July 1953

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The following events occurred in July 1953:

July 27: The Korean War comes to an end with an armistice agreement signed by North and South Korea

July 1, 1953 (Wednesday)

July 2, 1953 (Thursday)

July 3, 1953 (Friday)

July 4, 1953 (Saturday)

July 5, 1953 (Sunday)

July 6, 1953 (Monday)

July 7, 1953 (Tuesday)

July 8, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • US local TV channel Nevada TV, KLAS-TV, broadcast for the first time on channel 8 at 7pm.
  • Strikes and demonstrations took place throughout East Germany, demanding the release of the workers arrested during the Berlin uprising. The Soviet Union responded by sending an armored division to the strategic points in East Berlin.

July 9, 1953 (Thursday)

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July 13, 1953 (Monday)

July 14, 1953 (Tuesday)

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July 16, 1953 (Thursday)

  • In Italy, the De Gasperi VIII Cabinet began its 32-day period in office, one of the shortest in the country's political history.
  • Norway's Parliament voted to move the country's main naval base from Horten to a new base in Bergen.
  • Second Battle of Dongshan Island: Three landing ships belonging to the Republic of China's navy were sunk in a harbour on the coast of Dongshan Island by mortar fire, which detonated their cargoes of ammunition.
  • Died: Hilaire Belloc, 82, French-born British writer and historian

July 17, 1953 (Friday)

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July 19, 1953 (Sunday)

July 20, 1953 (Monday)

July 21, 1953 (Tuesday)

July 22, 1953 (Wednesday)

  • Born: Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and teacher, in Toronto (died 2010)

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July 27, 1953 (Monday)

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July 29, 1953 (Wednesday)

July 30, 1953 (Thursday)

  • Preliminary studies were completed by C. E. Brown, W. J. O'Sullivan, Jr., and C. H. Zimmerman at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory relative to the study of the problems of human spaceflight and a suggested test vehicle to investigate these problems. One of the possibilities considered from the outset of the effort in mid-1952 was modification of the Bell X-2 airplane to attain greater speeds and altitudes of the order of 200,000 feet (61,000 m). It was believed that such a vehicle could not only resolve some of the aerodynamic heating problems, but also that the altitude objective would provide an environment with a minimum atmospheric density, representing many problems of outer space flight. However, there was already a feeling among many NACA scientists that the speed and altitude exploratory area should be raised. In fact, a resolution to this effect, presented as early as July 1952, stated that ". . . the NACA devote . . . effort to problems of unmanned and manned flights at altitudes from 50 miles to infinity and at speeds from mach 10 to the velocity of escape from the earth's gravity." The Executive Committee of NACA actually adopted this resolution as an objective on July 14, 1952.

July 31, 1953 (Friday)

  • Died: Robert A. Taft, 63, American politician, United States Senate Majority Leader, of pancreatic cancer

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