Editing 1949 (section)

===December===
{{Main|December 1949}}
[[File:Soekarno.jpg|thumb|80px|[[December 16|Dec. 16]]: [[Sukarno]], first President of [[Indonesia]]]]
[[File:Mao, Bulganin, Stalin, Ulbricht Tsedenbal.jpeg|thumb|100px|Celebration of Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday (December 21, 1949)]]
* [[December 7]] 
** [[Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan]] finishes, and it declares [[Taipei]] its temporary capital city, a status it will retain more than 50 years later.<ref>{{cite news|last=Han|first=Cheung|title=Taiwan in Time: The great retreat|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2016/12/04/2003660529/1|newspaper=Taipei Times|date=2016-12-04|accessdate=2022-08-04|page=8}}</ref>
** The [[United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East]] (UNRWA) is established as a [[United Nations]] agency.
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[1949 Australian federal election]]: The [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] led by [[Robert Menzies]] defeats the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Chifley government|government]], led by [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Ben Chifley]]. Menzies is sworn in on [[December 19]], his second stint as Prime Minister; he will hold the office for over 16 years until his retirement in [[1966]] and Labor will not win office again until [[1972 Australian federal election|1972]], under [[Gough Whitlam]].
* [[December 13]] &ndash; The [[Knesset]] votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Traicho Kostov]], who until March was acting President of the Council of Ministers of [[Bulgaria]], is sentenced to death for anti-[[Bulgarian Communist Party|Communist Party]] activity.
* [[December 15]] &ndash; A [[typhoon]] strikes a fishing fleet off Korea, killing several thousand.
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Sukarno]] is elected president of the [[Republic of Indonesia (1949–1950)|Republic of Indonesia]].
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Burma]] recognises the [[People's Republic of China]].
* [[December 18]] &ndash; In the American [[National Football League]], the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] defeat the [[Los Angeles Rams]] 14–0, to win the championship.
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[List of leaders of the Soviet Union|Soviet Leader]] [[Joseph Stalin]]'s 70th Birthday is Held in [[Moscow]].
* [[December 27]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of The Hague (1949)|Treaty of The Hague]] ends the [[Indonesian National Revolution]] by recognizing transfer of the sovereignty of the [[Dutch East Indies]] from Queen [[Juliana of the Netherlands]] to the [[United States of Indonesia]]; the [[Susanto Cabinet]] takes office in the [[Republic of Indonesia (1949–1950)|Republic of Indonesia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Foray |first1=Jennifer L. |title=Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-01580-7 |page=305 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jsSTBQAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] 
** KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut, becomes the first [[Ultra high frequency]] (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
** [[Smouha SC]] (sports club) is founded in [[Alexandria]], Egypt, by Joseph Smouha, a Mizrahi Iraqi Jew. 
* [[December 30]] &ndash; India recognizes the People's Republic of China.