chicago baker. He names it after his daughter, <b>Sara Lee</b>.
America is stunned when it learns that Margaret Mitchell, author of <u>Gone with the Wind</u>, has been struck by a car on August 11. She dies 5 days later.
After General Electric chemists create a rubbery substance with no apparent use, a creative advertiser named Peter Hodgson figures out a way to market the stuff. He packages "Silly Putty" in plastic eggs and will sell 30 million of them over the next 5 years!
On October 19, the New York Yankees, led by Casey Stengel, win baseball's World Series in five games.
Broderick Crawford's starred in "All the King's Men" playing a senator modeled after the infamous Huey Long .
TV shows premiering in 1949 were Captain Video and his Video Rangers, The Lone Ranger, The Goldbergs and Quiz Kids.
Hit Songs from 1949 include A Little Bird Told Me, Again, Baby, It's Cold Outside, Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, Far Away Places, Mule Train, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Riders in the Sky, Slippin' Around, Some Enchanted Evening, You're Breaking My Heart, and That Lucky Old Sun.
(All from an old issue of Reminisce Magazine.)
Now who wants to add some fashion history here.
America is stunned when it learns that Margaret Mitchell, author of <u>Gone with the Wind</u>, has been struck by a car on August 11. She dies 5 days later.
After General Electric chemists create a rubbery substance with no apparent use, a creative advertiser named Peter Hodgson figures out a way to market the stuff. He packages "Silly Putty" in plastic eggs and will sell 30 million of them over the next 5 years!
On October 19, the New York Yankees, led by Casey Stengel, win baseball's World Series in five games.
Broderick Crawford's starred in "All the King's Men" playing a senator modeled after the infamous Huey Long .
TV shows premiering in 1949 were Captain Video and his Video Rangers, The Lone Ranger, The Goldbergs and Quiz Kids.
Hit Songs from 1949 include A Little Bird Told Me, Again, Baby, It's Cold Outside, Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, Far Away Places, Mule Train, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Riders in the Sky, Slippin' Around, Some Enchanted Evening, You're Breaking My Heart, and That Lucky Old Sun.
(All from an old issue of Reminisce Magazine.)
Now who wants to add some fashion history here.
I didn't know that Oreo's are older than me. ;) 
