1949 - Religion

Religion

North Carolina evangelist Billy Graham, 31, gains prominence with a tent crusade at Los Angeles that leads to the conversions of an Olympic track star, a noted gambler, and a notorious underworld syndicate figure. Graham has just become first vice president of Youth for Christ International.

Greco-Armenian mystic and philosopher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (originally George S. Georgiades) dies at Neuilly, outside Paris, October 29 at age 77 (approximate).