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July 1953

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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.

    • 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 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.
  • 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 NKVD.

    • July 12, 1953 (Sunday)

  • Died:Herbert Rawlinson, English actor (b. 1885)

    • July 16, 1953 (Thursday)

  • Died:Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)

    • July 17, 1953 (Friday)

  • The greatest recorded loss of United States midshipmen in a single event results from an aircraft crash near NAS Whiting Field.
  • Died:Maude Adams, American actress (b. 1872)

    • July 19, 1953 (Sunday)

  • Born:Shōichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (d. 2009)

    • 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)

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