May 22 Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey

May 01 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers &Hammerstein (South Pacific)

May 09 French Foreign minister Robert Schuman announces the Schuman Plan for European integration

May 22 Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize

May 27 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens

May 13 Diner's Club issues its first credit cards

May 02 Dutch first Chamber accept Laws on immigration

Jul 08 Leroy Deans awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea

Jul 20 "Arthur Murray Party" premiers on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)

Jul 15 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1750 Eckert

Jul 04 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own consitution)

Jul 16 The largest crowd in sporting history -- 199,854 -- watched the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Uruguay defeated Brazil.

Jul 03 First time US & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War

Jul 14 RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea

Jul 12 ILTF re-admit Germany & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraw

Jul 08 Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea

Jul 23 USS Boxer sets record crossing of Pacific to bring aircraft, troops, and supplies to Korea at start of the Conflict

Jul 05 Esquimalt BC Royal Canadian Navy destroyers HMCS Cayuga, Athabaskan, and Sioux leave Esquimalt for Pearl Harbor escorted by cruiser Ontario; to come under UN control during Korean War.

Jul 25 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroids #1799 Koussevitzky, #1822 Waterman & #2842

Jul 22 King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium

Jul 02 American troops land in South Korea

Jul 05 Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel

Jul 24 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; first launch from Cape Canaveral

Jul 10 "Your Hit Parade" premiers on NBC (later CBS) TV

Jul 09 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)

Jul 18 The birth of Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin

Jul 02 USS Juneau and 2 British ships sink 5 of 6 attacking North Korean torpedo boats and gunboats.

Jul 16 Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro

Jul 01 NYC bus fare rises to 10. equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15.

Jun 05 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation

Jun 19 A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1980 Tezcatlipoca

Jun 27 Pres Truman orders Air Force &Navy into Korean conflict

Jun 28 North Korean forces capture Seoul

Jun 25 Korean conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea

Jun 08 General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area, World War Two, made a Field Marshal, the only Australian appointment to this rank in Australian military history

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