For the first time, an airplane traveled the London-Paris route in less than twenty minutes. Lieutenant
Mike Lithgow, in a
Supermarine Swift F 4, flew from
Heathrow to
Le Bourget in 19 minutes and 18 seconds.[8]
Born:Nanci Griffith, American singer-songwriter, in Seguin, Texas (died 2021)[9]
US local TV channel Nevada TV,
KLAS-TV, broadcast for the first time on channel 8 at 7pm.
Strikes and demonstrations took place throughout
East Germany, demanding the release of the workers arrested during the
Berlin uprising. The Soviet Union responded by sending an armored division to the strategic points in
East Berlin.[12]
The US Treasury formally renamed the Bureau of Internal Revenue; the new name (which had previously been used informally) was the
Internal Revenue Service.
The Soviet official newspaper Pravda announced that
Lavrentiy Beria had been deposed as head of the
MVD and Minister of the Interiors, expelled from the
Communist Party and arrested for high treason.
Sergej Kruglov replaced him as Minister of the Interiors.
In Washington, tripartite meetings of the American (
John Foster Dulles), French (
Georges Bidault) and English (
Lord Salisbury, replacing
Anthony Eden due to illness) Foreign Ministers. Dulles' rigidly anti-communist positions were opposed to those of the two Europeans, in favour of
détente with the USSR. On July 11, the three ministers were received by U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower.[18]
In France,
Pierre Bertaux, director of the
National Police, was suspended from his duties because of his relations with Corsican gangster Paul Leca, author of the
Begum’s jewel robbery. During the trial for the theft, Georges Valentin, director of the
Judicial Police, accused his colleague of aiding and abetting; Berteaux denied the accusations, but admitted his friendship with Leca, known during the
Resistance.[19]
The
Welfare Ordinance 1953 was passed in Australia's
Northern Territory, under which the Director of Native Affairs was replaced by a Director of Welfare, who exerted control over the lives of Aboriginal people.[23]
USMC R4Q NROTC crash: The greatest recorded loss of United States midshipmen in a single event resulted from an aircraft crash near NAS Whiting Field, killing 43, including 38 midshipmen.[29]
The
Short Creek raid was carried out on a polygynous Mormon sect in Arizona, United States. It is thought to have been "the largest mass arrest of men and women in modern American history."[43]
The Spanish ship Duero collided with the British ship Culrain in the
Strait of Gibraltar and sank. All 28 crew members were saved.[44][45]
Preliminary studies were completed by C. E. Brown, W. J. O'Sullivan, Jr., and
C. H. Zimmerman at the
Langley Aeronautical Laboratory relative to the study of the problems of
human spaceflight and a suggested test vehicle to investigate these problems. One of the possibilities considered from the outset of the effort in mid-1952 was modification of the
Bell X-2 airplane to attain greater speeds and altitudes of the order of 200,000 feet (61,000 m). It was believed that such a vehicle could not only resolve some of the aerodynamic heating problems, but also that the altitude objective would provide an environment with a minimum atmospheric density, representing many problems of outer space flight. However, there was already a feeling among many
NACA scientists that the speed and altitude exploratory area should be raised. In fact, a resolution to this effect, presented as early as July 1952, stated that ". . . the NACA devote . . . effort to problems of unmanned and manned flights at altitudes from 50 miles to infinity and at speeds from mach 10 to the velocity of escape from the earth's gravity." The Executive Committee of NACA actually adopted this resolution as an objective on July 14, 1952.[49]
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