March 1949

Tuesday 01:

Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.

Wednesday 02:

Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.

Thursday 03:

The Tucker Automobile Corporation folds.

Friday 25:

The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.

Thursday 31:

Newfoundland and Labrador joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.