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LONDON, June 7 -- The British Broadcasting Corporation is considering a protest to United States networks on the advertising commercials transmitted in the United States in conjunction with video coverage of the coronation, for which the B. B. C. provided kinescope films.
Vietnam Premier Nguyen Van Tam asks France scrap '49 treaties for new pacts giving Vietnam role in internatl decisions on own state; urges revision of '46 Const written by French
R Porter on offshore oil issue and problems and prospects raised by it
WITH UNITED STATES I CORPS, Korea, Monday, June 8 -- President Syngman Rhee of the Republic of Korea said today that he had not yet decided whether he would accept the terms outlined by President Eisenhower's letter appealing for cooperation and acceptance of an impending armistice.
1953Ivo Sanader, Croatian historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia[†]
Ivo Sanader is a Croatian former politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2003 to 2009.
1953An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, United States, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.[†]
During the evening hours of Monday, June 8, 1953, an exceptionally large and violent tornado struck the north side of Flint, Michigan and the northern suburb of Beecher, causing catastrophic damage and hundreds of casualties. Rated as an F5 on the Fujita Scale, the tornado touched down in Genesee County, Michigan, at 8:30 p.m. EST and continued on a 18.6-mile-path (29.9 km), causing 116 fatalities, 844 injuries and an estimated $19 million in damage.
1953The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.[†]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]