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| 01 - Chinese and North
Korean forces advance through UN lines and capture Seoul |
| 10 - Death of US writer
Sinclair Lewis |
| 25 - UN forces halt the
Communist advance in Korea and counter-attack |
| 30 - Death of German motor
car engineer Ferdinand Porsche |
| 08 - Cecil Day Lewis is
elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University |
| 09 - Swedish actress Greta
Garbo becomes a US citizen |
| 14 - Ben Gurion resigns in
Tel Aviv |
| 14 - Birth of British
footballer Kevin Keegan |
| 19 - Death of French author
Andre Gide |
| 21 - British bomber crosses
Atlantic in record 4 hours 40 minutes |
| 26 - US legislation changes
to restrict Presidents to two terms |
| 02 - Purge of Czech
Communist Party |
| 07 - Iranian Premier
Razmara assassinated |
| 08 - Iranian oil industry nationalized |
| 09 - A bill is approved in
the UK to make separation for seven years sufficient grounds for divorce |
| 13 - Israel claim $1.5
billion in war reparations from Germany |
| 14 - UN troops recapture
Seoul |
| 15 - Martial law is
declared in Teheran |
| 24 - The Oxford boat sinks
in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race (UK) |
| 05 - Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg are sentenced to death in the US for spying |
| 11 - President Truman
relieves General MacArthur of command in Korea |
| 11 - The Stone of Scone is
found in the UK three months after theft |
| 14 - Death of British
statesman Ernest Bevin |
| 16 - A British submarine
disappears with its crew of 75 |
| 18 - France, West Germany,
Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands sign a treaty setting
up a coal and steel community |
| 19 - First Miss World
competition is held, in London. Miss Sweden is the winner |
| 03 - The Festival of
Britain is opened by George VI |
| 12 - The first H-bomb is
successfully tested on Eniwetok Atoll in the mid-Pacific |
| 14 - The "colored" vote is
removed from the electoral register in South Africa |
| 18 - Vickers Valiant,
UK jet bomber, makes maiden flight |
| 23 - US Generals Bradley
and Marshall condemn MacArthur |
| 23 - China issues Tibet an
ultimatum to choose between "peaceful liberation" or military
annihilation. Under this duress, Tibet signs the "17-point Agreement" |
| 28 - Festival of Britain
Pleasure Gardens open at Battersea, London |
| 07 - British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean defect to USSR |
| 09 - The last Nazis
convicted of war crimes are executed by hanging in Germany |
| 13 - Eamon de Valera is
once again Irish Premier |
| 15 - After repelling strong
Communist offensives in April and May, UN forces stabilize the
front-line just north of the 38th parallel |
| 18 - The US is given
permission for an air base at Greenham Common in Berkshire, UK |
| 23 - British diplomats Guy
Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to the USSR |
| 10 - A cease-fire is called
in Korea and truce talks begin |
| 10 - Boxer Randolph Turpin
surprises the boxing world when he takes the world middleweight crown from Sugar
Ray Robinson |
| 13 - The Queen lays the
foundation stone of the National Theatre in London |
| 16 - King Leopold III of
Belgium abdicates and his son, Baudouin I is the new King |
| 19 - Worst floods in US
history hit Kansas and Missouri killing 41 people and leaving 200,000
homeless |
| 20 - British Hawker Hunter
jetfighter makes maiden flight |
| 20 - King Abdullah of
Jordan is assassinated in Jerusalem |
| 31 - Birth of Australian
tennis player Evonne Goolagong |
| 10 - Britain
and Cuba sign a trade pact |
| 14 - Death of
US newspaper tycoon Randolph Hearst |
| 15 - Dartmoor
in England is designated as a National Park |
| 31 - West Germans introduce 331/3 RPM long-playing records |
| 05 - Maureen
Connolly wins US Tennis Championship at the age of 16 |
| 08 - Peace treaty is signed
in San Francisco by Japan and representatives of 49 powers |
| 09 - Chinese troops occupy
the Tibetan capital, Lhasa |
| 13 - UN talks
on Palestine break down |
| 19 - Clement
Atlee calls a General Election in the UK |
| 20 - Greece and Turkey are
asked to join NATO |
| 06 - Death of
US breakfast Cereal tycoon William Kellogg |
| 09 - Ben-Gurion forms
government in Israel |
| 15 - British
Liberal party makes the first BBC party political broadcast |
| 16 - Liaquat Ali Khan,
prime minister of Pakistan, is assassinated |
| 25 - At 25,
Margaret Roberts (later, Thatcher) becomes the youngest Tory
candidate in the British General Election |
| 25 - General election in
Britain gives small majority in Parliament for Conservatives (321
seats against 295 for Labour, 6 for Liberal and 3 others) |
| 26 - Winston Churchill becomes
British Prime Minister again |
| 26 - According to Chinese
news agency Xinhua, on this day "the Tibetan people were
liberated from imperialist aggression and returned to the great
family of the People's Republic of China |
| 27 - Egypt denounces Treaty
of Alliance with Britain |
| 31 - Zebra
crossings come into effect in Britain |
| 11 - Juan Peron
is re-elected as President of Argentina |
| 12 - BBC TV's
Come Dancing is first transmitted |
| 24 - Libya becomes
independent |
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 Colour TV is
introduced in the USA
Power-steering is
introduced (in Chrysler Crown Imperial cars) in the USA
Selective Services Bill
lowers draft age in the US to 18½
UK Teachers' salaries
reach £630 for men, £504 for women
South Africans are forced to
carry identity cards which categorise them as white, coloured or black
American casualties in Korea
for 1951 are 15,000 dead and 75,000 wounded |
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