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Sec Bevin approves Ger troops but Schuman opposes them; Western Foreign Mins approve unified force and command
United Nations forces, opening an offensive in the central sector of the southern front, put two bridgeheads across the Naktong River near Waegwan. In the north, marines beat off a counter-attack at Kimpo Airfield and crossed the Han River within sight of Seoul against stiff resistence. [1:8; maps P.2.]
Marines wipe out 2 NK cos attempting to recapture Kimpo Airfield
Amb Austin (US) submits Gen MacArthur rept to UN Council on operations in Korea, Aug 10-31; rept charges USSR continues to supply arms to N Koreans despite USSR denials; charges China Communists give 'substantial if not decisive' aid; says 140,000 Koreans took part in training and combat with China Communist armies; says half of N Korean 5th, 13th and 15th Divs so trained; Austin displays N Korean sub-machine gun bearing USSR '50 markings; illus; Malik (USSR) walks out as weapon is passed along to delegates; attacks MacArthur as 'Fascist'; holds all recently acquired N Korean arms are captured US weapons; reads message from N Korea Foreign Min Pak Heun Yong charging US bombs hosp, Pyongyang; Austin displays photos of mortar and artillery shells indicating USSR mfr in '50
US delegation illus
1950Joan Lunden, American television journalist, anchor, and author[†]
Joan Lunden is an American journalist, author, and television host. Lunden was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997, and has authored over ten books. She has appeared on the Biography program and Biography Channel.
1950Michael Proctor, English physicist, mathematician, and academic[†]
Michael Richard Edward Proctor is a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He is Professor of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge and, until 2023, served as the Provost of King's College, Cambridge and school governor at Eton College.
1950Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces was repelled at the Battle of Nam River.[†]
The Korean War was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations Command (UNC) led by the United States. The conflict was one of the first major proxy wars of the Cold War. Fighting ended in 1953 with an armistice but no peace treaty, leading to the ongoing Korean conflict.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]