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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March 19, 1949 |
Milan-San Remo |
Fausto Coppi (Ita) |
290.5 km |
| April 10, 1949 |
Tour of Flanders |
Fiorenzo Magni (Ita)
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268 km |
| April 17, 1949 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Andre Mahe (Fra) and Serse Coppi (Ita) * |
244 km |
| May 1, 1949 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Camille Danguillaume (Fra)
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256 km |
| May 21-June 12, 1949 |
Giro d'Italia |
Fausto Coppi (Ita) |
19 Stages
4,088 km |
| Not Held |
Vuelta a Espana |
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| June 30-July 21, 1949 |
Tour
de France |
Fausto Coppi (Ita) |
21 Stages,
4,810 km |
| August 29, 1949 |
World
Championships |
Rik van Steenbergen (Bel) |
Kobenhaven, Denmark 290 km |
| October 23, 1949 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Fausto Coppi (Ita) |
Milan-Milan,
222 km |
• April 4 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is formed in Europe. Twelve nations, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States, signed the historic treaty.
• California - Los Angeles records snowfall for the first time.
• EDSAC - A team of computer experts constructed the first Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer at the University of Cambredge Mathematical Laboratory in England.
• China - the Chinese civil war ends with the establishment of the Communistic People Republic of China .
• October 1 - The Communistic People Republic of China formally proclaim by Mao Tse-tung .
Notable Deaths - * Giro d'Italia Champion: Carlo Galetti (Ita) 1882-1949, died April 2, 1949. Galetti was a two time Giro champion (1910 and 1911).
Margaret Mitchell, 1900-1949 , author of Gone with the Wind, was run down by a drunken driver in her native Atlanta.
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