What happened with running shoes in 1949?
Kihachiro Onitsuka starts making athletic footwear in Kobe, Japan.
What else happened in 1949?
On January 1 a United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War that started in 1947. Tensions still simmer today.
On January 20 Harry S. Truman is sworn in as the President of the United States.
On April 4, The North Atlantic Treaty is signed creating the NATO defence alliance.
Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes the first primate to enter space on June 14 aboard the US Hermes project V-2 rocket Blossom IVB. He is killed on impact at return.
On July 27, the world’s first jet-powered airliner, the de Havilland Comet, makes its first flight. Its first commercial flight is in 1952.
In August, the Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb.
The Noble Prize in medicine is shared by Walter Rudolf Hess (for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs) and António Egas Moniz (for developing the surgical procedure leucotomy).
Philip Brachman is granted a patent for his Brachman Skate.
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