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The following events occurred in July 1950: July 1, 1950 (Saturday) Two companies of the U.S. Army First Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division departed from the U.S. base in Japan at Kyushu under the name "Task Force Smith", designated because of its 34-year-old commander, Lt. Col. Charles "Brad" Smith. After leaving at 3:00 am, the task force arrived near Pusan at 11:00 am, becoming the first set of American ground troops to be deployed in the Korean War. The 8055th M.A.S.H. became the first Mobile Army Surgical Hospital to be activated in South Korea. On July 6, its physicians, nurses and support staff would be sent from Sasebo to Pusan, initially to be set up at Taejon. It was followed by the 8063rd M.A.S.H. (often referenced in the television show M*A*S*H), which was activated July 17 and sent on July 18 to Pohang to support the U.S. 1st Cavalry, and the 8076th M.A.S.H. (activated July 19, and sent to Taejon on July 25) Twenty-three American soldiers became the first to die in the Korean War when their C-54 transport plane crashed into a 2000 foot high hill, forty miles northwest of Pusan, upon arrival from Japan. Eleven men were killed and 26 injured when a gas leak at the iron works in Consett, England, felled them while they were working at a loading dock. ARAADCOM, the ARmy AntiAircraft COMmand, began operations to coordinate U.S. Army defenses against a foreign bomber attack. The unit would be deactivated on January 4, 1975. The city of Gainesville, Florida renamed all of its main streets using a system of numbers and directions. Unto These Hills, which bills itself as "America's most popular outdoor drama", was given its first performance. It continues to be seen on Saturday evenings during the summer at Cherokee, North Carolina. Born: David Duke, American politician and Ku Klux Klan leader; in Tulsa, Oklahoma Nicholas J. Esce & Nancy E. Greco were married this date in Brooklyn, New YorkJuly 2, 1950 (Sunday) The Battle of Chumonchin Chan, the first and only naval battle of the Korean War, took place when HMS Jamaica, USS Juneau and HMS Black Swan fought the North Korean Navy and sank three torpedo boats and two gunboats off of the east coast of South Korea, near Jumunjin.The John Bunyan novel Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1678, was named the most boring classic book in a survey of literary critics by the Columbia University Press. Rounding out the list were Moby Dick, Paradise Lost (by John Milton), The Faerie Queene, Life of Samuel Johnson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, Silas Marner, Ivanhoe, Don Quixote and Faust. General Manuel A. Odria was elected President of Peru. He was the only candidate on the ballot.July 3, 1950 (Monday) The Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act was signed into law by U.S. President Truman, giving Puerto Rico the authority to establish its own government to administer "matters of purely local concern". New Zealand dispatched its first troops to the Korean War, as the ships HMNZS Pukaki and HMNZS Tutira departed to aid the UN war effort. An express train crashed into an excursion bus near Bourg-en-Bresse in France, killing 23 people on the bus. In a cablegram sent from North Korea's Foreign Minister, Pak Hen Nen, to United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie, North Korea announced that it had no intention of agreeing to the UN Security Council resolution 82, calling for an end to hostilities and withdrawal of troops. The first U.S. Navy jet attack in the Korean War took place when a Grumman F9F Panther took off from the USS Valley Forge to attack North Korean troops. Ensign Eldon W. Brown, Jr., made the first kill, downing a Yak-9 fighter near Pyongyang, before returning to the Valley Forge.The Hazel Scott Show made its debut on the DuMont Television Network, becoming the first television program to be hosted by an African-American woman. Singer Hazel Scott appeared live on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings from 7:45 pm to 8:00 pm Eastern Time on DuMont stations. The CBS Radio Network show Granby's Green Acres, created by Jay Sommers, made its debut as a summer replacement series. Starring Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as John and Martha Granby, two big city residents who became farmers. Though the radio show ran only eight episodes, it would be adapted to television 15 years later as Green Acres Died: Lucy Deane Streatfeild, 84, Indian-born British social worker and civil servantJuly 4, 1950 (Tuesday) Radio Free Europe began its first broadcasts, transmitting 30 minutes of American programming to Czechoslovakia from a 7,500 watt short wave transmitter located at Lampertheim in West Germany. French Premier Henri Queuille, in office for three days, resigned after losing in a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly, by a margin of 336–221. A baseball fan at New York's Polo Grounds was killed by a sniper as he sat in the stands along with 40,000 other people at a doubleheader between the Giants and the Dodgers. Bernard Doyle, 54, was struck in the eye while sitting in the second deck in deep left field. New York Police concluded that the bullet had been fired from one of the apartment buildings half a mile away from the ballpark.July 5, 1950 (Wednesday) At 8:16 a.m., American and North Korean troops engaged in combat for the first time, at the Battle of Osan, 20 miles south of Seoul. Task Force Smith, with 406 U.S. Army troops led by Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Smith, was far outnumbered when it encountered a column of 33 North Korean T-34 tanks and a large infantry force of 4,000. Four of the T-34 tanks were destroyed and three damaged, while 20 U.S. Marines became the first Americans to die in combat during the Korean War. The Americans sustained 120 deaths and 36 more were taken prisoner. Officially, Kenneth R. Shadrick, an 18-year-old native of Harlan, Kentucky, was the first American serviceman to be killed in action in the Korean War. The Law of Return (Hok Hashvut) was passed unanimously by the Knesset, the Parliament of Israel, providing that "An immigrant's visa shall be granted to every Jew who has expressed his desire to settle in Israel", with exceptions. Although one author comments that "Israel is the only country in the world which confers citizenship on an immigrant automatically at the moment he steps off the boat or plane" The first "Flying Pigeon", a bicycle devised by Huo Baoji at a former artillery plant at Tianjin, was presented to officials of the Chinese Communist Party. Approved as the "People's Bicycle", millions of the bikes were produced and served as the personal vehicle for citizens of the People's Republic of China. Huo Baoji based his bicycle model on the 1932 English Raleigh Roadster. Prime Minister of Belgium Jean Duvieusart narrowly survived a vote of confidence in the Belgian Senate, winning 90–83. Duvieusart was a supporter of exiled King Leopold III, and the vote was seen as a narrow approval of Leopold's return. The Australian Depa.... Discover the Rupert Colley popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Rupert Colley books.

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