July 1953
The following events occurred in July 1953:
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July 3, 1953 (Friday)
- First ascent of Nanga Parbat in the Pakistan Himalayas, the world's ninth highest mountain, is made by Austrian climber Hermann Buhl alone on a German–Austrian expedition.
July 4, 1953 (Saturday)
- Strikes and riots hit coal mining regions in Poland.
July 5, 1953 (Sunday)
- The European Economic Community (EEC) holds its first assembly in Strasbourg, France.
July 8, 1953 (Wednesday)
- Nevada TV, KLAS-TV, airs for the first time on channel 8 at 7pm.
July 9, 1953 (Thursday)
- The US Treasury formally renames the Bureau of Internal Revenue; the new name (which had previously been used informally) is the Internal Revenue Service.
- Arsonist Stanford Pattan starts the Rattlesnake Fire in the Mendocino National Forest in northern California. The fire kills one United States Forest Service employee and 14 volunteer firefighters before being controlled on July 11.
- Died: Annie Kenney, British working-class suffragette (b. 1879)
July 10, 1953 (Friday)
- The Soviet official newspaper Pravda announces that Lavrentiy Beria has been deposed as head of the MVD.
July 12, 1953 (Sunday)
- Died: Herbert Rawlinson, English actor (b. 1885)
July 15, 1953 (Wednesday)
- China First Automobile Work, present day of FAW Group, a truck, bus and automobile product and sales in China, was founded in Changchun.
July 16, 1953 (Thursday)
- Died: Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
July 17, 1953 (Friday)
- USMC R4Q NROTC crash: the greatest recorded loss of United States midshipmen in a single event results from an aircraft crash near NAS Whiting Field, killing 43 including 38 midshipmen.[1]
- Died: Maude Adams, American actress (b. 1872)
July 19, 1953 (Sunday)
- Born: Shōichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (d. 2009)
July 21, 1953 (Tuesday)
- Born: Jeff Fatt, Australian musician and actor, co-founder of The Wiggles, in Casino, New South Wales
July 23, 1953 (Thursday)
- Howard Hawks's musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, is released by 20th Century Fox.
July 26, 1953 (Sunday)
- Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution.
- The Short Creek raid is carried out on a polygynous Mormon sect in Arizona.
- Died: Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
July 27, 1953 (Monday)
- The Korean War ends with the Korean Armistice Agreement: United Nations Command (Korea) (United States), People's Republic of China, North Korea sign an armistice agreement at Panmunjom and the north remains communist while the south remains capitalist.
July 29, 1953 (Wednesday)
- Died: Richard William Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. 1877)
July 31, 1953 (Friday)
- Died: Robert A. Taft, American politician, United States Senate Majority Leader (b. 1889)
References
- "HISTORIC AIRCRAFT: THE FLYING BOXCAR". eLIBRARY.RU. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
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