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ZUM4860173: Jul 07, 1953 - British Jet-Fighter crashes near Bonn, West Germany. On Wednesday, 29 July 1953, at approximately 2100 hours, a British jet fighter air-collided with another fighter, exploded and crashed, some 120 yeard away from the river Rhine. The plane was one of the many others attached to the Regular Jet - Fighter wing (NATO West Europe) presently manoeuvring in Belgium North France and West Germany / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4860207: Jul 07, 1953 - Successor To Beria Soviet Leader Sent For Trial In Moscow: Lavrenti Beria (53) minister of Home Affairs, secret police chief and one of Rusia's Top three, has been sacked because he tried to destroy the Russian Communist Party and replace oit with a Capitalist policy-according to a Soviet Communiqué issued to lay. It also announces that the case has been passed to the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union. Beria's Successor is Sergei Kruglov who formerly worked under Beria / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4860400: Jul 07, 1953 - Czech refugees now given asylum - happily liberated.: Happily smiling after thorough army screening are the eight Czech refugees who crashed the Czech-German Border on 25 July 1953, at 0430 hours, at Haselbach, rural district Waldmuenchen (Bavarian Forest), Southern Germany / Bridgeman Images