Editing 1949 (section)

===August===
{{Main|August 1949}}
* [[August 3]] &ndash; The [[Basketball Association of America]] and the [[National Basketball League (United States)|National Basketball League]] finalize the merger that will create the [[National Basketball Association]].
* [[August 5]] &ndash; In [[Ecuador]], the 6.8 {{M|l|link=y}} [[1949 Ambato earthquake|Ambato earthquake]] kills more than 5,000, and destroys a number of villages.
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Bhutan]] signs a [[Bhutan–India relations#1949 treaty|Treaty of Friendship]] with newly independent India, agreeing non-interference in internal affairs, but allowing India to "guide" its foreign policy (similar to the previous arrangements with the British administration in India).
* [[August 10]] &ndash; the [[Avro Canada C102 Jetliner]] makes its first flight; it is the first jet airliner to fly in North America.
* [[August 12]] &ndash; The [[Fourth Geneva Convention]] is agreed to.
* [[August 14]]
** Pakistan becomes independent
** The [[Salvatore Giuliano]] Gang explodes mines under a police barracks, outside [[Palermo]], [[Sicily]].
** A [[March 1949 Syrian coup d'état|military coup]] in [[Syria]] ousts [[President of Syria|President]] [[Shukri al-Quwatli]].
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Kemi Bloody Thursday]]: two protesters die in the scuffle between the police and the strikers' protest procession in [[Kemi|Kemi, Finland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palkkatyolainen.fi/pt99/p990907-p2.html |title=Kemin lakosta puoli vuosisataa |publisher=Palkkatyöläinen |date=7 September 1999 |language=fi |accessdate=11 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222436/http://www.palkkatyolainen.fi/pt99/p990907-p2.html |archivedate=September 27, 2007 }}</ref>
* [[August 21]]
** The [[Vatican City|Vatican]] announces that [[Saint Peter's tomb|bones]] uncovered in its [[catacombs]] could be those of the apostle [[Saint Peter|Peter]]; 19 years later, [[Pope Paul VI]] announces confirmation that the bones belong to this first [[Pope]].<ref>"Year by Year 1949". [[History Channel International]].</ref>
**[[Deportivo Saprissa]] enters [[Costa Rica]]n soccer's first division.
** The [[1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake]] is Canada's largest earthquake since the [[1700 Cascadia earthquake]].
* [[August 24]] &ndash; The [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] is established.
* [[August 29]]
** The [[Council of Europe]] meets for the first time.
** The [[Soviet Union]] tests its first [[atomic bomb]], [[RDS-1]] ("Joe 1"). Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on [[Nagasaki]], Japan, in [[1945]].
* [[August 31]]
** The retreat of the [[Democratic Army of Greece]] to Albania, after its defeat at [[Gramos|Mount Gramos]], marks the end of the [[Greek Civil War]].
** Six of the last sixteen surviving veterans of the [[Union Army]], in the [[American Civil War]], meet in [[Indianapolis]].