Aug 01 Territory of Guam created

Aug 31 HMAS Sydney and Tobruk sail for Korea

Aug 03 Elements of Marine Corps Observation Squadron, VMO-6, equipped with HO3S helicopters and OY observation planes, began operations in Korea

Oct 25 Chinese Communist Forces launch first offensive in Korea.

Oct 25 Battle of Pakchon, Korea starts

Oct 26 In London King George VI opens the restored House of Commons chamber, destroyed in a 1941 bombing raid

Oct 07 US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel

Oct 11 Task Force 77 Aircraft destroy North Korean vessels off Songjin and Wonsan and north of Hungham.

Oct 19 UN forces entered the capital of North Korea

Oct 21 Chinese forces occupy Tibet

Oct 31 Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC

Oct 14 Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison

Oct 02 The comic strip "Peanuts" first appears, in 9 newspapers

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.

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