Editing 1949 (section)

===September===
{{Main|September 1949}}
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Film noir]] ''[[The Third Man]]'', with screenplay by [[Graham Greene]] and set in [[Allied-occupied Austria|Allied-occupied]] [[Vienna]], is released in the United Kingdom; it wins the 1949 Grand Prix at the [[Cannes Film Festival]].
* [[September 6]]
** [[Howard Unruh]], a World War II veteran, kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir [[Luger pistol|Parabellum P.08]] pistol, to become America's first single-episode [[mass murder]]er.
** [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] military authorities relinquish control of former [[Nazi Germany]] assets back to Germany.
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg|thumb|115px|right|[[Konrad Adenauer]].]]
* [[September 7]] &ndash; The [[West Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]] is officially founded. [[Konrad Adenauer]] is the first federal chancellor.
* [[September 9]]
** [[Albert Guay affair]]: A dynamite bomb destroys [[Canadian Pacific Airlines]] [[Douglas DC-3]], in [[Quebec]].
** Notorious [[World War II]] veteran [[Edwin Alonzo Boyd]] commits his first career bank robbery, in Toronto.
* [[September 13]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union]] vetoes [[United Nations]] membership for [[Ceylon]], Finland, [[Iceland]], Italy, [[Jordan]] and Portugal.
* [[September 17]]
** Canadian steamship {{SS|Noronic}} burns in Toronto Harbour, with the loss of over 118 lives.
** [[Warner Bros]]. cartoon, "[[Fast and Furry-ous]]" is released. It also marks the debut of [[Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner]]. The director is [[Chuck Jones]] (credited as Charles M. Jones).
* [[September 19]] &ndash; The United Kingdom government devalues the [[pound sterling]] from [[United States dollar|$]]4.03 to $2.80, leading to many other currencies being devalued.
* [[September 23]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] announces that the [[Soviet Union]] has tested the [[atomic bomb]].
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[László Rajk]], ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.
* [[September 25]] &ndash; U.S. Christian evangelist [[Billy Graham]] starts his [[Los Angeles Crusade (1949)|Los Angeles Crusade]], his first great evangelistic campaign. It runs for eight weeks during which Graham speaks to 350,000 people and the event is subsequently described as the greatest revival since the time of [[Billy Sunday]]. After this, Graham becomes a national figure in the United States. 
* [[September 29]]
** The [[first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference]] approves a design for the [[Flag of China|flag of the People's Republic of China]].
** [[Iva Toguri D'Aquino]] is found guilty in the United States of broadcasting for Japan as "[[Tokyo Rose]]" at the end of World War II.