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WASHINGTON, May 28 -- Confirmation by the State Department that it had evidence that two vessels owned by British companies had transported Communist troops along the Red China coast in 1951 and 1952 was disclosed today by the Senate Investigating subcommittee.
5,000 Chinese attack Outposts Carson, Vegas, Elko, The Hook, Berlin and East Berlin; repulsed by Brit, The Hook; by Turks, Elko; hold Carson; map
SK holds UN plan 'complete surrender,' Choi Duk Shin lr to Harrison; urges withdrawing plan before truce recess ends; sees SK violence against armed guards to be sent in by neutral comm nations; charges India is pro-Communist; says Communist truce team rejected provision referring POW issue to UN Assembly; scores retreat from demand for veto on neutral comm; tension, SK, unabated; Govt reprs charge appeasement
Admitted to NYC Welfare & Health Council
Estimate Bd votes funds to raise force by 420
1953Danny Elfman, American film composer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor[†]
Daniel Robert Elfman is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall.
1953Morgan Russell, American painter and educator (born 1886)[†]
Morgan Russell was a modern American artist. With Stanton Macdonald-Wright, he was the founder of Synchromism, a provocative style of abstract painting that dates from 1912 to the 1920s. Russell's "synchromies," which analogized color to music, were an early American contribution to the rise of Modernism.
1953Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.[†]
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. From 1985 to 1988 he served as New Zealand's High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh and concurrently as Ambassador to Nepal.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]