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defense officials on truce effects on troop maintenance and supply costs; cite need for permanent installations if troops remain long
Arizona authorities raid cult of fundamentalist sect disowned by Mormons, Short Creek; arrest most adults in effort to wipe out community; plan placing some of 263 children in foster homes; Gov Pyle assails colony; radio s; explains delay in acting against it; cultists, organized in '30's as United Effort' reply to charges; hold they are true Mormons; authorities to release women who want break with cult; Mormons break with polygamy revd
55 reptd killed in revolt, Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo; map; martial law; Prio backers and Communists blamed; Prio denies link
UN front line troops reaction on eve of signing
1953Chung Dong-young, South Korean journalist and politician, 31st South Korean Minister of Unification[†]
Chung Dong-young is a South Korean politician who has served as the minister of unification since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), he was the nominee of the United New Democratic Party in the 2007 South Korean presidential election and previously served as the unification minister from 2004 to 2006.
1953Yahoo Serious, Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Yahoo Serious is an Australian actor. His films include the comedy films Young Einstein (1988), Reckless Kelly (1993), and Mr. Accident (2000). Serious writes, directs, produces, stars in, and has composed the scores for his movies.
1953Korean War: Cessation of hostilities is achieved when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.[†]
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 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]