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  • Kaesong, North Korea
    Tuesday Jul 10, 1951
    Korean War

    Protracted Armistice Negotiations

    Kaesong, North Korea
    Tuesday Jul 10, 1951

    For the remainder of the war the UN and the PVA/KPA fought but exchanged little territory, as the stalemate held. Large-scale bombing of North Korea continued, and protracted armistice negotiations began on 10 July 1951 at Kaesong, an ancient capital of North Korea located in PVA/KPA held territory.




  • United Kingdom
    Jul, 1951
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip's active naval career had ended

    United Kingdom
    Jul, 1951

    Philip's active naval career had ended in July 1951.




  • Chicago, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 21, 1951
    Robin Williams

    Birth

    Chicago, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 21, 1951

    Robin McLaurin Williams was born at St. Luke's Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a senior executive in Ford Motor Company's Lincoln-Mercury Division. His mother, Laurie McLaurin, was a former model from Jackson, Mississippi. Through her, he was a great-great-grandson of Mississippi senator and governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams had two elder half-brothers; paternal half-brother Robert (also known as Todd) and maternal half-brother McLaurin. He had English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, and German ancestry.




  • Port-Joinville, Île d'Yeu, Vendée, France
    Monday Jul 23, 1951
    Charles de Gaulle

    Marshal Pétain died

    Port-Joinville, Île d'Yeu, Vendée, France
    Monday Jul 23, 1951

    Marshal Pétain died in 1951, but he did not know it. De Gaulle was later known to remark that "Marshal Pétain was a great man.




  • South Vietnam
    Tuesday Jul 31, 1951
    First Indochina War

    French General Charles Chanson was assassinated

    South Vietnam
    Tuesday Jul 31, 1951

    On July 31, French General Charles Chanson was assassinated during a propaganda suicide attack at Sa Đéc in South Vietnam that was blamed on the Việt Minh although it was argued in some quarters that Cao Đài nationalist Trình Minh Thế could have been involved in its planning.




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