'50s History for July 3rd

In 1950 the Korean war heats up as U.S. and North Korean troops skirmish for the first time. In 1954 food rationing ends in Great Britian, nine years after the end of World War II. And in 1956 U.S. President Eisenhower agrees to a $1 million reimbursement to the Vatican for damage done during World War II.
Born on this date - actor/singer/composer George M. Cohan (1878 - according to his baptismal certificate), actor George Sanders (1906), columnist/panelist Dorothy Kilgallen (1913), film director Ken Russell (1927) and jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain (1930).

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