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Events on Wednesday 8 June 1949 1
1949George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-FourDystopian novel introduces Big Brother and NewspeakGeorge Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published by Secker & Warburg, depicting a totalitarian surveillance state under the rule of "Big Brother." Its vocabulary, including "doublethink" and "thoughtcrime," entered everyday language worldwide.