February 1949

Tuesday 08:

Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary sentenced for treason.

Thursday 10:

Death of a Salesman opens (Morocco Theatre in New York City).

Monday 14:

The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.

Saturday 19:

Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

Tuesday 22:

Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.