Events Date 1953 July | History by KabAstro

Jul 1 KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jul 1 KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins

Wimbledon Men's Tennis

Jul 3 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Vic Seixas wins his only Wimbledon singles title with a 9-7, 6-3, 6-4 over Dane Kurt Nielsen

Jul 4 Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary

Wimbledon Women's Tennis

Jul 4 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly wins 3rd leg of her Grand Slam beating fellow American Doris Hart 8-6, 7-5

Jul 5 Phillies pitcher Robin Roberts hurls his 28th consecutive MLB complete game in a 2-0 win over Pittsburgh
Jul 5 WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting

Che Guevara Begins Road Trip

Jul 7 Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador

Jul 7 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Birmingham CC: Walter Burkemo wins 2 & 1 from Felize Torza in the Tuesday final; his lone major title
Jul 8 US stops aid to Persia
Jul 9 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)
Jul 9 Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games

British Golf Open

Jul 10 British Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: In his only Open Championship appearance, Ben Hogan prevails by 4 strokes over Dai Rees, Antonio Cerdá, Peter Thomson, Frank Stranahan

Jul 12 KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Jul 13 Battle of the Kumsong River begins - last major battle of the Korean war
Jul 14 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati

Event of Interest

Jul 14 First US national monument dedicated to a black American, to preserve the boyhood home of agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver in Newton County, Missouri [1]

Agricultural Scientist and Inventor George Washington Carver

Jul 15 ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names
Jul 16 KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, Minnesota (NBC) 1st broadcast

Elvis Records First Demo

Jul 18 Elvis Presley pays $3.98 to make his first demo, at Sun Studio in Memphis, records "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". Reportedly gives the record to his mother as a belated birthday present.

Jul 19 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jul 19 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
Jul 20 The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency
Jul 20 USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations
Jul 24 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
Jul 25 NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
Jul 26 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid
Jul 26 Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba

Event of Interest

Jul 26 Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba

Cuban Revolutionary and President Fidel Castro

Cuban President and Dictator Fulgencio Batista

Jul 26 Tour de France: Louison Bobet of France wins first of 3 consecutive Tour general classification events
Jul 27 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons "Chief" Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, Bill Klem and Tom Connolly inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

Korean War Ends

Jul 27 North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel

Signing of the armistice which ended the active fighting phase of the Korean War

Jul 27 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
Jul 29 US bomber shot down by Soviet Air Defence Forces in the Sea of Japan, north of Vladivostok
Jul 30 Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance