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<    1st Glider Crossing   Welche, Lorne   12th April   1st to make a glider crossing across the Channel    38th Parallel   Truman, Harry S   27th Sep 38th Parallel   President Truman authorizes General MacArthr to operate nth of the 38th Parallel    Ali Baba   Ben-Gurion, David    May   Operation Ali Baba begins, brings 113,000 Iraqi Jews to Israel    Ali Baba   Meir, Golda      Brings 113,000 Jews to Israel by airlift from Iraq    Alliance   Truman, Harry S   27th June Washington   Orders MacArthur to support the southern Korean army with air & sea forces    Ambassador   Panikkar, Kavalam Madhava    Peking   Appointed Ambassador to China    ANC   Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla      Helps found the ANC Youth League    Apartheid   Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch      Responsible for the implementation of Apartheid    Pretoria Africa   Responsible for the implementation of Apartheid    Archbishop of   Makarios, Mikhail Khristodolou Mouskos      Appointed Archbishop    Armament   Tse-Tung, Mao   7th Feb   Chinese communists provide modern weapons to the Vietminh    Armament   Chi-Minh, Ho    Hanoi   China & Russia provide support for Vietnam    Arrest   P'u-i      Imprisoned by the Chinese Government as a war criminal, 1950-1959    Arrest   Fuchs, Klaus      Arrested for passing information to the USSR   1st Mar   Sentenced to serve 7 yrs in prison    Assassination   Gado Chalbaud, Carlos de       Carlos de Gado Chalbaud is assassinated    Battle of Caobang   Gaulle, Charles Andre Marie Joseph de    Caobang   The French are defeated in their war with Vietnam at a key post on the Chinese border    Battle of Ossan   MacArthur, Douglas   5th July Ossan   A UN force ias forced to retreat by the Nth Koreans    Battle of Pusan   Attlee, Clement Richard   12th Sep Taegu   British troops take up their position near Taegu    Battle of Pusan   MacArthur, Douglas   5th Aug River Natkong   The Nth Koreans break across the River Naktong but are driven back again 12 days later    Battle of Sudong   MacArthur, Douglas   26th Oct Sudong   The ROK 26th Division encounter strong Chinese resistance at Sudong    Battle of Yechon   MacArthur, Douglas   21st July Yechon   The USAretakes Yechon    Birth   Anne   15th Aug London   Birth of Anne, Elizabeth II's 2nd child    Birth   Elizabeth II   15th Aug London   Birth of Anne, gives birth to Princess Anne    Birth   Gabriel, Peter Brian   13th Feb Cobham   Birth of Peter Brian Gabriel    Birth   Moody, Micky   30th Aug   Birth of Mick Moody    Birth   Dunn, James   4th Feb   Birth of James Dunn, USAvocalist Stylistics    Birth   Wonder, Stevie   13th May Saginaw   Birth of Stevie Wonder, Stevland Morris , Saginaw, Michigan, too much oxygen in the incubator causes him to become permanently blind    Bombing of Quemoy   Tse-Tung, Mao   3rd Sep Quemoy   China begins to bomb Quemoy    Budget   Attlee, Clement Richard    London   Agrees to increae the defence budget from œ3,400 to œ4,700 under pressure from the US    Budget   Truman, Harry S   19th July Washington   Increases the annual peacetime military budget to $48 billion   19th July Washington   Sends Congress an emergency appropriation of $10 billion