1949 was a year in the 20th century

Events

• Date Unknown: Sally Baines is born.
• Thursday, June 8: George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (Which Edna Strickland had a copy of in 1984) is published.

Real-world

• Thursday, May 19: Dusty Hill of ZZ Top is born in Dallas, Texas.
• Saturday, June 11: Frank Beard of ZZ Top is born in Frankston, Texas.
• Saturday, July 2: Craig Shaw Gardner (Writer of the second and third novelizations of Back to the Future Part II and III.) is born.
• Friday, December 16: Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top is born in Houston, Texas.